How Could Boris Liven Up This Election?

[Marshwarble]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/21/boris-johnson-tory-election-weapon

Suggestions please?

[whiskeryron]

// Bell said he would vote for Johnson over Osborne and May and praised him as a “solid Thatcherite”. // ( ''solid Thatcherite'') Doesn't that spell DOOM for the country for certain ?

[steg]

He could tar and feather himself and ride backwards on a donkey thru the streets of Glasgow with a union flag hanging out his bottom, ...that would work for me any ways

[youngmafbog]

Spells doom for lefties like you, for those of us wishing to progress out country and have no problem with people getting on it spells quite the opposite.

[retrocop]

The issue of mass immigration has been more or less side stepped by the 3 main parties leading up to the election.
I believe it ranks with the top 3 concerns of the electorate. NHS ,Europe and Immigration.
When asked how immigration should be addressed he said,"Don't tell ALL the foreigners to bog off. Don't let those in who wan't to scrounge"
I think he would have rather more to say on the subject if only Cameron would let him yet Cameron is accused of not addressing the issue by his own supporters.
Given the OK I believe he could well enliven the election.

[whiskeryron]

How dare you cast your nasty ''lefties'' label on someone like myself who has no particular political axe to grind. I can only remember ''The Thatcher Years'' with disgust as an era of Great Britain when ''The Great '' was Thatcherised away by ''Your Great Lady'' who practically brought us to our knees with some of her foolish ideas & practices.

[Baldric]

PM for 11 years, must have done something right!
You mark yourself as a leftie by what you have posted.

[Marshwarble]

Can we stick to the nub of the question, rather than worry who is leftie and who is rightie?

[retrocop]

whiskeryron
That Great Lady prevented English subjects being brought to their knees in front of Argentinan soldiers.

[mikey4444]

Just by being in the room !

Its a rehearsal for Boris, after all, a rehearsal of the 2020 Election ( or even sooner, who knows ! )

[whiskeryron]

If by seeing for myself the devastation in South Wales caused by the closure of coal mines. If by seeing for myself the misery caused by allowing council tenants to buy their houses ( a good idea for many) BUT not allowing councils to invest the cash to rebuild affordable low cost rent-able properties for young couples to live in. If by recognising the principles involved in these schemes makes me a leftie then I am truly a leftie. P/S I also do not accept the Blair & New Labour principles of supposed fairness to all concerned. So what does that make me really ?

[grasscarp]

A few days ago I got off a train at Ealing Broadway and thought a bloke also getting off train looked like Boris. It was Boris. He had behind him a man with a tv camera over his shoulder. He then got on the district line train I was getting on too, but I went in a different carriage.
Just thought I would mention!

[mikey4444]

WR.......I have tried your argument before but the people who voted for her, even when unemployment was soaring, never get the point.

Lets not forget what happened in 1997. I know, I have brought this up before ! But the Tories were soundly thrashed and disappeared from the radar in vast parts in Britain. They have never recovered in Scotland and now it looks like there won't be a single Tory MP north of the Border. Even their old Rottweiler, Tebbit doesn't think the Scottish Tory Party is worth saving.

A direct effect of the Blessed Leader.

[Sqad]

OK...lets look at the political Parties............where are the "characters"....that is people that make you sit up and pay attention.

Nobody on the Labour side.
Nobody on the Conservative side.

Only two people fit my definition....Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.

Does that help?

[mikey4444]

Sqad ( good afternoon)

Isn't Boris on the Conservative side ?

In my opinion, UKIP is the dead weight that Farage has to carry around with him. He obviously has talent and personality but as long as it is married to that mad box of frogs, he will never rise to the top. When they are soundly thrashed in the forth-coming Election, he should go cap in hand back to the Tory party and ask to be let in again. Its his only chance of making something of himself.

Everybody is forgetting Alan Johnson. I know he has said that he doesn't want to come back to frontline politics but I wish somebody could persuade him !

[SirOracle]

Totally agree with you Mikey re Alan Johnson. Maybe if a Labour disaster in the election then hopefully he will reconsider his position.

[mikey4444]

SirO........have you read his book "This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood" ?

I can thoroughly recommend it !

[SirOracle]

No Mikey but I will. From what I know of his upbringing he is the type of MP that Westminster needs. There are far too many there who have no experience of life,and have moved from University degree straight into politics,with no intervening period of surviving in the real world.

[Hypognosis]

Apologies for not addressing the OP: I haven't a clue what Boris could usefully add to the campaign other than make it known whether he's going to make a mid-term leadership bid, regardless of Conservatives being in power.
If Gordon Brown can take over a sitting government without the electorate's intervention then why should BoJo?

Off-topic but couldn't let this pass
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youngmafbog
Spells doom for lefties like you, for those of us wishing to progress out country and have no problem with people getting on it spells quite the opposite.
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Lefties have no problem with people getting on, just so long as they don't leave everyone under them behind. If the "don't care about the poor" attitude wasn't so prominently on display all the time, maybe they'd be more kindly disposed to them, with regards top rates of tax.

Anyway, less trickledown, please, more substantial flow would be appreciated. More spending power for the less well off means more entrepreneurs can get rich by selling them stuff.

"A rising tide floats all boats", as the saying goes.