Boris Johnson's Popularity

[Rascal]

Fucking laughable sherman buffoon.
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He is a yank aint he.

scary

 

[whats platt doing]

id vote for him too - sooner he is pm the better

 

[Mike D]

With politics it's not so much the policies as the cult of personality, or in his case the c*nt of personality.

Some of the sh*t that the press have on him, but non of it needs to stick.

 

[mammutly]

He's a big personality and famous. He would probably win X Factor.
He's popular for being popular. That, sadly, is the entire answer to your question.

 

[Rocket-footed kolarov]

In a July 2009 interview with Stephen Sackur on the BBC programme HARDtalk, Johnson referred to the £250,000 per annum income he receives from his side job as a columnist for The Daily Telegraph as "chicken feed," suggesting that he wrote the columns "as a way of relaxation ... on a Sunday morning," and that he wrote "very fast" so the columns did not take time away from his duties as Mayor.[152] These comments were widely criticised due to the fact that the UK was at the time in economic recession and £250,000 is roughly 10 times the current average yearly wage for a worker in the UK.[153]

Here is a nice snippit of info, he just seems a buffoon who is always one word from putting his foot in it. Just spouts a load of waffle and ends up making comments about things where there is no need to cause a stir, like insulting liverpool and portsmouth. He will never be PM or a cabinet minister (because I doubt any PM would trust him not backstab and plot against them or just generally not be caught acting like the dickhead is) so the biggest job he will ever is Mayor of London; okay quite alot of power but those cockey tossers voted him in twice so they deserve all they get.

 

[Mike D]

He's a big personality and famous. He would probably win X Factor.
He's popular for being popular. That, sadly, is the entire answer to your question.

Id sooner have Simon Cowell for PM.

 

[andy h]

Is it because he is a Blue and tracks back?

 

[mammutly]

He's a big personality and famous. He would probably win X Factor.
He's popular for being popular. That, sadly, is the entire answer to your question.

Id sooner have Simon Cowell for PM.

Believe me, mate. If Simon Cowell stood for election, he would probably get the job.

In America they made Arnold Schwarzenegger a state governor and we are on the same trip these days. Nobody has much faith in politics anymore and it's celebrity that sells.

 

[Rocket-footed kolarov]

He's a big personality and famous. He would probably win X Factor.
He's popular for being popular. That, sadly, is the entire answer to your question.

Id sooner have Simon Cowell for PM.

You could only have him for so long though, he would serve two years and then go of to seek more power and money in America. So you would eventually end up Louis Walsh as PM, Gary Barlow as Chancellor, and then we would have a weekly reshuffle for fame hungry members of the public to perform on a live voting to show to be a cabinet minister. You soon realise it was all crap but Simon Cowell still made a shedload of money out of it anyway.

 

[Gabriel]

He's a big personality and famous. He would probably win X Factor.
He's popular for being popular. That, sadly, is the entire answer to your question.

Not sure I agree with that bit. He's more astute than many in the media give him credit and certainly intellectually more capable than the image painted of him as a buffoon and toff. He's ferociously self-aggrandising, I grant you, but he manages to be so in a manner that somehow finds genuine appeal with the core constituents in the south of England, and they often decide who will lead the Conservatives.