vote Boris

'I have a very low opinion of the cabinet, should I be "SHAMED" because of that?'

I think so. Now, if it were the Shadow Cabinet you had a low opinion of, then I feel that you should feel no shame whatsoever.

I'm not ashamed, nor should I be, of having a low opinion of the Society of Editors - are you feeling quite well? I have a very low opinion of the cabinet, should I be "SHAMED" because of that?

How ridiculous you are being.

As evidenced by the accolade of 'Newspaper of the Year 2012' awarded to the Daily Mail.

For having such a low opinion of the highly esteeemd Society of Editors - paragons of press probity and perspicacity!!!

Shame on me? What for?

Since Boris got in, hair has gone up and thought processes are down in London.

NO to Boris

'Yes'

ShirleyKnot, shame on you!!!

Yes.

The bikes have been incredibly successful and on days when there were tube strikes they were a god send. They're very popular with Londoners AND tourists.

bendy buses were unpopular and dangerous - a danger to the people on them, pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists. To be behind one of those in a small car when it's turning into a junction is terrifying.

But, ShirleyKnot, do you include the highly respected, and some would say learned, Society of Editors in that, the people who voted it 'Newspaper of the Year 2012'?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Quality of reporting and the Daily Mail are, I THINK, mutually exclusive.

The Daily Heil is very cleverly using their vile and misogynisticcelebrity reporting and Shock Journo's to get their website really humming. Anyone who subscribes to such a terrible, hatred filled, RAG really needs some brain cleansing as far as I'm concerned.

'How do ivory towers fly?'

I think that is a metaphor, but I'm not an expert on English etc., but it illustrates the ludicrousness of counting bears in fly-overs and dismissing the views of the Inuit as ramblings of the stupid or unhinged.

I used to read about polar bears in the Guardian, but when I read that the esteemed Society of Editors voted the Daily Mail the 'Newspaper of the Year 2012', I thought I should give it a try. I was staggered by the difference and the quality of the reporting and insight. I took out a subscription. I am sure that the 1% who read the Guardian may call me stupid, but I am with the 99% who make it the world's leading online newspaper.

anyway...
vote for Boris? No fecking way.

The man is a tool who spends money on vanity projects like sodding bikes that only benefit a tiny percentage of Londoners. In the middle of a recession he decides to go ahead and junk buses that cost millions because he yearns for the days of double deckers (like he would ever use one).

We have quite enough people in governement who have no connection with the real world, I would rather not have one in charge of my city as well.

How do ivory towers fly?

Boggles...

It's all that talking to yourself that's giving off that impression.

'TBH, you are beginning to sound a little unhinged.'

Yes, if it's not stupid, it's unhinged.

' A child, however, who had no important job and could only see things as his eyes showed them to him, went up to the carriage.

"The Emperor is naked," he said.

"Fool!" his father reprimanded, running after him. "Don't talk nonsense!" He grabbed his child and took him away. But the boy's remark, which had been heard by the bystanders, was repeated over and over again until everyone cried:

"The boy is right! The Emperor is naked! It's true!"

Don't bank on it not all ending like that in the end. Like the song said "It's just a little bit of history repeating".

TBH, you are beginning to sound a little unhinged.

And a little boy once said that the emperor had no clothes, but the 1% called him stupid too.

As they flew over the Inuit on the ground, who were often face to face with the baer, and totted up the number of polar bears from their flying ivory towers.

"The Inuit have always insisted the bears' demise was greatly exaggerated by scientists doing projections based on fly-over counts, but their input was usually dismissed as the ramblings of self-interested hunters.

Ang guess what? The 1% told the Inuit that they were stupid too.

Oh and the number of polar bears is increasing at the same time as the media create more programmes about how they are decreasing. But the 99% suspected that all along, it was the 1% who told them they were stupid.

"The Inuit have always insisted the bears' demise was greatly exaggerated by scientists doing projections based on fly-over counts, but their input was usually dismissed as the ramblings of self-interested hunters.

As Nunavut government biologist Mitch Taylor observed in a front-page story in the Nunatsiaq News last month, "the Inuit were right. There aren't just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears."

www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1ea8233f-14da-4a44-b839-b71a9e5df868

But you are right that there are real issues where the 99% agree entirely with the Greens, such as on GM food etc., but the 1% tell them yet again that they are stupid.

I don't necessarily believe in the catastrophic climate change scenario but I do think you'd have to be completely thick not to see we can't go on treating the planet like we are without wrecking it completely.

And the 1% say that the public are stupid. Well they would say that, wouldn't they.