Agreed he speaks a lot of sense and is not afraid to be a contrarian .... I think honesty will be his downfall at a national level. For example his strong pro immigration stance which doesn't correlate with wider societies view at present.
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Boris Johnson
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Agreed he speaks a lot of sense and is not afraid to be a contrarian .... I think honesty will be his downfall at a national level. For example his strong pro immigration stance which doesn't correlate with wider societies view at present.
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Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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Jesus Christ its people like you that'll drag this country to hell!
Common as Mook
Not Posh as Fook
- Jul 26, 2004
- 5,642
Inverse snobbery at its best on here. Disliked because of his schooling and accent. Pathetic.
Dandyman
In London village.
London is in the middle of a housing crisis, has experienced inflation plus transport cost rises, some awful major planning decisions,savage cuts to public services (impacting particularly on the least well off and mot vulnerable) and has the same problems of falling living standards and cuts in the real value of wages as the rest of the country.
Johnson is a lazy, incompetent, right-wing con artist who has done nothing to address any of those issues. The only pleasure in him becoming an MP will be watching the Night of the Long Knives that will follow Cameron's defeat in May 2015.
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Put it this way. A fair few allegations have been made against him which I believe, plus a fair few sold facts, they are all easy to find on google. After all the Hoohaa with the paedophile threads I am not going to post these or provide links.
My belief is he is a nasty piece of work. Many believe different and like him. There is democracy in action. Be happy about it.
Lawro's Lip
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Eddie Mair's interview, on you tube is worth a watch. 'Boris' the TV personality seems popular. Not sure how popular Boris Johnson the politician would be.
- Aug 7, 2003
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I can't think of any politicians with an ounce of integrity. It's all about self-aggrandizement, blindly following the party line to further ones career and a barely disguised contempt for the proles they represent. Oh, and falsifying their expenses.
Vegas Seagull
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- Jul 10, 2009
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So you KNOW nothing, have never met him & believe rumours on the internet. Pathetic
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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the politician who twice won Mayoral election in a predominantly left-leaning London?
Nibble
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I have met him actually, didn't like the man. Other than that , yes, I have read stuff about him some if which I believe to be true some of which I don't. Go ahead and vote for the man, completely everyone's choice. I think he's a nasty man so I will in no way support his campaign. Again, democracy at work.
Man of Harveys
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To open up the great and permanent taboo of class, I always think his relative success as a politician shows that the age of proper old deference in politics is far from over. No working class politician acting the clown in the way that he does would ever be applauded - or even elected - for doing so, it seems unimaginable to me. But an Etonian who dangles haplessly from a zipwire? (At least that really was funny.)
Two faced **** is my preference.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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people don't vote for him for the antics, they vote for the straight talking, because they like what he says and how he says it. quite a few on all sides gain votes for that, his predecessor for one.
Nibble
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Ah, yes maybe that was it. I have a fearful inclination that oblivious right wing nincompoops, voters and politicians alike, are going to waltz this country off the edge of a cliff having mistaken semi fascist malevolence for Bon viveur and Boris Johnson will be striking up the band. He's a total anus.
Nibble
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What are you talking about? He's one of the least straight talking public figures in recent history. Every straight question put to him is batted away with crude distraction genuine disdain for anyone daring to ask him a challenging question.
Man of Harveys
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Not sure I agree, tbh. I think a lot of people very much buy into his affable silly buffoon shtick, that's why he plays it up: it's his USP. The fact that it works to any extent says a load about how people are comfortable with still being governed by poshos because they're poshos. To make the point again: no-one would vote for a working class politician perpetrating the same clownish antics, no matter how plain speaking they are.
n1 gull
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I like the fact he doesn't claim to be an expert on everything but delegates.
On his watch London has thrived, it's never looked better IMO. Yes he can be bit of a clown, but frankly who cares if he gets the job done
On his watch London has thrived, it's never looked better IMO. Yes he can be bit of a clown, but frankly who cares if he gets the job done
AmexRuislip
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Your so right there EK, all over the local news & rag pontificating about becoming the next Uxbridge MP
A big job in the waiting
