伦敦和纽约 伦敦市长奥运加分 民众希望其出任首相

伦敦市长奥运加分 民众希望其出任首相  

Impressed by his success in hosting the Olympic Games
nearly three-quarters of Britons now want London mayor Boris Johnson to bee prime minister
according to a survey on Saturday.
The 48-year-old former member of parliament who once said he had as much chance of being prime minister as being decapitated by a frisbee or finding Elvis
has been widely acclaimed for his role in promoting the Games.
In the UK-wide survey conducted for Ladbrokes bookmakers
71 percent of respondents said they would like him to bee premier.
这项为立博博彩公司开展的全国性调查显示，71%的应答者称他们希望伯里斯成为首相。
Ladbrokes is now offering odds of 2/1 that he is re-elected mayor in four years' time and of 3/1 that he bees prime minister before 2030.
The blond
mop-haired mayor vigorously denies any interest in seeking the top job and has sought in vain to quell growing speculation that he might one day follow in the footsteps of fellow Conservative politician David Cameron.
"What do I have to do to make this silly-season story go away?" he wailed earlier this week. "How could anybody elect a prat (fool) who gets stuck in a zip wire?"
He was referring to footage of him on a 150 feet- (46-metre)-high wire at a publicity event last week when he was left dangling over a crowd of people for several minutes
clutching a Union Jack flag
as the pulley from which he was suspended got stuck.
Several political observers have noted that the self-deprecating Johnson is perhaps the only politician in Britain who could escape from such a mishap with his dignity intact.
To bee prime minister
Johnson would first have to stand for election to parliament again
having left to bee mayor in 2008. While few doubt his public appeal
many mentators say his tangled private life would be an obstacle to his ever being prime minister.
"Each blunder only seems to add to his charm
" said Ladbrokes' Alex Donohue in a statement. "His stock is at an all time high following the Games.
"The odds now clearly reflect the fact that he could soon be moving on up in the world of politics."
Ladbrokes believes the gaffe-prone mayor could still mit a faux pas during Sunday's closing ceremony and is offering 33/1 that he knocks over the mayor of Rio de Janeiro with the Olympic flag at the ceremonial handover to the next host.