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vote Boris

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eloise0 · 01/05/2012 21:05

Boris has made london a much cleaner place, he cares about London, and doesn't waste money on stupid projects.
He's got my vote.

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ShirleyKnot · 04/05/2012 10:58
claig · 04/05/2012 11:02

'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".

slug · 04/05/2012 11:18

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

Pooka · 04/05/2012 11:19

How do ivory towers fly?

Boggles...

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 04/05/2012 11:29
Shock

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.

claig · 04/05/2012 11:30

'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.

ShirleyKnot · 04/05/2012 11:34

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.

claig · 04/05/2012 11:37

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'?

Nancy66 · 04/05/2012 11:37

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.

ShirleyKnot · 04/05/2012 11:37

Yes.

claig · 04/05/2012 11:39

'Yes'

ShirleyKnot, shame on you!!!

GoPoldark · 04/05/2012 11:43

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

NO to Boris

ShirleyKnot · 04/05/2012 11:52

Shame on me? What for? Confused

claig · 04/05/2012 11:53

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

claig · 04/05/2012 11:55

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

ShirleyKnot · 04/05/2012 11:56

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.

claig · 04/05/2012 11:58

'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.

ShirleyKnot · 04/05/2012 12:01

Righty-o.

So what you're saying is that if my opinion differs from yours that I should be ashamed.

Good one.

claig · 04/05/2012 12:03

ShirleyKnot, I am joking. Don't take it so seriously. I don't care what opinions people have, I don't think people are stupid, they just think differently and have different priorities. Long live democracy!

ShirleyKnot · 04/05/2012 12:05

Vive La Revolution!

Wink
claig · 04/05/2012 12:06

Now you're being stupid. Wink

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 04/05/2012 12:06

The bikes may be popular but they are feck all use to the majority of Londoners. The ones that dont work in the city or the west end, the ones that live in the parts of London that Boris doesnt even know exists.

I was no fan of the bendy buses but he didnt get rid of them because they were dangerous, he got rid of them because it was part of his populist manifesto.

Boris is not the Mayor of London, he is the Mayor of the City of London and few of the Naicer parts of the west end.

He didnt give much of a fuck when my part of London was being burnt down did he?

He is like the rest of his party, elitist and out of touch.

bobthebuddha · 04/05/2012 12:10

"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 "

I do find it a bit odd, this one. Livingstone stated baldly that 'only a ghastly, dehumanised moron' would get rid of the old Routemasters, which had plenty of life left in them. Once he was Mayor he did exactly that and a fortune was spent on buses which were entirely unsuitable for London streets. He could surely have replaced some of the old buses with newer double-deckers or even bendies & kept a proportion of the Routemasters in service.

The people voting for Livingstone didn't seem to have a problem with an entire fleet of useable buses replaced with expensive new ones. Yet a Mayor who made an explicit promise to do it IN HIS MANIFESTO so everyone knew what was going to happen is somehow far worse than the one who said he wouldn't, but did. Go figure.

Anyway, I did get used to using the bends ('free bus' to most) but having finally caught one of these elusive new Routemasters the other day I can say that it's a lovely piece of design. Not something you can usually say about a bus.

Nancy66 · 04/05/2012 12:17

Ken is a proven crook and racist - a typical 'I'm with you brother' cut from the same cloth as Galloway. ie. 'Im with you - apart from when I'm jetting first-class around the world and pocketing backhanders.'

I feel that Boris is far more trusthworthy.

It's true that lots of londoners don't use the bikes - equally lots never visit the museums or parks. doesn't mean they shouldn't be there.

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 04/05/2012 12:17

I have no clue why Livingstone would so such a stupid thing.

My point is that when Boris got in, things had changed, his governement kept telling us that we were all skint. They said we had to go without and suck it up because we were all in it together blah blah.

Yet still he wasted money on bikes and buses.

Perfectly nice things in better times but appropriate in a financial meltdown?

I dont think so.

The point is we didnt need bikes or new buses. Not when we were so poor we had to take away EMA from vulnerable children.

They bloke is an idiot.

Who was talking about ivory towers earlier? I dont understand the connection with Polar Bears but I think Boris probably lives in one.

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