[wiz21c]

From your Queen's article :

On a trip to a school in Bristol, southwest England, Johnson told baffled schoolchildren: "I promise to get world leaders to cut greenhouse gases and save the planet."

He later held up a signed, leaf-shaped piece of paper on which he had written his pledge.

Whatever the outcome, I'll be very happy to hear about Johnson's pledge after the COP...

[Zenst]

Probably my age, but what a politician says and does, do differ.

It's the actions I'll measure upon, not the promissory notes of intent.

[pasabagi]

I'm pretty sure parent is being sarcastic. Boris Johnson is the guy who literally goes 'uh, I think' when asked how many children he has[0]. He's not big on commitments of any kind.

[0]: for the record, it's supposed to be six, but some people say seven.

[wiz21c]

I was definitely sarcastic. But it saddens me.

[kmlx]

this is for me is a net plus. children of politicians (even how many) should not be a thing, and i’m actually very impressed that when faced with so many questions regarding his children, over so many years, this politician chose the high road. very few choose this route (see basically the whole US establishment).

[gm3dmo]

Yet he is happy to spout lies about single mothers for his followers:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/general-...

He has never taken the high road in his life.

[kmlx]

i think this is called clickbait journalism.

[pasabagi]

I sympathise with your desire to separate the private and the public, but where somebody is a deadbeat dad to the point that they seem genuinely unsure how many kids they have, you would question whether they are responsible enough for the job, even if they weren't as feckless and flippant as Boris Johnson.

As conservative prime ministers go, he'd be one of the better ones in recent memory if it wasn't for awful timing. The UK had about twice the death toll as france and germany in the last couple of years, and it's hard not to blame that on Boris, and those around Boris, essentially being the wrong guys for the job. When it's serious, you need serious people making the decisions, and I don't think anybody, Boris included, genuinely thinks he's a serious person.

[gm3dmo]

It's called a citation.