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The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson

Politics + Media 101

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Boris Johnson's Career and the Olympic Bid

Boris's whole career has been about theatrics, rather than substance and policy. He created the opportunity for boris to attach himself in the symbolism of the nation. The olympic bid was carried out under a previous ma livingstone. But boris so happened to be in office when the olympics being held. And it was luck or coincidence that gave him the opportunity to attach himself to that moment of national symbolism. Another thing that i want to point out from your narrative there is the idea that boris gott bregs it done. And i think that this is both true and false.

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