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 07/05/2008, 1:34 PM
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Scaramouche
 
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I wonder if Londoners have yet woken up to being the first Turkeys in Britain to have voted for Christmas?
Apparently the first thing Davd Cameron did on hearing the news was to announce a Tory Central Office Task Force, to be drafted in to prevent new Mayor Johnson from making a Boris of it.
Wise move.
For the first time in over a decade, the Conservatives find themselves running an economy larger than many European states, with social issues on a par with Scotland.
For the rest of us it will be a useful chance to see how they cope, before Gordon hands them the whole country at the next election.
Not that we'll see much of Boris the Buffoon.
Cameron will put him in a box and sit on the lid.
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07/05/2008, 2:13 PM
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Jill
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Ok, I know it is not politics
But, wouldnt you think when he won that election, he could have combed his hair
He is representing London, for goodness sake
But I liked him on Have I got news for you.
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07/05/2008, 2:21 PM
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Scaramouche
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Re: It's a Big Load of Boris
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It's called autocue Jill.
It's not the same as having a brain.
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07/05/2008, 8:57 PM
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ChristopherE
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Well, I am happy enough to be a turkey after this latest election. Boris is a near enough neighbour for me to have been on morning nodding terms as he cycled to the Spectator over the last couple of years. He on the phone, I returning from the bottle bank foray clutching a copy of the Telegraph.What changes in Islington? (parse that).
The other gent has left a sour taste in the electorate's mouth.And will be not missed. I voted and then travelled to Norfolk for the peace and harmony of an internet free spell of gardening.
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08/05/2008, 10:29 PM
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Lynda
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRRYDVaXdaA
I have been alerted to a video on You Tube. It is of Jeremy Paxman trying 12 times to get a question out of Boris about his plans to re-introduce Routemaster buses (which, incidentally, are illegal according to EU due to emission grounds and lack of disabled access)
Lynda
Technology is great when it works.
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08/05/2008, 11:07 PM
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ChristopherE
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Goodness me , Paxo the bully seems the loser again.!
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09/05/2008, 11:01 AM
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Scaramouche
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The Paxo session with the three wannabe Mayors, did feature some pretty bad hectoring by Jeremy P, but it was still nonetheless another appalling performance by Boris
Even the most dyed-in -the-wool of Tories (and your wool appears to be hard-dyed Christopher) concede that Boris is a repeat accident waiting to happen again.
You may or may not like the simian Newt, or his politics, but he's a proven, effective administrator, a clever political operator, and few have felt able to accuse him of Plonkerdom.
I don't think you've got much to celebrate here Chistopher.
If Johnson makes a high profile Boris off this, it could even cost Cameron the next election - especially were that to be a close-run affair. Westminster insiders certainly believe that Cameron fears so.
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09/05/2008, 11:35 AM
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ChristopherE
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Boris did manage to throw in a word that I have never found in the Jack and Jill dictionary. As for celebrations... that is all Ken knew how to do. Let's celebrate the Russians in Trafalgar Square, let's put up posters all over London celebrating the Mayor, let's celebrate this or that and here is a load of your cash to do it with!
Let us not forget the Kiley years. ( No not that one, down Christopher).
London does not need another level of authority, even if it was created to annoy any government of the day.I certainly voted against such a proposal many years ago.So let us have one with a bit of charm, something lacking in the journo bashing late mayor.
Dyed in the wool? . Gosh, you have got me there.
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09/05/2008, 1:56 PM
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Harry Remmington Mk II
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All the above highlights the problem with elected democracy in this country (And probably elsewhere)
The hapless votors had the choice of a deeply unattractive candidate with well-proven blindness to corruption and, allegedly, an alcohol problem, or an apparent clown with a messy personal life.
Even having the third candidate, whoever it was, didn't help because there was some form of second preference vote to be registered.
Time will tell. I doubt the Londoners will be much worse off.
Harry
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09/05/2008, 2:07 PM
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Scaramouche
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 Harry Remmington Mk II wrote: |
... a deeply unattractive candidate with well-proven blindness to corruption and, allegedly, an alcohol problem, or an apparent clown with a messy personal life.
Harry
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..well I can't blame you for not finding Ken attractive Harry - he doesn't exactly rock my boat either - but if the rest of your comments are valid then the Evening Standard spent three years at team strength dogging the Newt's every move, and if they couldn't make anything stick, I don't really see why you should get away with the conjecture?
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09/05/2008, 2:53 PM
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ChristopherE
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Dogging the Newt. I like it
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09/05/2008, 3:01 PM
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Glass
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| ChristopherE wrote: | Dogging the Newt. I like it
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Is that like Muffin the Mule? I heard you could get three years for that!
Glass
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09/05/2008, 3:48 PM
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ChristopherE
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