Comments on: Boris is Sacked

By: jaclyn

jaclyn — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:27:14 +0000

bring him back. so what if he lied. everyone makes mistakes it just seems that the concentration of mistakes for boris over the last few weeks has been high. unless boris comes back, i predict the conservatives will lose a few votes, including myself. its his private life, not his career.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:40:24 +0000

Howard has acted like an absolute bloody idiot. He’s pathetic - does anyone seriously see this guy as Prime Minister? He’d be a joke. What Boris did was wrong, but unless he knows for sure what the truth is, how on earth does Michael “Did You Threaten To Overrule Him?” Howard know that he lied? Great way to win the election, Dracula - sacking your most popular and famous MP. I know Boris will be back - when the Tories lose the next election and Howard steps down, Boris will be back.

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:44:49 +0000

I can’t quite believe this. The man lied. No matter how good, cool, clever, intelligent and generally brilliant you are you cannot lie and expect to keep your job as a politician where trust is everything.

He has not been sacked as a celebrity, but celebrity is subtly different from being a politician. I cannot believe you are backing a liar. Like Howard or not, want intrusion into private lives or not (I don’t) he had no option. If Boris hadn’t wanted to comment he could have just said he did not think it was of public interest.

By: Major Spliff

Major Spliff — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:17:28 +0000

Is Boris actually David Mellor (ptII)?

Wave goodbye to Boris, the stupid upper-class twat!

By: Stuart L.

Stuart L. — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:20:45 +0000

Andrew Denny wrote:

“Call me a messed-up child of the Sixties if you like (or a hypocritical Victorian) but not only do I think that a man’s personal lifestyle is is own business, but I also believe that he has a perfect right to lie about it in public, just as he has a right to lie about whether he wipes his backside with his left or right hand.”

I personally wouldn’t vote for an MP who didn’t use toilet paper. And if I had to shake his hand I should have the right to know which one he wiped with.

By: Andrew Denny

Andrew Denny — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:15:42 +0000

Mr Howard said that the reason Boris Johnson was dismissed was not because he had an affair, but for ‘not being frank about it’.

Call me a messed-up child of the Sixties if you like (or a hypocritical Victorian) but not only do I think that a man’s personal lifestyle is is own business, but I also believe that he has a perfect right to lie about it in public, just as he has a right to lie about whether he wipes his backside with his left or right hand. IT IS NONE OF OUR BUSINESS.

To paraphrase Dr Johnson, on affairs of the heart a man is not on oath.

The Viz cartoon ‘The Bottom Inspectors’ sums this up perfectly. In that strip, not only can you get arrested for having a dirty bottom, but it’s an even worse crime for lying about a dirty bottom.

I always think it’s silly to say about a political party “I’ll never vote for them again”. People were saying that about Labour in the 1980s. But my will to vote Conservative has been diminishing for the past decade and more, and I see no relief on the horizon. I want conservatives to conserve, I don’t want them to offer better management of a transition to authoritarian republicanism.

By: Me

Me — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:16:29 +0000

I know poor Boris, lets not blame him!
He couldn’t even afford to pay for his own Mistress’s abortion. Lying to your wife (the mother of his 4 children) it’s nothing because at the end of the day we all love the bumbling idiot that is Boris.

By: Bob H

Bob H — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:35:27 +0000

Did’nt Boris get the sack from the Times for lying or am I a Meringue? The demise of his career,I trust,will not cause a ‘wallowing in grief’ here in Liverpool

By: wibbler

wibbler — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:17:05 +0000

And I stand by that comment wholeheartedly, in true Boris style - it is hard to see how he can bounce back again the double blows of the last few weeks. But with the outpouring of support we’ve seen in the last couple of days, and with our support, we’ll help give him his best shot.

By: Bob H

Bob H — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:00:40 +0000

May I quote the wibbler of 7/11/04?
“Boris has flatly denied it (again) - so voraciously in fact that it’s hard to see how it could be true without Boris being an utter goner.”