The words of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson who is now the Mayor of London. He said that on the Tory campaign in 2004 and looked a bit of a berk, but he was making a rather clever joke about promises that politicians make in order to win votes, and did so in a way guaranteed to cause both amusement and publicity. On this campaign he made no mistakes, and beat Ken Livingstone by a healthy majority of over 100,000.
Whilst it might seem dubious to have our capital city represented by someone with a long history of embarrassing gaffes, at least he is an interesting character rather than your typical grey politician, and he is undoubtedly very intelligent. And I confess, even though I don’t share his politics, I can’t help liking the man. He’s both funny and interesting. I also like the fact that when he makes mistakes (as he often does) he apologizes for them.
As with many very smart people, he swings between raging success and catastrophic failure: the middle-ground is something he’s unfamiliar with. I just hope he carries out his new very important job with much more success than failure.
Cheers, Tom.