Boris backs Obama

Archie

Oh dear, Mr. Johnson! One really would think that you had learned to steer clear of this PC drivel after your recent "Lee Jasper moment"

Max Kaye

Boris, I'm one of your biggest fans, but I have to say you've called it wrong.

ex-agent

He shouldn't be calling it all, Max. Why set yourself up like this by dabbling in another country's politics?

THX1138

I'm not surprised I know for a fact that the Dave in crowd are very very enthusiastic supporters of Obama.

Suits their agenda perfectly, out with the old in the new.

Dave will of course stay "neutral" but watch out for the positive Obama Op ed's from Gove, Parris & the usual crowd over the next few weeks.

Well done Boris.

cuffleyburgers

Mistake.

there is a "convention on getting involved in foreign elections" for a good reason- he might not win, and there is nothing to be gained by having supported him early on.

Ted Tedford

I would imagine this is about as significant to most American voters as if Jesse Ventura were to endorse David Cameron.

Tom Freeman

I look forward to him endorsing Gordon Brown to win the next election, on the grounds that it will do fantastic things for the confidence and feelings of Scottish people around the world.

Faceless Bureaucrat

Oh Boris! - for crying out loud, will you never learn?...

Ian C

Boris was always going to be a high risk strategy. This is step no 2 that is looking like a future backside biter. No 1 has already bitten him, noble idea as it was.

Fergus Pickering

Oh really. What drivel you lot talk. If Boris wants to back Obama, why shouldn't he? Some of you must be so OLD you ought to be bloody dead. Perhaps you are.

Verity

Apart from the impropriety of getting involved, Boris is clearly as unaware of any "programmes" that Barack Obama has (i.e., none) as is everyone else.

Worse, Boris is supposed to be serving the needs of the London electorate, not "black people around the world". How many "black people around the world" voted for Boris?

Since when were "black people around the world" who have achieved, on the big canvas, exactly nothing, elevated over British people.

Since when was it OK to support people based on the colour of their skin? I thought this was politically incorrect???

Despite the amiable, shambolic appearance, Boris Johnson is a nasty piece of work. But no harm done. No one in the United States has ever heard of him.

Fergus Pickering

Verity, lots of people in the US have heard of Boris. At least as many as have heard of Brown.

bill

I went off Boris when he was editor of the Speccie; I wen off the Tories when they elected Cameron; and now I just can't stand politicians in ngeneral.

Verity

Fergus Pickering, very ironic, I'm sure.

Bill, I too went off Boris when he was editing the Speccie. What a spectacularly lazy and uninspired editor he was, especially following the wonderful Frank Johnson.

TGF UKIP

This has to to be taken along with the recent survey in the DT that indicated that a third of Cameron Tory MPs were for Obama.

Just why would anyone who thinks of themselves as consevative vote for the Cameron Tories?

Verity

TGI UKIP- D'acuerdo. I'm not.

Herbert Thornton

I doubt very much that either Boris or any of Cameron's Tories were trying to interfere in the U.S. election.

I should have thought it more likely that their aim was to attract more support from Britain's Black population. As the saying goes, there's nothing wrong with trying, but any party that wants to attract support from the population as a whole needs to grasp the twin nettles of immigration, especially Muslim immigration, and the general aversion to political integration with Europe.

nicodemus31

TGF UKIP:

Just why would anyone who thinks of themselves as consevative vote for the Cameron Tories?

Perhaps in much the same way as anyone who thought of themselves as socialist voted for Tony Blair in '97?

The Happy Carbon Footprint

Faceless Bureaucrat writes: "Oh Boris! - for crying out loud, will you never learn?..."

No matter what he'd like you to believe, Boris Johnson is not a big, good-natured, shambolic puppy. He's a calculator with steely ambition.

TGF UKIP

nicodemus31, quite so and look what happened. Absolute disenchantment and Labour Party membership halved.

The Heir will do to his Party what Blair did to Labour but being considerably less politically gifted Dave will achieve the destruction of the Conservative Party in considerably less time than His Master took to destroy Labour.

nicodemus31

TGF UKIP- I take your point but I'm not quite so sceptical. I'm clinging to the belief that Dave & Co. is all "packaging" so as to not put people off voting him in. Once elected, he can go about righting the wrongs of the last 11 years. If that results in the destruction of a political party, so be it.

What is the alternative for right of centre voters in this country at the moment? UKIP?!

You seem to be suggesting that the Tories are not an option for you, even though I assume you are right of centre yourself. If so, what is the answer? For the Tories & Labour to split into 4 parties (right, centre-right, centre-left & left)? The UK political landscape would become more like that of Italy after such a move.

I'd say over 90 percent of people who actually vote in a general election vote for the party that best represents the majority of their views. Very few people vote for a party content in the knowledge that it represents ALL their views- that would be ridiculous. If we accept this assumption, may I respectfully submit that you cast aside your crystal ball and give David Cameron a chance :) Don't waste your vote- your country needs you!!