There's a section of society that will be appalled by the Boris/Carrie shouting incident - described elsewhere in this thread as "the blue-rinse brigade".
There's also a significantly larger section of society that loves the idea of a passionate, volatile relationship and even (within reasonable limits) a moderately violent relationship in which the occasional moderate violence is by no means always one-way.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? Den and Angie Watts? Whether in real life or in fiction, it's the stuff that many people's erotic dreams are made of. I'm not suggesting Boris and Carrie knock each other about but their recent altercation will, in any event, have humanised them to millions of people who previously failed to realise that they are in many important respects every bit as normal as the rest of us.
160,000 conservatives are going to vote for a new party leader and very few of those voters have blue-rinsed hair.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Boris Johnson is not the bumbling buffoon he pretends to be. When he becomes Prime Minister he will simultaneously become a force to be reckoned with.
Out of all the original candidates for the Tory leadership, Boris is the only one who is an exciting prospect. More importantly, he's the only one who isn't a dreadfully dull and dismally boring prospect.
You may love him or you may hate him but you're almost certainly not indifferent to him.
Interesting times lie ahead.
