Could Boris Johnson really be Prime Minister?
The National review has said that "if someone had suggested 15 years ago that Boris Johnson might become the prime minister of Great Britain, the likely reaction in almost every quarter would have been untrammeled hysteria." I think more likely the answer would have been who's Boris Johnson?
Now an almost internationally known figure Boris Johnson is in danger of becoming the most recognizable politician in Britain. Lets face it he is not easy to forget.
Boris is already the most recognized British leader in China. I saw him collect the Olympic flag at the paralympic closing ceremony in Beijing. His hair ruffled and his shirt hanging out, my Chinese wife said to me we have a special word for describing this type of man in China - "man who don't give a shit! (in Chinese of course)"
Boris is not a man without talent:he was editor of the Spectator at 35, won election to parliament at 37, and juggled the two roles happily until he entered the shadow cabinet in 2005. In 2008 he was elected Mayor of London beating the popular incumbent Ken Livingstone.
Boris wants to be Prime Minister
Boris seems about as likely to become PM as Winston Churchill would have been before the outbreak of war. Not that it would take as much as a war to get a Boris premiership. Comparing Boris Johnson and Winston Churchill is easy; they are both not normal people. Winston was different and so is Boris.
Boris is a winner. Not only did Johnson win re-election to the mayoralty in 2012, but he was returned with the largest personal mandate of any elected official in British history.
Thus, despite maintaining in 2003 that he had "as much as chance of becoming prime minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee," Westminster is divided between those who now believe him to be unstoppable, and those who can't stop laughing at the idea that he is being taken seriously as an alternative prime minister... Conservative donors have had enough, and are lining up behind the London Mayor.
The Telegraph also related that Johnson "met Rupert Murdoch recently to discuss how his candidacy might be promoted."
A political titan
It seems almost everyone is starting to become disenchanted by the Conservative Government. Elected to cut spending and the excess of the Brown years it seems they have done neither. Some reforms already in place will take too long to make a difference. Thatcher managed to turn Britain upside down in her first term, Cameron has hardly started anything.
Britain is in a mess and it needs a special someone to sort it out. We had a Thatcher in the 80's but we don't need a Thatcher in the 20Teens' we need something but nobody knows what. Maybe we should ask Boris?
Boris used the issue of the Heathrow third runway to publicly challenge David Cameron. There was no rebuke, the PM more or less ran away and hid. Many back benchers in the Conservative party are now thinking that Boris could be unstoppable.
Boris for PM!
Winston Churchill spent years in the wilderness and would have been an unlikely Prime Minister before the outbreak of war. Not that it would take as much as a war to get a Boris premiership. Boris Johnson and Winston Churchill are like two peas in a pod. Both possess brilliance and fortitude. Winston wanted to be Prime Minister his whole life and so does Boris. http://www.borisjohnsonforprimeminister.ozvuk.com/
