Ken vs. Boris: It's So On

Cameron will be pulling Boris's strings. He ain't gonna let the little fucker do anything that isn't Tory HQ approved.

It's not Cameron, it's Lynette Crosbie, who I am now convinced is an actual full-scale Machiavelli/Alastair Campbell style political genius by managing to get Boris through the entire campaign without him declaring war on Guam or something.

*Lynton Crosby

I was thinking of the wife from One Foot In The Grave

FAKE BORIS.

What I'm going to miss most about Ken is that he was one of the few impressions that Rory Bremner can still do.

That's not what I'm going to miss most.

Not even sure I've seen that impression.

It's true, though, that RB's routines often seem to become people that the audience nervously doesn't really recognize. And his US accents are poor, except perhaps for Bill Clinton.

But yeah, obviously Tory central office is going to be much more hands-on with Boris than Labour were with Ken. I get the opinion Ken was pretty much left to get on with it because he was already seen as disconnected from the government, Cameron's got a brand identity to protect.

Seen as disconnected by the government or by voters?

(Impossible to answer, praps. I'm just wondering aloud.)

What I'm going to miss most about Ken is that he was one of the few impressions that Rory Bremner can still do.

No-one's managed Cameron yet, I know he's bland but he can't be that difficult to impersonate

F'real, every time I see Bremner doing Cameron I think he's doing Melvyn Bragg.

Can't believe he's still doing John Cole, 95 years after he retired.

Oh hang on, he's trying to do Boris.

John Cale? What's his Lou like?

I never knew until about a year ago that Lucas and Walliams' hilarious "Lou and Andy" skits are based on Lou Reed and Andy Warhol.

First manifesto promise broken: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23482560-details/Tube+unions+say+no+to+a+no-strike+deal/article.do

This isn't going well, and it's only day three.

also Dom, think at least one of them is gay.

Still no word on whether pigs have flown yet tho (xp)

The very idea of Boris trying to deal with the RMT is hilarious. But then again my commute doesn't involve me having to get the Tube - brace yourselves for a lot of strike action :/

he wants to make a no strike deal or something according to his pledges

I was wondering about this before the election, as the standard was running scare-posters about possible strikes - could the unions make Boris's life a misery, if they so wanted?

How can you possibly justify a no-strike deal? It's nonsense.

RMT have categorically said they won't sign a no strike deal.

They're just some blokes who drive trains, they're not the friggin' armed forces or whatever

I don't think the idea is hilarious at all. I just think it's horrific, like everything else about him.

Having been uncharacteristically sombre of late under the close watch of his media minders, the newly elected mayor could not resist making a series of quips during his first address to all City Hall staff. He himself, Mr Johnson reassured them, was no more a “crazed Thatcherite neocon” than his rival Ken Livingstone was a “Socialist who would hang the last 4x4 driver off the guts of the last non-dom”.

His door was always open, he said, and staff should address him by his first name “without fear of being fined £5 by Tessa Jowell”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3883064.ece

Boris, in a real dick move, is also going to start charging LPG-powered cars the full congestion charge.

that was already part of ken's plan afaik james

he can't even come up with his own ideas. WHAT A DICK.

Going back to the BNP. Their only councillor in my area is for a small, almost totally white, village. Not working class by any stretch, although perhaps you might call some of them aspirational ex-working class.

Oh yeah, and she was on "Airline", so probably people just liked the celebrity aspect.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/jan/13/transport.environment

Don't LPG cars cause congestion then?

My thoughts exactly, they also aren't that more efficient.

I think Ken's change would have qualified most LPG cars for a 100% discount when the change comes in because of their low emissions, but now Boris is going to scrap that, too.

i have a friend with an lpg car who i'm seeing tomorrow and i'll ask him what's up

At least shows some consistency.

LPG cars and vans were exempted, but the rules were going to be chaged so that the only exemptions would be for cars emitting under 120g/km of CO2 whatever the fuel.

If the charge is there to discourage people from driving into the centre, then it really shouldn't make much difference if you have somewhat lower emissions than somebody else's car.

i don't have a prob w/the congestions charge being a stealth low-emission incentive

you have to put up a severe discouragement for some people, but not all, to drive; who?

even better would be public transport that was the envy of private car drivers but heh like that's going to happen.

the envy of private car drivers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1198057774/img/1.jpg

Someone needs to photoshop 'LOL BORIS' on the front and 'I HAS A LUNDUN' down the side.

has anyone pointed out that it kind of looks like homer simpson's dream car?

I like the idea of a futuristic routemaster, it would be like something out of 2000AD when Judge Dredd went on a trip to "Brit Cit".

so how do the wheelchair users get on? magic?

"Don't Blame Me - I Voted for Sunn O)))"

you were why R Kelly wasn't at last year's ATP :(

WHY is BONKERS BORIS not FULMINATING over IMMEDIATE MEASURES to be TAKEN to combat rampant GUN CRIME in poverty-riddled CHELSEA SHOOTOUT last night behind popular PAUL'S BOULANGERIE has JUICED JOHNSON even HEARD of Sloane Square?

Going back to the BNP. Their only councillor in my area is for a small, almost totally white, village. Not working class by any stretch, although perhaps you might call some of them aspirational ex-working class.

Yeah it's not like yr average spittle-flecked racist fantasist needs to ever actually encounter any of them immigants to be convinced by the Daily Express that they're absolutely everywhere and now the government wants to close YOUR local Post Office and make it into a special Serbs-only lapdancing club with YOUR tax money

FUCK OFF GILLIGAN FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7387113.stm

Yeah that'll work.