Boris is popular but he is bound to become less so over his time at the mayoralty. we know that all political careers end in failure and Boris’ will eventually; it’s just a matter of whether he can survive long enough to be party leader, and even longer than that to become PM, and even longer than that to become a successful PM.

He has a long 4 years ahead of him as mayor. Who knows what will happen in that time?

the Olympics, which could go wrong in a million different ways, is just the first hurdle.

best of luck to him.

Hugo:
“George Osborne is a dilettante, he should be replaced by Hammond as Chancellor”.
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Yes, Yes and thrice Yes.

Cameron has not got the grip or the balls to do it. He is sadly as locked into the plainly ridiculous Osborne, as Blair was, to the Big Brown Mess maker.

Where would Cameron then park Osborne, to keep him out of trouble?

Nonsense CS. His stuff about Leveson is bang on.

Thank God we have a moderniser in the shape of Cameron in charge of things.

Imagine this buffoon in charge of the party, the voters would abandon it in droves and Labour would be back at the top of the polls.

Dave is on the right track, don’t get distracted, keep on printing, borrowing and wrecking the economy, I’m sure it will pay great dividends come 2015. Do something cuddly too, get the mums on your side, we all know how much women love being patronised to, and they wouldn’t understand all that conservative guff Boris spouts anyway.

Not since Michael Heseltine has there been a politician who is so adept at finding the g-spot of the Tory faithful as Boris Johnson.

Have you run this one past the lawyers? CRIKEY!

David Cameron is a millionaire hippy.

He has had no coherent economic policy.

He should have been working, night and day, on the economy since the Rock fell.

George Osborne is a dilettante, he should be replaced by Hammond as Chancellor.

If Labour tack to the middle and attack Cameron’s “growth strategy” he will be annihilated.

People can see that Cameron is cr*p.

Many on the Coffee House have been pointing this out for years.

Boris’s Telegraph piece is plainly right. But there isn’t going to be a Tory in charge of the BBC. Remember Les Ebdon? It’ll be that all over again.

Lord Boris for PM

I am not sure exactly what BJ would do differently but we would all feel a lot jollier, that’s for sure.

Mr Earnest Curate and Mr Fun Sucker as PM and Chancellor are not good news.

You could have BJ as PM, Hammond as Chancellor, and Pickles to lead the party.

I said no such thing. But hacking into the phone of a dead girl, though reprehensible, isn’t up there with murder and rape, is it? Hacking phones seems to me rather like going through people’s bin-bags or using a long lens the better to see a film star’s tits. In other words it is what journalists do. ALL journalists. No, but all newspapers and broadcasting companies employ such people, don’t they? The greatest enemy of free speech in the media is the BBC in my opinion. It wishes to be the ONLY source of broadcast ‘truth’. Murdoch doesn’t want to do that. He wants to make money, a fairly innocent activity compared to what the Beeb is up to.

Nice column from Boris, but he seems to have forgotten that the boss of the BBC is that TORY EU-phile, champion of lost liberal causes and serial buggerer-up of all he touches, Mr Chris (much too idle to actually do anything) Patten !

Another brilliant appointment by Mr Cameron.

Salient facts:

Boris – wins elections

Dave – doesn’t

Only a bunch of brain dead numpties would consider replacing 1 arrogant, elitist Toff with……….

Usual flatulence for the loony tunes on the day that Cameron’s government announced it was going to remove 500,000 claimants from disability benefits. And of course the fact that the govt march on with reducing civil servants and LA employees and the size of the state is dismissed as an inconvenience.

The screaming frothing howlers at the moon bigots who hate the idea of gay marriage must be upset by the latest poll.

I fear Vulture may need an urgent lesson in the structure and function of the various components of the female genitalia, for which any Mrs Vulture will almost certainly be eternally grateful.

Have you ever wondered why BBC TV so rarely has a programme worth watching, unlike Channel 4? The licence fee allows the BBC to employ 7,000 journalists plus bureaucrats but few programme makers. Instead there is enormous expenditure on internet news.
The result will be the extermination of almost all newspapers in a decade or so, local especially and national.
The worst thing is the BBC does not understand any of this. It sees itself as a Lady Bountiful does, above and beyond criticism with natural status. In other words colossal self-deception.
And it has an unconscious, monopolistic motor which is why it is investing so much time and energy in seeing off Murdoch. One ‘Today’ interviewer actually said Sky is the biggest broadcaster in Britain!
This is all married to statism as Boris notices. It can only interview from the left, especially when the public sector is involved. The Beeb is of course public sectorism at its worst since you go to jail if you don’t pay up for a licence.
Small unnoticed fact – this year the BBC has diverted £905m of licence fee money to plug the hole in its pension fund liability. More will be needed. And still the staff strike for better redundancy terms and lower pension contributions.

The media are standing too close to Mr. Johnson to make a sensible judgement.
Do you really see him as the leader of a major economic and military power? The UK is not Italy we are not so tolerant of our politicians.
All his candidature shows are that Livingstone has the political antenna of the average Socialist Workers Party paper seller and the media live in a bubble.