# The next British Prime Minister **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 24, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450 "2019-05-24T13:02:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/201 "2019-07-29T23:36:59Z")
Over the years, Boris Johnson has consciously tried to project an image of himself as a cross between Winston Churchill and Bozo the Clown. When he got [stuck on a zip wire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxDwxNcURTU) a few years ago, then-Prime Minister David Cameron provided a brilliant quote: > [@](#): > > “If any other politician anywhere in the world was stuck on a zip-wire it would be a disaster. For Boris, it’s an absolute triumph.” Here’s the reception Boris Johnson received [in Scotland today](https://twitter.com/chunkymark/status/1155917638989766657) [unmute sound to hear boos]. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/202 "2019-07-30T03:36:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ruined by Brexit, Theresa May has resigned in tears… Comment from Mrs Piper back in May: “Oh sure, she has to cry like a girl just to support stereotypes that women aren’t tough enough to compete with the boys.” ---
**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/203 "2019-07-30T09:24:09Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Over the years, Boris Johnson has consciously tried to project an image of himself as a cross between Winston Churchill and Bozo the Clown. It comes across more as Bozo the Clown doing a not-very-good Winston Churchill tribute act. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/204 "2019-07-30T09:39:02Z")
Boris is continuing his “say anything to anyone to keep them from turning against him”. He’s promised the North a shiny new railway and millions upon millions of pounds for, oh, all sorts of things. None of that will materialise. Plus he’s still promising that he will brilliantly renegotiate the exit deal even though the EU has said it’s not happening (and the UK has zero leverage to make it happen). Anyone who believes anything this malignant toad says deserves a slap. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/205 "2019-07-30T11:37:01Z")
I was on holiday last week and so psychologically distanced from the sheer horror of it, but now I’m back at work and Boris fucking Johnson is the actual Prime Minister of the UK. It’s a shite state of affairs to be in, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference. (One upside is that I had enough down time to do [this](https://twitter.com/A_M_Russell/status/1153763319603445761), which I’m going to share because it took me long enough: Boris PM! Tory trap? Peer, clever boy? O, no. Yob revel creep. Party rot. “MPs, I rob”) ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/206 "2019-07-30T12:33:23Z")
So, whats his Northern Ireland plan… The only feasible alternative to the backstop involves going all Cromwell on the Republic… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/207 "2019-07-30T12:52:01Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > So, whats his Northern Ireland plan… His plan for everything is to spout incoherent gibberish until Brexit goes through, make tons of cash off shorting the entire fucking economy, leave office, use the cash to bribe the party, get a peerage, and sit back and watch the country burn. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/208 "2019-07-30T14:16:10Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > So, whats his Northern Ireland plan… His plan is no plan. No border control. _Let_ people move goods both ways across the border without tariffs or checks. Don’t bother trying to stop them. Let immigrants move Eire -\> NI -\> UK. And let Brits travel to the EU without controls via Eire. So what? Who cares? Certainly not Johnson and his friends. If the EU doesn’t like it, that’s their problem. If the Irish don’t like it, let them build a wall or something. It’s certainly not Johnson’s problem. Creative chaos is what they want. They care nothing about the details. Rees-Mogg’s father wrote a book called _Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad_. And _The Sovereign Individual_ about disaster capitalism. It opens with the quote “The future is disorder”. Backstop? Border controls? They are laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/209 "2019-07-30T14:24:55Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Here’s the reception Boris Johnson received [in Scotland today](https://twitter.com/chunkymark/status/1155917638989766657) [unmute sound to hear boos]. They were clearly saying “BOO-ris”. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/210 "2019-07-30T14:25:31Z")
Since he’s actually now the PM, and not the \*next \*PM, I’ve opened a new thread in Great Debates: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=879601](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=879601) I’ll ask the mods to close this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450/211 "2019-07-30T15:22:05Z")
Given the subject is resolved, and at the request of the OP, I’ve closed the thread. Discussion about the next PM, Boris Johnson, can be had here: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=879601](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=879601) [/moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-british-prime-minister/834450.md?page=10)