Boris Johnson Plays Up And Plays The Video Game
BORIS Johnson on computer games:
“The writing is on the wall – computer games rot the brain” – it’s time to “garotte the Game Boy and paralyse the PlayStation…
“Summon up all your strength, all your courage. Steel yourself for the screams and yank out that plug. And if they still kick up a fuss, then get out the sledgehammer and strike a blow for literacy” – Boris Johnson MP, 2006
Hammers up. Oops!
“I’m delighted that the London Games Festival is back in our city for its third year.
Posted: 2nd, November 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Ken Livingstone’s Offensive Charm
POLITICAL quote of the day: Ken Livingstone’s offensive charm:
“Boris has gone through life using his charm to get away with murder - I should have down the same” – Ken Livingstone on Boris Johnson, via the Sun
Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Forward With Boris Johnson As London Twinned With Beijing
STAGE 2 in the plan to make the London Olympics just like the Beijing Game, only better and more Chinese.
Having waved a flag like a totem of the Yellow River, a blonde extra from The Great Leap Forward, London mayor Boris Johnson is returned from China with ideas anew.
Johnny Chinky sure does know a think or two about bicycles. They just love ‘em. So here’s Boris on a bicycle riding about a car-free London with 50,000 other enthusiasts.
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
“This is the perfect way to encourage Londoners to get on their bikes,” says Johnson, pictured in the London Evening Standard cycling with Olympic champion Chris Hoy through an oddly carefree, er, St James’s Park.
Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Back pages, Boris Watch, Politicians | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Remembering Ken Livingstone On CBeebies
BORIS Johnson, mayor of London, waves the flag in Beijing. And Ken Livingstone, the miserabilist former mayor Boris beat.. Is he bitter?
Says the Independent:
A fecund father of five himself, he will next day be appearing on CBeebies. “It’s about how to run a campaign about saving water. I’ve got to advise and then judge which team is the best, which I will hate.”
Happy days. We just can’t stop winning…
Posted: 25th, August 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Broadsheets, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Los Angeles Residents Welcome You To London 2012 Olympics
DAVID Beckham and Leona Lewis welcome you to the London Olympics, says the Star.
Becks lives in Los Angeles, so does Leona. But what the hell, they were born in London and that will do.
The Times leads with pictures of Londoners who live in London, and a load of tourists, celebrating the arrival of the fearsomely expensive sporting event in four years time They are waving flags beating the Olympics logo - that picture of Lisa Simpson felating on an unknown IOC member.
Posted: 25th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Boris Watch, Broadsheets, Celebrities, Politicians, Posh and Becks, Tabloids | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boris Johnson’s Sir Simon Milton
NEWS all around that Boris Johnson has appointed his new Number 2, following the departure of Ray Lewis, who as the Mail says, “resigned earlier this months over accusations of sleeze”.
That’s Ray Lewis, Justice of the Peace, or not:
Ray Lewis is not, and never has been, a magistrate. On Thursday both he and the mayor said he was.
Johnson’s new No.2 is Sir Simon Milton, as pictured…
Posted: 15th, July 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Conservatives, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Rachel Johnson’s Fashionably Latte
BORIS Johnson’s sister has a book out. It’s called Notting Hell - “Our neighbours divide into the haves … and the have-yachts,” is the best line.
It’s a book that can read and understood by the comments of they who like it:
Jilly Copper calls it “shiveringly brilliant”.
“Sharp, funny and knowing – I loved it” – India Knight
Boris’s sister has also written a book called Shire Hell.
There are only three rules when it comes to publishing a chick lit book – the cover must be in pastel, the writing must be in freehand and the title must be an appalling pun.
Here are 10 that Kathy Lette and Johnson haven’t used. Yet.
Fashionably Latte
Uterus And Them
A Manhattan Cock Tale
Posted: 25th, June 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Politicians | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boris Johnson’s Cigar Case Case
BORIS Johnson has Taria Aziz’s cigar case, or he did:
Would there be anyone so petty, so time-wastingly idiotic, as to complain? Alas, I forgot about the Labour Party. Five years after I found this memento, Labour stooges were recently combing my articles for anything discreditable to a Conservative mayoral candidate.
They found the article, and with bulging eyes they went to the Metropolitan Police and demanded that I be prosecuted. I am accused by my political opponents of removing a cultural artefact from Iraq. As it happens, I also have in my possession a letter from the lawyers of Tariq Aziz, informing me that Mr Aziz wishes me to regard the cigar case as a gift.
But never mind. The file has been opened at Scotland Yard; the proceedings have begun. The poor police have no choice but to investigate this ludicrous affair, and in the interim I am told I must hand the cigar case into police custody - or else be led in manacles from City Hall.
Is it the tobacco?
Posted: 24th, June 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Broadsheets, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Alan Sugar Is London’s Michael Bloomberg
Jonathan Isaby wonders about Boris and Sir Alan:
Boris Johnson has only been London mayor for a matter of weeks, yet already there is speculation about who Labour might put up against him in May 2012 (yes, the election will be just a couple of months before the Olympics actually happens).
Ken Livingstone has already indicated a desire to do it, but it is generally thought that Labour will want a new face to challenge Boris Johnson in four years’ time.
And the name to be highlighted in the latest press speculation is none other than Sir Alan Sugar, the multi-millionaire businessman and star of the hit BBC reality show, The Apprentice.
He certainly ticks all the boxes I have always thought a mayoral candidate needs to tick: name recognition; charisma; an existing reputation among voters; and potential to appeal to a wider base than that of the party he would be standing for.
He forgets to mention Bloomberg - the savvy Jewish man with the fortune made from electronic screens. You know, like Sugar…
Posted: 23rd, June 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Celebrities, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Marc Wadsworth And James McGrath Make Boris Johnson Look Decisive
JAMES McGrath is London Mayor Boris Johnson’s deputy chief of staff. Or he was until he met with Marc Wadsworth “a confident, British-born Black activist and news media operator with a reasonable track record”.
Or as the self-aggrandising and ubiquitous Tory blogger Iain Dale calls him “someone called Marc Wadsworth”.
Writes Wadsworth:
McGrath was far from politically correct, David-Cameron-new- cuddly-Conservative Party, when I pointed out to him a critical comment of Voice columnist Darcus Howe that the election of “Boris Johnson, a right-wing Conservative, might just trigger off a mass exodus of older Caribbean migrants back to our homelands”.
He retorted: “Well, let them go if they don’t like it here.” McGrath dismissed influential race commentator Howe as ‘shrill’.
Very soon Boris releases a statement:
Posted: 23rd, June 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boris Johnson: The Man Who Mistook His Hat For The War On Terror
THIS week London mayor Boris Johnson talks about his hat:
I hitched my rucksack, tucked my right trouser leg into my sock and was about to clamber aboard the King of the Road when I realised there was something terribly wrong with my appearance. I clapped my head. My helmet! I’d forgotten to wear the symbol of my new deference to correct thinking… the chinstrap of social obedience.
Lest readers mistake this for filler and evince that you ne London mayor and a columnist, Johnson ties his hatless head to the war on terror and 42 days detention:
Posted: 17th, June 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Broadsheets, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
We’re Not Going On An Olympic Holiday
ALL change. The No. 16 to Beijing will not be stopping at Beijing.
Proposals to send a red double-decker bus by road from London to China, to coincide with the Olympics, have been dropped after critics derided the idea as a gimmick and a waste of almost half a million pounds…
Taxpayers will still pay more than half the bill for the project, lauded by Ken Livingstone, because of the expense incurred in planning the journey and hiring bus drivers.
The move comes as Boris Johnson, the new Mayor of London, launches an Olympics cost-cutting drive and says that as few officials as possible would be attending the Games.
Mr Livingstone claimed that the Beijing trip would highlight London’s public transport system to the world, via one of its most recognisable symbols, and help to forge ties with China.
It was cancelled last week by London 2012 organisers and Transport for London (TfL), which funded the journey, in the wake of the earthquake in Sichuan province.
The trip, which was to be undertaken by eight drivers at a cost of £450,000, was considered to be unsafe and in bad taste, given the scale of the disaster. However, given that Mr Johnson had denounced it during the election campaign as a publicity stunt and a “ludicrous waste of public money”, the decision was regarded by his aides as a “happy coincidence”.
A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: “He was already very sceptical about it and in need of persuading, but TfL and the Olympics board reflected on the earthquake and decided to pull it anyway.”
Mr Johnson scrapped another facet of Mr Livingstone’s legacy when he axed a controversial tie-up with Venezuela, and half-price bus and tram travel for some of the capital’s least well-off. Mr Livingstone signed a deal with the South American nation’s state-owned oil company last year, agreeing to provide transport advice in return for a 20 per cent cut in TfL’s bus fuel bill.
The savings were used to offer discount fares to around 250,000 people on income support.
At the launch of his successful campaign to oust the two-term Labour Mayor, Mr Johnson called the deal with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez “completely Caracas”.
No room up top - although it’s empty…
Posted: 26th, May 2008 | In: Back pages, Boris Watch, Broadsheets, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boris Johnson’s Sunday Service
BORIS Johnson is writing in the News of the World:
“I WAS as sickened and horrified as everyone else in Britain by the murder of altar boy Jimmy Mizen at a baker’s shop in London last weekend.
Amen.
I won’t pretend there is some messiah-like solution. But I do believe investment in the right areas will reap huge rewards.
I’ll do my part and tackle this menace in London. I pray the government follow my lead and do the same for Britain.
Here endeth the lesson…
Posted: 18th, May 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kate Hoey Can’t Recall If She Voted For Ken Or Boris?
THE London Evening Standard’s Paul Waugh asks Kate Hoey, the former Labour sports minister and still Labour member of parliament for Vauxhall, now operating as Boris Johnson’s Commissioner for Sport, how she voted in the London mayoral elections.
Boris or Ken?
Her reply:
“Er…when was the election…I can’t remember!”
Posted: 16th, May 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kate Hoey’s Labour Party Letter
KATE Hoey writes:
Dear Member of Vauxhall Labour Party,
The Members of this Party are its lifeblood and so I wanted you to be the first to know that I have now agreed to be the Mayor of London’s Commissioner for Sport.
I have been asked to develop the London legacy plan for sport arising from the unique opportunity that the 2012 Olympics gives us, and to help increase grass roots sport participation and access to sporting opportunities across London.
Read the rest of it here…
Posted: 15th, May 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Conservatives, Labour Party, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
BORIS Johnson On Islam:
To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia - fear of Islam - seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture - to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques - it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim’s mother this week in a Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise, because she was not a Muslim.
The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension is that it is widely supported in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s mediaeval ass?
Spotter: Mary Jackson
Posted: 11th, May 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Politicians, Twitterings | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boris Johnson’s Criminal Mind: Lest We Forget Cherie Blair
“BORIS breaks the law,” announces the Mirror on its front page.
Has Boris Johnson, London mayor of mere days been caught out so soon?
Is he drinking a tincture of gin and tonic on the Tube, thus flouting his first initiative?
Nothing of it. Boris was on a bicycle. And the Mirror says that on a trip about the capital he jumped 6 red lights, mounted the pavement and failed to stop at zebra crossing.
This might say more about cyclists, who all behave in such a fashion, more than its reveals about Johnson. Indeed had Johnson been pictured not behaving so his credentials as a bona fide cyclist might have taken a hit from which they would never recover.
But it is all thin edge of the wedge.
Posted: 11th, May 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Conservatives, Politicians, Tabloids, The Blairs | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
KEN Livingstone is for sale…on eBay…
Posted: 9th, May 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boris Johnson Is Your Unelected Leader For Watford
BORIS Johnson is the new mayor of London, Ken Livingstone is free to spend more time with his newts, sorry, his children, and the Independent’s Johan Hari is making some snese of it all.
“At last – a solution to my Boris blues! I have just forced myself to read the detailed election stats from last Thursday. It seems the media cliché is true: it’s the angry, whiter outer suburbs that elected Boris, out of rage with the congestion charge and council tax. Boris will forever be the mayor of Zones Four to Six, the chief executive of Watford and Bromley and Amersham”.
Watford and Amersham are not in zones 1-6. Residents of those locales were afforded no vote in the election. And you can’t have a democratically elected leader who you didn’t vote for, at least not outside the US and Zimbabwe.
Posted: 8th, May 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Broadsheets, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kevin Maguire Says Boris Johnson Is Politic’s George Best
SAYS Kevin Maguire in the Mirror: “Cocky David Cameron has privately conceded that he’s not as popular as he’d like us to think.”
Says the Mirror’s deputy political editor, Jason Beattie one page on:
“Gordon Brown was yesterday warned by Cabinet colleagues his core voters were being won over by David Cameron.
“One senior minister said former Labour supporters were not just ‘flirting’ with the Tory leader but climbing into bed with him.”
Posted: 7th, May 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Conservatives, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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