For a forum that has a pretty well documented dislike for “snowflakes”, I would have thought Boris would be right up most people’s street. He says what he believes, has a sense of humour that will occasionally cause offence, and sometimes uses colourful language to get his point across. So he should be right at home on this forum, particularly with those that enjoy posting or viewing the odd picture of a well endowed and shapely young woman despite the sexist connotations in wider society of such things.
I have seen no absence of compassion, but neither does he pretend to have compassion for everything (eg Corbyn and Swinson).
Does he occasionally get flustered by a question and give a slightly cringeworthy unrehearsed answer, yes - but better that than the soundbite politics of the alternative leaders.
Does he tell lies sometimes, perhaps, but that hardly puts him in an elite group amongst politicians, as we know, and let he amongst us without guilt cast the first stone.
And some of his media and opponent alleged lies are arguably not lies, just his version of the truth, eg there will be no Customs checks in the Irish Sea. As I understand it, there will definitely not be any EU forced checks on goods coming to the UK across the Irish Sea. And going the other way, the withdrawal agreement says there MAY be checks in certain circumstances. However, this is is not absolute and is to be negotiated as part of the future trading relationship. Clearly, he does not want this and will negotiate hard to avoid it. So does that make it a lie for him to say, in his view, there will be none?
I wouldn’t describe myself as a Boris fan boy, but in 100 days he achieved the “impossible” according to his detractors, the media and the EU - he got the withdrawal agreement reopened, the backstop removed, and achieved other positive improvements in the Brexit deal. All the opposition did in this period was tell him he would fail and then try to undo what he achieved. On this basis, I’d like to see him get the chance to govern for a full Parliament to see what other “impossible” improvements in quality of life in the UK for all he might deliver without bankrupting the nation. Will everybody love him? No. Will he upset people sometimes with his shoot from the hip approach and colourful sense of humour? Yes. Is he human like the rest of us and doesn’t pretend otherwise? In my view, yes and shouldn’t be condemned for that.
