Bye bye Boris?
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The first edition of Boris Johnson’s memoires:
‘Down and Out in Brussels and London’ – nominated for the George Orwell prize.
“Couldn’t pick it up!” – The Guardian
“Fiction at it’s finest” – New York Times
Signed edition: £38.75
Unsigned: £67.50
By the same author…
Doing Up A Dump – with a foreword by Lord Brownlow.
My Secret Garden – tips on turning a party into a work event.
Trollop – a ‘Jennifer Arcuri’ mystery novel.
Bottoms Up – a hilarious evening with Chris Pincher.
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But in all this discussion about BJ, I am reminded of a conversation I had several years ago with a friend who was a former campaign coordinator and friend of Johnson who told me why he was disgusted with his behaviour and had left his campaign and the Tory party.
My friend was on that notorious bus with Johnson and watched him work over many weeks. Johnson sat at the back, alone and studying his notes. He did not talk and seemed withdrawn and almost depressed. He discovered that his real name for friends and family is not Boris but Al. Boris is a construct. A performance, not a person. When looking at his notes, he was not brushing up on details or going over briefings - he was learning his script.
Anyone who appears in public knows that one develops a personality that is somewhat removed from the real self. Actors must develop many such personalities and good actors fine-tune the performance, based on the psychology of the part they must play. 'Boris' is a stand-up performance, just as Mr. Bean is a stand-up performance written by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis and performed by Rowan Atkinson. Mr Bean has no back story or meaningful psychology and neither has 'Boris'.
When one realises that sad fact, one realises that the demise of 'Boris' was inevitable. You cannot put a fictional character in charge of a real government. Al is still sitting alone, wondering what new parts he can get for his 'Boris'.
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Well, I knew that. What I was hoping was that a man smart enough to come up with that persona was smart enough to run the country.
Personally, my disappointment with Boris is not that he turned out to be worse than other politicians. It's that he turned out exactly the same as every other politician. He just got caught out.
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I have a good friend, a Civil Servant, who has known Boris personally for many years, albeit more recently from a distance, their paths crossing on rare occasions.
Boris, he would say, is a phenomenal politician, happy to be viewed as inept whilst sorting out real problems with a phone call, personal intervention to get things moving. The baggage that he carried should have prevented him reaching the position of Prime Minister but, friends, associates, colleagues, Tory Party members and the electorate voted him in. So what went wrong?
Like many before him, the job is bigger than the person. Ultimately the art of delegation impacts on decision making and personality politics need to be set aside. Boris for many reasons, good and bad, never quite managed to separate the two.
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Having heard his speach I think their plan is to say
We are boring but safe - tories said they were for the economy but they were just for their paymasters. We will make the best of a bad lot and be boring but good for growing the economy of the country for the good of you lot but will not be exciting. P.S. We don't do parties, that lot over there are just in it for the sh*ts and giggles
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Best option?
Out of a bad bunch surely? I don't think there's a single MP that stands out as even moderately useful and Boris was just a performance act to distract us from far worse things on the horizon.
The Tory leadership race is also farcical and just why does Rishi want to be PM? What's the motive?
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Yet its the way we get a PM with the Conservatives in government.
Any idiot standing at the moment for the PM job starts off being blamed for major problems. The smart MPs will wait until next time - where there isn't a major crisis that they will be blamed for regardless of what they do.
Quite a bit has been mentioned recently about what government has done to help millions of people. OK, millions being helped can be a good thing.
Now, what about next year? Same high bills or even higher - do we expect the same additional help once again?
Or does a PM slam his / her / their hand down and refuse to add additional debt to future generations to deal with poor decision making now?
Austerity or add to debt repayments? Hard choice, no easy solution and there's problems no matter what is done.
As I said the smart MPs will wait and let some idiot get the job and be blamed.
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