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What Have Londoners Done?
Boris Johnson: The fool is out
What have Londoners done?
Last week Boris Johnson won the race to become the next mayor of London - ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall.
The Conservative candidate won with 1,168,738 first and second preference votes, compared with Mr Livingstone's 1,028,966 on a record turnout of 45%. This shambling, aphorism-spouting fool is now responsible for the great city of London!!!
Mr. Johnson gave a sober and gracious victory speech, every word if it no doubt pre-stamped by the Tory high brass, acknowledging that many Londoners, even some who had voted for him, may have misgivings about his qualifications for the job, but pledged to "work flat-out" to earn their trust. "Tomorrow we'll work like crazy," said Mr. Johnson, who gave up alcohol during the campaign, "but tonight we'll have a drink."
This is classic Johnson; full of smart comments, light on grey matter. This fool is out and right dangerous. It would be enjoyable to list the foibles of Boris Johnson's character, but it is perhaps easier, and certainly more revealing of his person, to let the good old boy speak for himself. Heaven help us:
On China:
"Chinese cultural influence is virtually nil, and unlikely to increase… Indeed, high Chinese culture and art are almost all imitative of western forms: Chinese concert pianists are technically brilliant, but brilliant at Schubert and Rachmaninov. Chinese ballerinas dance to the scores of Diaghilev. The number of Chinese Nobel prizes won on home turf is zero, although there are of course legions of bright Chinese trying to escape to Stanford and Caltech… It is hard to think of a single Chinese sport at the Olympics, compared with umpteen invented by Britain, including ping-pong, I'll have you know, which originated at upper-class dinner tables and was first called whiff-whaff. The Chinese have a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard for it."
Last week Boris Johnson won the race to become the next mayor of London - ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall.
The Conservative candidate won with 1,168,738 first and second preference votes, compared with Mr Livingstone's 1,028,966 on a record turnout of 45%. This shambling, aphorism-spouting fool is now responsible for the great city of London!!!
Mr. Johnson gave a sober and gracious victory speech, every word if it no doubt pre-stamped by the Tory high brass, acknowledging that many Londoners, even some who had voted for him, may have misgivings about his qualifications for the job, but pledged to "work flat-out" to earn their trust. "Tomorrow we'll work like crazy," said Mr. Johnson, who gave up alcohol during the campaign, "but tonight we'll have a drink."
This is classic Johnson; full of smart comments, light on grey matter. This fool is out and right dangerous. It would be enjoyable to list the foibles of Boris Johnson's character, but it is perhaps easier, and certainly more revealing of his person, to let the good old boy speak for himself. Heaven help us:
On China:
"Chinese cultural influence is virtually nil, and unlikely to increase… Indeed, high Chinese culture and art are almost all imitative of western forms: Chinese concert pianists are technically brilliant, but brilliant at Schubert and Rachmaninov. Chinese ballerinas dance to the scores of Diaghilev. The number of Chinese Nobel prizes won on home turf is zero, although there are of course legions of bright Chinese trying to escape to Stanford and Caltech… It is hard to think of a single Chinese sport at the Olympics, compared with umpteen invented by Britain, including ping-pong, I'll have you know, which originated at upper-class dinner tables and was first called whiff-whaff. The Chinese have a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard for it."
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