Bojo

[crackerjack]

if you're voting lib dem/green/left list/etc PLEASE CONSIDER PUTTING KEN 2ND PREF. this will be vital in stopping that racist, non-londoner loon making us the laughing stock of the world.

also, this way you can vote with your heart, and also your head. personally i will be voting 1. sian berry 2. ken

Can't say Sian B will get a token vote from me (not while the Greens are making such vitals as free vet care a policy) but voting against BJ is vital. When even the Terminator thinks you're a joke politician, something is very very wrong.

 

[Mr. Tea]

(not while the Greens are making such vitals as free vet care a policy)

Well I think vets are as entitled to medical care as anyone else. JOBBIST SCUM!

 

[mixed_biscuits]

this will be vital in stopping that racist, non-londoner loon making us the laughing stock of the world.

Proof (or am I that far out of the loop)?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Proof (or am I that far out of the loop)?

I dunno about anything else, but his most infamous 'gaffe' in this department was referring to black people as "piccaninnies" with "watermellon smiles". Not exactly Mein Kampf, but certainly not something you want to hear from the prospective mayor of arguably the world's most racially diverse city, either.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I dunno about anything else, but his most infmous 'gaffe' in this department was referring to black people as "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles". Not exactly Mein Kampf, but certainly not something you want to hear from the prospective mayor of arguably the world's most racially diverse city, either.

Ah right...heh.

 

[IdleRich]

Writing in the Torygraph about a Blair visit to Africa.

"No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird."

Also, he kept giving space for Taki to write in the Spectator and must have known the kind of stuff he was going to come up with - at least the second, third, fourth etc times.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Who's Taki when he's at home?

 

[crackerjack]

Who's Taki when he's at home?

A Spectator columnist and old school saloon bar racist.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

"No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird."

This sounds heavily ironic - the language here is used to criticise an over-simplified view of the general situation and the actors involved in it (which view might have held water a hundred years ago or so). Imagine this as a satirical tableau and I think you have the tenor of it.

 

[Slothrop]

This sounds heavily ironic - the language here is used to criticise an over-simplified view of the general situation and the actors involved in it (which view might have held water a hundred years ago or so). Imagine this as a satirical tableau and I think you have the tenor of it.

Yeah, I think in that case he was deliberately spoofing the old fashioned colonialist attitudes that seemed to be behind whatever Blair was up to at the time, and he's been taken out of context.

He's still shit though.

The two-vote system seems like a really positive thing for the reasons outlined above.

 

[crackerjack]

This sounds heavily ironic - the language here is used to criticise an over-simplified view of the general situation and the actors involved in it (which view might have held water a hundred years ago or so). Imagine this as a satirical tableau and I think you have the tenor of it.

Personally I wouldn't call Boris a racist - I don't think he's malicious enough. i suspect he's pretty comfortable around those who hold those kinds of ideas, though.

 

[UFO over easy]

done my duty

 

[Edward]

Am I a twat?
I went and voted for mayor and there were two other London Assembly things to vote for. I didn't know who any of the people were, none of them or their supporters have called on me, sent me a leaflet, or approached me anywhere. I didn't know who to vote for so I left them blank. I felt like crying on the way home, this is my one pathetic chance to influence anything in a tiny way and I didn't know anything.
Am I just a lazy idiot or shouldn't they be trying to attract my vote with, you know, some information or something? Now I am at home googling all the people to find out who they are but it's too late.

 

[hucks]

I forgot all about this and was a bit surprised, too, and just ended up randomly plumping for the Greens in the assembly. I do recall seeing some stuff in the post, but I mainly concentrated on the mayor.

 

[IdleRich]

"This sounds heavily ironic - the language here is used to criticise an over-simplified view of the general situation and the actors involved in it (which view might have held water a hundred years ago or so). Imagine this as a satirical tableau and I think you have the tenor of it."

True enough but add it together with the other times he has used that sort of language and allowed Taki to do his stuff and for me it adds up to a kind of lazy racism. It wouldn't really be out of character when you think of his comments on homosexual marriage (something about how you might as well let a man marry a dog I believe) - the two phobias often go hand in hand (though not always of course).

 

[UFO over easy]

Am I a twat?
I went and voted for mayor and there were two other London Assembly things to vote for. I didn't know who any of the people were, none of them or their supporters have called on me, sent me a leaflet, or approached me anywhere. I didn't know who to vote for so I left them blank. I felt like crying on the way home, this is my one pathetic chance to influence anything in a tiny way and I didn't know anything.
Am I just a lazy idiot or shouldn't they be trying to attract my vote with, you know, some information or something? Now I am at home googling all the people to find out who they are but it's too late.

nah I know what you mean they really didn't seem to try very hard.. I had a little google during the day at work but only because it was on the news the day before and I realised I had no idea.

I think they did send some stuff out to be fair, but it was all ages ago. Seemed like a long way off so I ignored it/forgot about it. What a good citizen.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Am I a twat?
I went and voted for mayor and there were two other London Assembly things to vote for. I didn't know who any of the people were, none of them or their supporters have called on me, sent me a leaflet, or approached me anywhere.

Me neither. Ergo: voted Lib Dem for both. I wonder what percentage of the LD's share of the vote comes about in this way? Probably a fair whack.

 

[crackerjack]

 

[swears]

 

[Mr. Tea]

Fucking typical.

The blond buffoon's victory was only announced ten hours ago, and already our washing machine's packed up.

This would never have happened under Livingstone.

In other news, the election results from Lower Shrimpington-by-Restofthecountry show Labour's worst results in 40 years and in terms of councils they're now third, a percentage point behind the Lib Dems! Not looking too good for Brown in a general election (when the hell are we going to get one, anyway?).