• Boris is one of the best and brightest right wing stand-up comedians of his generation. He has strong charisma and a need to be the centre of attention at all times.

    Johnson is apparently also extremely insecure and it is often said that he has a good feeling for what people want to hear, which he will then tell them.

    That is a useful skill for a quick witted comedian or fraudster.

    In the London Assembly Question Time the opposition Labour+LibDems+Greens connived to ask Boris the same question three times in a row. It sometimes worked, by the third call he had run out of jokes, bluffs and diversions and was forced to deal with the issues.

  • best and brightest right wing stand-up comedians of his generation

    tl;dr: Leadership vacuum.

    It sometimes worked, by the third call he had run out of jokes, bluffs and diversions and was forced to deal with the issues.

    Presumably that just taught him to prepare more jokes, bluffs and diversions?

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