John Coopey

BORIS THE BIDER

Tuesday 2nd October 2018 8:44 pm (first posted Monday 1st October 2018 6:28 pm)

(We've all changed our minds about Boris from what we thought 5 years ago, haven't we? No longer the bumbling fool but now the self-serving politico that he is. Well, I haven't - I wrote this in 2013 as many of the references illustrate. I always had him down as biding his time.)

Who’s that biding in the wings?

Waiting for what fortune brings.

Rubbing hands for Cameron’s fall;

Mayor of Britain’s capital.

Boris the Bider

Blond hair all unruly spikes

Who’s the dipstick on the bike?

Always value for a laugh

The Chinese found out with wiff-waff.

Boris the Bider

The answer to an ad-man’s prayer

Is Boris Johnson – London’s Mayor.

“If it’s offered will he run?”

“If the ball pops out the scrum”

Boris the Bider

He may act like a bumbling tool

But Boris Johnson’s no-one’s fool

Boris the Bider

Who’s that biding in the wings?

Waiting for what fortune brings.

Rubbing hands for Cameron’s fall;

Mayor of Britain’s capital.

Boris the Bider

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Comments

John Coopey

Tue 2nd Oct 2018 17:59

I'm sure it is, MC. But a lifetime of negotiations in industrial relations has taught me that you don't control your opponents' strategy.
As we are painfully learning.
And it is refreshing to disagree with someone who does not take their bat home as a number of my fellow left-leaning WOL and FB chums do.

M.C. Newberry

Tue 2nd Oct 2018 15:15

JC - by all means. let us continue to agree to disagree.
I won't insist that you go away and come back with the
result I want! ?
The apparent intransigence of the EU might just be founded
on the fear that other nations (that word rankles with its federal mindset) might take to their heels too if the UK is
allowed to slip free from the "project".

John Coopey

Tue 2nd Oct 2018 09:25

I’m afraid I disagree with you completely, MC.
I have built up a grudging respect for TM. Despite her personal views of Brexit she has tried to make practical sense of the voters’ wishes to leave.
Farage has no plan, nor Davies, nor Johnson, nor Corbyn, indeed, nor yourself, MC.
Apart from throwing stones.

M.C. Newberry

Tue 2nd Oct 2018 01:03

Like his admired biographical subject, BJ seems the sort to
be flexible in his political career when it suits his aims.
We can forget how WSC changed sides but not always his
views over a long career when moved sufficiently to act.
And yes - I'm long enough in the tooth to remember the
musical source of your own inspiration - even once
owning an LP of rock opera "Tommy" when it came out.
The problems for the present Conservative and Unionist
Party began when its hierarchy felt they could play with
the hopes of an electorate that looked optimistically to
a common trading zone - and insisted on pushing on regardless in support of the unspoken aims of the EU "project"...uncannily reflecting the schism in pre-war UK politics dividing those who had opposing ideas about
Nazi Germany's worth and long term intentions.
And perhaps BJ sees himself as today's WSC against
Theresa May's Chamberlain? Politics takes no prisoners
and it's sometimes wise to suspend belief!

John Coopey

Mon 1st Oct 2018 21:21

Ha ha, Larisa. It's a good face for the radio, as they say.

Larisa Rzhepishevska

Mon 1st Oct 2018 19:47

It's a pity I couldn't see your face, John.

John Coopey

Mon 1st Oct 2018 19:22

I'm not sure I am right in my preamble when I call him a politico. I don't think he has any politics, only the furtherance of Boris.
I haven't read the bio you mention, MC, but I gather from someone who has that he picked up on the "signatures" Churchill had - the cigar, the V sign, the trilby and adapted it to his own ends - the bumbling manner, the jolly fool, the deliberately unkempt hair.
By the way, are you familiar with the song I hijacked - The Who's "Boris the Spider"?

M.C. Newberry

Mon 1st Oct 2018 18:56

Perceptive then and now! And entertaining too!!
Anyone reading BJ's biography of Churchill might have seen
his admiration for WSC point to his own political ambitions,
with a slow but insistent progress towards the office of PM -
like his biographical subject before him.

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