A bloke with a past

Boris Johnson. Is he a clown or is he a phenomenon of our times. A performer who has used the media to create an image that now considers him a  future Prime Minister.
His attraction is that he is so different from the ultra controlled, media rehearsed, opaque crop of MPs who continually fail to carry the man in the street as they obfuscate on nearly every issue. Of course Boris does this as well but his method is one of claiming uncertainty, not knowing an answer he bumbles and smirks to bring onside his interrogator and lesson the tension. He uses a technique that has empowered him in the peoples eyes, he's one of us, not a know-all who typically tells us what they think we need to know. 
Of course the crazy thing is that his background makes the gulf between him and the ordinary person, vast. Coming from the upper middle class, his life experience has been so different. Head boy at Eaton, President of the Oxford Union at Oxford University, member of the elite and exclusive Bullington Club in the University, a true blue Tory.
It is said that in his school repertory society he learnt, not only how to act but discovered that fluffing his lines in a play, brought the audience on side with a self depreciating grin which signalled his human frailty and placed him as the likeable fool.
Beneath this joker image lies a calculating individual who has learnt to substitute clarity for a unique type of obfuscation. His private life is strune with, some would say, inappropriate behaviour. He has been a profligate in marital affair's, attractive to women, this overweight joker has an allure that must make his red blooded peers very envious !! Given his gaff prone history he is a gift to the media and when he agreed to submit to an in-depth, warts and all interview that brought back into focus his chequered past, he must have known the mine field he would be negotiating.
In the documentary his ability to look nonplussed or,excruciatingly embarrassed as his sister lent her views as to why he would make a good Prime Minister. His giggles as Sis' spoke her mind, made him human, nothing to be po faced about it brought us all around, he is one of us, a bloke with a past !!                    

The truth of course never got in the way