It's 8 o clock Tuesday morning and I’m still pretty much wondering what he’s really like as a person.
Is he really the same in real life as he is on the box – debating sharply in the typical Bozza way for what he believes is right for our country? I know something for certain - his character sets him apart from any other politician serving in this country. Some people debate that the world of Boris ruling this country wouldn’t be proper. Some say he is just a buffoon, who makes a good joke out of politics. But really, his character shouts out to be recognized as “just an MP, a Tory MP” which he says is “about the least most fashionable thing”. He states that he is for ‘hard-working families’, and not only does he say this with total integrity, but he comes across as somebody who is just trying to do his best at what he does.
He is full of frustration as to why he is so misunderstood.

The whole style of his personality is what makes him different from other politicians. It’s a “screw you” type of attitude, which screams out “I’m going to say exactly what I think, no matter what any other person thinks.” – That makes him a cool politician. He says he is 100% green – and he stresses it is right to be green, but is still willing to give you a run-through of how he “personally smoggoled the earth with carbon dioxide” in a Lamborghini Gallardo Spider for his latest test drive as GQ Magazine’s motor car correspondent. Please, if you will, name one MP who is willing to go to work, talk politics all day long and then go out and thrash every 522 BHPs of a Lamborghini on the British roads… You can’t, other than Boris, which is the reason why he could simply be named the coolest MP of all time. Is it partly that many people miss the fact that he gained a 1st for Classics at Balliol College, Oxford? He is neither Tweedledum nor Tweedledee, rather a genuine genius. Instead of being a remittee of his father (Stanley Johnson) – wallet-wise, Boris gained a scholarship to Eton. I walk in, and he welcomes me with deep respect along with an attitude of out goingness. 

Benjamin Kurtis: First of all, you are rising very quickly in popularity

Boris Johnson: (curiously suspicious) – Say that again??

BK: You are rising very quickly in popularity, within the UK…

BJ: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO…

BK: Yes you are!.. – do you think this is happening for all the right reasons?

BJ: I dispute your hypothesis, I think as soon as people, err, people know what I really stand for, my popularity – what I represent…

BK: Exactly – yes – what do you stand for?

BJ: (laughs disappointedly)

BK: What do you stand for??! (giggling)

BJ: I’m absolutely for hard working families everywhere, and I – I think the tragedy is that beneath this veneer of a blithering buffoon, (sounds upset), beneath that I’m just an MP! – I’m a Tory MP! – I’m about the least fashionable thing…

BK: I disagree… I don’t know…

BJ: I’m afraid that the words Tory MP have become a kind of shorthand for absurdity in the last 20 years… - and that’s what I am, and I think as soon as people know what I really believe in, - a lot of simple stuff like…

BK: - For hard working people!

BJ: I do! I believe in hard working families! – And I’m a cultural conservative; people don’t understand the things I believe in… they don’t realise that I actually believe in, erm… rewarding hard work. I believe that my children should read the classic works that I enjoyed, and everybody else’s children should read them – even if they don’t want to!

BK: (He goes off on at a tangent) -: We must move on to the next question…
Editor, columnist, show host, and a very popular rising politician, so which one do you most enjoy?

BJ: Well I love being a politician, an MP, it’s a very very hard and rewarding job; it’s the single most… it’s the best job I have ever done. Being an MP is the most rewarding and most gratifying thing you can possibly do. And people say they don’t understand why people want to become MPs! I don’t understand people who don’t want to become MPs!  What’s wrong with them!? What kind deformation are they suffering from!? That’s what I always think, you know. What do you think?

BK: Yeah I agree, I mean, I am very interested in politics… I have a lot of political views.

BJ: Good!!

BK: and I’ve been wanting to meet you, for a very long time now…

BJ: Brilliant!! Well it’s a great pleasure to meet you!

BK: I hear speculation about you entering the Big Brother house?

BJ: No one has rung me about it, I only read about it in the Sun… I have a lot of respect for people who do Big Brother, but I simply don’t have the time to do it…

BK: I think you should…
 
BJ: Really? – (unenthusiastic)

BK: I do, I think you should go on there, I think it’s a way you could really get your points and views across…

BJ: Do you think I could? – (High spirits), I could just, stand up, I could say: And by the way, let me just tell you ladies and gentleman… I could just bring things to a halt in the Big Brother household… (giggling) - I could turn it into a political harangue the whole time…!

BK: You could do; you could have a real debate in that place…

BJ: I could do, yeah.

BK: OK! So the answer is no then? – But please consider… we would love to see you on there; I would love to see you on there…

BJ: Well that’s very kind of you! – It’s just not something I’d thought of.

BK: It’s a bit of a mad place to be, but if you’re a celebrity; you’re not a celebrity! I hate the word celebrity! You’re a politician, who wants to get his point across, and to stop people misunderstanding who you really are…

BJ: Yeah.

BK: Lots of people watch it…

BJ: They do don’t they – (enthused)

BK: and I think if you were to go into the Big Brother House, you could get your point across – I think it would work…

BJ: I don’t know… it’s a bit of a risk isn’t it? – I could try it… (confident)

BK: Tell us about Web Cameron.

BJ: Yeah yeah, I don’t know much about Web Cameron, I’m very much in favour of Cameron, and the web, and the Web Cameron, and the Cameroons, macaroons… (giggles)

BK: I mean, what’s it all about, what is Web Cameron all about?

BJ: I don’t know, I don’t have any idea, they had me on it a couple of times…

BK: I watched your video of you in the House of Commons, in your office, stating that you believe that people think the Camerons are tree-hugging, solar power, bicycle-riding greens.

BJ: Yes.

BK: Well then you stated that you think it’s right to be green…

BJ: I did – and it is!

BK: Why is it then, that you are GQ Magazine’s car columnist?

BJ: [Laughing in a caught out way] Very good question… The last car I drove, the Lamborghini Gallardo Spider … fantastic car, basically, I was personally ‘smoggoling’ the earth in carbon dioxide, I was quilting the upper air with vapour… (giggling)

BK: How did you get to work this morning – did you cycle?

BJ: I did, I cycled, my bike is going very slowly at the moment , is it me or my bike I ask myself, as I went slower and slower, is it old age, I mean what is going on? I just couldn’t get any speed up there… I think my bike needs oil…

BK: Thank you very much, Boris.

BJ: Thank you very much, Ben! – Give em hell, Ben!

© Benjamin Kurtis 2008