Ministry for Body Swaps
David Cameron wants to be Boris Johnson...
Lucky David Cameron has managed to recruit Boris Johnson's former PR advisers, Inhouse PR, in order to deal with any media and communication issues that he may face in the future. Over the coming months, the company will promote a series of reports that will be used in the Conservative Party's manifesto during the build up to the general election. Main issues to be focused on will range from gun and knife crime, to mental health and the criminal justice system.
Though the news may not come as the most interesting thing to happen to you today, it did give Westmonster a good chance to think about things in general terms. But are we really making sense? Or just doing that old media trick of trying to pass our shit off as diamonds?
The most interesting thing that we've taken from the announcement is that, technically, it puts Boris Johnson as being one step ahead of Cameron in terms of being wherever it is that the Conservative leaders aspire to find themselves. Though Bojo is technically subordinate to Cameron, the decision for Cameron to try and be more like Boris suggests that, on some twisted metaphysical level, it is actually Boris that is the true leader of the Conservatives. Whilst New Labour had the cult of Tony, the Conservatives are slowly beginning to form the cult of Bojo.
*Shudder*
When you think about it, this is a pretty scary thought, because it suggests that the Conservatives is just as clueless as the Labour party. Boris reached the top without really even trying, yet Cameron, who seems to try harder than anybody else to please the public, still seems to be in his position simply because of the fact that he's not Gordon Brown. But did Boris win the mayoral election because of his PR players or because of the fact that he has a natural personality?
Something tells us that it was the latter which played a bigger roal in the mayor's rise to fame, something that Cameron may be about to find out about the hard way.
How about the Conservatives just cut to the chase and give us Bojo for Prime Minister?!?
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Quote: "did Boris win the mayoral election because of his PR players or because of the fact that he has a natural personality?"
Ken had a natural personality equal to that of Boris and lost, and I also bet that if you asked your readers in April whether Boris had shown any of his natural personality on the Mayoral campaign they would all say no and that his "PR people" had gagged him, all of which means...
...shrewd move by DC I guess!