Ms Johnson

[dannyk13]

Looks like Boris need to somehow control Carrie.I can't believe he has let her get away with putting her oar in fpor so long.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10480695/Carrie-Johnson-uncovered-Book-LORD-ASHCROFT-thats-set-Westminster-alight.html

[Gromit]

Johnson’s deficiencies were apparent long before Carrie came along.
The lies in his journalism career are well documented.
His laziness and poor attention to detail were hallmarks of his London Mayor tenureship.
At the Foreign Office his failure to read his briefing papers led to him cocking up Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s defence and her rotting in an Iranian jail for 5 years.

Johnson’s present woes are due to him lying to Parliament, and his his smear of Corbyn using a discredited conspiracy theory.

None of which can be attributed a Carrie’s door.

Just fanboys blaming everyone else except their fallen idol.

[dave50]

She is a nightmare, her obsession with the green agenda is going to destroy the economy and boris can't see it. He needs to go I'm afraid.

[ladybirder]

She wanted to marry him as soon as he became PM. Can't and never could stand her.

[ichkeria]

“ Just fanboys blaming everyone else except their fallen idol”

I’m afraid there’s a lot of truth in that.
Mrs J may be this and she may be that but the idea she’s responsible for Johnson’s situation is laughable.

[dannyk13]

ich, so you think that Lord Ashcroft is a fanboy? That is laugh.able

[davebro]

I think she is a "political" person & was involved with the Tory party before her relationship with Boris began. To think that she will not discuss things with her husband & maybe influence his thinking is extremely naive

[anneasquith]

Is the wife getting the blame now ?

[ichkeria]

"ich, so you think that Lord Ashcroft is a fanboy"

That was Gromit.
I know little about Lord Ashcroft. However he presumably must think quite a lot of Boris Johnson if (and I don't know it is't true) he blames his wife for his political difficulties.
It's true that she may have organised the party that may well see him having to depart, but that doesn't absolve Mr J.

[Ellipsis]

You cannot blame Carrie for Boris's mistakes. He has dozens of "advisers", formal and informal, including her. Ultimately he does what he wants and it's he that carries the can for it, not her.

[dannyk13]

Elipses// it's he that carries the can for it, not her//
Nobody is saying that.I for one am saying that he should have not allowed his wife to interfere.

[Ellipsis]

So his problem, not hers. Why is she getting the flak?

[dannyk13]

Ellipses//Why is she getting the flak?//
For sticking her oar in where she had no cause to do so.Have you bothered to read the link?

[ichkeria]

I don't see why she should not "interfere" to be honest.
She a political professional.
She can and does advise and it's up to the PM to take it from there.

[Ellipsis]

> Have you bothered to read the link?

Yes of course.

> For sticking her oar in where she had no cause to do so.

As I said, Boris receives advice from all sorts of people - like special advisers, fellow MPs, newspaper editors, even AnswerBankers, if he cares to read this website! It's up to him whose oar makes a ripple and whose has no effect. Blame him, not her.

[bednobs]

don't most married men take advice sometimes from their wives (or at least they listen to advice from their wives, even if they don't take it)