https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnson-garden-centre-heckled_uk_5d1a04a8e4b07f6ca580da18

He may be the bookies favourite in the race to replace Theresa May in Number 10, but Boris Johnson received a less-than-warm welcome on the campaign trail in Kent.

Stopping off at a garden centre near Sevenoaks on Monday, the wannabe prime minister was probably expecting a nice chat with some OAPs.

Instead, the silver-haired crew had another kind of greeting for Johnson.

“Good luck with your preposterous ideas,” one woman shot at the former foreign secretary before adding: “Shame your brother’s not running.”

Meanwhile, a man branded Johnson “crazy” to his face. Ouch.

steve2470

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4. Public singing "You're a liar" at Boris Johnson

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Sat Sep 14, 2019, 04:55 AM

Sep 2019

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T_i_B

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13. That's at a retail park near where I live

Reply to steve2470 (Reply #4)

Sat Sep 14, 2019, 11:08 AM

Sep 2019

A nice idea in theory at Tory central office, but not in reality.

steve2470

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5. video montage of Boris being heckled

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Sat Sep 14, 2019, 05:03 AM

Sep 2019

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calimary

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10. SWEET!!!

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Sat Sep 14, 2019, 07:37 AM

Sep 2019

Well-deserved!

VERY well-deserved.

Thought you were gonna be Cock o’ the Walk, ‘eh, Boris?

Just lovely, isn’t it. The West is now crawling with Russians with ill intentions, and the Brits are now stuck with a PM named Boris...

bucolic_frolic

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6. Local control

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Sat Sep 14, 2019, 05:58 AM

Sep 2019

We are being ruined by national governments and global corporations. We need to go local with community banks, planning commissions, democracy.

3Hotdogs

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7. One good thing about BoJo. I'm old and I no longer give a shit about my appearance.

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Sat Sep 14, 2019, 06:40 AM

Sep 2019

I no longer comb my hair in the morning.

"This is my new Boris Johnson look."

People nod and go on.

Denzil_DC

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8. Johnson's speech in Rotherham didn't go well.

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Sat Sep 14, 2019, 06:50 AM

Sep 2019

He was heckled persistently by a guy with admirable vocal projection:

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BBC Politics ✔
@BBCPolitics

"Maybe get back to Parliament" - Boris Johnson heckled during speech in Rotherham

The PM was asked why he wasn't recalling MPs and "sorting out the mess you created?" https://bbc.in/2m9EvS1

[Twitter video]

The heckler was eventually ejected. But it wasn't over yet:

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James Felton ✔
@JimMFelton

Trip to the north going well is it Johnson?

[Twitter video]

Compere BBC presenter Steph McGovern, as Johnson left the stage to stony silence, then a smattering of very forced applause at her encouragement: "I'd just like to point out, I AM a girly swot, and I’m proud of it. Let’s see who’s in the job the longest."

McGovern later felt driven to apologize for her remarks:

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Steph McGovern ✔
@stephbreakfast

At a non BBC event I was hosting today, I made a light hearted remark after the Prime Minister’s speech. Sorry that this caused offence to some. That was absolutely not my intention.

Johnson, on the other hand, has yet to apologize for shafting the country, dismantling democracy, lying to the queen, lying in this very speech about having earlier said that the police spending £60 million on investigating historic child sex abuse cases was "Spaffing money up the wall", and generally being a lying git.