Wiff Waff is coming home as Boris Johnson so gracefully puts it. Isn't it fantastic that he mocks the Olympic sport of Table Tennis with such haste. Hoorah for Boris, he's made a funny again. We have come to expect this ridiculousness from the wiffle haired flimsy flop. Yet what was more dissapointing to see at the Olympic handover press conference on Monday was our stern faced Prime Minister and Sebastien Coe standing by his side while they scoffed and laughed uncontrollably at every one of his ignoramus remarks.
Seriously, after all the work Seb Coe has put into bringing the Olympics to London in 2012, you would think he would expect a bit more seriousness from the newly elected Mayor of London. I don't consider myself to be a drama queen or an antagonist, but surely I cannot be the only one who was dissapointed and embarrassed to be represented by Boris Johnson when he walked out in front of a global audience at the Birds Nest in Beijing for the closing ceremony on Sunday looking as if he had just been in a bout with one of the Khazak wrestling team. He was slumped, his jacket was open, his suit hung like a tent, he walked with a dithering and hesitant gait that screamed "Nincompoop" to the world. Frankly, stood next to his fellow respresentatives from the IOC and China he looked pretty darned unfortunate.
We all like to laugh at Boris Johnson and his canny approach to politics, because we expect it from him and we can try to understand it. The rest of the world however must have raised a very big eyebrow when it encountered him this weekend, much to our detriment. Gordon Brown should have been the man to wave that flag in the Birds Nest, at least we could have trusted him to look smart.
3 comments:
Very impressive Yatesmeister! Glad you have plenty of time on your hand! x
What a fantastic Blog!
So essentially, what you are saying is that if Boris Johnson wore a smarter suit, had a hair cut and strode, purposefully onto the stage, he would have made a good and worthy representitive of the country? It's amazing that a trip to Saville Row and a trip to Tony & Guys can make the difference between a charismatic, quick witted, humorous politician and a, "Flimsy Flop". Perhaps if we spent more time focussing on the substance of our politicians when we elect them rather than being overly concerned with their packaging, the world would not be in the sorry state that it is today.
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