Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ April 14 2008, 3:17 PM BSTracist biggot? old-boys network ignoramus? attention seeking, plastic politician? poster-boy for right-wing apologists? fat faced twat?
I'll agree partially with the second one.
I don't think being fat is a very good reason to hate him though.
Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ April 14 2008, 3:17 PM BSTracist biggot? old-boys network ignoramus? attention seeking, plastic politician? poster-boy for right-wing apologists? fat faced twat?
What are you basing much of this on? If you read some of the collections of Boris' journalism he actually is a fairly non-judgemental libertarian. A Tory, no doubt, but actually more a a pre-Thatcherite Tory. A lot of the reasons Boris comes over a a buffoon is that his inconsistent views are based on a fundmental modesty.
Watching Boris is just funny. Reading Boris is both funny and thought-provoking.
We will have to agree to disagree I think. I, like many, find him repulsive.
Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ April 14 2008, 4:13 PM BSTWe will have to agree to disagree I think. I, like many, find him repulsive.
I find Ken Livingstone pretty repulsive. But I'll leave it there. 
Ken is a plain dealing bum hole. he gets drunk, brawls, insults people, and every area of London he has been allowed to handle he has excelled at. From Overground (any one remember what a mess that was), to COngestion Charge, to increased police levels (yes there are more), he's an innovator, leader, and politician with out parralel. So frankly I don't care if he's also an objectional so so and so, who looks like a penis tip with that ridiculous scarf.
I still remember him utterly undercutting the fuel protests by walking to work, and suggesting it'd be a good thing for more people to do.
Boris is hugely, funny, charismatic, and very intelligent. He's also a lazy, under acheiver, whose never done anything meaningful in his political career, ever.
He's a charming puppet, for a rather sinister Consrvative Party. A vote for him would be a very big nail in the coffin of British democracy.
As an ambassador, or head of the arts council yes. As mayor, we'll laugh now, but we won't be soon after.
Quote: Tim Walker @ April 14 2008, 4:16 PM BSTI find Ken Livingstone pretty repulsive. But I'll leave it there.
I find pretty much every labour MP repulsive so there you go lol.
Well said, Griffo!
(May I call you Griffo?)
It's astounding that on a site full of writers, someone such as boris johnson is getting such an easy ride.
Seriously now, is there more to the british flag thing on here than meets the eye? I have noticed a definite right-wing bias on quite a few of the threads...is this a covert tory/bnp site?
just to be safe, I'm going to tell ricky gervais, peter baynam (sp?) et al and get you lot blacklisted!
Hmm. It's quite an intriguing concept to say that because you find Boris very funny and charismatic, that magically makes you a big old racist.
How very prejudiced...
Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ April 14 2008, 7:32 PM BSTIt's astounding that on a site full of writers, someone such as boris johnson is getting such an easy ride.
Don't fear, some of us still consider him a complete tosser!
I completely understand why you might find his political views abhorrent. (I'm a liberal leftie myself.)
But I think you Tory-haters let that cloud your judgement. He's a very funny guy! I don't see how you can deny that, if you're honest.
I suppose as under achiever I mean under achiever as a politician. He dodges votes, never headed up an office, and alternates between sycophantically doing what his party tells him to do, and humiliating by accident.
That said I've always been quite impressed, by the story of him forgetting his lines for a Shakesperean play, and improving in perfect iambic pentameter.
I wouldn't trust Ken to feed my cat, and I don't have a cat. I would trust him to manage a 10 billion rail project.
I always felt politics were wasted on him. As a free wheeling critic, and wit he would be so much better. A sort of Conservative Ben Elton (before he was shit). As a stand up, and comic he could deflate Gordy in the way he deserves. The sight of him as a mayoral candidate is seen as a universally sad one (and yes that includes the right wing press).
He was in your panto I'm impressed.
Well I never, where do you actually live Windsor, Monmothshire, the Vale of Arden?
What Green and Pleasant Land do Tory Toffs alight upon.
My local one is commited anti war liberal Jeremy Corbyn.
Maybe I could put on a performance of Oh What a Lovely War?
or When the Wind Blows.
He could come up with a hilarious half an hour lecture on the damages of fascism.
