Is Boris a sociopath?

stockhausen said:
I was listening this morning to a program on the BBC World Service where Charity Lee Bennett described the characteristics that identified her son Paris as a sociopath and I immediately thought of Bonker Boris.

A person with a personality which is characterised by extreme narcissism, amoral and antisocial behaviour,, a total failure to learn from experience, little attention to detail, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful long-term personal relationships, etc. doesn't really sound as if it makes him an ideal candidate for PM or in fact ANY role of significance, e.g. Foreign Secretary or commenting on Brexit -or- God forbid, sharing with Agent Orange a button that could lead to the end of mankind!

Surely the BBC could create a comedy / horror series with the bumbling idiot in a starring role?
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While reading of, and agreeing with, the traits of a sociopath attributed to Boris, I began to get a vaguely uncomfortable feeling, Christ, I was in here somewhere.
Narcissism? mmm, but narcissism extremely lite.
Amoral? Well, when I was younger, can’t deny that.
Antisocial? No, not at all, but I definitely march to a different drum.
Total failure to learn from experience? Not total, but could have done better.
Little attention to detail? I pay too much if anything, a win?
Lack of ability to love? See amoral above, sure I failed badly with my first marriage, mea culpa,
I was only 21, but I’m smashing my second, and final one out of the park, another win?
As for the bumbling idiot TV show, didn’t “Some mothers do have ‘em” qualify?
 
Why are the left obsessed with demonizing their opposition with personal attacks. Everyone who isn't on their side is the next Hitler. It's boring and pathetic.
 
Jean-F said:
While reading of, and agreeing with, the traits of a sociopath attributed to Boris, I began to get a vaguely uncomfortable feeling, Christ, I was in here somewhere.
Narcissism? mmm, but narcissism extremely lite.
Amoral? Well, when I was younger, can’t deny that.
Antisocial? No, not at all, but I definitely march to a different drum.
Total failure to learn from experience? Not total, but could have done better.
Little attention to detail? I pay too much if anything, a win?
Lack of ability to love? See amoral above, sure I failed badly with my first marriage, mea culpa,
I was only 21, but I’m smashing my second, and final one out of the park, another win?
As for the bumbling idiot TV show, didn’t “Some mothers do have ‘em” qualify?
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A socio/psychopathic cabbie? Naaaah. :D
 
Roar87 said:
Why are the left obsessed with demonizing their opposition with personal attacks. Everyone who isn't on their side is the next Hitler. It's boring and pathetic.
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They can't criticise policy and have no good policy of their own, so they have to get personal.

Look at Trump he's evil for lowering taxes, reducing unemployment, getting rid of control freakishly excessive regulations and enforcing immigration policy as defined by US law. The corporate media only care about Stormy Daniels latest accusation and the perpetual Russia collusion investigation that hasn't found any collusion in 2 years even after they illegally spied on the Trump campaign.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
Oh how we all long for the halcyon days when Boris was mayor of London and therefore his ability to entirely decimate the Country was greatly diminished. We should all enjoy this period of relative quiet, it's going to be a lot worse when he's PM.
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I think BoJo’s time & opportunity for that went up in smoke when Michael Gove decided to put the boot in (clearly a much smarter man than his looks suggest!) - I suspect we will see May fall soon considering it’s all going south for her rather spectacularly and I wouldn’t be surprised if the incumbent Cat in No.10 gets a Mogg for its new provider of Whiskas....
 
Scania said:
I think BoJo’s time & opportunity for that went up in smoke when Michael Gove decided to put the boot in (clearly a much smarter man than his looks suggest!) - I suspect we will see May fall soon considering it’s all going south for her rather spectacularly and I wouldn’t be surprised if the incumbent Cat in No.10 gets a Mogg for its new provider of Whiskas....
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That's a distinct possibility I would imagine, however why the majority would choose to vote for him given his voting history I have no idea. I do find myself wondering what his cabinet would look like, he does have charisma but I'm not sure he's one for mollifying the other factions so we could end up with a rogues gallery of right wing tories. Wouldn't that be nice, then we could have Latin lessons back in schools and we could all stop worrying about the NHS, as it won't exist anymore.
 
mmj_uk said:
They can't criticise policy and have no good policy of their own, so they have to get personal.

Look at Trump he's evil for lowering taxes, reducing unemployment, getting rid of control freakishly excessive regulations and enforcing immigration policy as defined by US law. The corporate media only care about Stormy Daniels latest accusation and the perpetual Russia collusion investigation that hasn't found anything in 2 years.
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Of course, most of those policies have actually been criticised by the media.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
That's a distinct possibility I would imagine, however why the majority would choose to vote for him given his voting history I have no idea. I do find myself wondering what his cabinet would look like, he does have charisma but I'm not sure he's one for mollifying the other factions so we could end up with a rogues gallery of right wing tories. Wouldn't that be nice, then we could have Latin lessons back in schools and we could all stop worrying about the NHS, as it won't exist anymore.
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I think you could say that of both BoJo and The Mogg more or less tbh! :D
 
The way Stockhausen portrays this makes me think he is confusing the terms and differentials of being psychopath and sociopath here.

Sociopathic behaviour is quite normal for business leaders and politicians.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
Oh how we all long for the halcyon days when Boris was mayor of London and therefore his ability to entirely decimate the Country was greatly diminished. We should all enjoy this period of relative quiet, it's going to be a lot worse when he's PM.
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Oh, say it ain’t so, what a choice, lunatic Corbyn, or louche Boris, where’s King Solomon when you need him?

StriderX said:
Grotesque, anachronistic, atavistic, disaster capitalist-lite, intentionally dumb, disingenuous, crude, overbearing, adulterating, chauvinistic pig. I could go on, but that'll do.

Oh also incredibly (in that he clearly cares about his career, regardless of what most people think of it), short-sighted if he thought his tenure as Foreign Secretary was anything other than May giving him the finger.
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Now, I’ve never claimed to be politically savvy, and maybe this will prove it, but I was terrified when Bojo became Foreign Secretary, and saw it as a misguided pat on the back from Mrs. May.
I, misguided myself perhaps, would have seen Ministry of Sport, Minister for Wales or Scotland (no disrespect to either country), as giving him the finger.

FortuitousFluke said:
A socio/psychopathic cabbie? Naaaah. :D
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I was gearing myself up to hit back, and Googled psychopathic traits for some guidance.
My initial thought then was, FF has got it almost right, maybe I should seek professional help.
Then I did a “Do you have psychopathic tendencies” quiz, and answered every question truthfully.
The results were, “You answered this quiz consistent with people who would not generally be considered a psychopath.”
Recalling some of my interactions with the public, both fares and other civilian drivers when I was driving a taxi, made me think that although I may have not been psychopathic, I may have been teetering that way.
 
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