[Politics] How is Boris doing?

[Blue Valkyrie]

Useless, as expected.

 

[East Staffs Gull]

Seems to have made a large number of promises, to the Scots, Welsh farmers, police, EU nationals, etc. with little evidence that he will deliver upon them.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I'm not really sure he's done anything of note – certainly not anything that has made a difference to anyone. But's he's good at shouting his mouth off and fooling people into thinking he knows what he's on about – to be fair, it would be weird if he DIDN'T do that! He's had a go at the opposition leader in HoC (standard); made a load of promises that probably won't come true (see every political leader in history?) and is banging on SO much about leaving the EU on 31st of October, that it's more than likely we'll still be in on 1st November.

To be honest, I'm still getting over the fact that the guy got the job of running the country, but that's another matter.

 

[jackanada]

Was hoping some of his fantasy brexit rhetoric would fade after he got elected but sadly he's even more useless than I predicted.

 

[Chicken Run]

Worst Prime Minister since...well the last one.

Blair led this country to the dogs and Brown, Cameron, May and now Johnson are merely kicking its festering carcass in the ribs to simulate some kind of essence of life.

Agreed

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Considering his many critics think he is an incompetent buffoon, who has no real beliefs other than what's good for Boris (with some justification), I have been surprised at how ruthlessly efficient he has been. All within the first few weeks - Big restructure/cull in the cabinet/government, setting up his new team many from the victorious leave referendum campaign, setting out numerous populist domestic policy announcements, setting out a clear positive line on Brexit all in preparation for a likely imminent General election. Many challenges to come obviously but Boris and his team clearly have a sense of direction and purpose and have hit the ground running.

 

[Nobby]

From his opening speech to Parliament, I assume he's found the magic money tree that the Tories kept saying Labour would need.

Beat me to it

And it’s a ruddy big tree

Great isn’t it. I assumed T May wasn’t lying

 

[Lever]

Boris Johnson is no buffoon but he has used that persona over years to cover his dark, ruthless, self obsessed narcissism.
He does what he does for the greater good of Boris - and what he has done so far is predictable.

 

[brightn'ove]

He hasn’t done a single thing.

 

[Perkino]

I was expecting a chorus of shambles from the moment he was appointed but quite the opposite seems to have happened. He delivered a great opening speech as the new prime minister and looks like he'll do a better job than May did in trying to unify the government on completing a brexit, he's also advised them to get behind him and help or watch it fail so he can appear to have done his best to save us. A very clever political play

 

[Ernest]

Lied about NHS funding, new money is not there

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Going around the country promising the world that he won't deliver.
Even the A303 is going to be duelled (again)
Suddenly we have money to burn which was probably, who knows, there all along.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Crap.

Lies, lies and more lies.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Well, he is lovable isn't he, just like one of the family.

What's not to like.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Considering his many critics think he is an incompetent buffoon, who has no real beliefs other than what's good for Boris (with some justification), I have been surprised at how ruthlessly efficient he has been. All within the first few weeks - Big restructure/cull in the cabinet/government, setting up his new team many from the victorious leave referendum campaign, setting out numerous populist domestic policy announcements, setting out a clear positive line on Brexit all in preparation for a likely imminent General election. Many challenges to come obviously but Boris and his team clearly have a sense of direction and purpose and have hit the ground running.

That assumes you take what he says at face value. Personally I don't believe a word that comes out of his gob.

 

[beorhthelm]

as expected, made a lot of noise without substance. too early to judge really.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Pretty confident he'll go down as the worst PM in living memory. But mostly I just hope he goes down.

 

[dingodan]

To be honest I would say better than expected. I always liked his commitment to getting Brexit done, but I wasn't sure about the rest of the job.

It's not exactly that he has done much wildly good, but I have found politics has become refreshingly calm - compared to the situation under May which was absolute non-stop chaos and confusion.

It's still to be determined whether he can be considered a good PM, it's probably too early to say. But he has, at least so far, made things more stable, IMO.

 

[BensGrandad]

He is making Corbyn look liike a desperate old man trying to gain power through the back door. I think BJ will win a vote of no confidence as I do not think the wimp Tory MPs like Hammond will put their jobs on the line and will abstain in a vote. I obviously could be wrong and way off the mark but that is my opinion of how it will go.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Considering his many critics think he is an incompetent buffoon, who has no real beliefs other than what's good for Boris (with some justification), I have been surprised at how ruthlessly efficient he has been. All within the first few weeks - Big restructure/cull in the cabinet/government, setting up his new team many from the victorious leave referendum campaign, setting out numerous populist domestic policy announcements, setting out a clear positive line on Brexit all in preparation for a likely imminent General election. Many challenges to come obviously but Boris and his team clearly have a sense of direction and purpose and have hit the ground running.

As I have said before, if I call a leaver thick and gullible people like you complain. But, you really don’t make it easy for me with posts like this.