Ding dong the wicked witch is dead! Oh how will he ever support his legions of illegitimate children now that he's out of a job? I suppose he could become an imam and get money from the Saudis. . .
is it just me , or do the sky news presenters seem to be a lot more mirthful this morning.
they can barely contain their grins...
REJOICE!!!!!
Here is a typical example of BBC still making snide comments about Boris. They willna let it go, will they ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_po...ics/
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Not even 'subtle' bias here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_po...ics/
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(not that I support them, but I thought I'd point it out)
boris is due to be signed in as mayor at city hall around 2pm today.
it'll be on the usual news channels.
i want a t-shirt with that BORIS TOWN graphic on it.
over on iain dale's blog a commenter writes:
I don't normally subsibe to the idea that the BBC is biase but watching the coverage of Boris on the BBC News after he was elected I'm starting to change my mind.
First they had Polly Toynbee (I guess live form her Villa) who they gave about two minutes uninterrupted time to trash him just after he was announced. Ever since within the first thirty seconds of every report either saying 'will Londoners relate to him' 'is he a idiot' 'will he just be Dave's puppet' etc
It really is pretty appalling.
boris just got mobbed by the press outside city hall - plus there are crowds of well wishers applauding him!
there is something truely historic about all of this.
bbc news 24 questions - "will boris be his own man?" , as if he's some sort of puppet of david cameron.
jesus wept - of course he will. boris is boris! nothing more and nothing less...
boris speech now.
he's just laid out Guiliani like "broken windows" policy, without necessarily mentioning it by name.
i get the feeling that he's going to kick arse big time.
and about bloody time too.
He made an elegant speech last night.
He is plainly a very bright man, a man of his own mind, a guy of real wit. Sticking the knife in right now about shredding machines !
I reckon his first act will be a big audit - even after the shredders, we now have a gut Tory looking at the books. He can be far more organised than people think.
The Met Police are going to have fiercer direction against street crime. Remember Guiliani in New York ! He has just said that this will be his Number One objective.
Plus value-for-money.
He has the chance to blaze a trail in London that could be a signpost for a new Tory Government.
But I did like the headline in the Indy today - "Cripes !"
ha ha - yeah - heard that shredding machines reference.
makes a nice bloody change doesnt it - a politician who makes you laugh, but being deadly serious at the same time.
i guess thats called being "human"...
Immediately after the signing-in - BBC News 24 has described him as something of a joke.
I hope the joke starts to be on the BBC, real soon. Boris now has a big platform - he is quite capable of taking extreme umbrage at the BBC is they carry on sniping at him. And well able to propose that it is time the BBC was reined in - or cut down to size.
bloody hell - the personal attacks on boris , in terms of questioning on news24 are something else.
the poor man has only just been sworn in and already bbc news24 is in full on attack mode.
never saw that with Red Ken did we?
an utter disgrace.
sky news : red ken might be part of a boris administration..
pure speculation, but it would be a clever move. just shows how canny boris is.
a commenter on guido's blog:
"Now that it is clear that BBC News is hopelessly corrupted, all Conservative spokesmen should abandon any pretence that the BBC is impartial, and should instead treat all BBC interviewers as if the interviewer were a Labour Party official - with no more deference and respect to these political twisters."
it's not just us so that sees this...
Just before the announcement of the results BBC24 had what they claimed were "vox-pop" interviews from the cafe outside what used to be the National Film Theatre: three suspiciously fluent Boris-trashers were invited to give vent to their bile which they duly did. This was followed by interviews with Stanley Johnson and Andrew Gilligan. The message: "real" Londoners hate Boris and only his father and an embittered representative of the press love him.
have a look at this article. note how the bbc manages to associate boris with the BNP ever so subtlely , without making it direct.. (look at the opening paragraphs)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/73.../uk/
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i have words for such things, but i dare not swear them out on a public blog.
This is my first comment on the 'mad' paddy blog. So can I say I love you all and I hope to visit again?
Boris is great. When he was announced as candidate, a warm winning feeling ran right though my body. I knew sure as eggs is eggs the fat drunken fucker would win, I only wish I had bet the house on it.
He has every chance of becoming the most popular politician in the UK since......... Sorry the most popular politician in the UK ever and then some. Gaffs and all.
The really great thing about him is that he intends to be himself, which if he can manage it, will result in him becoming the next PM after Cameron, without question.
The man is 24 carat gold. The BBC will do its best to bring him down but the more they try the more the BBC will destroy itself in the eyes of the nation. Boris will become more popular with every BBC insult.
Boris cant lose. All he has to do is virtually sit on his hands, do nothing of any massive importance and tell the odd joke every now and again. Which is why he is an ideal politician in every respect.
Which is a dead socialist or a live libertarian one.
Hi Atlas
Good to see your comments are restrained, as usual.
But yes - the more the BBC attacks and sneers at Boris, the more entrenched he will become among many voters. He will swat BBC hacks away like the creeps most of them are.
How come Andrew Marr didn't have Boris on this morning ? He is big news. Two possible reasons :
1 Marr is a pinko creep who would rather give Brown a platform. Brown-nosing Brown is the term, I think. But there would still have been time for a Boris interview - would have been good political knockabout after Brown's platitudes. The Brown interview was really soft. Marr couldn't knock a fly off a rice pudding.
Adam Boulton on Sky has Brown facing off against Alex Salmond - an attempt at some balance, something the BBC fails to understand.
2 The other reason for Boris not appearing on Marr's prog could be that he was asked - and refused ?
the politics show also did not have boris on. instead they devoted a substantial amount of their time to labour and its "problems"...
marr's interview with gordon brown earlier was like conversing a zombie out of shaun of the dead..
Daily Mail article about the bias of David Dimbleby when he hosted the "debate" between the 3 leading London mayoral candidates. Another reason for Boris to sup with the BBC with a very long spoon.
Lots of very acid comments on the article attacking the BBC.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
pages...e#StartComments
Will he get the form filling, tick boxer, pc, office based cop Ian Bliar to get off his arse, ditch the bureaucracy and get the cops on the beat with a zero tolerance policy?
Let's hope so. I hope he turns the money tap off for all those lefty causes that Ken supported.
He is allowing motorcycles to use bus lanes too. A victory for common sense and accident statistics (which show it is a sensible thing).
telegraph article on boris's plans:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...n-
revealed.html
"Launch an inquiry into bureaucratic waste with a view to big reductions at City Hall, including a 20 per cent cut in the Mayor's 70-strong media and marketing team;"
"Announce details of an extra 440 police community support officers to patrol buses and Tube stations. Funding of £16.5 million will come from cutting Transport for London's advertising budget;"
the shredders will be working overtime today...
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