I think some people need to accept one thing - Boris is popular

"BORIS" is popular with a certain type of slow to think, jingoistic person.

The thing is Boris doesn't actually exist. I don't think it'll be possible to get the electorate to understand how nasty a man Alexander de pfeffel Johnson is. They just don't care. I don't know how to square this circle. How to get people to understand they are being humiliating by this caricature they seem to love
 
JM14 said:
Unfortunately the majority of the electorate won’t look into things further than a newspaper headline or a social media post. He has somehow managed to convince people he is their mate (wonder how many world leaders are referred to by their first name). Anyone who is against him is also against British working class values. I really don’t know how anyone can think he is looking out for their best interests given his background, but that’s the situation we have.

If people actually bothered to research and question these things, then the party would just fall apart. In fact if people in general would research and not take everything they were told then the world would be a much better place. It’s exactly how we ended up with brexit, playing on people’s fears and growing nationalism across the country.

Let’s face it, if the super rich are telling you the reason you’re struggling is because of immigration, or benefit claimants, you must be an idiot not to question that
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Nail. Head.
 
It would appear to be the case. He’s really going to use it
He will put through a bill to try and shackle the judiciary after being humiliated over the court’s decision on the prorogation of Parliament.
Substantial boundary changes, which will benefit the Tories.
Photo i.d. for voting (about 3.5 million people don’t have it) despite their being only one case of voter fraud in 2019.
Which won’t stop the real problem - postal ballot fraud.
Being Popular Nationalist, of course he will take a well travelled path.
 
The fact that he has managed to remain "Boris" demonstrates the truth of the OP. His bluster seems to resonate with his core demographic. We have had this before, Thatcher, Lloyd George, Churchill and the only comfort is that eventually the mask slips and what tends to come afterwards is a rebalancing of the political landscape.
 
He is definitely popular - most especially because of the successful vaccination drive - but from friends of friends working in the planning it is our good old NHS we should be thanking again. They have been working night and day to save lives from the administrators to the nursing staff.
When I was at school I was taught there were only two NHS in the world (the other Uruguay) and this really demonstrates how a free national health service that has an infrastructure in place for 75 years can really come up trumps like this to immunise the whole nation. The much-maligned NHS should be the envy of the world and from the very start of the pandemic we really ought to have put ourselves in their hands (like Iceland did with the politicians stepping back for the medics). Once again just as with the weekly applause it should be credit where credit is due - we should be thanking the NHS and not the politicians here.
 
fmttmadmin said:
He is definitely popular - most especially because of the successful vaccination drive - but from friends of friends working in the planning it is our good old NHS we should be thanking again. They have been working night and day to save lives from the administrators to the nursing staff.
When I was at school I was taught there were only two NHS in the world (the other Uruguay) and this really demonstrates how a free national health service that has an infrastructure in place for 75 years can really come up trumps like this to immunise the whole nation. The much-maligned NHS should be the envy of the world and from the very start of the pandemic we really ought to have put ourselves in their hands (like Iceland did with the politicians stepping back for the medics). Once again just as with the weekly applause it should be credit where credit is due - we should be thanking the NHS and not the politicians here.
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The NHS is NOT free - we pay taxes that fund it
 
He's always been popular with a certain demographic to be fair although his popularity has certainly expanded over the last few years. For me this is 100% down to media manipulation - the version of "Boris" presented is one that plays well with target voters. The media hold all of the cards in this country - remove them entirely (obviously hypothetically) and it may be a more level playing field.

Name recognition is a big part of the Boris brand - I'm convinced, even ignoring the "Corbyn factor" that a lot of first-time voters would have gone with Boris at the last election as they know him as that "funny/ridiculous man from the TV".

For any meaningful, long-term change in this country two things need to happen in my opinion, neither of which are particularly likely:
- A less-biased, less easily bought media more prone to balanced reporting
- Significantly more engagement by the average in political discourse (even "reading behind the headlines" would be a start)

I cannot stand the Conservative Party but in terms of long-term retention of power in this country, they've played a blinder.
 
HarryVegas said:
I don't think it will. What will get him in the end is his incompetence and innate laziness. The people know he's dishonest, many of them even admire him for it. I suspect his demise is a long way off but hope to God I'm wrong.
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If he is found to have acted unlawfully over his decor he will be forced to recampaign for his seat in parliament. Until the by election is done he won't even be an mp.
 
He is popular with those who think we should bring back the British Empire, those that think the pits closed and manufacturing declined because of the EU, those that blame immigrants for the woes of this nation, those who think a few people desperately trying to cross the channel is more disgraceful than Johnson's sleaze, those who wanted Brexit so we could close the borders, those who utter No Surrender to the IRA at every opportunity, those who have taken our flag and misused it for right wing purposes and label it patriotism, those who think that Tommy Robinson has a point, those who will vote for Johnson come what may because he got Brexit done, those who sit on their backsides watching daytime tv complaining about immigrants taking our jobs, those who dwell in the gutter without shame.
 
Laughing said:
If he is found to have acted unlawfully over his decor he will be forced to recampaign for his seat in parliament. Until the by election is done he won't even be an mp.
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Would probably make him more popular though. People outraged on his behalf over "losing his seat over wallpaper". Think I also read once that you don't need to be an MP to be PM. Is that right?

Mind, can't remember but is it a particularly safe seat? Be amazing if it happened and he lost the by-election (I can dream).
 
festa5 said:
Would probably make him more popular though. People outraged on his behalf over "losing his seat over wallpaper". Think I also read once that you don't need to be an MP to be PM. Is that right?

Mind, can't remember but is it a particularly safe seat? Be amazing if it happened and he lost the by-election (I can dream).
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You are right Festa, he can still be PM, oddly enough. Whether the ignomy of having to go to a by-election to retain his seat will be seen as a good thing by the electorate, not so sure.
 
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