Chuffy
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I don't like him or what he stands for. Joy, another feckin' Old Etonian Tory running the country, isn't the 19th, 20th 21st century great?
I'll shut up now...
I'll shut up now...
Chuffy said:Yes, because Ken was such a grey faced Labour yes-man , wasn't he?
The thing that people don't seem to have grasped is that the job of Mayor really is a serious job, it's about actually working, day in day out, to achieve stuff. Talking to all of the different groups, even the ones that you might not like or approve of. Being a blustering thunderf*ck like Boris might be hilarious in terms of having a high profile and getting the plebs laughing at your every utterance but it's not what you need to, you know, actually do the job.
Chuffy said:I don't like him or what he stands for. Joy, another feckin' Old Etonian Tory running the country, isn't the19th,20th21st century great?
I'll shut up now...
True, but don't you think that it's a big ask for Boris to manage what would amount to a complete re-invention? From blustering upper class twit to serious and capable chap in charge. That's a long, long journey...Andy in Sig said:I thought on similar lines when Ken Livingstone got the job because of his loony fascist left background but he didn't do too badly in the end, despite showing some very unsavoury traits.
Er, how , exactly? Labour bloke lost, Tory bloke won. That's not even a kinky tickle on the bum. A real kick up the arse would have been for Paddick to have won. That would have shaken things up.Fab Foodie said:Politics needed a kick up the arse, last night it got one.
Noodley said:Looks like he may have won the tories "london", but will he lose them the country...
tdr1nka said:Just read this on the BBC, made me laugh!
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His grandfather Osman Ali settled in the UK in the 1920s and changed his name to Wilfred Johnson."
Chuffy said:True, but don't you think that it's a big ask for Boris to manage what would amount to a complete re-invention? From blustering upper class twit to serious and capable chap in charge. That's a long, long journey...
That would have shaken things up.