Is Boris Johnson a great politician or a buffoon?
I wouldn’t call him a great politician but he’s not a complete buffoon. Let’s remember that he won a scholarship to Eton and a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. In public he does come across as a bumbling nitwit but I think there’s another side to him. What I like about Boris Johnson is his refreshing honesty, an uncommon trait in politicians. He freely admitted to trying to snort cocaine in his youth (but sneezed before inhaling), he didn’t deny making an arrangement with a friend over the phone to get an inquisitive journalist beaten up and he didn’t hide the fact that he stole an item from the bombed out house of Tariq Aziz, Saddam’s right-hand man.