Boris Johnson......the next PM?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10070055/Public-has-right-to-know-about-Boris-Johnsons-secret-lovechild-court-rules.html

Panda: the story is still available.

Not Born Yesterday wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10070055/Public-has-right-to-know-about-Boris-Johnsons-secret-lovechild-court-rules.html

Panda: the story is still available.

Thanks, NBY, Boris must have married again because he was recently on holiday with them.

I think since the Mother did not want the name iof the Father to be taken into account, her wisshes were paramount, which is why she did not put the Father's name on the Birth Certificate . There would have been a time for her to tell the boy who his father is.

Also the Royal blood line.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1269378/David-Cameron-Boris-Johnson-scions-royal-blood.html

Panda: the child is a girl, Stephanie.

She was lucky with her name as, according to Wikipedia, Boris's other children are blessed with: Lara Lettice, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches and Theodore Apollo.

Boris is still apparently with their mother.

Not Born Yesterday wrote:Panda: the child is a girl, Stephanie.

She was lucky with her name as, according to Wikipedia, Boris's other children are blessed with: Lara Lettice, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches and Theodore Apollo.

Boris is still apparently with their mother.

I thought his wife threw him out and this is his second marriage....not sure though.

It is his second marriage; I'm guessing that his wife took him back.

Wife number 1 got away though!

Not Born Yesterday wrote:It is his second marriage; I'm guessing that his wife took him back.

Wife number 1 got away though!

I think he has two children.

No - five as I mentioned before, including the one born to a former girlfriend.

Here Panda, this tells you about his link to D Cameron and his four children to his second wife.
It also mentions, near the bottom of the page, his affair with Helen McIntyre and the child he had with her.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

Thanks wjk, I'll read ir later. I have just copied and pasted his laresr article, I couldn'y stop laughing at some of his comments, he really does have a good sense of humour.



Crossrail: A project that stands tall with Everest? Just look under your
feet


At the next coronation we will be able to celebrate a great feat of British
engineering








The smiling workers, as the
Digger 'Elizabeth' breaks through to the Canary Wharf section of the Crossrail
project Photo:
CROSSRAIL







By Boris Johnson

9:12PM BST 02 Jun 2013


423 Comments




I was looking at those amazing pictures of Hillary and Tenzing yesterday, and
I could see how the news must have broken over London like a thunderclap. Just
imagine. The beautiful young Queen is on the verge of being crowned. After years
of post-war privation the country is already buzzing – and then word comes from
Kathmandu, a coded message that takes two days to arrive.


For millions, if not billions, of years, Mount Everest has been the highest
place on Earth, a sacred and implacable place, a white goddess of the clouds;
and in all that time no human being has ever set foot on its summit – until
today. Today the people hear that a team of alpinists has made it, and, by Jove,
they are British! Well, one of them is a New Zealander and the other is
Nepalese, but the expedition is British, all right. Hooray!


After all the anxiety of the Second World War, after all that feeling that we
weren’t quite up to it any more – there we were, literally and figuratively on
top of the world. I looked at those photos of the summiteers, and I wished I had
been around to feel that surge of collective serotonin, the incredulous pride.
And then I wondered about our generation, and I asked myself: how do we top
Everest? I mean, at some stage in the dim, distant future, there will be a new
coronation, of a new monarch – and I wonder what kind of simultaneous triumph we
can pull off?


What deed will Britons do, to show their new king that they still have the
mettle? What feat can we perform?


There’s no point in looking to Everest, because the noble peak seems to have
become part of the backpackers’ trail, swarming with gap yah students and teams
from the local pub.



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The Hillary Step is so congested that they are thinking of installing a
ladder. In fact, there are so many octogenarians climbing Everest to raise money
for the church roof that they might as well fit one of those chair-lifts you see
in colour supplements.

As a monument to derring-do, Everest no longer qualifies; so what does that
leave? We have plumbed the sea; we have probed the darkest recesses of the
rainforest; we have circumnavigated the globe – even now there are probably gap
yah students criss-crossing the oceans blindfolded in a pedalo to raise money
for some good cause or other.

Perhaps we should make sure a Briton is on the next trip to Mars (and perhaps
we could all club together to sponsor Ed Balls). Or instead, perhaps we should
concentrate on the amazing things we are already doing, and that we hardly even
notice – things right under our feet.

Last week I went to see the Crossrail excavations at Canary Wharf, four years
after we had officially got them going, and I remembered how fragile the project
had seemed. There was a time when we had to fight for Crossrail, when senior
cabinet ministers were denouncing it as a mad plan to build a pointless trench
across London. It was an easy way to save £16 billion, they said. Axe it now,
they said, and no one will even miss it.

Well, thank heavens we didn’t listen to that guff. Crossrail’s tunnel is now
a giant and growing fact, that will revolutionise east-west transit in the
greatest city on earth, pinging you from Heathrow to the City in about half an
hour. Its fast air-conditioned network will run from Maidenhead in the west to
Shenfield in the east.

Crossrail will increase London’s rail capacity by about 10 per cent, and
generate an estimated £42 billion worth of growth across the country. Even in
its construction phase, Crossrail is good for the whole of Britain. Of its 1,600
contracts, 62 per cent have gone to firms outside London – more than half of
them small and medium enterprises (SMEs). There are bridges from Shropshire,
cranes from Derbyshire, grouting from Coventry, piling from Oldham, lifts from
Preston and vast quantities of lubrication from Bournemouth.

The project is responsible for about 55,000 jobs across the country, and it
would have been utter insanity to cancel it – not just because of the jobs it
creates, but because it is essential if we are to cope with the demands on our
transport network.

London will have a million more people in the next 10 years, and without
Crossrail the Central line would become so packed and overheated that it would
not be fit, under EU rules, for the transport of live animals. It is a vivid and
powerful lesson in the vital importance of investing in transport
infrastructure, and of driving on ruthlessly with essential schemes: the

Tube upgrades, new river crossings, Crossrail Two, and others. They are not
just good for London, but for the whole of Britain.

And yet none of these Crossrail statistics do justice to what is being
achieved. When Patrick McLoughlin, the Secretary of State for Transport, and I
went into the new station box at Canary Wharf, I felt a sense of primeval awe,
like a Neanderthal stumbling into the gloom of Lascaux. It is akin to a gigantic
subterranean cathedral several times the size of Chartres. The boring machine is
like a colossal steel-toothed remora or lamprey, grinding her way through the
clay.

I stood beneath her jaws, and fingered some of that thick black Bournemouth
lube, and they told me how the machine had driven with such accuracy that when
she entered the station box she was only 5mm off target. This is the biggest
engineering project in Europe, an amazing advertisement for British
construction; and when you look at it you wonder why we are sometimes so prone
to self-doubt.

When the next coronation rolls round, we won’t need a new mountain to climb.
We’ll have the joy and excitement of Crossrail Two, as she chomps her way from
Hackney to Chelsea; and unlike climbing Everest, the scheme will be of practical
benefit to all.

In the meantime, we need a proper name for Crossrail, the vast new line on
London’s underground network – and who better to give her name to that line than
someone who has served her country so unfailingly and well for 60 years?

The proud moment when I realised I was worth hacking
A strange, late-night message confirmed my suspicions – internet privacy doesn’t exist

Photo: ALAMY
By Boris Johnson
8:33PM BST 09 Jun 2013
102 Comments
Shock horror! Hold the front page. It turns out the internet is a gigantic snooperama, a sinister governmental periscope inside your most personal electronic possession – by which THEY can keep a watch on YOU. Even now there are men in dark glasses in Langley, Virginia, whose task is to track the websites you visit, chortling with incredulous laughter. Out in Beijing, there are special agents building your psychological profile from the stuff you like to buy from Ocado. It’s a global conspiracy to invade your privacy, my friends.

It seems that the big US internet companies have been helping the American security services with a Big Brother-type probe called Prism; and the suggestion now is that UK spooks may somehow have been using the results. Everyone is getting understandably worked up. The champions of liberty are in full cry, and in principle I am with them all the way. An Englishman’s laptop is his castle, and all that kind of thing.

My only question is: what on earth did you expect? I have never trusted the security of the internet, or emails, or indeed texts – because it was obvious from the very dawn of what was once called the information superhighway that any data you sent to some server or database or gizmo could no longer be in any sense private. It was no longer shared between you and one recipient. It was stored in the memory of some vast global intermediary. It was out there, in the ether, just waiting to be hacked or lost or stolen or accidentally blurted to your enemies. That is why I have always rather assumed that any email I send should be drafted as if for public consumption, and that all kinds of people could be reading it – should they wish so to fritter their lives – as soon as I pressed “send”.

One night, a few years ago, I was working very late in China, when a hilarious warning sign came up on my screen informing me – I have forgotten the exact words – that “other users” were on my machine. I felt very proud. Someone thought I was worth hacking! I am afraid I just forged on with whatever I was doing, and it may be that the moles are still there in the innards of my laptop, secretly relaying useless information to their masters. Maybe the only way to get rid of them is to take out the hard drive and melt it down, rather as Arnie kills the Terminator. But then I will need a new machine, and that, too, will be immediately vulnerable to infestation.

The whole point about the internet is that everything is, as they say, everywhere; and that makes it hard for anything to be properly private. I see that Larry Page, the CEO of Google, claims it is “completely false” to say that his company gives away information about your internet activity. Pull the other one, Larry. If that is the case, how come all users of your Gmail email accounts get those advertisements pinged at them – ads triggered by words in the very CONTENT of the emails themselves? I don’t give a monkey’s whether it is a machine or a person: someone out there is monitoring my thoughts, as reflected in my emails, and that someone is trying to sell me stuff on the basis of what they have gleaned from my PRIVATE BLOOMING CONVERSATIONS!

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I think if I were Shami Chakrabarti, or my old chum David Davis, I might get thoroughly aerated at this point; and I have some sympathy with their general position. But then I am afraid I also have sympathy with our security services, and their very powerful need to use the internet to catch the bad guys – the terrorists, the jihadis, the child porn creeps. There is a trade-off between freedom and security, as Barack Obama rightly says; between the citizen’s right to total internet privacy, and the duty of the state to protect us all from harm.

The question is where you draw the line, and how you enforce it; and in the meantime, I have two suggestions for those libertarians who have been scandalised by the revelations from America. The first is to look at the bestseller lists, and the amazing success of a sweet little book called Letters to Lupin – the gin-sodden epistles of Home Counties racing buff Roger Mortimer to his wayward son.

People adore this book because it evokes those men who fought in the war – Dear Bill characters whose conversation involved dirty jokes, the state of the lawn, the soundness of horses, what the dog had done on the carpet and the general insanity of their wives and other female relatives. They remind us of a generation now fading, capable of stiff upper lip but also of expressing great love and devotion; and they remind us of how that love was expressed. The letter was an event in itself. It wasn’t just a piece of information pinged into your inbox. It was a lovely hodge-podge of gossip and news and jokes, an art-form that needs to be revived, and so all those who want to beat the internet snoops – just get out the old Basildon Bond, suck the end of your biro, assemble your thoughts carefully and do as our grandparents did.

Failing that, there is clearly a massive business opportunity for a British tech company. Look at all these US tech giants: I don’t need to name them – you know who I mean. They don’t pay their fair share of tax; they collaborate with US snoopers; they are altogether too big and powerful. They have had a lot of paint chipped off them lately. We in Britain have produced all sorts of technological breakthroughs – indeed, Tim Berners-Lee actually came up with the World Wide Web. But we have not yet produced a giant on the American scale – and now the gap yawns for a British internet provider that somehow roots out the terrorists and the child molesters, and yet allows the blameless punter to send an email in complete security. We want a British Google that cracks the freedom vs security conundrum. Come on, you Tech City brainboxes, it can’t be that hard to do

I'm half watching TV waiting for the Tennis to start and my mate Boris was interviewed, He is due to appear on Court after the final and it really is obvious the crowd like him, even the Inrterviewer was laughing .......that's what Britain needs at the moment, cheering up with all the bad news going on.

Boris Johnson: Don't arm the Syria maniacs
Boris Johnson warns that arming the Syrian rebels would be disastrous, adding to tough warnings from Vladimir Putin, the Archbishop of York and an ex-Army leader.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the Mayor of London warns David Cameron that the UK must not use Syria as an “arena for muscle-flexing” Photo: PA


By Peter Dominiczak, and Christopher Hope
10:00PM BST 16 Jun 2013


Arming the Syrian rebels would be disastrous because Britain would be “pressing weapons into the hands of maniacs”, says Boris Johnson.
The Mayor of London warns David Cameron that the UK must not use Syria as an “arena for muscle-flexing” and says that any weapons sent to the country’s opposition could end up in the hands of al-Qaeda.
His comments come after several leading figures opposed any move by Mr Cameron to join President Barack Obama in providing greater assistance to the forces fighting Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia, whose nation provides arms to the Assad regime, criticised the Prime Minister for considering arming rebels who “eat the organs” of their enemies.
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg also cautioned Mr Cameron against arming the Free Syrian Army, saying that if it were a good idea, Britain would have done it already. The former head of the Army, Lord Dannatt, said he feared any such assistance would lead Britain into further intervention, while the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, urged Mr Cameron to “tread very warily”.
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But it is Mr Johnson’s comments that will do most to undermine Mr Cameron’s position on the issue.
Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson says the only solution in Syria is a “total ceasefire” and claims that it will be “impossible” to arm the rebels without weapons ending up in the hands of “al-Qaeda-affiliated thugs”.
“This is the moment for a total ceasefire, an end to the madness,” Mr Johnson writes. “It is time for the US, Russia, the EU, Turkey, Iran, Saudi and all the players to convene an intergovernmental conference to try to halt the carnage. We can’t use Syria as an arena for geopolitical point-scoring or muscle-flexing, and we won’t get a ceasefire by pressing weapons into the hands of maniacs.”
The crisis in Syria is threatening to overshadow the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland which begins on Monday.
Mr Cameron clashed with the Russian president at a Downing Street press conference on Sunday.
Asked by reporters whether he had “blood on his hands” for arming the Assad regime, Mr Putin said that his nation had acted in accordance with international law by delivering arms to the Syrian government.
He added: “I believe you will not deny the fact that one should hardly back those who kill their enemies and eat their organs – all that is filmed. Do you want to support these people? Do you want to supply arms to these people?”
Mr Cameron faces growing political opposition at home amid suggestions that he is in favour of joining the Americans in helping to assist rebels. He has been warned that he could be defeated in the Commons if he tries to win a parliamentary agreement for Britain to arm the rebels.
Mr Clegg insisted that the Government will not arm the rebels because it is not the right thing to do at the moment. “We’ve taken no decision to provide lethal assistance so we clearly don’t think it is the right thing to do now, otherwise we would have decided to do it,” Mr Clegg told the BBC.
Lord Dannatt, former head of the Army, warned that supplying arms to the Syrian opposition could turn into a “much larger intervention”.
“It’s a very complex situation,” he said. “And I think there is a real danger of an arm going in a mangle.”
He said the risk of supplying small arms is that it “becomes the thin end of the wedge”.
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, warned that arming the rebels could be a “naive position to take” because it is impossible to know who the “good guys” are.
Julian Lewis, a Tory MP, said it would be “suicidal” for Britain to hand arms to an opposition known to include extremist elements.

We’ve left it too late to save Syria – this conflict can never be won
It would be madness to arm the rebels in what has become a brutal religious war, says Boris Johnson

Free Syrian Army fighters preparing to fire on Syrian army positions in the old city area of Aleppo Photo: EPA




By Boris Johnson
8:13PM BST 16 Jun 2013

166 Comments

Just over a week ago, a 15-year-old boy called Mohammed Qataa was selling coffee from his stall in Aleppo. A friend of his asked for a cup, and said that he would pay him back later. What happened next is unimaginably dreadful — and yet no one has seriously contested any detail of the story.
Young Mohammed said that he didn’t take credit, and wanted payment for the coffee there and then. Indeed, he went on casually to say that even if the Prophet Mohammed had come down, he would not give him credit.
Alas, his jocular remark was overheard. Three members of a movement called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria decided that they took exception. So they kidnapped the kid, and took him off to beat him; and then, in the early hours of Sunday morning, they brought him back — with whiplash marks on his body — and dumped him, still alive, by his coffee stand. A crowd gathered around, and a member of the brigade made a little speech of explanation.
“Generous citizens of Aleppo, disbelieving in God is polytheism and cursing the prophet is polytheism. Whoever curses even once will be punished like this!”
And in full view of the crowd, which by now included the boy’s parents — pleading hysterically — this man fired two bullets from an automatic weapon into Mohammed Qataa’s head, killing him instantly. The defenceless child was no supporter of the Syrian government, by the way. From the beginning of the civil war, he had joined street demonstrations in favour of democracy. In so far as he was on anyone’s side, he was pro-rebellion and anti-Assad. What are the words we use to describe the men who did this?
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Odious, twisted, hate-filled thugs; arrogant and inadequate creeps, intoxicated by the pathetic illusion of power that comes with guns; poisoned by a perversion of religion into a contempt for all norms of civilised behaviour.
They are fighting not for freedom but for a terrifying Islamic state in which they would have the whip hand — and yet there is no dodging or fudging the matter: these are among the Syrian rebels who are hoping now to benefit from the flow of Western arms.
How is it supposed to work? How are we meant to furnish machine guns and anti-tank weapons to one set of opposition forces, without them ending up in the hands of men like the al-Qaeda-affiliated thugs who executed a child for telling a joke? The answer is that we have no means of preventing such a disaster, any more than we can control what kind of “government” the rebels — if they were successful — would form in Damascus.
What is happening in Syria is one of the greatest human and cultural catastrophes of our age. For two years the mortar rounds have been pulverising the cradle of civilisation. When I think of the happy days I have spent roaming the souk of Aleppo or the Umayyad mosque of Damascus, I am filled with grief, and I hear such awful tales of destruction that I almost dread to go back. The dead are said to number 93,000 just in the past two years. But what else could we possibly have done?
Perhaps if we had piled in with the rebels at the beginning, it might have been possible to topple Bashar al-Assad and his nightmare regime. Perhaps we could have installed some sort of pluralist and democratic government, before the Syrian opposition became contaminated with jihadis.
You only have to raise that option to see that it was never on the cards — not after Iraq. We know what happens when you topple the regime of a Ba’athist strongman. You expose the fault lines of a state that was invented, in 1916, by the British colonial office, and you unleash an unbearable cycle of sectarian violence.
No one was going for a military option in 2011, certainly not the White House. With dozens of people being murdered every day in Iraq, no one was calling for us to repeat the experiment. So we sat back, without a strategy, hoping vaguely for the best — and now we have the worst of all worlds. The Assad regime has suffered all kinds of defeat and humiliation, but it has not yet lost.
Indeed, it has just recaptured the strategically important town of Qusayr, with the help of Hizbollah. We are now on the verge of a disastrous escalation, in which Syria becomes the centre of a regional if not a global power struggle.
On one side we have the rebels, including al-Qaeda, and they seem to have support — to a greater or lesser degree — from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the European Union and an assortment of extraordinarily unpleasant fundamentalist preachers who are very keen on establishing an Islamic state.
On the other side we have the Assad regime, and they have the support of Lebanon’s Hizbollah militia, Iran and Russia, which has always regarded Syria as part of the Russian sphere of influence. Both sides are now symmetrically raising the stakes. The EU has decided to lift the arms embargo that has been in place since May 2011; the Iranians are now threatening to send in 4,000 troops.
Surely to goodness it is time to recognise that no one can win this conflict, because it has become at least partly a religious conflict, between Sunni and Shia. No one can win that conflict because it is almost beyond reason. It is an argument about the protocol that surrounded the succession of the Prophet Mohammed — in the seventh century AD! One side or the other might technically “win”, and impose a government over the whole country. But unless that government has the approval of both Sunnis and Shias, we are doomed to sectarian violence and reprisals forever.
This is not the moment to send more arms. This is the moment for a total ceasefire, an end to the madness. It is time for the US, Russia, the EU, Turkey, Iran, Saudi and all the players to convene an intergovernmental conference to try to halt the carnage. We can’t use Syria as an arena for geopolitical point-scoring or muscle-flexing, and we won’t get a ceasefire by pressing weapons into the hands of maniacs

So when is Boris actually going to start doing his job ? He's far too busy promoting his own pr machine than looking after the interests of Londoners.
He could start by showing some respect to the indigenous Londoners and stop slagging off "Lazy British kids" who cant be bothered to get jobs in Mcdonalds at the minimum wage.
He could clear the streets of London of the dirty beggars from Romania.Though there is an irony there if you want to look at all the scum bag immigrants defacating  in the streets outside Park Lane.
But Boris will suck up to the immigrant population of London now pretty much in the majority  and no doubt welcome with open arms the 1/2 million or so Bulgarians on their way to London later this year to add to our NHS queues at A & E.And bloat the crime statistics once more.
And what else,oh yes,Boris is asking for some time off from his busy schedule next year so he can write a book about Winston Churchill ! Yes thats right another book on Winston Churchill.I would have thought we already had plenty of them and some very good ones too if your in to that kind of thing.But this will be a 'special' book because it will no doubt be more about promoting the righteous Career of the bumbling goon comparing all the relative virtues of our Mayor to the great war monger himself.Another great offering of self gratification from the biggest con man currently residing in our Political system.
Just have a look at the state of London's streets covered in excrement from Boris's fan club and the roads choked and full of pot holes,the tube full of beggars carrying dirty babies with soiled nappies,traffic at a standstill and half the shops in Oxford street selling everything under a pound ! And racks of 'Boris bikes' going rusty being just about his only achievement to date.
Boris is supposed to be the Mayor of London looking after the interests of Londoners,he is a cataclysmic failure in that respect as he is far more interested in filling his purse with the £millions he gets from his newspaper friends and sponsors and playing the buffoon will only fool the politically inept.He will fade into the oblivion of the after dinner circuit in due course.

Here you go and what is Boris's answer to this ?

"Oh well i think their jolly nice Gypo's we'll just offer to pay for their flights home and see what happens" 


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9268954/Gangs-of-homeless-Romanian-beggars-move-into-Londons-Park-Lane.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311235/Romanian-beggars-return-set-camp-Marble-Arch-year-blighted-London-Olympics.html

Coming to a street near you soon.

While London goes rotten with human effluent boris is still busy earning his £millions following his journalistic career and comparing himself to Churchill........

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10098856/Boris-Johnson-to-write-book-about-Winston-Churchill.html

Judge throws out Boris Johnsons attempt to hide his philandering past....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328067/Boris-Johnsons-secret-lovechild-daughter-Stephanie-victory-publics-right-know.html

Boris telling porkies ? Surely not.

Crikey Lioned, you were busy last night finding all this negative stuff about Boris, did you have indigestion or a row with someone ??

Yes Panda there was nothing worth watching on the telly and i burnt the dinner 

What has boris done for London this week ?

Well in 2012 he pledged to eliminate the homeless sleeping on the streets of London.Since then the numbers sleeping rough on the streets has doubled,current estimates around 4500 !

And we are awaiting a deluge of more.

It is not easy to solve i grant you but there are plenty of empty properties or land where they can be rounded up and sent home.
Many of the homeless hostels are or have been closed i guess from apparent lack of funds.Also true to say that many of these 'homeless' prefer not to use the hostels.

So what is the answer boris ?

Well i would probably keep turning the hoses on them till they bugger off.I think that would win me some votes !
Alternatively we could stop sending so much money to foreign aid and spend some of it on some decent 'temporary' hostels to house these people until they can be either sent home or put to good use .

Either way boris needs to start dealing with it instead of talking about taking time off so he can write a book to promote his attributes compared to Churchill.

He is not as popular as you think panda and when it comes to it he will be judged on what he has achieved and also his 'baggage' will count against him.He is known to be very intelligent (in academic terms) top of the class/head boy etc etc and he plays on his buffoonery as he knows some find it endearing.
He would be torn apart by a reasonably capable adversary and that will become increasingly apparent.He will not stand for leader of the Tories as a) he would not want to be leader of the opposition if they were to loose the next election and b) he prefers to write and make lots of money on the side and c) he wouldnt win !
Also his Royal blood links will work against him.

I know he's an umpteenth cousin of David Cameron and a friend of Earl Spencer (Diana's brother) but what royal blood links does he have?

Lioned, I agree he may not want to stand for election this time around because he knows the Conservatives won't win, unless Cameron stands down and Boris fight's an election.  However, who, among all MP's would voters consider capable of turning the Country's fortunes around. ???   Admittedly , the signs are the World economy is going to get worse so if I were Boris, I too would not want to be a PM....He will have no trouble selling his book, he has a way with words.