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This answer should not be read as an endorsement for any party that opposes Boris Johnson and the Conservatives. If I was answering for Nicola Sturgeon, you can bet that I’d have a strong word or two for her as well.I can only speak on behalf of myself as a Scot. We all have our own opinions!While I am far from a Conservative, I highly respect some of their number. Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative sect’s gay and female leader, utterly commands said respect, as a wonderful speaker and a fiercely clever politician. I don’t agree with Conservative values, but I hold her in good esteem. Late last year, twenty-one Conservative MPs in Westminster refused to support the government’s proposals to table a no-deal Brexit; among whom, the former contender for the Prime Minister’s position Rory Stewart.That’s conservatism I can respect, if not necessarily agree with. Stewart has essentially thrown away his entire career to stop abuses of power from within his own party. Whatever else the man has done, I’ll be grateful for his contribution.I’m a very big believer in praise where praise is due, if it’s not clear from the above. I don’t need to agree with someone’s politics to give them praise where it’s deserved. Many Scots employ this; even though a majority of the country voted against Scottish independence in 2014, Nicola Sturgeon has garnered support even among her skeptics for her handling of COVID-19. It’s not been perfect, but she’s showing a good capacity to lead in times of such a crisis. You don’t need to want or even support Scottish independence to note that she’s making the best of a bad situation, whatever her other numerous failures may be.So, how does Boris Johnson stack up for me, as a Scottish person?I won’t lie, he doesn’t do very well.Now, I’m far from a single-issue voter, but my priority in any election and support for a politician is in their desire to uphold human dignity and rights. I’m not an American-style “MAH FREEDOMS” type; I recognise that rights can be weighed. Indeed, that is essential for a democratic society to thrive, and I am utterly merciless in condemning groups like Neo-Nazis and MGTOW who want to weaponise free speech to attack the vulnerable in society. Sometimes, limiting rights actually protects them.As such, Boris Johnson’s social context will be my “first impression”, so to speak.We’ve seen him at Pride parades: great! He’s also referred to gay people as “bum boys”, and his government has stood in the way of trans people being able to self-identify with their gender in the mental sphere. He has supported gay marriage, but he has also called Labour’s proposals to raise awareness of gay rights in schools an “appalling agenda” on the sole basis of their “teaching homosexuality”, and he questioned whether gay marriage would allow people to marry dogs. He says the right things for supporting the LGBT+ community nowadays, and I thank him for doing that and showing up. But you cannot claim that you support on one hand and then take away from their dignity on the other.His approach to international affairs is shocking; his visit to Myanmar saw him quoting Rudyard Kipling in reference to times of British colonialism, only for an aide to give him the diplomatic equivalent to a shove in the ribs just to shut him up before he could run his mouth. His comments about a British-Iranian reporter called Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe have often been cited as part of the reason for her incarceration, claiming that she was there to train journalists. She’s still in jail, by the way. He called the Turkish President Erdoğan a “wankerer” in a poem; true enough, he did this to stop the prosecution of a German comedian, but that is not behaviour befitting a politician (especially not one who would go on to become the British Foreign Secretary only months later).His involvement in the Leave campaign for Brexit pitted Britain against almost every other country in the European Union, weakening our goodwill among the countries who now essentially hold British balls in a European vice (remember that Scots wanted to remain in the EU, which was a big reason for us not leaving the UK, so forgive us for feeling back-stabbed by the entire Leave campaign!). Boris Johnson was also accused by former Labour MP Ian Lucas of knowing about Leave’s illegal campaign overspending and sitting on the information, and Boris has also been accused of covering up Russian interference in the referendum, after his government refused to clear the publication of a report examining Russian infiltration in British politics.The report may not hold water, but then again, it might have.Boris’ government has handed control of the foreign aid budget to the Foreign Office as opposed to the independent body that formerly controlled it. This will see the return of diplomatic disasters as the notorious Pergau Dam scandal in Malaysia under Thatcher, which saw aid funds being diverted to the damn in exchange for a lucrative arms deal with the Malaysian government. And speaking of arms deals (don’t even get me started on Trident submarines being stuck in Faslane, which saw twelve radioactive leaks in nine years by 2009, which is a key tenet of Scottish hatred for Conservatives overall), Boris as Foreign Secretary in 2016 recommended the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia in their assault on Yemen, with his memo on the issue explicitly disregarding the need to consider the resultant (and, to most, implicit) international humanitarian violations.According to The London Economic:As Foreign Secretary, Johnson licensed bombs two days after Saudi forces destroyed a food factory killing 14 people. And a day before a school was bombed, killing 10 children. Two months later, Saudi forces bombed a funeral killing 140 people. In the weeks that followed, Johnson signed another arms transfers for bombs… Government statistics show that during his tenure as Foreign Secretary, Johnson approved £1.2 million worth of arms sales to Saudi Arabia.Yemen is the worst humanitarian crisis in the current world.And Boris Johnson washed his hands in their blood.Don’t talk to me about how he saved your job during the coronavirus, or how he’s taking the country through a dark period and needs us all to rally because he’s doing his best. I despise Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine, his racist attitudes, his use of the Blacks and Tans in Ireland. If I am going to lambaste the man who fought against Adolf Hitler for his terrible social values, you can bet your fucking last penny that I’m gonna do the same for Churchill-Lite, who can barely uphold the right of Muslim women to wear burkhas without sniping at them and calling them “letterboxes”, who thinks that the real tragedy of colonialism in Africa is that it ended (as noted in a Spectator article from 2002):The continent [of Africa]… is not a blot upon our conscience. The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more.His proroguing of Parliament, founded on lies to the Queen to secure, was entirely underhanded and vicious. It took the Supreme Court to tell him to reinstate Parliament and to allow them their proper role in reviewing his Brexit deals; the Supreme Court stopped short of calling him a liar (though the Scottish High Court did not hold back on that front), but it’s writ large. And on Brexit, I don’t fully trust any politician with the process after David Cameron and Theresa May mishandled the matter so badly on the issue before him, but I especially mistrust the likes of Boris Johnson.Especially when the Conservative manifesto for the 2019 election had this to say after the proroguing scandal:After Brexit we also need to look at the broader aspects of our constitution: the relationship between the Government, Parliament and the courts; the functioning of the Royal Prerogative; the role of the House of Lords; and access to justice for ordinary people.For instance, I don’t think that he’s got any interest in safeguarding the National Health Service from the likes of President Trump, and the prospect of a representative of the party that has famously been chipping away at the NHS since its inception dealing with the country’s assets is a scary one. If you think that his party values the NHS, remember this; the Conservatives voted down an amendment (superfluous as it might have been) called Clause 17 to ringfence the NHS from trade deals, and that they voted against giving NHS nurses a pay rise in 2017 despite expecting them to put their lives on the line to care for patients during COVID-19. Student nurses have also been left out to dry after their immensely brave contributions to combating the virus, their contracts having been terminated back in June. I’ll ask you kindly not to bullshit me about the fake Tory interest in the NHS; other parties have mishandled our beloved institution, but “contempt” doesn’t quite do the current Tory attitude to the NHS justice.He’ll clap for the NHS during the showboating nonsense displays that Britain briefly indulged in to show their thanks (rather than signing petitions or pressuring the government to treat their health staff with some goddamned respect for once), but then he’ll handwave away the complaints that his staff (like Dominic Cummings) are breaching quarantine for the sake of a 250-mile drive and an eye-test. We don’t get to say “oops” if we lose the NHS on the strength of Boris’ promises. And remember, the Tories sold off Plasma Resources UK (the UK’s state-owned plasma supplier) to Bain Capital for £230m, who then sold it to a Chinese firm for £820m. There are arguments that this is how these firms operate, but ever heard of “laying the groundwork”? Moreover, the UK under Boris sent 67,000 COVID-19 tests to the US (about 29,500 of which were returned as void), and Matt Hancock’s office censored a Public Health England report for materials on BAME patients. The health services of Britain are not safe under Boris or his Cabinet as it is under his ineffective leadership, which would sell the NHS for a quick quid.What about animal rights? Boris has talked about his love of hunting, and his voting record makes clear that he will allow this love to affect the welfare of the animals he would hunt. He has referred to the “semi-sexual relation with the horse” and the “military-style pleasure” of moving with a unit in hunting (kinda blows his problem with men marrying dogs into question, no?). Because of this strange eroticism in his hunting, he is perfectly content to keep a barbaric practice alive. Kill animals to eat, that’s a given unless you have philosophical or health convictions against doing so, but hunting them for no purpose is sheer vulgarity. He even urged hunters to break the laws on hunting and to continue the sport while he was an MP, showing how little respect he has for British laws despite his wish to control them. It’s an insane dichotomy to be caught in, but this is the world.However, while his stance on assisted dying is one that I disagree with, that’s such a contentious issue that I’m not going to hold that against him. His definition of human dignity may diverge from mines, and I will respect that analysis.Boris has voted to protect hereditary peers in the House of Lords, which I could not agree less with, and I will give that less respect than I do to his stance on the right to die. He voted in favour of having fewer elected MPs, but against reducing the number of members of the House of Lords. The concept of hereditary power is fundamentally anti-democratic; the only reason I tolerate the presence of a Royal family in Britain is that they’re all bark and no bite in terms of their political power, and even then I’m wary of them after Prince Charles’ controversial “Black Spider Memos”. Boris has consistently denied further devolution to the Scottish and Welsh assemblies, and he and his predecessors have rejected further calls for independence referendums; I don’t agree with the prospect of holding referendums until you get the answer you want, but flat rejections of the concept runs against the international right of peoples to self-determine. If Catalonians come under this concept in accordance with UN advisor Alfred de Zayas, then Scots and Welsh people should be afforded that same right in less restrictive Parliamentary language.He’s pretty consistently against voter ID laws, which I’m pleased about; the whole concept reeks of anti-democratic sentiment. He’s sadly keen on mass surveillance and retention of people’s internet access, though. This idea of “if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide” is sinister at best. We need to monitor criminals, but not the entire populace, most of whom are a) innocent and b) have a European and internationally-assured right to their privacy. And speaking of the European sphere, the Conservative Investigatory Powers Act of 2016 was stricken down by the Court of Justice of the European Union. This law, also known as the Snoopers’ Charter (which Boris supported “in principle”), was declared as being incompatible with EU law and sent back for revision. Even then, the Liberty group who raised the concerns on the Snoopers’ Charter say that the revisions do not go far enough to protect personal rights. Now, the Charter was made before Boris became the Prime Minister, but his voting record shows eagerness for surveillance; make no mistake, he’s gonna have a field day once we’re no longer beholden to the EU and its dastardly plan to protect British citizens.Boris is no friend to the environment, either; he voted against Clause 8 of an Energy Bill in 2016 that looked to set a decarbonisation target for the UK within six months of June 2016 and to review it annually thereafter. There were claims that this ambitious target of the May administration (one thing I will respect Theresa May for was this intiative!) would cost up to £1tn to implement, but here’s a fun, novel prospect to make sure that we’re not all eating carbon by 2050; TAX THE WEALTH OF THE RICH AT PROPORTIONATE RATES TO GET THAT BREAD AND STOP MAKING BULLSHIT EXCUSES FOR THIS AND OTHER ASSORTED AUSTERITY MEASURES, YOU UTTERLY RIDICULOUS, EVIL MUPPETS.And if you want my personal views as a Scot, he approved the publication of this poem in The Spectator, of which he was the editor in 2004:Friendly Fire, by James MichieThe Scotch — What a verminous race!Canny, pushy, chippy, they’re all over the place,Battering us off with false bonhomiePolluting our stock,Undermining our economy.Down with sandy hair and knobbly knees!Suppress the tartan dwarves and the Wee Frees!Ban the kilt, the skean-dhu and the sporranAs provocative, offensively foreign!It’s time Hadrian’s Wall was refortifiedTo pen them in a ghetto on the other side.I would go further. The nationDeserves not merely isolationBut comprehensive extermination.We must not flinch from a solution.(I await legal prosecution.)Away and motherfuck yourself, my love.I’m not opposed to Conservatives as a flat rate. I have to take their leaderships on their own merits, and Boris is at least a public ally to LGB people (minus the T for the above reasons). He’s now embarking on a battle against British obesity, though it must be remembered that he is only doing so after his own brush with death in the opening salvos of the British war on COVID-19 (which he had previously dithered on with a nonsensical “herd immunity” proposal and thus delayed the response to saving lives and receiving desperately-needed PPE supplies from a European initiative).His Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is also unrolling an “Eat Out to Help Out” routine which is going to see people flocking to eat more! McDonalds is going to be taking part in this! And not just more; say they all order the most unhealthy things on the menus with the EOtHO campaign? It’s free real estate! And on Sunak’s proposals, the self-employed lost out on the government’s supposed plans to help bail them and businesses out of economic ruin; one of my best friends could not participate in the scheme because it was intimated to her too late, and this is one of the most organised people I’ve ever met! She has an agenda for Zoom social calls! There’s more chance of a Dalek knocking on my door than her not being on the ball!So what do I think of Boris Johnson as a Scottish person?He is a dangerous, vile, bigoted clown, with too much power and no clothes. He cannot read a room to save his life, he makes our position on the world stage so much harder to navigate, and his promises are about as worthwhile as a chocolate teapot. He is not somebody that can be trusted with even a little bit of political power, let alone the highest position in all of British politics.I was once against Scottish independence with all of my heart. As the years went on, I began to question that stance more and more. For a larger breakdown of that issue, I direct you to this answer here, which has even more content on Boris:Andrew Drury Rayner's answer to Given the 2019 electoral result, do you now support Scottish independence?Now I’m not questioning it.