WTAF is wrong with Boris Johnson?

[Ocelot II]

I've been reading the NATO web site, which has a lot of photos of the big meeting, and in every one of them BoJo looks like he spent the night in a dumpster sleeping off a bender. At least this time some other country gets to be embarrassed by its leader. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/photos.htm

[Greybnk48]

1. He's a buffoon, like Trump. No clue why he's still there. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

2. At least with him, his hair is is best feature.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Same with Trump. His hair is the best part of him.

Start with a horrible comb-over pasted with gel and spray and engineered trusses.

He goes downhill from there.

[Ocelot II]

8. He seems to like TFG's long ties, too.

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Joe is such a class act,

and he has the best taste in ties!

[cilla4progress]

3. Remember a couple months back

when it looked like he was going to be kicked out of office because of his covid parties during the height of the pandemic?

WTF?!

[dalton99a]

5. "Comb your hair"

[Ocelot II]

6. Here we have Biden and Macron looking natty, and BoJo....

not so much:



and:

[Ocelot II]

19. I just noticed that in the lower photo Albania seems to be ogling Denmark.

[MineralMan]

7. He's still a British Public Schoolboy, Hair and All.

[Ritabert]

9. BoJo is taking hairstyle lessons from Marsha Blackburn

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. I think he's taking after Gary Busey ( a fine example of grooming )

[Claustrum]

10. Bojo was always bad.

It's just that we had an even worst looking president at the time so all of our/media's focus had been on Trump and rightfully so (who can forget whatever that is he wore to the UK). But Bojo was always just as bad. Trump just trumped him by looking even worst.

[happybird]

12. It's intentional

https://theconversation.com/scruffy-boris-johnsons-man-of-the-people-look-is-part-of-a-long-british-tradition-168773


“He is a posh Englishman with an elite education and a circle of super-rich friends. But he also had the ambition to win over swathes of voters from Labour. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is the perfect name for a foppish dandy, so he has boosted his appeal by ditching the elite look and rebranding himself as “Boris”, the scruffily loveable English libertarian. He stands with you as your hair stubbornly refuses to style itself like the style gurus recommend.

His messy style is a calculated performance. He is a kind of “anti-dandy”, like Fox before him. Johnson’s signature scruffy style conceals privilege by pretending to thumb its nose at it.”

[Totally Tunsie]

14. Nice find!

[uponit7771]

16. Similar with Benedict Donald

[steve2470]

17. I have read that people have seen him mess up his hair before he walks out the door

It is truly an act.

[Carlitos Brigante]

18. Nailed it!! "Now, would you like some

tea?....."

[gibraltar72]

13. He may have done exactly that.

[markpkessinger]

20. Here's an interesting take . . .

From an article at https://theconversation.com/scruffy-boris-johnsons-man-of-the-people-look-is-part-of-a-long-british-tradition-168773 :

It’s often suggested that UK prime minister Boris Johnson uses his distinctive hair as a political device. His trademark untameable mane disarms critics and belies his powerful position. A quick ruffle when the cameras are on enables Johnson to assume the role of a casual “man of the people”, especially when the look is completed with a rumpled suit and a barely-tucked-in shirt.

. . . .

This is a technique that dates back to the 18th century when dandyish care in dress, intended to evoke cosmopolitan sophistication, was often derided as being elitist and un-British. Opposition to these historical fashion victims helps us to understand Boris the scruff.

. . . .

Photographs from Johnson’s early years evoke dandyism, notably one taken at the Bullingdon Club during his years as a student at the University of Oxford. He sits in front of a row of lounging youths all dressed in that socially elite club’s costume of evening dress.

But as Johnson’s political career developed, he was increasingly noted not only for dressing badly but for allegedly doing so with care and deliberation. Reports abound of Johnson intentionally messing his hair up before television appearances. What’s the point? Has he just become a slob, or has he deliberately cultivated the appearance of being one?

He is a posh Englishman with an elite education and a circle of super-rich friends. But he also had the ambition to win over swathes of voters from Labour. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is the perfect name for a foppish dandy, so he has boosted his appeal by ditching the elite look and rebranding himself as “Boris”, the scruffily loveable English libertarian. He stands with you as your hair stubbornly refuses to style itself like the style gurus recommend. His messy style is a calculated performance. He is a kind of “anti-dandy”, like Fox before him. Johnson’s signature scruffy style conceals privilege by pretending to thumb its nose at it.