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On Thursday, Boris Johnson won the first Tory MPs' ballot contest to replace Theresa May as leader of the party - and become the new prime minister.

With Bo-Jo, aka the 'blonde haired buffoon' aka the 'Brexorcist', looking likely to be leading the country in the near future, we could see ourselves represented by a politician who, in 2017, likened the traditional 'Hongi' Maori greeting to a 'Glasgow kiss' in telling the media that it was "a beautiful introduction" that could be "misinterpreted in a Glasgow pub".

And with that in mind, we thought we'd reach out to the scrawler who struck a chord with people in the city and summed up the mood towards the former Foreign Secretary when he was appointed as such back in July of 2016 with this infamous bit of graffiti over in Partick.

Yes, the person who spray-painted 'Boris Johnson Is A Pure F***y' on the billboard behind the Dolphin pub and returned to write 'Boris Jonson Is Still A Pure F***y' a few weeks later after Glasgow City Council had painted over the original graffiti.

Much like Banksy himself, the graffiti artist has opted to stay anonymous - but speaking exclusively to Glasgow Live, they said: They told us: "I went out and did it in the middle of the night when I was steamin and my mate kept the edgy so I could spray-paint it. I just came home drunk one night and thought 'f*** it I'm going out to do that'.

(Image: REUTERS/Mary Turner/Pool)

"That was when it was in the run up to the election and he [Boris Johnson] was very much in the public eye at that point.

"If he is the Prime Minister what f****ng hope do we have. At the end of the day, Scotland didn't vote for Boris Johnson, didn't vote for Theresa May, didn't vote for this Tory Government and didn't vote for Brexit.

"He's the most complete establishment character that you are ever going to see."

Back in 2016, tweets showing the graffiti soon notched up thousands of likes and shares before an Instagram post by Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite and then Primal Scream (under the caption 'GLASWEGIAN RESPONSE') ensured the blunt piece of political commentary went viral - leaving the Partick scrawler surprised.

"I didn't expect anything like that. People were messaging me from everywhere. My sister lives in Canada and she told me that people there had even seen it," they said.

And while you'd think the viral success of the now infamous bit of graffiti might have seen the artist take on the mantle as the (political) voice and mood of the city, they were happy to sign off by lending their artistry to the banner for the inaugural 'A Cut Above' gig night at the Old Hairdressers.

The night, back in February of 2017, featured work on display by Glasgow based foreign artists as well as performances by Hairband, West Princes, Tongue Trap and The Pale Kids (R.I.P).

They said: "Why haven't I done anything since? I'm a drunkard with a spray-paint can, I'm not an artist. I had my moment in the f*****ng sun."

So does Glasgow still feel the same way about Bo-Jo three years later? Well, this seems to suggest so ...

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