[bux93]

A curious theory holds that Boris Johnson's sometimes bizarre sayings were an attempt to bury search results that didn't suit him. For example, talking about his hobby of painting model buses, to suppress search results about the campaign bus with false statement written on it, and alledged affairs with a model.

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/editors-let...

[seanhunter]

Having met Boris Johnson, spoken with people who were at school and at university with him I can say with complete conviction that he is nowhere near smart enough for that. There never was any kind of strategy, he just bounced along from one thing to the next saying the first thing that popped into his head with the carefree conviction of a bear ransacking a picnic hamper and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

I met him because I had to give him a software demo at number 10 as part of London Tech week. One of the other teams there had some sort of childrens’ app and got him enthusiastically doing star jumps. Just a complete clown through and through.