Boris Johnson

Ha ha! I think we've found just the place to leave all those MPs who have been getting on our nerves!

Hilarious!

Or this one

Works alright for me. He got stuck on a zip wire. Try again. It's funny.

Tried to get on it , wouldn"t let me , said it was due to a long running script , whatever that means .

poor Boris [grin]

He was great when he opened a local fete a couple of years back. Went round chatting to everyone, and looking at the stalls. Didn't rush off like some do.

Love the comments in that link.

I find him funny but I don't like him. His attitude to women exactly mimics that of his father, Stanley - condescending and arrogant.

I thought I was the only one with this guilty secret - obviously not!

He's got another 10 days to go before we can heave a temporary sigh of relief on the major diplomatic offence front.
He reminds me of a morning TV presenter in NZ who everyone found amusingly shock-jocky until he said something majorly offensive and racist about the Governor General (Queens rep in NZ).
Being Welsh, maybe I don't find this kind of mannered English eccentricity endearing.
It also reminds me of women who play the dumb blonde to hide their brains. If he is hiding brains. Not convinced.

I wouldn't vote for him but I can't help but love the image he portrays.

I love his gaffs. I loved the way he told the Chinese we invented table tennis but called it wiff waff. He appears to be a verbal loose cannon and I think he's very carefully scripted. He appeals to our 'oh my God did he really just say that' sense of humour hence the 'semi naked women glistening like wet otters' comment. His insults to other countries amuse us because they're never bad enough to cause major diplomatic trouble but tickle our deeply hidden xenophobic senses.

He plays the role of the great British eccentric to a tee.

I also love Boris, his zest for life his blunders and his humour-all of which hide a sharp and ambitious brain.

Boris got stuck on a zipwire this afternoon in Victoria Park in London.

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Well, it made me chuckle anyway.

Re Cameron & Co - anyone noticed the clone effect? Cameron, Clegg and the two Milibands....I had difficulty - and still do sometimes - telling them apart!

You mean very upper class, with a jowly face gagagran

Gagagran agree 110% .Have a good day

I like Boris too - I think he has something of Churchill about him - his vocabulary and phrasing maybe? I am very disappointed with Cameron and am beginning to think he is all style but no substance. He's still better than Clegg though.

In the red corner wily buffoon Johnson. In the blue corner educational dinosaur Gove. Could be an interesting battle for party leader when the knives eventually come out for disingenuous Dave.
Still the world enjoyed Dave's riposte to Romney when he started being critical - Romney organised the Salt Lake City Olympic games - "well it's easy organising the Olympics in the middle of nowhere". Democrats across the states are cheering.

See Boris has invited Murdoch to join him at the Olympics . Very interesting

I also liked this "reason to be happy about The Olympics" form The Telegraph on MOnday:
"The Emirates Airline cable car from the North Greenwich Arena (O2) to the Excel, both Olympic venues, carried a record 26,000 people on Saturday. It is London’s newest and most successful tourist attraction, and was built to time and to budget by TfL, and very largely with sponsorship cash. We are still awaiting a visit from the great man after whom the project was named – Vince Cable himself. "
Boris Johnson, unlike David Cameron does not try to play down his background and education, to be what he is not - he is himself, as the French say "bien dans sa peau" - he knows who and what he is and the result is that people of all political persuasions can warm to him and also disagree with him!
I also think he is much more savvy than Cameron and perhaps realises that as Mayor of London he is much more powerful in his own sphere.

I sort of like him too, jeni - but only as an amusement!

Well of course, I know nothing about eccentrics? But I like him!

I agree nj. He plays the British eccentric very well, is bonkers bright, but frankly I think he is a loose cannon. Not PM material in my book.

I think that he is a very clever media manipulater and his image of a lovable buffoon is carefully planned. Wolf in sheeps clothing. I would not trust him nor vote for him.