Comments on: The mistake of underestimating Boris http://liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/09/the-mistake-of-underestimating-boris/ Left-wing news, opinion and activism Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:20:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Benjamin Sixsmith http://liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/09/the-mistake-of-underestimating-boris/#comment-10116 Benjamin Sixsmith Fri, 09 May 2008 22:07:56 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/09/the-mistake-of-underestimating-boris/#comment-10116 Interestingly enough, it seems that the conservative commentariat have scant faith in Boris as an adminstrator. Ian Dale, in the Telegraph, says that he's "sick and tired of the Left-wing commentators who have poured a bucketload of scorn on Boris Johnson and his supposed "lack of experience" and penchant for "buffoonery"", but goes on to predict that Nick Boles and James Mcgrath will "keep Boris on the straight and narrow", and admit that Boris's "main asset is the goodwill he enjoys among Londoners". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/09/do0907.xml Interestingly enough, it seems that the conservative commentariat have scant faith in Boris as an adminstrator. Ian Dale, in the Telegraph, says that he’s “sick and tired of the Left-wing commentators who have poured a bucketload of scorn on Boris Johnson and his supposed “lack of experience” and penchant for “buffoonery”", but goes on to predict that Nick Boles and James Mcgrath will “keep Boris on the straight and narrow”, and admit that Boris’s “main asset is the goodwill he enjoys among Londoners”.

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