Bumbling Boris de-bagged on the box

[Brian Fantana]

What do you expect Boris to do? Come on and agree with everything that the government are doing?

I don't think he is alone in using taxpayers money for questionable means, but equally he is not alone in trying to deny it.

Yes Boris is not whiter than white but which politicians are?

They don't call it the "greasy pole" for nothing.

 

[clapham_gull]

You vote for the party not the PM.

I left the not out... which is exactly what I meant.

Call it a conspiracy theory, but to be honest - it's just the Tories jumping on the green bandwagon, which is incredibly easy when you are in opposition.

 

[NMH]

Funny that so many people voted for him then?

Just for the record have you ever stood for election, or are you one of those that voted for Brown to be PM.

Oh yeah, I've just remembered no-one voted for Brown to be PM.

Yes, I stood for election and was voted 'in'.

And to echo what's been stated above by someone else who seems to know better than you - people vote for the party, not the PM.
Does it ever read the leader's name on the voting form?

Now if you'll excuse me, I must go back to counting 'chads' from my re-election, and coaching Jeb on how to get our tyrannical World-atrocity kinder gentler family back leading the globe into oblivion.

Nice Mister GW Bush.

 

[clapham_gull]

It's quite obvious why Boris is there and how he got elected.

Most of Londoners have no idea what the Mayor does or why they need one.

But they do like having a figure head, so any "celebrity" has a fair chance of getting elected.

Last time round Ken Livingstone was that celebrity and voters found it amusing that they were voting in "the leader" that Maggie got rid of and two they didn't like the manner in which the labour party tried to stop him.

Brilliant - vote for Ken and have a go at Labour and Tories simultaneously.

Anyway - Tories were very clever this time, they couldn't chance a serious candidate (they saw what that did to Labour last time), so they went for the "popular figure".

And popular he is, was very funny on I've Got News For You after all.

Boris serves his purpose very well, one he reminded people that the Tories could take power somewhere and two he's useful to test Tory point of view on a small section of the country.

I suspect the Tories are a bit worried about the public reaction to them suddenly becoming the Green Party so are testing the water with Boris.

If public opinion wanted the airport, the party at large can always (as with any other policy) claim Boris is independent of them.

 

[The Spanish]

It's quite obvious why Boris is there and how he got elected.

Most of Londoners have no idea what the Mayor does or why they need one.

But they do like having a figure head, so any "celebrity" has a fair chance of getting elected.

Last time round Ken Livingstone was that celebrity and voters found it amusing that they were voting in "the leader" that Maggie got rid of and two they didn't like the manner in which the labour party tried to stop him.

Brilliant - vote for Ken and have a go at Labour and Tories simultaneously.

Anyway - Tories were very clever this time, they couldn't chance a serious candidate (they saw what that did to Labour last time), so they went for the "popular figure".

And popular he is, was very funny on I've Got News For You after all.

Boris serves his purpose very well, one he reminded people that the Tories could take power somewhere and two he's useful to test Tory point of view on a small section of the country.

I suspect the Tories are a bit worried about the public reaction to them suddenly becoming the Green Party so are testing the water with Boris.

If public opinion wanted the airport, the party at large can always (as with any other policy) claim Boris is independent of them.

cant argue with many of those but you are a bit harsh on some of the london electorate.

perhaps people in the outer boroughs (like the last time a London wide assembly collapsed, it was due - although perhaps more indirectly but still - to the voting of those finally f***ed off after putting up patiently with excesses and left wing idiocy whilst subsidising it massively) turned out in larger numbers than expected as Ken is perceived not to represent them (making pejorative comments like 'the white working class mafia' whilst pursuing his own selective brand of racism is just one example).

Some Londoners do not Love Ken, the Linda Bellos/Dave Spart school of London politics (even with an unwelcome but necessary New Labour catlick) , and are working class or lower middle class tories, it must grate, a sector of society not particularly attractive to many on here I would have thought, actually not rolling over and getting f***ed in the arse for once by the lunatics that are so prominent in London politics at all levels. But then not many on here have a London mayoral election vote.

 

[clapham_gull]

Sounds very cynical I know, but then again you've only got to spend a few minutes on google to see what Boris has said about the environment to be cynical.

Some telling comment about how when the economy is in a bad state, the environment comes second. I think related to Bush as it happens and Kyoto.

Hilarious he's now doing the complete opposite.

I was just as cynical about Blair and never voted for him. I have an awful suspicion that the Tories are using green issues to get elected and part of that is testing the water over Heathrow.

 

[looney]

wont be long to labour get turfed out of office, oh rejoice!!!

 

[clapham_gull]

wont be long to labour get turfed out of office, oh rejoice!!!

Is that a crossword clue ?

 

[The Spanish]

I havea green councillor for my ward. He is a f***ing moron. I would prefer a Dave Spart at least you know the score with those fuckers. The rise of green politics in inner London and in Brighton is no coincidence, seeing as they share a very similarly disproportionately high population of f***ing trendy idiots who think they are far more clever than they actually are.

Its a great demographic to harvest by saying the right thing on issues that most are at best ill informed on. Just the same as the BNP leafletting scare stories to the gullible and frightened, in principle (some thick c unt who probably votes green is no doubt itching to say 'oh but the greens dont encourage racial violence though', no need to spell that out thickies thats not the point).

The tories have not missed this and it would be negligent of them to. Labour pander to ethnic minority concerns and openly discuss racially exclusive selections in ethnic minority/majority wards and constituencies (currently illegal but watch this space). They are all at it.

 

[Clapham Old Mug]

Just watched Boris's interview, having read NMH's comments.
Yes, he does try to disarm people by pretending to bumble but the substance of what he said was fair enough.
Some day, we're going to have to ditch Heathrow and build an airport in a more sensible and safer place, and the Hong Kong example is a fair one. Shame no one made a better stand against it before terminals 4 and 5 were built - but that doesn't mean it's not an idiotic place to have a major airport.

 

[Don Quixote]

Funny that so many people voted for him then?

Just for the record have you ever stood for election, or are you one of those that voted for Brown to be PM.

Oh yeah, I've just remembered no-one voted for Brown to be PM.

what sort of weirdo has as their name tory boy... wait a minute what sort of weirdo has a fictional character as their name...

 

[El Presidente]

Oh yeah, I've just remembered no-one voted for Brown to be PM.

But then no one voted for Thatcher, Blair or Major to be PM either.

 

[El Presidente]

what sort of weirdo has as their name tory boy... wait a minute what sort of weirdo has a fictional character as their name...

Are you related to Don Quidong?

 

[The Spanish]

I think f***ing plenty of people voted forThatcher and Blair, and a good few for Major, in principle. The people who voted for their constituency MPs are probably a tiny minority. Do we really need Sixth Form lectures on the British electoral system, it proves or makes no real point apart from making people look smart alec-y, everyone knows the score.

 

[mona]

I havea green councillor for my ward. He is a f***ing moron. I would prefer a Dave Spart at least you know the score with those fuckers. The rise of green politics in inner London and in Brighton is no coincidence, seeing as they share a very similarly disproportionately high population of f***ing trendy idiots who think they are far more clever than they actually are.

Oh FFS stop talking such common sense!
Christ, all these ultra-cool greens with their nimby obsessions quietly flying off to Mexico, Cuba, Namibia and Vietnam etc!