Boris Johnson AKA ‘BoJo the Dude’
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Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or alternatively, the new Prime Minister of Kingston according to one of the Trump ladies. It’s another world isn’t it? Still, the dye is cast and BoJo is now our Prime Minister.
Personally, I am delighted. I like BoJo. He does alarm me from time to time. He even worries me from time to time. He is certainly something of an eccentric maverick, in comparison to politicians in general, but is that necessarily a bad thing?
His victory speech to the Conservative faithful was remarkably low key for BoJo, albeit he did raise a laugh or two.
I am not quoting entirely accurately, but it’s near enough –
“Deliver Brexit! Unify the country! Defeat Corbyn!” he cried. (Corbyn, for those uncertain, is the leader of the main opposition Labour party).
He then went on to point out that ‘some wag’, as he put it, had observed that the acronym for the above battle cry was ‘DUD’. Hardly a good acronym to go forward with.
“But!” continued Boris, in typical BoJo flamboyant style, “he forgot the final letter of the acronym. ‘E’!! We are going to Deliver Brexit! Unify the country! Defeat Corbyn and ENERGISE the country! DUDE!!”
It was Boris at his best. The remainder of his victory speech was, by BoJo standards, particularly low key and, indeed, gracious.
So. What can we expect from BoJo the Dude in the coming weeks and months then?
He is insistent that we will leave the European Union on October 31st regardless of whether there is an acceptable deal or not.
Wise move. Taking ‘no deal’ off the table was criminally stupid. If you are going to negotiate, you have to retain the option of walking away. That is just common sense, let alone good business practice.
Of course, the ‘Remain’ lobby wanted ‘no deal’ off the table quite simply because they want to stop Britain leaving the EU.
Now. Boris and The Conservatives have a majority of only two, and that includes the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionists that are propping up the government. As parliament seems to have a majority of ‘remainers’, how is he going to ensure we do leave, regardless, on October 31st.
I have absolutely no idea but, Boris being Boris, I wouldn’t bet against him finding a way.
There is no middle ground really with Boris Johnson.
People either love him or hate him. I’ve found a few who claim to merely like him or not like him a lot, but the majority seem to love or hate him.
Me? I wouldn’t go as far as saying I love him (in a manly way of course), but I certainly like him a great deal.
It is also quite clear, at least to me and a great many people according to various interviews on TV, that those who love him or, at least, like him a lot, believe one thing above all others.
Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, BoJo the Dude, will ultimately emerge as firmly one thing or another.
Either the greatest Prime Minister we have had since Churchill, or the shortest reigning Prime Minister in history.
As I said, there is no middle ground with Boris.
Personally I think, or rather hope, he becomes almost Churchillian. I also worry that he might not.
Time will tell, and, given October the 31st is close, there won’t be that much time for him to be one or the other either.
As BoJo said himself –
“My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.”
“My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”
Much breath is bated methinks.
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The Americans here and English living there seem to have a much better grasp of Johnson than N/N does !
His speech was bluster, hot air and BS! He’s like trump in that respect.
Don’t know why N/N says he voted remain as he’s so obviously a staunch brexiteer and his attitude is always right wing/hard right even.
The woman (Asian lady!) he’s made as Home Secretary was sacked by PM Mrs May because she was up to dodgy dealings and unbelievably believed in the death penalty!! The rest he’s appointed are hard line brexit supporters🙄
The truth is Cherries, that we, as a nation, are increasingly becoming either further left or further right.
I have no idea how left you are, I suspect quite far? It matters not to me. I believe in your right to believe in anything that you want and, whilst I will often disagree with you, I will support you in the right to hold the views that you do.
Wasn’t it 2004 when Patel said she believed in the death penalty? There lies madness! Yes, there are many awful people who commit awful crimes – and, frankly, I wouldn’t have lost any sleep if Hindley, Brady, Sutcliffe and so forth had been executed – but no matter how small the risk of executing the wrong person, it is a risk we can never afford to take.
A posthumous Royal pardon means bugger all to the deceased!
Boris has been quite clever. Appointing a British Asian to Home Secretary and a British Asian Muslim to Chancellor.
Difficult for anyone to throw a racist card in his direction now. Smart move.
I genuinely did vote remain – for reasons often stated – but yes, I fully support Brexit, including a no deal Brexit – again often stated.
As to his speech. Whether it was hot air and bluster will be decided based on his actions.
I like him – with some reservations. If he does as he says he will, then great! If not, he will be consigned to the same place so many politicians are consigned to. The place of bullshitters.
I, for one, await with interest to see whether he is who he claims to be.
According to Dante there’s a special circle in Hell reserved for those who predict the future – and for good reason. So I’ll stay with “wait and see” as long as seeing remains within the definition thereof. Over here we see only what we want to which for many consists of believing he’s built that wall, given us good health care and a general tax cut while lowering the debt. Yes, that does meet the definition of hysterical fugue.
I hesitate to mention that I know a former teacher of his at Eton who does admit that he’s brilliant, but then ’tis more about what one does with the brilliance, innit? For what my opinion, he’s the mad hatter without the hat, but what I know about British politics and anything else would fit into that hat.
’tis more about what one does with the brilliance, innit?
Precisely. I will wait and see. If his ‘brilliance’ works for our nation then great. If not, then not great!
He’s nothing like Trump Jess. I doubt anybody is like Trump!
Would Trump appoint a Muslim to high office, or an Asian lady to high office? Javid as Chancellor and Patel as Home Secretary.
No. He’s a Liberal Conservative which, over here, isn’t a contradiction in terms.
Boris Johnson is Donald Trump with a thesaurus and dictionary readily available to him. In what sane world was his speech excellent? Same world that says dolt45 standing in front of an audience and not throwing shit is a pivot to being presidential. We are so fucked as a world if this is the low bar we have to go by now.
My options are clear to me and you know what they are 🙂
Michael : Betcha!!
His speech outside number 10 was excellent. The left would not accept it was.
The sides are clear.
Left = Corbyn or Liberal Democrats and remain
Right = BoJo and leave.
My options are clear to me.
BoJo has about as much chance of becoming like Churchill as Trump does of becoming like Kennedy.