DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

The Airey Neave Memorial Car Park best avoided tbh

It'll transpire a couple of years down the line that Mark Thatcher has been letting his friends from school organise bombing raids on Gabon from a runway out the back.

Then shortly afterwards it'll be discovered that they were so incompetent that they'd been bombing Michael Gambon by mistake.

the runway is not for turning

― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh man...!

Ryanair's fleet of aircraft to be denied the oxygen masks of publicity

Not “only those with high IQs can rise to the top” but “only those born to the right parents, who went to the right school and joined the right societies at university can rise to the top.”

Personally I think the Tories have gone mad, and that goes for the Mayor and the rightwing press and everybody else involved. You can tell; they’ve given up even pretending to listen to anybody else’s point of view, they've gone into their own little huddly corner, convinced they and nobody else are right.

The depressing thing is that they have a sporting chance of getting back in come 2015 because most British people seem to want to be turkeys voting for Christmas.

Less of the British, mate

I think the most distressing thing about this speech is, despite being probably one of the most unabashedly fascist public statements I've read from a mainstream politician in years, that because it's tumbling out of the mouth of fuzzy Boris bear it's going to get people laughing and nodding or dismissing it as 'a bit of fun'. Boris frightens me. I think he's one of the most dangerous people in the UK political sphere today.

Tom D xpost: That won't happen either because people are more concerned about whether they will still be able to watch Doctor Fucking Who on the telly than whether they'll have any kind of economic future.

What I meant was that Scottish voters are unlikely to be a contributory factor in the election of a Conservative government in 2015

It's true. They'll vote for right wing Labour MPs instead.

Do you ever self-reflect?

Boris has got form for this sort of thing:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/boris-says-sorry-over-blacks-have-lower-iqs-article-in-the-spectator-6630340.html

but ken was the racist one, if i remember certain ilxors from a few years back correctly... [not that ken was remotely without blemish, but...]

I thought he was the anti-Semite? So hard to keep track.

I tell you what, let's not bother having any government. They're all hypocrites and none of them is Jesus Christ. What's the point?

I can never tell when you're being serious or making some "satirical" "point" anymore, can you?

That's the wonder of Woolworth's.

i can't believe noone else is outraged by the unashamed misunderstanding of how IQ is calculated

i mean be as fascist as you like but don't justify it on the fact that there are more numbers between 1 and 20 than there are between 95 and 100.

Horatio

There are more things in heaven and earth, Boris, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. You insufferable Tory prick.

"Ken Livingstone has nothing positive to say about the future of London, or the wave of criminal violence that has cost the lives of 11 young people killed on our streets this year, or yet another strike on our Tube which will disrupt millions of commuters next week, so he has again resorted to negative personal attacks."

Uh.... so is Boris saying that this wave of criminal violence is a positive thing?

That depends on the IQ of the victims probably

So, Boris Johnson attacking the stupid and ignorant... can't remember a politician turning so savagely on their base like this.

Sounds like Boris is a bit worried his profile and standing in the Conservative Party is slipping, there's only one thing that matters to him and that's his career.

lol @ the mayor of London giving memorial speech for Mrs Thatcher btw

The PM's effusive praise for China came as he landed in Beijing at the head of Britain's largest overseas trade and ministerial mission, designed to restore full relations after his meeting with the Dalai Lama.

The delegation includes the architect Zaha Hadid, ex-England footballer Graeme Le Saux, Arts Council England chair Sir Peter Bazalgette, the chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover, Ralf Speth, and Karren Brady, vice-chairman of West Ham United.

But Cameron came under fire from Labour for including figures close to him in the delegation. On the trip are his stepfather-in-law, Viscount Astor, representing Silvergate Media; the Tory peer Lord Chadlington, who helped to house the Camerons when the PM first fought the parliamentary seat of Witney; and the Tory donor and peer Lord Leigh of Hurley, of Cavendish Corporate Finance.

He's ready

http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/299101/article_img.jpg

the Chinese government - a great bunch of lads

hate when you're getting off the plane and a load of elderly people are trudging down the stairs in front of you.

xpost.

They used to kick a Little Red Book in the street. Now it’s all Coca Cola and Tom Daley.

I blame the Grumbling Fur.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/03/boris-johnson-fails-live-iq-test

he was asked: "Take two apples from three apples and what do you have?" Johnson said: "Loads of apples." He then changed his answer to one apple. The answer the questioner wanted was two apples.

Painful to watch, the second video is equally painful.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/03/boris-johnson-fails-iq-test-on-lbc-97-3-radio-phone-in-show-4211417/

What the fuck would a polar bear be doing at the south pole?

Being fucking lost #fuckjokes

That second video is astonishing

"Stop trying to score easy points," he says.

This man is an embarrassment to London.

And yet London the suburbs keep voting for him.

exactly. thanks fuckers.

Well they keep voting for him when he runs against Ken Livingstone, to be precise

Don't know if Eddie Izzard will be enough here.

There are similarities

Fight the funny man with a Funny Man.

Bet you Cameron punched the air when he heard that interview.

Or Lynton Crosby, depending on who or what was nearer.

i haven't seen this, what makes anybody think he didn't throw the test?

He didn't throw it but he was clearly really fucking irritated at having to do it and was just tossing answers around without thinking. Interviewers are slowly realising that if you subject Boris to a bit of scrutiny or hostile questioning he throws his toys out of the pram and self-destructs. A proper PM-in-waiting would have been able to deal with that, or the "nasty piece of work" interview a lot better.

I don't know why anyone would think Lynton Crosby punches the air if Boris Johnson fucks up, since Boris was his last project.