Originally Posted by demonrail666

Boris is hardly a Sarkozy or a Bush. These people have serious political agendas. Boris is a buffoon, basically, which, while not an ideal quality for a politician, means he's unlikely to initiate riots in his own country or mass invasions of other people's.

I'm not surprised it's happened. Ken had alienated enough grass-roots voters during his two terms to make anything other than a conservative victory quite likely.