Silly in the snow

He is frighteningly intelligent. Not that Cameron is a thicko, but Boris
is clever as well as intelligent IYSWIM.

He's better on TV and the media, IMHO. He just comes over better.

He has a knack of appealing to the Common Folk (copyright The Lion King)
which Cameron doesn't seem to have mastered.

He comes up with better sound bites.

He's *instantly* identifiable, by sound or vision. Like he's a brand.
Try it: Think Boris. OK, you've got him. Now Think Cameron. Erm, which
side is his hair parted?

I think all this matters in modern TV-led elections.

I don't see him being silly enough to lead a coup. But I can easily
imagine some Tory grandees saying privately that perhaps Cameron isn't
up to the job after all, chaps, now who do we think could replace him?

 

As long as it isn't Fatty Soames: the Richter-force landing would
flatten half of London.

 

That's partly because Boris' hair is parted on every side possible,
and a few extra sides.

 

You wouldn't, but they Daily Mail line is *e*lder
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ght-long-knives-Shadow-Cabinet-clear-out.html
which I saw referenced at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hague#Return_to_the_Shadow_Cabinet

As I said earlier, you live in a bubble oblivious to some media sources

 

(The Older Gentleman) spewed forth:

Mightn't be such a bad thing...

 

I actually feel some sympathy for him but at the end of the day he
*wanted* the job.

Blair's timing to jump ship was spot on.

 

I think Brown's biggest problem is one he has no control over at all,
and that's that he's being compared to Obama, and therefore is just
seen as less 'cool', because he's not out there being a political
rockstar, IYSWIM.

He just strikes me as a regular bloke, doing a very tough job, which
in itself is perfectly ok.

 

A one time girlfriend of his described sex with him as being like
having the wardrobe fall on you with the key sticking out.

 

Well as far as I'm concerned, his pushing of a too deregulated financial
system, but then that damage was done as chancellor.

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I'll reverse the question.

What has Brown done that makes him anything at all, bad or otherwise.

 

What, worse than the basic "you must have a tiny nob" ?

 

No. The worst, most crushing, putdown any woman can inflict on any man
is: `<insert name here>, you're really nice ...'.

 

"I love you like a friend"

"You're like a brother to me"

etc

 

or "sweet".

 

I am in agreement.
But at least we know what Labour and the Libs do. I think this Tory lot
could go off like a faulty firework.

 

Well I'm one of the 25% who think that we should go off and **** up nasty
little Totalitarian govmints where possible and completely isolate them when
not.

Bollocks.

Wilson. Heath. Thatcher. Major.

Literally insolvent. We printed more money to stay afloat.

Loathed by Chaves and the Muslim world you mean? The Sandniggers had their
chance, they blew it and I'd be happy to see the Yids create a new (nuclear)
holocaust in their back yard.

 

You forgot Wilson.

I listened to an alternative view of Chamberlain on R4 recently which was
exceptionally lucid and hit the mark.

He believed that Britian was so unprepared for another war in Europe that it
would be a disaster. One would agree. So no matter what the cost he had to
buy another 4-6 years to prepare. Which is exactly what he did. He dressed
it up as whatever it had to be to get it through.

He also believed it would be so horrific (read mechanised) that he didn't
want to be involved. He pretty much achieved that too and I don't blame him.

If you judge his career on domestic policies as a reformer, which is what he
hope for, he doesn't deserve the vitriol he gets.

 

Mishandled the economy- insufficient supervision of banking industry.

Mishandled the country's investors (risk of losing ratings)

Refused to make tough decisions on spending (cut back on the stuff that
makes Britain believe it's truely a world power).

Sold gold reserves.

Poor performance on the expenses issue and general 'low-level
corruption' in the labour party (remember how they were going to be
whiter than white just 13 years ago? My some of them learnt well from
the Tories).

Inability to lead his government- there's been more back-stabbing by his
cabinet than Major suffered and without the clear schism in the party
that Major had over europe.

The whole 'shall I, shan't I' around when he calls the election.

Carrying a discredited government through at a time when the country
clearly wants a fresh start and at a time when we need to be pulling
together to try to increase the optimism to avoid a prolonged slump.





To be honest a lot of what he's done wasn't done by him alone (or even
under his tenure as PM). He's just been the unfortunate at the helm
when everything went shit-shaped. He was handed a pretty good economy
when he took over as chancellor, at least by today's terms.

Never liked him; his dour personality always worried me, I had expected
legislation against pleasure.

I think he'll be a post-note to Blair in the same way that Major was to
Thatcher with one essential difference- Major won an election.

 

How much money are you willing to put on Boris as PM within two years of
the 2010 general election?

 

"And I don't come from a rural community"