London’s occasional Mayor Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
has put the press into a silly season tailspin with nothing more than an
off-the-cuff remark about his future in politics. “I haven't got any particular seat lined up but I do think in all
probability I will try to find somewhere to stand in 2015. It may all go wrong
but I think the likelihood is I am going to have to give it a crack” is all he said.
And that was typical Bozza – he might do it, he hasn’t
actually thought about it, he has no constituency in mind, and there is the
thought that the Tory Party may have leaned on him to stop driving this issue
around the houses and make his mind up (the alternative would have been to make
a further U-turn and stand again for the London Mayoralty, but he might find
that more challenging next time round).
Anyone would think that Bozza’s witterings were a matter of
the greatest concern, rather than the ramblings of one of modern British
politics’ greatest charlatans. But that thought was not permitted to enter as
the right-leaning part of the Fourth Estate went into Silly Season overdrive,
typified by the Murdoch Times telling
“Enter Boris: now a race against time to
find seat”.
Where’s the “race
against time”? The General Election is next year, there are a number of
safe Tory seats where someone is stepping down, and selection of a replacement
not yet complete. No racing is involved. But the Maily Telegraph was
in no mood for rational comment, exclaiming “Johnson in line to be business secretary”. Business? I wouldn’t
trust the SOB to run the proverbial whelk stall.
There was
more adoration of the Bozza, too: “David
Cameron said it was ‘great news’ that Boris Johnson had decided to run for
Parliament in 2015” was
followed by the vomit-inducing “Boris
Johnson's road to Conservative leader and 10 Downing Street”. It was
little different over at the Daily Mail,
where the legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre decided that some philanderers and
serial liars were OK.
“Tories rush to join
his bandwagon as he launches Commons comeback ... He’s already got team
plotting leadership bid ... And he didn’t even tell Dave what he was up to”
froths the front page splash. Well, Dave just happens to be on hols in Cascais
right now, so there may be a reason for that. And all he did was to say he
might make his mind up about something.
There was even an
adoring Daily Mail Comment piece
titled “Return of the blond bombshell of
politics”. It was left to the Guardian
to sound a moderately cautious note, suggesting that not everyone in the Tory
Party welcomes Bozza’s possible return. That his time as Mayor has involved
taking credit for lots of stuff Ken Livingstone did, while blowing money on
vanity projects, may be the reason.
Boris Johnson is an unprincipled fraud. So perhaps he’ll fit right in with the Tories.
1 comment:
No one outside the Home Counties will give a **** and certainly not in northern parts where the Tories need seats.
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