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Topic Started: Sep 15 2012, 01:09 PM (547 Views)
caissier
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Boris Johnson's campaign to position himself as the natural successor to David Cameron has received a big boost from a poll showing he is Britain's most respected political figure
<huh????>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/14/boris-johnson-most-respected-politician?INTCMP=SRCH

What do you make of that?
Edited by caissier, Sep 15 2012, 01:12 PM.
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becky sharp
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Was the poll conducted before or after this week's apology? <huh????>
Edited by becky sharp, Sep 15 2012, 01:21 PM.
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rumbaba
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'Respected'? :(
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Hugh Jampton
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It has to be Boris.
He has the same hair style as me.

Mine used to be like Des Lynam's. But now, it's like Boris's.
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With Boris around, supported by Hugh, why should England tremble?

That article would have been better if it had said what the questions were.

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Boris was in full cry today but the more he spouts the more he worries me. He was on WatO, burbling happily. He was followed by Gove but couldn't stop himself breaking in. He looks to me like a lunatic for whom people. At the time of the Olympics a French newspaper said - "It cannot be said often enough; Boris Johnson is a very strange man."

Even odder is his private behaviour. He is said to be uttely different - morose, non-communicative, with no conversation and very few friends at all. He's a jovial-looking oaf, only popular as a cartoon character. As a politician he is only successful as a mischief-maker. If he could disguise that long enough until he gets power we would be in serious trouble. He is not fit to be an actual national leader- outside a fanciful political-comedy film.
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caissier
Sep 15 2012, 01:09 PM
Boris Johnson's campaign to position himself as the natural successor to David Cameron has received a big boost from a poll showing he is Britain's most respected political figure
<huh????>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/14/boris-johnson-most-respected-politician?INTCMP=SRCH

What do you make of that?
<erm> Was the poll conducted on Earth?
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waiting4atickle
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In Cloud-Cuckoo-Land perhaps?

There's only one party of which Boris could be leader:- the Monster Raving Loony Party.

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Max Hastings doesn't like Boris Johnson .....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/10/boris-johnson-unfit-to-be-prime-minister

"Most politicians are ambitious and ruthless, but Boris is a gold medal egomaniac. I would not trust him with my wife nor – from painful experience – my wallet. It is unnecessary to take any moral view about his almost crazed infidelities, but it is hard to believe that any man so conspicuously incapable of controlling his own libido is fit to be trusted with controlling the country. His chaotic public persona is not an act – he is, indeed, manically disorganised about everything except his own image management. He is also a far more ruthless, and frankly nastier, figure than the public appreciates."

The worrying thing is .... he can win elections - as he - just - did earlier this year.
Edited by caissier, Oct 11 2012, 11:45 AM.
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caissier
Oct 11 2012, 11:42 AM
The worrying thing is .... he can win elections - as he - just - did earlier this year.
And was feted like a superstar at the Tory conference.....a jokes a joke but there is a limit. <crikey>
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In a nation, whose government is completely devoid of 'characters', Boris is the 'clown king'.

His clowning allows his dispicable behavior (private and public) to be excused as, "Well that's just Boris".
<yikes>

As for letting him loose in 'real' politics? His last foray was hopeless. However, he has at least inspired Nick Clegg....say anything you like as long as you say "Sorry" afterwards.... <whistles>
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Eddie Mair plays down promotion talk after skewering Boris Johnson

Radio 4 presenter denies he has sights set on Jeremy Paxman or Andrew Marr's job despite gaining plaudits on latter's show



The BBC journalist Eddie Mair says he has no ambitions to move to a more prominent job at the corporation, despite his greatly increased public profile in the wake of his tenacious questioning of Boris Johnson.

In a typically eccentric instalment of his weekly column for the Radio Times, which Mair largely devotes to fictitious claims about particle physics, mockery of the magazine's editor and worries about the size of his own bald spot, he says he has no ambitions to move from his current job presenting Radio 4's PM on weekday afternoons.

Last Sunday Mair won plaudits while filling in on Andrew Marr's eponymous Sunday morning BBC1 show for grilling Johnson on his dismissal from the Times for making up quotes and lying about an affair,

But Mair insisted he did not want Marr's job permanently, or that of Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight, or John Humphrys' place on Radio 4's flagship news show Today.

He wrote: "As for all the hullaballoo … for the record, I don't want Jeremy's job. Or John's. Or Andrew's. I like mine." Typically, this protestation was then undermined by a joke: "Though my contract is up soon and I haven't heard anything, so if you run a radio or TV station and you think there's a future for a 47-year-old in a bad wig – call my agent."

Mair's polite but relentless inquisition of Johnson brought him considerable praise, even from the London mayor himself who said his interviewer had done "a splendid job", followed by considerable speculation the BBC could move Mair to a more prominent role.

After a long diversion about the Higgs Boson particle and a surreal description of the Radio Times's editor, Ben Preston – who smells, Mair wrote, "of Pimms and regret", and speaks like "a cross between Mike Reid and Arthur Mullard" – Mair addressed his newfound celebrity.

He wrote: "One of the joys of live broadcasting is that you never have to hear or see your work unless you really go out of your way. You prepare it, do it, then head to the bar. Well, that's usually the order. But last week there was, for a moment, no avoiding screengrabs and clips of the eminent and likeable Boris Johnson being badgered by a balding sack of potatoes in a cheap suit. Yes, balding. And not the nice Clare kind.

"Never mind all the stuff about what the interview revealed. The photos revealed something very shocking to me. What in my mind was my discreet but manageable bald spot is in fact the size of a dinner plate. Only the over-the-shoulder TV camera angle could tell me this and, what's worse, it was then relayed in every newspaper in the land.

"I could play a monk in a low-budget TV movie. You could sell advertising space on it (note to self: check with BBC lawyers whether this might be do-able for my next Marr stand-in)."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/02/eddie-mair-boris-johnson-bbc
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