A Boris Johnson Gem
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Iain328

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14,976 posts

235 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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"This budget is substantially unchanged and is what I believe is demanded by the times," said the mayor. "London faces a recession exacerbated by government wastefulness and in particular by the level of indebtedness.

"We now have the fresh challenge of government ministers asserting that this is going to be the worst recession in 100 years. I do not believe that to be true and I believe that Ed Balls is aptly named." laughlaugh

abarth130

257 posts

229 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Boris for PM!

G'kar

3,728 posts

215 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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clap

The Moose

23,672 posts

238 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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What a ledgend!!!

LOL

Sciroccology

29,908 posts

259 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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What does "exacerbate" mean?

Edited by Sciroccology on Wednesday 11th February 15:27

Pork

9,455 posts

263 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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He comes across like a bit of a buffoon, but I cant help but like him, I think he's great.

He said a classic the other day - he was being questioned by Kieth Vaz in Parliament about the arrest of Damian Green and the conversation went something like this....

BoJo: "I was talking to Damian...sorry, Mr Green on my mobile phone blah blah blah.."
KV: "Was this in your office"
Bojo: "yes"
KV: "Was Mr Green with you at the time?"
Bojo: "I see little point in using my mobile phone if he was with me at the time"

Come on Vaz, stay in the room, son.

rofl

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

284 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Go, Boris....roflclap

C8PPO

20,836 posts

232 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Gotta love him!

clonmult

10,529 posts

238 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Pork said:
He comes across like a bit of a buffoon, but I cant help but like him, I think he's great.

He said a classic the other day - he was being questioned by Kieth Vaz in Parliament about the arrest of Damian Green and the conversation went something like this....

BoJo: "I was talking to Damian...sorry, Mr Green on my mobile phone blah blah blah.."
KV: "Was this in your office"
Bojo: "yes"
KV: "Was Mr Green with you at the time?"
Bojo: "I see little point in using my mobile phone if he was with me at the time"

Come on Vaz, stay in the room, son.

rofl
Thats a cracker.

Love the way he just says it as it is!

Invisible man

39,731 posts

313 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Bugger me, he's like a breath of fresh air, how on earth did he become a Politician?

robinhood21

31,108 posts

261 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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C8PPO said:
Gotta love him!
yes Could do with a few more Boris's me thinks..

Greenie

1,850 posts

270 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Invisible man said:
Bugger me, he's like a breath of fresh air, how on earth did he become a Politician?
I believe it was entirely down to PH's "Boris for PM" campaign.

ianash

3,286 posts

212 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Whilst Boris may choose to play the buffoon, he is in fact an extremely clever and astute politicion.












Edited by ianash on Wednesday 11th February 15:42

JRM

2,065 posts

261 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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What legend, BoJO and PM with Ken Clarke in the cabinet, that would sort a few people out

FourWheelDrift

92,233 posts

313 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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We all know about Liverpool, but here is upsetting Portsmouth and Papua New Guinea

Boris on Portsmouth said:
"one of the most depressed towns in Southern England, a place that is arguably too full of drugs, obesity, underachievement and Labour MPs"
Boris on Papua New Guinea said:
a 2006 column likening Tory leadership disputes to "Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing" was criticised in Papua New Guinea. The nation's High Commissioner invited him to visit the country and see for himself, while remarking that his comments might mean he was refused a visa. Johnson suggested he would add Papua New Guinea to his global apology itinerary, and said he was sure the people there "lived lives of blameless bourgeois domesticity like the rest of us". His defence was conclusive: "My remarks were inspired by a Time Life book I have which does indeed show relatively recent photos of Papua New Guinean tribes engaged in warfare, and I'm fairly certain that cannibalism was involved."
hehe

Pork

9,455 posts

263 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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ianash said:
Whilst Boris may choose to play the bufoon, he is in fact an extremely clever and astute politition.
Agreed. I hope he stays as charmingly straight talking as he appears. He's be caught doing something contrary to what he's advising (wearing a cycle helmet for example) and basically says "yep, I'm in the wrong", not putting some huge amount of spin on it to make it look OK.

Go BoJo.

Gunny Sergeant D

2,248 posts

269 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Pork said:
He comes across like a bit of a buffoon, but I cant help but like him, I think he's great.

He said a classic the other day - he was being questioned by Kieth Vaz in Parliament about the arrest of Damian Green and the conversation went something like this....

BoJo: "I was talking to Damian...sorry, Mr Green on my mobile phone blah blah blah.."
KV: "Was this in your office"
Bojo: "yes"
KV: "Was Mr Green with you at the time?"
Bojo: "I see little point in using my mobile phone if he was with me at the time"

Come on Vaz, stay in the room, son.

rofl
Keith Vaz - thick as sh¦t. I've watched his career, what an absolute numpty.


Go BoJo

oilandwater

1,427 posts

219 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Boris for PM.

Gunny Sergeant D

2,248 posts

269 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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oilandwater said:
Boris for PM.
15 years time, he probably will be.

Coco H

4,237 posts

266 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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He is so cute - just like an overexcited labrador