Heâs continually trying to escape his domestic disasters by trying to be a âworld statesmanâ with faux Chuchillian phrases, but heâs not, and everyone knows it. By contrast Zelensnsky can paraphrase Churchill and inspire people.
Suspect that despite Tory pleas for solidarity during an international crisis, BJ will get his comeuppance after the local electionsâŚ
William Keegan in todayâs Observer instead argues that Ukraine has highlighted the geo-political folly of brexit - pushing the EU, Russia and other trading blocks further towards self-reliance and internal cohesion, side-lining and isolating the UK both politically and economically.
And more evidence of the UKâs increasing irrelevance perhaps - the author and Windrush campaigner Patrick Vernon argues that - following the Barbados independence vote and refusal of the Toledo community to host a visit from William and Kate - âThis year is an opportunity for people to reflect: do we want to be a republic, and what does that mean? If Jamaica decided it did, there would be a domino effect on the rest of the English-speaking Caribbean.â
Indeed Geof, and Chris Grey was saying much the same on Friday.
Theyâre really falling apartâŚ
He really has no idea that he makes decent people feel sick!
We wonât let it happen, Geoff, my friend, a Mr. P. of Moscow W1, tells me that if you speak English you must be English and in dire need of liberation.
The N. American continent to the north of Texas (soon to be re-united with Mexico) together with the Caribbean and Australasia is quaking in its boots as we speak.
As soon as weâve sorted Ireland, obviously. 
And Aquitaine, where the English speaking minority is suffering genocide, for goodness â sake I even had to speak French to some uppity local yesterday. 
Do you think he just winding people up through some sick sense of humour, trying in some warped way to see just how far he can push people, because I donât think he is as stupid as people make out, sly, sleekit, uncaring, self serving and devious maybe but not stupid.
Johnson loves analogies but he just doesnât know how to use them appropriately, thatâs a mark of gross stupidity given his current employment.
No, heâs not stupid alright, just totally insensitive and self centred.
From someone who knows Boris Johnson well:
Ian Hislop Quotes
Boris Johnson, people always ask me the same question, they say, âIs Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?â And I always say, âNo.â
We have a friend who thinks the sun shines out of his arse, trots out all the standard phrases âdoing the best he canâ, âdid well in the crisisâ, âother countries have problemsâ, the whole lot.
Trying to point out that the crises are largely of his own making cuts no ice, he can do no wrong in her eyes.
Unfortunately this is what you get when your source of current affairs analysis is Daily Mail headlines (as far as we can tell she doesnât actually bother reading the articles).
Adams had the right idea, just the wrong population in the âBâ Ark.
I guess it all comes down to definitions of âcleverâ. Heâs definitely not as Benny Hill as he pretends (though he does have a lot in common with Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)). I think the affable, harmless bumbler is a very clever and disarming mask for a vicious, lying narcissist. Surrounding himself with dross has been a clever move too, with Truss, Patel, etc. etc. heâs not at risk of being upstaged in the intellectual arena (No. 11 excepted). As you point out Billy, there are plenty who take him at face value.
I really donât see this as a defence - it is not a bloody primary school sports day!
If it really is the best he can do, move aside for someone (anyone) who is able to do better.
Oh yes he is.
Agree totally
He is as stupid as he sounds. He may have intellectual pretensions - all that spouting of Classical references and heâs clearly good at the blustering refutation of criticism at the Despatch Box, however loaded with irrelevancies and mendacity - but that doesnât equip him to govern effectively. That takes other attributes.
Bare in mind the Peter Principle, that in any hierarchy a member of that hierarchy will rise in it to their first level of incompetence. In Bojoâs case and others - Gordon Brown? Teresa May? - that level happens to have been the top level - P.M.
The trouble, in the case of Bojo, he is a situation where he can inflict major damage to the country of which he is premier. He already has, by his position and actions - lying, for example - on Brexit.
The reaction of foreigners to his insulting drivel, Ukraine/Brexit, made me ashamed to be British.
⌠more blows to the âGlobal Britainâ nonsense:
Johnson is a complete embarrassment
Probably not, but look at some of the awful men that there in the world leading their nations.