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Originally Posted by Chris
Maybe, maybe not. I have no doubt that the Left, including the liberal, metropolitan left that fancies itself as the authentic voice of Twitter, is absolutely crapping its pants over the thought of Boris as Tory party leader because, regardless of what extrapolations the Telegraph has made, as things stand he clearly does have the reputation and voter recognition that other candidates don’t, he is the arch-Brexiteer, closely associated with the battle bus and the £350 million slogan that brings them out in hives, and he beat Ken Livingstone to be London mayor twice in a city that, at its default setting, is Labour territory.
Far be it from me to argue the technicalities of poll construction as I’m not an expert, but I absolutely don’t believe that anyone frantically tweeting a multi-part rebuttal after hastily deleting a first attempt that basically read “bull5hyt, bull5hyt, bull5hyt” is coming at this purely from a desire to defend good social science.
Another objection I see being raised is that May was also popular until she went up in front of voters; this cheerfully ignores the fact that Boris has been up in front of voters in a way few other of our current generation of politicians have and, as I’ve already said, won Labour London against the most Laboury, Londony Londoner ever to run for office. Twice.
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Arch brexiteer, he made his mind up the night before campaigning started and had opinion pieces for both sides depending on what side offered the best prospects for boris, you follow him if you like but to me he's the worst type of leader and politician, he'll let you and the rest of us down on a whim when it suits him, why else do you think he's left his announcement to the last moment and generally kept his head down throughout, it's because he doesn't stand up to scrutiny, he's gets by on being that funny bloke of the telly, scratch the surface though politically and it's as grubby as his personal life