Boris Johnson for President!

[Red Celt]

There's more to being a leader than policy.

Charisma is certainly a winning factor in politics... because people are stupid. They need to be fed by a personality. It is the policies that matter in a representative democracy, nothing else.

I find though that many seek to discredit him as an idiotic buffoon, because he comes across as 'haphazard' shall we say.

Oh, he has a brain. It's what he does with it that matters.

But he's as intelligent as any other politician we have today. He went to Eton and got a very good education, and unlike other political leaders (ahem David Cameron), he didn't get there because his daddy paid for his tuition fees. He got there because he had a god damn scholarship. That means he was chosen to go there due to his actual achievements. He also had a scholarship for Oxford too might I add (and also became Oxford Union president).

Do you ever watch a BBC show called Who Do You Think You Are? A season or 2 back, Boris Johnson was one of the celebrities. When being shown around the homes of his recent ancestors, he was given a tour of some of the palaces of Europe. His background is one of immense wealth. Portraying him as some lower-class oik who got lucky... that is such a misrepresentation of the truth.

He's got rid of alcohol use on public transport, improved cycling in the city, drawn up plans for more buildings, introduced minimum space requirements for new homes

The bikes are called "Boris Bikes", but it was Ken Livingstone who set them up. As for plans for more buildings... there's a big difference between "plans" and actualities.

He's popular because of his personality. He's hard to dislike. Using that as a premise for his abilities as a leader is a quantum leap too far.