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  • #46
    Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
    Boris is a rah-ya who is sometimes funny for his buffoonery, that doesn't mean you should vote him into a position of some power and influence.

    Given that he can't help offending people for no good reason, he isn't the sort of person that should be heading up a city such as London where being politically astute and sensitive to peoples feelings matters.
    i think the reason that boris johnson appeals to people, is that unlike most other politicians, everything he says isn't some sanitized, politically correct claptrap, that's been through a dozen focus groups to make sure that it doesn't offend anybody. he just comes out and says what he thinks.

    an intelligent man who speaks his mind, there's a lot to be said for that.
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    • #47
      Yep, that about sums it up nicely.
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      • #48
        If Boris is really as bad at offending people (not just minorities either - just look at his comments about Liverpool and Portsmouth) as claimed, it would be doubtful that he would ever become mayor of London.
        One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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        • #49
          While I find Boris amusing and a refreshing change from most other politicians I really don't think he should be given a position of power or influence.

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          • #50
            My suspicion is that will be the attitude of most folk and his candidature will just fade away.

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            • #51
              Originally posted by C0ckney


              i think the reason that boris johnson appeals to people, is that unlike most other politicians, everything he says isn't some sanitized, politically correct claptrap, that's been through a dozen focus groups to make sure that it doesn't offend anybody. he just comes out and says what he thinks.

              If he gave the impression of actually giving some thought to what he says, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

              As it is, he just appears to blurt out the first feeling that pops into his head with all the tact and diplomacy usually associated with street drinkers.
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              • #52
                Originally posted by reds4ever
                While I find Boris amusing and a refreshing change from most other politicians I really don't think he should be given a position of power or influence.
                Just make him deputy PM then.
                One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by C0ckney


                  i think the reason that boris johnson appeals to people, is that unlike most other politicians, everything he says isn't some sanitized, politically correct claptrap, that's been through a dozen focus groups to make sure that it doesn't offend anybody. he just comes out and says what he thinks.

                  an intelligent man who speaks his mind, there's a lot to be said for that.
                  It's not that. It's that he's really the only honest Tory. By and large the rest of them are the same stuffed shirts with the same antedeluvian views as him, although they don't have the gumption to be honest about it.

                  Johnson is the perfect representative of the petty, low grade evil that is the distinguishing mark of the British Conservative Party (the mentality that wants to bring back the right of landowners to flog trespassers, and wants to cut the heating allowances of the elderly).

                  People hate the diabolical totalitarian kind of evil, but most people enjoy having a laugh at the petty, bumbling, antiquarian evil that Johnson represents (in full awareness of his own hypocrisy).
                  Only feebs vote.

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
                    Given that he can't help offending people for no good reason, he isn't the sort of person that should be heading up a city such as London where being politically astute and sensitive to peoples feelings matters.
                    How would you tell the difference between Boris and Red Ken (who London seemed to love) then?
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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Dauphin


                      Just make him deputy PM then.
                      Or Leader of the Conservative party...

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by reds4ever

                        Or Leader of the Conservative party...
                        Or manager of Liverpool.
                        Only feebs vote.

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                        • #57
                          Ouch!!

                          18 league...5 nah....

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                          • #58
                            Originally posted by DinoDoc
                            How would you tell the difference between Boris and Red Ken (who London seemed to love) then?
                            I voted for Ken in both elections, not because I love him, but because I respect him and think that he can get things done. Political compromise also means that he doesn't do anything ridiculous.

                            Also you had to compare him to the other runners who didn't seem to want the job - first time round Dobson was forced to run for Labour and he made it clear he didn't want to, second time Ken got the Labour go ahead. Norris's campaigns never seemed to start due to apparent apathy on his part. As for Lib Dems, they didn't supply a credible or likeable candidate on either occasion.

                            I can't speak for others, but that is my general understanding of why people voted for Ken.

                            Boris could stir things up, but Ken would be more likely to win because when it comes to it, Boris doesn't look like a man who would get things done.
                            One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                            • #59
                              Originally posted by reds4ever
                              Ouch!!

                              18 league...5 nah....
                              Fair enough. At least the Tories have a chance of winning. Unlike the Scousers.
                              Only feebs vote.

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Agathon


                                Fair enough. At least the Tories have a chance of winning. Unlike the Scousers.
                                I don't think either of us will be winning much for the next couple of years....it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

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