Former deputy says Boris “arrogant”; wants to rule
1:51 pm - February 23rd 2010
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A former deputy of London’s occasional mayor Boris Johnson has launched a ferocious attack on his former boss, branding him “arrogant”.
In an interview with the Daily Mirror he said Boris believes he has a “divine right to rule the country”.
I was at a dinner function with David Cameron shortly after the May 2008 mayoral elections when he leaned towards me, sort of winked and said, ‘Boris is a loose cannon. You are the man who is going to keep him in check’.” Meanwhile Boris bragged to Mr Clement – who was forced to stand down as deputy mayor in an expenses scandal last year – “I could do his job. I could even be Prime Minister.
The paper goes on to quote him as saying:
Boris thought the fact Cameron called himself ‘Dave’ was hilarious. He would always make a point of calling him ‘Dave’ and then rolling his eyes when he called. People know Boris as Boris and Cameron was always jealous of his popularity, so it was funny that David Cameron seemed to be trying to emulate him.
Boris is arrogant. He thinks, ‘I’m more intelligent than Dave, I’m more popular than Dave, I’d do a better job than Dave’.
He thinks he has a divine right to rule the country. Boris isn’t a team player, he only wants to be the captain.
In the extraordinary interview, he goes on to say:
After his many dressing-downs Boris became frustrated and would stomp about, slamming doors and going into an incoherent rant muttering words like ‘c***’ and ‘f***’ and banging his fist on the table. His frustration came from the view that he could do Dave’s job better.
The personal rivalry is likely to become more intense after the General Election if Cameron becomes PM.
Read the full interview here.
via Dave Hill
via MyDavidCameron
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Sunny Hundal is editor of LC. Also: on Twitter, at Pickled Politics and Guardian CIF.
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Reader comments
2 reasons for not believing a word of this:
1. The source was sacked by Boris after allegedly claiming expenses for a meal in London with someone who, it subsequently turned out, was at a funeral in Inverness on the date in question.
2. The story appears in the Daily Mirror at a time wheb Downing Street is in full damage-limitation mode over the Brown bullying story.
Key point in all of this is that Boris is not popular with the Parliamentary Conservative Party. Rank and file members might like the idea of him as a part leader but MPs don’t. If he ever became an MP again and tried to go for leader he wouldn’t even come close. The media just love the idea of ‘Boris for PM’ stories, but there’s as much chance of that happening as there is Wayne Rooney becoming Poet Laureate.
A criminal who used to work in the same building as Boris Johnson but without a lot of interraction, and who was demoted even before his own expenses fraud information came out, tells an anti-Tory paper stories about BoJo and Tory splits, NON SCHOCKA!
So how much did they pay this fool for his story?
Is this the same man who wrote in his resignation letter prior to his criminal conviction for fraud?:
“It has been a pleasure to work for you and I am sorry that I have let you down and deflected away from the excellent work you and indeed your team are doing in delivering for Londoners.”
Only asking…
A criminal who used to work in the same building as Boris Johnson
Sorry, who appointed him…?
Are we really going to get into who appointed various ne’er-do-wells, Sunny old chap? Really?
Who appointed Elliott Morley to be Fisheries Minister from 1997 to 2003 and subsequently Minister for Environment and Agri-Environment in DEFRA?
Who approved Jim Devine as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Health Minister Rosie Winterton?
Fraid this one’s going nowhere. The source is entirely tainted. I can almost hear Dale sharpening his crayons…
Haven’t we heard this one before?
Two politicians, same party, fighting over who got to be PM? They, err, made an agreement about who would get it first?
Remind me, how did that all turn out then?
Boring non-story.
We know Boris is descended from George III (or one of that crowd). So the question is how many people does he have to kill?
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Liberal Conspiracy
Explosive intvw: Former deputy says Boris "arrogant" and wants "to rule" http://bit.ly/caE9Uv
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sunny hundal
I missed this explosive interview earlier. Former deputy says Boris "arrogant" and wants "to rule" http://bit.ly/caE9Uv
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