Posted on 06/23/2019 2:37:55 PM PDT by TBP
With four minutes to go, Boris Johnson ran in. I was already concerned — maybe more concerned than Boris. It was an awards ceremony at the Hilton, Park Lane, in London. The room was packed with financial people in bow ties. It was a couple of years before Johnson became mayor of London. At this point he was a back-bench Conservative MP and newspaper columnist. Right now he was due to make a funny speech.
In four minutes.
Suddenly — BOOM. A rush of wind from an opened door, a golden mop, a heave of body and dinner jacket onto the chair next to mine, and the breathless question, at 9:28 pm: “JEREMY. Where exactly AM I?”
I actually had that stress feeling — a kind of sunburn, creeping across my arms and back. So he was late and he had not prepared a speech. And he was due onstage in 90 seconds. I said, “It is the Securitization Awards, Boris.”
He said, “Right-o. And who is speaking?”
“You are.”
“Good God,” he cried. “When?”
I looked at my watch. “Um — pretty much now.”
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If you can’t master basic grooming, decorum or courtesy, it leaves hygiene in doubt and from there cute writing has a hard time holding up a facade of basic leadership abilities.
Actually, when my husband and I ran events which often featured famous people, they would rush in asking “What is this?” They were so hectically scheduled, they didn’t know where they were half the time.
My Prussian-blue electric clock’s
Alarm bell rings, it will not stop
And I can see no end in sight
And search in vain by candlelight
For some long road that goes nowhere
For some signpost that is not there
And even my befuddled brain
Is shining brightly, quite insane
The title says it. The hair, the bicycle, the messy car, the bumbling...it is a shtick.
Anyone who doesn't know that must have been in solitary confinement for the last 15 years.
It is also a means of defense against attacks from political opponents.
How can you attack a guy who has such a shtick except to attack his shtick? And since everyone knows it is just a shtick, it makes the attacker sounds dense and obtuse.
BoJo presents a moving, amorphous, and fuzzy (yep, fuzzy, too) target and he's quite clever about it.
Compared to Theresa May, BoJo's gonna look like the British Donald Trump.
Agree. I think BoJo and DJT are related. The hair/ Hebrides.
A British PM has far greater powers, and far fewer encumberances than a POTUS (relative to the size of the nation, that is). BoJo could be Donald Trump, unencumbered by many of the checks and balances of the US system of government.
While the POTUS is spending years, fighting to get a wall along the southern border; some forgotten British PM had no trouble installing a moat around the entire country.
Then some idiot had to go and build the chunnel. ;p
Also, both much married and with some adventures, too.
Trump has money. I don't know what the attraction with Boris is.
He looks like Churchill without the cigar so GO BORIS GO
A Remainer, no doubt.
Trump’s mom was from the Hebrides/ one of the first places the Vikings settled in the 900s when they were out and about. BoJo’s hair is of the same genetic code, imho, and that is quite possible.
I think of DJT as a Viking warrior of sorts, NOT tea-room ready, but battle-wise. Don’t know BoJo as well but he’s got to be tons better than way-too-nice Theresa May.
Boris is loaded too... maybe not multi-billionaire like Trump but he’s a multimillionaire.
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