Boris or Dave?

Jack Simpson

Dave - perfect for PM, Boris - perfect for Mayor

Verity of Uncommon Purpose

"Cameron is believed to be the serious man of steel, the one that can lead the country."

Believed by who? People who have an IQ below 80?

Vulture

Cameron: man of steel?

Surely you jest.

Man of jelly more like.

This rubbery chameleon has bent and twisted himself into more U-turns than a Dyno-Rod operative.

Boris may be a buffoon, but at least he cheers us up. Just thinking about slippery Dave is deeply, deeply depressing.

Tiberius

I don't think Boris would get the nod from the Tory grass roots even if he got past the MPs - a bit like that other supposed treasure, Ken Clarke (although I acknowledge the background would be very different as the "stop Portillo" movement wouldn't apply).

Thankfully the party will have better alternative leadership material than IDS next time round.

Peter From Maidstone

Why give a choice of two people as if your results show that DC or BP is ideal PM Conservative material?

The choice of David and Boris is not a choice.

What we need is a true patriot with conservative values and principles, and the ability to communicate those in a popular manner.

Such a man is neither Dave nor Boris.

Woody

It's truly sickening watching right-wingers and Boris going after Cameron at this time. The same old achilles heel of the Tory party, no discipline, or loyalty.

Perry

The H2B a 'man of steel' ...?

Oh dear, I think not ... devious, manipulating, ... and besotted with his 'image'.

Truly, the H2B.

And Boris, a wise man, a man before his time, wanted to impeach Bliar.

We need Boris in high office asap please!

Charles Martel

@PeterFM

Spot on.

Verity

Perry - I don't know how I missed it, but I didn't know that Boris wanted to impeach Blair.

Verity

Woody, Cameron has done nothing to engender, nor demonstrated any characteristics that would give rise to, loyal.

He is a sleazy, self-adoring tenth rater.

David Parker

Sorry, but this is a stupid and irrelevent article, which neither conveys any original thought nor asks any pertinent questions.
The Coffee House is far from being highbrow, but surely it can do better than this?

Boudicca

Cameron - Man of Steel!

That's a good one. His track record certainly doesn't demonstrate that. He is a wet, liberal, pro-EU puppet, dancing to the tune of the Commissars and jumping every time they jerk the strings.

Smooth as a snake, slippery as an eel; and entirely untrustworthy.

I'd far sooner have Farage - but if it has to be between those two then Boris understands the concerns of ordinary people far more than Cameron and would make more effort to address them.

Simon Stephenson.

Do you have any evidence that Johnson and Cameron were schoolboy rivals? They were two years apart in a school of 1,300 boys, and Johnson was a King's Scholar, meaning that he would never have been in the same House as Cameron. Moreover, at the time they weren't the Prime Minister and the Mayor of London, they were two teenage boys with not a clue as to what they would later become. Isn't it more likely that Johnson, especially, being the elder, wouldn't have known Cameron from Adam during his time at Eton?

But perhaps the fact that they went to the same school is enough to make them schoolboy rivals.

lola

Cameron is a political class apparatchik. Johnson is a 'character', and also political class, but not an apparatchik.

Quite frankly thinking about it I am pretty neither of them are really any good at all.

lescam

Wouldn't want Boris as PM any more than "Call me Dave", but in fairness to Boris he appears to be more in tune with the electorate. However I get sick of his clowning attitude. If he was more serious and less of a comedian I would like him a lot more. As for Cameron, he should take a long walk on a short pier.

Fergus Pickering

Oh, I don't think I like the idea of a true patriot. You mean like Adolf or Slobodan? No, I think I'll pass on that one. What about someone energetic, realistic and at least as honest as the next man. David Cameron perhaps.

trev1959

As a Socialist I have to say that I have never bought into the 'Boris the buffoon' narrative. I think he has that magical quality of being in tune with ordinary people and we know how far that served Thatcher. I see Boris as a very dangerous opponent.If he were Tory leader I think he'd lead them to a massive landslide victory thus,I hope he never takes over. Cameron is such a twit that he is Labour's best weapon for a speedy return to Government.

tom jones

41-34 isn't even. Go back to school. A good free school.

StephenW

The day Cameron was elected to lead the party I said he was a wet. Seems more like a coward now.
Boris would be better as PM but so would Daniel Hannan. David Davis is more principled than Cameron but may not have the media appeal needed to get the swing voters.

Peter From Maidstone

Fergus, why show contempt for patriotism? There is no such thing as an un-patriotic conservative, which is one reason why much of the present Conservative Party is not conservative at all.

Those who despise the country where they live, and that is what those who are contemptuous of patriotism do, are agents in the destruction of our nation, just as much as every other left-liberal stooge.

Simon Stephenson.

Contrary to standard thinking, I believe that Johnson's public presence would be wasted if he were to become, nominally, the leader. His most influential role, I reckon, is as a supposedly loose cannon, able to promote innovative policy in a way that, should public reaction be unfavourable, is neither particularly damaging to himself, nor to the nominal leadership, whose "separation" from Johnson shields them from flak.

Better altogether to have a grey nonentity as "leader" with the decisions being taken by a cabal that is painted as being much looser than it actually is.