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... Yet he's a sloppy buffoon who is wrong about the Chinese, wrong about gays and wrong about that currency inflator Dubya...
He's a supposed red-blooded Englishman who lives in London, yet he's only managed one notable potshot at Islam?!? This tells you where some of his support probably comes from (the bearded social conservatives of Finsbury Park?)
He'll use his mouth to get some attention in the short term, but he'll probably eventually follow Jessie the Body Ventura, another loudmouth, into polticial oblivion...
Here's some of his brilliance:
Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.
The Spectator 15 April 2000
Chinese cultural influence is virtually nil, and unlikely to increase... Indeed, high Chinese culture and art are almost all imitative of western forms: Chinese concert pianists are technically brilliant, but brilliant at Schubert and Rachmaninov. Chinese ballerinas dance to the scores of Diaghilev. The number of Chinese Nobel prizes won on home turf is zero, although there are of course legions of bright Chinese trying to escape to Stanford and Caltech... It is hard to think of a single Chinese sport at the Olympics, compared with umpteen invented by Britain, including ping-pong, I'll have you know, which originated at upper-class dinner tables and was first called whiff-whaff. The Chinese have a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard for it.
Have I Got Views for You p277
The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more... Consider Uganda, pearl of Africa, as an example of the British record. ... the British planted coffee and cotton and tobacco, and they were broadly right... If left to their own devices, the natives would rely on nothing but the instant carbohydrate gratification of the plantain. You never saw a place so abounding in bananas: great green barrel-sized bunches, off to be turned into matooke. Though this dish (basically fried banana) was greatly relished by Idi Amin, the colonists correctly saw that the export market was limited... The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.
Discussing his views on Africans and "Instant Carbohydrate Gratification" The Spectator 2 February 2002
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
Daily Telegraph 10 January 2002
The proposed ban on incitement to "religious hatred" make no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself.
Daily Telegraph 21 July 2005
Islam is a religion of peace. The problem is people who wrench out of context quotes from the holy book of Islam, the Koran, and use it to inspire evil in men's hearts. That is a fact that few serious people would deny and we need to tackle the extremists.
Mayoral Debate 21 April 2008
Not only did I want Bush to win, but we threw the entire weight of The Spectator behind him.
Have I Got Views for You p272
That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
Daily Telegraph 26 February 2004
I'm having Sunday lunch with my family. I'm vigorously campaigning, inculcating my children in the benefits of a Tory government.
"2-minute interview: Boris Johnson", The Guardian, 11 April 2005, p. 7.
I don't see why people are so snooty about Channel 5. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap dancing, and other related and vital subjects.
"What has the BBC come to? Toilets, that's what", Daily Telegraph, 14 March 2002, p. 29.
I forgot that to rely on a train, in Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.
"A horse is a safer bet than the trains", Daily Telegraph, 3 July 2003, p. 22.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
"What's wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?", Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24.
There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
"Face it: it's all your own fat fault", Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24. On the dangers of obesity.
I have not had an affair with Petronella. It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture. I am amazed people can write this drivel.
Simon Walters, "Boris, Petsy and a 'pyramid of piffle'", Mail on Sunday, 7 November 2004, p. 7. Denying accusations of his having an affair with Petronella Wyatt.
Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
Francis Elliott, "Boris casts his vote: 'Spectator' editor tells 'Desert Island Discs' he'll quit to spend more time with David Cameron", Independent on Sunday, 30 October 2005, p. 3.
He's a supposed red-blooded Englishman who lives in London, yet he's only managed one notable potshot at Islam?!? This tells you where some of his support probably comes from (the bearded social conservatives of Finsbury Park?)
He'll use his mouth to get some attention in the short term, but he'll probably eventually follow Jessie the Body Ventura, another loudmouth, into polticial oblivion...
Here's some of his brilliance:
Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.
The Spectator 15 April 2000
Chinese cultural influence is virtually nil, and unlikely to increase... Indeed, high Chinese culture and art are almost all imitative of western forms: Chinese concert pianists are technically brilliant, but brilliant at Schubert and Rachmaninov. Chinese ballerinas dance to the scores of Diaghilev. The number of Chinese Nobel prizes won on home turf is zero, although there are of course legions of bright Chinese trying to escape to Stanford and Caltech... It is hard to think of a single Chinese sport at the Olympics, compared with umpteen invented by Britain, including ping-pong, I'll have you know, which originated at upper-class dinner tables and was first called whiff-whaff. The Chinese have a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard for it.
Have I Got Views for You p277
The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more... Consider Uganda, pearl of Africa, as an example of the British record. ... the British planted coffee and cotton and tobacco, and they were broadly right... If left to their own devices, the natives would rely on nothing but the instant carbohydrate gratification of the plantain. You never saw a place so abounding in bananas: great green barrel-sized bunches, off to be turned into matooke. Though this dish (basically fried banana) was greatly relished by Idi Amin, the colonists correctly saw that the export market was limited... The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.
Discussing his views on Africans and "Instant Carbohydrate Gratification" The Spectator 2 February 2002
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
Daily Telegraph 10 January 2002
The proposed ban on incitement to "religious hatred" make no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself.
Daily Telegraph 21 July 2005
Islam is a religion of peace. The problem is people who wrench out of context quotes from the holy book of Islam, the Koran, and use it to inspire evil in men's hearts. That is a fact that few serious people would deny and we need to tackle the extremists.
Mayoral Debate 21 April 2008
Not only did I want Bush to win, but we threw the entire weight of The Spectator behind him.
Have I Got Views for You p272
That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
Daily Telegraph 26 February 2004
I'm having Sunday lunch with my family. I'm vigorously campaigning, inculcating my children in the benefits of a Tory government.
"2-minute interview: Boris Johnson", The Guardian, 11 April 2005, p. 7.
I don't see why people are so snooty about Channel 5. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap dancing, and other related and vital subjects.
"What has the BBC come to? Toilets, that's what", Daily Telegraph, 14 March 2002, p. 29.
I forgot that to rely on a train, in Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.
"A horse is a safer bet than the trains", Daily Telegraph, 3 July 2003, p. 22.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
"What's wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?", Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24.
There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
"Face it: it's all your own fat fault", Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24. On the dangers of obesity.
I have not had an affair with Petronella. It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture. I am amazed people can write this drivel.
Simon Walters, "Boris, Petsy and a 'pyramid of piffle'", Mail on Sunday, 7 November 2004, p. 7. Denying accusations of his having an affair with Petronella Wyatt.
Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
Francis Elliott, "Boris casts his vote: 'Spectator' editor tells 'Desert Island Discs' he'll quit to spend more time with David Cameron", Independent on Sunday, 30 October 2005, p. 3.
although a migrant to Oz, many years ago and thankfully so,I know that Londonistan would not have been to my liking.
Always suspicious of anyone who expresses a desire to be politician. Only good politician is a reluctant one
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