Vox cani

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Boris Johnson, although only briefly,
as he was not on form, and was in competition with some other very interesting
people, who were. He seemed to fit his caricature pretty much exactly, which was
reassuring in a certain way. One might easily accuse him of pretension, but, so
far as I could tell, he lives it.

In many respects, he is amongst the most popular Tories in Britain, drawing
rather unique crowds (some with tributary t-shirts) and cheers, when I saw him.
We've often imagined wistfully quite how much fun it would be were he to lead
the Tories. So now they've
sacked him: would this be an opportune time for a leadership challenge? The
obvious answer seems no, but it would be so much fun.

The Tory website gives only this
in response to a search for "Johnson", which is a cute headline to be the
confirmation of their non-coverage of what isn't a non-story. The official
reason is that he's lied about having an affair: his response is classic,
"piffle". There are a number of comments over at his blog, at the end of the
last post. This is rather good, from Stuart L (bizarre blog): "People
don't mind when politicians have affairs. But they hate it when hosts of 'Have I
Got News For You' having affairs."

I heard some rumours recently about him having a brief fling hereabouts,
which were confirmed as rubbish, and with that in mind, I would guess that this
really is piffle. Do look at the article, mainly for the attempt, down to the
right, to imply that it is unusual for him to have crumpled clothes.

The other alleged party to it won't talk to them and Johnson says it's
not true; the sources for the prosecution are her mother, who apparently used to
write for the NOTW, and the usual anonymous and ever so faithful "friends".
Shame.

# posted by Chris @ 3:13 am