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"Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts”
by SeasideMan @ 03/05/08 - 12:25:01

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The words of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson who is now the Mayor of London. He said that on the Tory campaign in 2004 and looked a bit of a berk, but he was making a rather clever joke about promises that politicians make in order to win votes, and did so in a way guaranteed to cause both amusement and publicity. On this campaign he made no mistakes, and beat Ken Livingstone by a healthy majority of over 100,000.

Whilst it might seem dubious to have our capital city represented by someone with a long history of embarrassing gaffes, at least he is an interesting character rather than your typical grey politician, and he is undoubtedly very intelligent. And I confess, even though I don’t share his politics, I can’t help liking the man. He’s both funny and interesting. I also like the fact that when he makes mistakes (as he often does) he apologizes for them.

As with many very smart people, he swings between raging success and catastrophic failure: the middle-ground is something he’s unfamiliar with. I just hope he carries out his new very important job with much more success than failure.

Cheers, Tom.

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jenrayjenray pro
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03/05/08 @ 20:49

So do I!!! That's our capital city he's running now...good grief...we've got four years of seeing him setting out his right wing agenda...and I hope the people like it because they can't throw him out for a damned long time! Big hugs....

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
03/05/08 @ 20:54

I find it a little disturbing that someone with such a history of appalling gaffes (such as when he called the people of Papua New Guinea "cannibals and chief-killers) should now be the face of London that is projected to the world. I just hope that the importance of his position makes him use the talents he undoubtedly has to their maximum, to do a good job and avoid catastrophe.

I dislike his extreme right-wing world-view, but I don't think that can have too much impact on the people of London. I hope not anyway.

Cheers, Tom.

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jenrayjenray pro
http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
03/05/08 @ 22:18

Check out some of his plans!! And as the people of London are actually made up of the people of the world, I would say his views are going to have a big impact on them...I think it's a disaster...like Bush being the face of the USA...we now have Boris as the face of London...everybody keeps saying he's clever, but even on What's my Line, my hairdresser said yesterday he's absolutely hopeless...:-/ Poor London...big hugs...

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
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06/05/08 @ 16:43

He can't do any worse than Ken, but the real reason I was posting here was to say what a fantastic moody photo! We have a painting of watery sunlight on Cornish slate roofs after a storm, very reminiscent of this, but not as colourful.

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SeasideManSeasideMan pro
06/05/08 @ 17:00

Thanks, it really was a stunnig sight with black clouds behind the houses and bright sun in front. We get that here a lot, but not normally quite as vividly as this.

London is such a melting pot of different peoples and cultures and such a huge centre for trade and leisure that getting everything just right as mayor is an almost impossible job. I hope Boris does a good job, but I can't help but suspect he'll alienate even more people than Ken has and make some monumental blunders.

Tom.

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