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The thing people need to know about Boris is that 99% of what you see in public is a carefuly crafted image of a harmless, and somewhat likeable buffoon. If yo
by philjohn 7y ago
The thing people need to know about Boris is that 99% of what you see in public is a carefuly crafted image of a harmless, and somewhat likeable buffoon.
If you listen to the recording of where he was talking with an acquaitance about supplying him with the address of a reporter for said acquaintance to "rough up" an entirely different man emerges, one who doesn't stammer and ham things up.
Boris is a very calculating man, and has fooled so many, for so long. This story paints this point very vividly.
- bhouston 7y agoSo Boris, the Oxford man, has an "Everyman" shtick that has wide appeal. Smart man. Politicians who are so smart as to become something else are a bit scary, hard to trust if they are mostly an act. I suspect this is mostly for public consumption and he dropped this when actually working. Thus maybe it is just his interfacing with the people shtick. And then it is mostly harmless.
- EliRivers 7y agoIt's certainly true that the harm he does is not caused by his Everyman" shtick. It's caused instead by his brutal incompetence.
- Bakary 7y ago"There is an idea of a Boris Johnson, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."
- zwerdlds 7y agodid you manage to get that doria reservation for tonight?