A fashion designer - heh.
I was kind of hoping Jeremy Clarkson would run. That I would pay to watch.
The results aren't official, but the bookies are already paying out on Borris Johnson.
Posted at 2008-05-02 09:54:48 [PermaLink]Typical left-wing attitude. Democracy is good, unless my candidate loses.
Posted at 2008-05-02 11:12:41 [PermaLink]He kinda-sorta looks like David Miller in that picture. Must be the floppy hair.
Posted at 2008-05-02 12:02:07 [PermaLink]Dave Ruddell:
I think Boris looks more like Donald Trump (younger) wearing a blonde Three Stooges wig.
Further to Bruce's comment:
"Boris Johnson poised to become London Mayor as Tories seal local election success"
"Senior Conservative sources said they would be “gobsmacked” if Mr Johnson did not win the mayoral contest and even Downing Street aides appear to have conceded that Ken Livingstone has lost."
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So much for Livingstone's plan to celebrate the Cuban Revolution next year.
Democracy does work.
From the Guardian's top 10 reasons why "Red" Ken lost the election:
"4. The Evening Standard
The allegations against Livingstone were not, on their own, necessarily fatal. But they were pursued aggressively by the Evening Standard, London's monopoly paid-for evening paper, which published a relentless stream of anti-Livingstone stories. Media studies students will no doubt spend many hours investigating the exact impact this had, but one thing is certain: it didn't help."
So, when the press does its job against one of the left's sweethearts this is a bad thing. I don't know whether to laugh or throw up.
How does having Boris elected as mayor "expose democracy as a sham"? Stick to your knitting, Viv.
Posted at 2008-05-02 15:16:48 [PermaLink]"It just exposes democracy as a sham, especially if people don't vote for Ken - he's the best thing in politics."
And in a properly-run state, Ken wouldn't have to rely on votes to stay in power!
And speaking of democracy (or maybe not):
""This is like the March on Rome in 1922," one shadow minister said as Johnson inched towards victory. Johnson will not march into London's City Hall surrounded by blackshirts in the manner of Benito Mussolini's supporters when they staged their coup d'état in 1920s Italy. But the lighthearted reference to 1922 gave a taste of the high Tory spirits."
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I shall just let that extraordinary paragraph stand by itself, except to note that the ideological seepage I've been on about for a few months appears to have turned into a torrent.
Any name for this 'shadow minister'? If not how can we know that this isn't a made up quote by pissed off journalists?
Posted at 2008-05-03 07:37:20 [PermaLink]An ideological seepage turning into a torrent? Based on a single quote so obviously lampooning the retard Left's (but I repeat myself) penchant for labeling anything even remotely right-wing as fascist that only a hyperventilating ninny wouldn't get it? Somebody's getting the vapours over nothing, as usual.
Posted at 2008-05-03 08:57:22 [PermaLink]That quote's from the Guardian. Need I say more?
Posted at 2008-05-03 10:48:34 [PermaLink]Theme song for the hirsute Mr Johnson:
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