Boris Johnson - Secret Weapon OR Achilles Heel?

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Boris Johnson on Good Morning Britain a few minutes ago - flustering and blustering as usual, repeating known lies about £350m for NHS. Susanna Reid tore into him for it and he tried to shout her down, while he wobbled on his chair like an Etonite Jabba the Hut.

He thinks his blonde bluster is boyish and charming, to me he just seems like a boy in man's clothing.

Is he a strength or weakness?

[princealbert23]

You have perfected the art of starting a thread in a nice balanced way without any hint of bias.

[jmorgan]

I dunno, just learned what a mugwump is, educational at least.

[chow pan toon]

princealbert23 said:

You have perfected the art of starting a thread in a nice balanced way without any hint of bias.

Quite. We hate bias on NP&E.

[AnotherClarkey]

If May achieves a significant majority I wouldn't expect him to last long in cabinet.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Without wanting to go in to any brexit bias I think anyone that campaigns so hard for something and then does a runner deserves a poke in the eye.

Used to like him, now I think he's a prick.

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princealbert23 said:

You have perfected the art of starting a thread in a nice balanced way without any hint of bias.

Ha ha.... cheers... I don't like to nail my colours to the mast too soon.

He's on the Today show now dodging the £350m question now that he's been torn a new one by Susanna Reid on GMB and Charlie Stayt on BBC on the same issue.

Won't let John Humphries ask him a question at the moment

[MarshPhantom]

I honestly feel The Tories don't want to be in power after the election, getting Johnson on the campaign trail won't be helping their cause. .

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AnotherClarkey said:

If May achieves a significant majority I wouldn't expect him to last long in cabinet.

I know... I can't work out whether TM would ask him to come out publicly or whether he does it off his own bat.

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Zac Goldsmith - all reappeared in the last week like a bad smell - three people I'd be glad never to set eyes or ears on again.

[essayer]

It's certainly Boris day today! I said to the missus last night that I thought he was being kept in the cupboard for this campaign- I'm not even at work yet and I've heard him on three different interviews as well as headlining every news bulletin

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Sheets Tabuer said:

Without wanting to go in to any brexit bias I think anyone that campaigns so hard for something and then does a runner deserves a poke in the eye.

Used to like him, now I think he's a prick.

Yep - treacherous, cowardly, self-serving.

[Likes Fast Cars]

MarshPhantom said:

I honestly feel The Tories don't want to be in power after the election, getting Johnson on the campaign trail won't be helping their cause. .

Just like Core-Blimey for the Labour cause

They should cancel each other out.

[Randy Winkman]

princealbert23 said:

You have perfected the art of starting a thread in a nice balanced way without any hint of bias.

No more so than any other thread here. At least it makes a change from the Corbyn/Dianne Abbott/Muslim stuff.

[catso]

footnote said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Without wanting to go in to any brexit bias I think anyone that campaigns so hard for something and then does a runner deserves a poke in the eye.

Used to like him, now I think he's a prick.

Yep - treacherous, cowardly, self-serving.

To add; a complete tool.

[Tankrizzo]

What's this obsession with where people went to school 30 years ago?

[turbobloke]

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MarshPhantom said:

I honestly feel The Tories don't want to be in power after the election, getting Johnson on the campaign trail won't be helping their cause. .

It won't help Labour's cause - and Corbyn's Comrades are duty bound to holler at BoJo whatever happens. Boris is clearly a boost for the Tory vote so it'll be OK fot the Conservatives. The idea that anything of this nature is going to make a difference is clutching at straws. Labour and their supporters surely ought to concentrate on the immense task of making their Party electable again. There are many years of slog ahead requiring major effort around an unpalatable policy re-think.

[sidicks]

Tankrizzo said:

What's this obsession with where people went to school 30 years ago?

Something to do with chips and shoulders, I suspect.

[John145]

catso said:

footnote said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Without wanting to go in to any brexit bias I think anyone that campaigns so hard for something and then does a runner deserves a poke in the eye.

Used to like him, now I think he's a prick.

Yep - treacherous, cowardly, self-serving.

To add; a complete tool.

I don't understand, he campaigned for Brexit now he's in the cabinet. What's he running away from...?

[deadslow]

sidicks said:

Tankrizzo said:

What's this obsession with where people went to school 30 years ago?

Something to do with chips and shoulders, I suspect.

more to do with entitlement and contempt, I suspect.

[AnotherClarkey]

sidicks said:

Tankrizzo said:

What's this obsession with where people went to school 30 years ago?

Something to do with chips and shoulders, I suspect.

How many of us get to choose where we go to school? Discriminating against people about things over which they have no control is wrong isn't it? Yet it seems acceptable to use this as a personal slight.