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I was speaking to someone who's met him a fair few times and knows people who know him well and his summation was basically - "He's too intelligent. He has an incredibly ability to successfully wing it in pretty much any situation - and has essentially done just that."
Which is an interesting perspective to take... and doesn't bode well for having a fulltime job as PM.
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Stewart or Johnson?
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The same could be said for Tigger, aka Hancock. He is now on record as saying, if elected, Corbyn would be the first anti-Semitic PM of the UK. Has Hancock never heard of Clement Attlee (who was probably the best prime minister of the 20th century) but was somewhat anti-Semitic. Hancock also conveniently glossed over Churchill. He may not have been anti-Semitic but most definitely racist with regard Asians and Africans. Very selective knowledge of recent history.
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He's too intelligent
So many people think that this is a reasonable measure of intelligence. "He's so smart that they don't need to try, and are able to just get stuff straight away".
That's not close to my definition of intelligence, it's closer to laziness or inattentiveness. Most intelligent achievers I've ever met wouldn't accept that definition at all.
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There is something quite sweet about seeing someone with that proper nineteenth-century public school optimistic attitude that you could literally go anywhere and have a bloody good crack at anything.
He seems to have a genuine optimism and upbeat attitude which is quite refreshing. But his voting record shows he has that cold, dead-eyed careerist streak in him.
yoshy
marxist_vulcan
christianSpaceman
tbc
He was a member of the Labour Party as a teenager.
On the radio some months back he said that according to an opinion poll 80% of the population supported Brexit. When asked what poll he was referring to he said that he made it up. So definite Tory material for PM...a liar and like the rest, not to be trusted. Look at his voting record on austerity as proof.