Boris Johnson for President!

[Anomalocaris]

He has that queer british accent, which everyone knows disqualifies a person for high office in them thar states almost as effectively as if he had been photographed fornicating with a ewe, or dangling from a zip line like a an overgrown infant waiting for his diaper to be changed.

[Red Celt]

We also know that it was because of coming from a family 'that had very little money' that they had to settle for their boy only going to Eaton.

I've already pointed out that Boris went to Eton AND Oxford because he had scholarships which are due to his actual achievements and nothing to do with fucking money.

Regardless of whether he lived with a wealthy family or not, he didn't get where he got today because of it did he? Or are you suggesting he did?

*edited grammar mistake

Yeah, because everyone that gets a 2:1 at Oxford ends up where Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is today. It was all about effort and nothing about who his parents were, nor their wealth. I mean... the Bullingdon Club accepts memberships from anyone from a council estate, if they got to Oxford due to a scholarship.

[jonb]

I've already pointed out that Boris went to Eton AND Oxford because he had scholarships which are due to his actual achievements and nothing to do with fucking money.

Kings scholar at Eaton, has a 10% reduction in fees, unless need can be shown in which case a discretionary grant may be given. That does have a bit to do with money. I personally am not saying he has not got a certain charm and talent, but to be fair privilege has also played a part.

[Napoléon]

I'll concede that point, I didn't realise the reduction in fees was so measly for that kings scholarship. Evidently it probably did make a difference who his parents are. However to say his education was warranted only because of his upbringing is pretty disingenuous.

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It was all about effort and nothing about who his parents were, nor their wealth. I mean... the Bullingdon Club accepts memberships from anyone from a council estate, if they got to Oxford due to a scholarship.

How do you know who the Bullingdon Club accepts? Are you a member? Don't think so, such estimations are unfounded.

As for it being all about effort. It really makes no difference, he was granted multiple scholarships clearly due to his aptitude. My point still remains, that people who seek to discredit him as stupid are pissing in the wind.

[Ace Otana]

Boris is smarter than the majority of our government.

A typical school leaver is probably much smarter than our government.

[5thHorseman]

if you want to discredit boris, look at his time as an mp, even his own party thought he was lazy and a lightweight.

he didn't choose the family he was born into, nor would he have picked the school he went too, i certainly didnt.

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Bullingdon club is invite only and.....

The Bullingdon uniform alone costs more than £3,500 and club dinners cost hundreds of pounds, effectively restricting membership to the wealthiest students at Oxford University.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z26HbnidyF

With club membership strictly by invitation, and drawn largely from the more aristocratic old boys of Eton and other top public schools

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...bullingdon

[Red Celt]

On the day that the report has been published about the tragedy that occurred at Hillsborough, let us remind ourselves about something that Boris wrote back in 2004. Oh, and you can't claim that today's report gave knowledge that hasn't been available since it happened in the first place. Today's report is just a confirmation of the truth that the government has been hiding.

The extreme reaction to Mr Bigley’s murder is fed by the fact that he was a Liverpudlian. Liverpool is a handsome city with a tribal sense of community. A combination of economic misfortune – its docks were, fundamentally, on the wrong side of England when Britain entered what is now the European Union – and an excessive predilection for welfarism have created a peculiar, and deeply unattractive, psyche among many Liverpudlians. They see themselves whenever possible as victims, and resent their victim status; yet at the same time they wallow in it. Part of this flawed psychological state is that they cannot accept that they might have made any contribution to their misfortunes, but seek rather to blame someone else for it, thereby deepening their sense of shared tribal grievance against the rest of society. The deaths of more than 50 Liverpool football supporters at Hillsborough in 1989 was undeniably a greater tragedy than the single death, however horrible, of Mr Bigley; but that is no excuse for Liverpool’s failure to acknowledge, even to this day, the part played in the disaster by drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground that Saturday afternoon. The police became a convenient scapegoat, and the Sun newspaper a whipping-boy for daring, albeit in a tasteless fashion, to hint at the wider causes of the incident.

He's all yours, America.

[Anomalocaris]

He's all yours, America.

He wouldn't even make the cut for minimum required lunacy.

[Puddleglum]

He is right about Liverpudlians. I spent 15 years in the UK. "scousers' are either whining about what victims they are or telling you how superior they are.

[jonb]

He is right about

Your support for Boris is a major factor in swaying my vote.
Good old Ken.