UK's next Prime Minister?

[Black Orchid]

Forget Donald Trump. Boris Johnson is hurtling towards becoming Great Britain's next prime minister.

Just as politics was transformed in the US, as Mr Johnson walks through the doors at Downing Street, there will be a seismic shift in the landscape.

And the blond bombshell will take at least some of the spotlight that has been dedicated to the US President.

It might sound trivial, but according to Sonia Purnell, the author of Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition, it is his blond hair that has been one of Mr Johnson's greatest assets on his rise to the top.

"When I met him in the 1990s his blond hair was really neat but it didn't quite suit the image that he wanted," Ms Purnell said.

"So over the years he got used to — particularly when the camera's about to roll — to ruffling it up.

"Neat didn't quite fit the persona he wanted, the sort of [rough] kind of character."

His hair became his trademark, but it's not the only reason for the comparisons to the US leader.

His survival through years of gaffes and controversies and his flamboyancy in front of the press are all Trump-like.

"They both rely on celebrity a lot, they have both created a public persona and have worked hard on it," Ms Purnell said.

Mr Johnson also has a reputation as a serial philanderer. Two of his marriages have ended.

Sonia Purnell says he has at least five children, including a daughter born in 2009 after he had an affair with an arts consultant.

'I think he is underestimated'
Mr Johnson's personal life was most recently in the headlines after a well-published red wine-fuelled, late-night row with his current girlfriend, 31-year-old Carrie Symonds.

Despite the repeated private indiscretions and a questionable political record, the party faithful look set to elect him anyway.

"The man that they think or have decided can deliver Brexit is almost incapable of doing anything that is going to lose their support," Ms Purnell said of the 160,000 Conservative party members.

Ninety seven per cent of them are white, and 70 per cent are men.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-21/ ... n/11317648

[brian ross]

Will Boris and Trump allow their hamsters off to play when they meet for the first time as el Presidente and PM?

[Redneck]

What is the world coming to?

Another fruit cake running a major country!

[sprintcyclist]

He is another life long career polllie

............ having been the MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. He was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, and from 2016 to 2018 .............

they should be out and running a private business before being elected for anything

[brian ross]

BONKING BORIS All of Boris Johnson’s women – a rundown of the affairs, flings and love-children left in the former Foreign Secretary’s wake - seems he shares a lot with el Presidente' Trump.

[Neferti]

BONKING BORIS All of Boris Johnson’s women – a rundown of the affairs, flings and love-children left in the former Foreign Secretary’s wake - seems he shares a lot with el Presidente' Trump.

Trump's hair-do looks like it wouldn't move in a hurricane. Boris doesn't own a comb.

[Bobby]

BONKING BORIS All of Boris Johnson’s women – a rundown of the affairs, flings and love-children left in the former Foreign Secretary’s wake - seems he shares a lot with el Presidente' Trump.

Not another sex maniac?

[cods]

BONKING BORIS All of Boris Johnson’s women – a rundown of the affairs, flings and love-children left in the former Foreign Secretary’s wake - seems he shares a lot with el Presidente' Trump.

Not another sex maniac?

its all terribly British dontyaknow?

[brian ross]

BONKING BORIS All of Boris Johnson’s women – a rundown of the affairs, flings and love-children left in the former Foreign Secretary’s wake - seems he shares a lot with el Presidente' Trump.

Not another sex maniac?

its all terribly British dontyaknow?

Is that your excuse, Cods? How quaint.

[Bobby]

BONKING BORIS All of Boris Johnson’s women – a rundown of the affairs, flings and love-children left in the former Foreign Secretary’s wake - seems he shares a lot with el Presidente' Trump.

Not another sex maniac?

its all terribly British dontyaknow?

Can't they get a proper and decent PM?