UK General Election 2019

[Furunculus]

i feel entirely at liberty to employ the Panonnian defense:

I don't really respect much Boris much either - to use the vernacular he is an 'unserious' person.
Now, this doesn't really matter much as a politician, but I was dismayed to find that he had been made Foreign Secretary.
As a person that believes in an activist Foreign Policy with a Ministry of Offence configured for power projection, I do understand that this is not a fashionable view these days.
So both on the merits of what I personally want as well as what the public expect, I require a Foreign Secretary to be very serious about his role.
Both in the way they conduct themselves, and with the diligence with which they apply themselves to the role!
Boris failed on both these counts.
Likewise as PM - i don't want or value a 'character' in the role, not least as they will be the person directing the activities of the Foreign Office and Offence.

So he is not my choice, my enormous preference would have been for Gove.
But - what is my choice?
Boris does at least act like a 'leader' rather than a manager - giving subordinates their head to run their brief rather than trying to micro-manage. This is how he successfully ran London, and hopefully his model for the future.
And his government will "get brexit done" and then continue to organise british society along lines of which I broadly approve...

...Where Corbyn would do the opposite, in organising society in a direction that i deem utterly wrong. A deeply serious man whose serious ideas I fear!

"BTW Furunculus, many of the character traits identified in Johnson reflect the kind of sneering larkishness that I dislike most as it sometimes appears in your presentation"

You get what you merit. Your sneering conviction in presuming the moral inferiority of people who hold views you do not share deserves challenge.