Boris Bus Will Be On Time
The last of the despised killer bendy-buses is off the streets of London and Guido understands that the first new Routemaster will be on the streets next week. Boris actually promised in his manifesto to put the new bus on the road before the end of his first term. There was much scepticism that the cleaner-greener and, according to the experts, most advanced bus in the world, would see the light of day before Boris has to face the voters next year.
It’s an electric bus (it uses a small diesel engine to generate electricity, when it is needed) and is twice as economical as a conventional double decker at 11.6 miles to the gallon compared to the killer bendies 4.5 miles to the gallon. Boris buses following on from Boris bikes are visible signs of success. Cameron, who promised so much in his manifesto, might be a little discomforted by such an eye-catching public service advance.
Looks good!
Still wont travel on public transport tho…
Especially with that driver.
I wonder how much was pulled out of the BACK DOOR., Or should I say REAR EXIT.
BORIS for PM !
We need someone with a Churchill spirit, rather than the lankey streak of piss traitor we currently have.
Lanky? Who? Cameron’s too fat to attract that description so who are you talking about? Van Rompuy?
If he can make 1 run on time , make boris a saint
Is it just me, or do these new buses make everybody travel sick?
Maybe it’s another way to put folk off travelling on these ridiculously subsidised cattle trucks.
BORIS for PM
We need a PM with a Churchill spirit, rather than the lankey streak of piss democracy killing traitor that we currently have
Its really noisy
It rattles the foundations of listed buildings.
A bit like the bus.
Who Boris?
…and so says all his girls.
On a serious note, is it not time for the west to bend in the face of the hurricane that we are in the midst of.
Focus on the road ahead and not us… More lives will be saved that way.
It’s a Cylon ship.
Ken’s was long and bendy
Whereas Boris’s green & friendly
Both want to be mayor
And neithers a gayer
Treating marriage vows mostly pretendly
But
One used to be a gayer
Most ex-public schoolboys have been slighty gay in their time. It’s a rite of passage. *coughs*
I have never been gay, but then I never went to public school. Anyone calls me gay, my boys in Portsmouth will deal with them. These new buses in London are typical Tory rubbish and spin, we have single deckers and are keeping them. Boaz.
It’s has never been rite in my passage.
Even the new Routemaster should not be allowed the wrong way up a one-way street
Smokin’ !
Ken’s was long and bendy
Boris’s are green & trendy
Ken is for a whopping
To Boris they are flocking
Back BoJo for Mayor.
Our useless PM did declare,
‘I just wish I could grow a pair.’
And oh, how he shivered
as Boris delivered.
‘I’m almost as bad as T. Blair.’
That thing’s never going to fit under the Holborn Viaduct.
Yes it will – it’s Ken’s ego that would never fit under Holborn Viaduct!
Facts:
A medium speed diesel in a conventional bus is 35% efficient
A power station is 33% efficient but transmission losses, charging losses and the usual losses in the controller and electric motor giving an overall figure of a bit less than 25% in an electric bus.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/electric-cars/
Fuck me how good is that? I always wonder about the costs of the leccy on these things and most people don’t bother to mention it. Cheers.
The bus is not using power from a centrally generated supply but from its own diesel generator. The diesel is smaller than a conventional bus engine and is running continuously providing power to a battery. When the bus slows it also regenerates power to the battery. It’s the battery that is expensive.
So a slightly bigger diesel would cut out the ‘middle man’ and the horribly expensive battery.
Sorry I am not an expert on these things. A diesel engine works more efficiently when running at full speed rather than accelerating and slowing as with at normal bus. Also with a battery regenerative braking can be used. We urgently need to find an efficient method of storing electricity.
A possible alternative could be trolley buses or trams, shame we did away with all the overhead wiring and tram lines.
They should bring back the old RouteMaster. Many a happy hour as a pubescent young man was spent following Gertie the Clippy up the stairs on the 213 to Malden. She never wore bloomers and was bow-legged so one got quite a good view. She was 58 though, a bit of a growler.
@Guido,
That Wall Street Journal “article” is nonsense.
Much more on the ball http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-uk-trail-mf-global-collapse-may-have-apocalyptic-consequences-eurozone-canadian-banks-jeffe
Every seat should have a set of pedals connected to a generator so the passenger contributes to the propulsion process.
would help cure obeaseity as well!
GREAT idea!! Why not do away with the motors altogether?
yeah you could have special seats for union officials and EU nobs that don’t have to pedal
most of the bus full of scroungers not pedalling and two middle aged white men trying to give them all a free ride an suffering coronorary thrombosis
Cooee x .
Hiya , petal x .
E x .
Given that the Mark 1 version of almost anything will have teething troubles and scope for improvement, the real test will be what the subsequent Mark 2 is like.
The next step is some intensive service, and see which bits fall off these initial production models first.
The main thing is how cheap to change the bits.
Cripes!! Let us hope it isn’t the
voterspassengers, good fellow. Golly gosh – does anyone here possess a link-removal tool. My chain seems to have jammed again, blow it!Eng, Is there room for a re-engine? As in a Perkins diesel???…
I guess we go to Germany to make the shit that work
I’d like to depress you some more, but I’ve run out of time.
Not so much feeling the pain, it’s more that he’s been at the sauce.
Well one of those might just be able to accomodate Boris and partners, ex-partners and off spring, are going to offer to be the drive and conductor Billy
Come on Motty Botty tha teks thi time!
Poot isn’y that somethig to do with Jimmy Gordon
Seems like you are having a bit of an off-day Guido.
If you need some stories, you mighyt like to delve into the merky world of corruption in local authorities. The scandals at Waltham Forest offer rich pickings.
Looks good?
I dunno what school of engineering design you went to Billy but this thing is fugly.
It is a horrible, one-eyed Frankenbus.
It is a bus drawn by a 5-year-old with ADHD.
The orinal Routemasters were iconic designs – this thing is a monstrosity.
Electric bus… no
Its a coal/gas/nuclear bus.
One thing we can be sure of – its not a windfarm bus.
Great – we’re going back to the days of coal driven transport, couldn’t we just have a steam engine?
The lady is not for Bending
She started the ROT.
What, industrial strife, double-digit inflation, poor productivity and being the ‘sick man of Europe’?
That’s what she inherited – the rot started long before then.
TIT
Nope it was all of you, something for nothing, lefties who started the rot and are still trying as hard as possible today to ensure that you flush the UK down the toilet of failed socialist claptrap.
Low petrol usage eh? So will we be seeing fares dropping?
*cough* like hell we will.
I’ve got a freedom pass. They can charge what they like. The more they charge the more I save.
I cann’t use my old todgers pass in London, still I don’t down there
Buses burn diesel…
Just ask the EU for a chauffeur driven Maserati, it’s the only way to travel among the peasants.
I would take a bendy one any day.
So how much is one of the buses going to cost?
Lower fuel costs are welcome but if the vehicle costs twice as much then it may be little more economical.
If it has the lifespan of the original routemaster, then it could have a purchase price ten times the price of a bendy bus and it would still save money.
> Lower fuel costs are welcome but if the vehicle costs twice as much then it may be little more economical.
Lower fuel costs are welcome but if the vehicle costs more than the cost savings in fuel it’s uneconomic.
Probably the most expensive cost is the staff.
Automating the entire tube network should be Boris’s next priority (like the eastern section of the Jubilee line already is).
most expensive is the staff?
get some poles and lithuanians in place
£11 million for 8 vehicles, unit cost £1.375 million!
Didn’t the last double deckers cost under £200K each?
Depends how they amortize the development costs.
Fu-k me I didnt think you could get away with that amount unless it was a plastic DOME. Don’t like to remind everyone about that rather large White elephant, If only the Revenue investigated the Toffs, we probably wouldn’t have a budget deficit.
The Dome makes a super tennis court though.
Lord Coe has made plenty of wonga sport
Most of that cost will be the initial R&D, the more units bought the lower the unit cost?
Just the eight buses? Those things must be bigger on the inside than the outside then. Well played, Boris.
Yeah. They seat 7,250 with standing room for another five thousand, apparently.
They should fit a roofrack
Tell the fracking roos to hop it.
It wouldn’t possibly be that the 8 buses will be road tested to see how they withstand London conditions – heavy traffic, riots, student demos etc, so that any mods can be made before the much larger order is made? Boris for Minister of Procurement!
Boris is a procurer, but mostly for his own bed!
And who is going to pay for all this then, I hope that Boris does not go to the government for a loan, and then the rest of the country outside the M25 having to pay for it.
Don’t panic. Another eight will come along soon.
You have to wait for rge first eight first. Will they be running around in convoys?
The £11m covers the development and testing. Each bus is about £330k, only a little more expensive than a conventional hybrid, but they use more fuel.
But the big deal is that it has three doors and two staircases, so loading and unloading is superfast.
And to put that £11m in perspective, TFL spent £90m putting two lifts in St James’ Tube station….
Sounds good,but the catch is the extra doors,the bendy bus had a rear door for exit but all the non payers used it for entry,will it with driver only buses be the same again !!!
That’s good Lord C, an extra door to enable me to nip on without paying.
Well I never. People use the rear doors on buses to avoid paying!!!
Mugs. You can also get on the front door and wave any old bit of paper (or just say hello so he’ll be numbed in shock and get the front seats while the crush are fighting not to pay at the back door.
Under Labour & PFI they would have cost £20m each over 25 years. Routine servicing @ £100k every 6 months , tyres @£10k each etc etc etc.
So? The Met want to buy three anti-riot water cannon for £1.3 million each. An armoured version with tear gas launchers can be purchased off the shelf in RHD form for £350,000 each. That’s a lot of dinners (or hookers).
they havent said how long the batteries will last for. I hear re-batterying a Prius is very expensive and needs doing every 2-3 years.
Why not have trolleybuses and dispense with the heavy diesel engine and the batteries?
Boris can park his bus up my arse anytime he likes. Ding DONG.
I think Boris might just take you up on that, leave your name and address he wants extra parking for his buses
Looks like a Hit ler bus
Hit-ler Bus?
Well spotted!!!
lol
Hit ler bus NOT Pit ler bus
Will they be built in Great Britain or in Germany?
Has the EU stuck their oar in yet?
Scotland, I hear.
County Antrim, Northern Ireland, I’m pleased to say. Wrightbus.
it’s built by fucking paddy gypos – typical
Apparently not typical
What a crude comment – this website is becoming low on intellect.
The relative mpg of the new and old vehicles should take into account passenger capacity.
Whoever is now running this site is not only getting lazy but also putinesque.
looks nice – but i’ll give it a couple of days until every window is etched and scratched by schoolkids ( mostly of an ethnic persuasion )
I wonder how long the HSE will allow a set of stairs straight down to the open rear door….
and as for hop on and off a moving bus ! Won’t be long before the rear entry is butt plugged
works for me
Any more insinuations that William Hague is a gay will be refered to Carter Ruck
Built by WrightBus in Northern Ireland.
http://www.wrightbus.com/site/default.asp
Shouldn’t it be painted orange?
Round my way we have shitty old buses, first registered in the seventies, belching out black fumes.
Stevey babes, someone is not maintaining them properly, blocked injectors and other routine maintenance, the first thing to go is maintenance.
They are not just fumes, deisel particulates are well known carcinogens.
Yeah in London yu can get Bung Cancer
gotta love boris.
We’re going to “love” Boris when we catch up with him.
Note how in the picture Boris is turning sharply to the right. Nice and topical.
What’s the financial loss on the bendy buses?
We don’t care, we got our cut
New York uses bendy buses, but Boris can’t sell them the London buses as surplus, as they open on the “wrong side.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_City_Transit_NovaBus_LFS_1254_M15_SBS.JPG
Japan, anybody? I think they still keep left.
South Africa .We flog them for £3 million quid each, kick back £1 million each to the Head Darkie In Charge, give Boris 100K and sign the natives up for a five year mainatinence and spares contract with 10% pa escalation.
Hear hear! The spirit that made Britain great!
Zulus – thousands of them
“Men of Harlech, stand ye steady…”
coventry still have them. mebbe they could use some second hand ones?
Dream ticket for the next election. Boris as PM and Nigel Farage as Chancellor.
Jeremy Clarkson at the Home Office
No DWP running benefits
Emma West at Transport
NO! International Development and Women and Equality.
Emma West at immigration.
Dan Hannan as Forigen Sec.
Back from lunch Billy?
Bonking Boris is damaged goods. It’ll never happen so grow up and get over it.
Name me a politiclot (sic) who isn’t damaged goods? Boris might have difficulty in keeping his flies buttoned-up, but he’s slowly making London a better place to live.
He’s better than a lot of so called comedians on the telly
If you let Farage near the petty cash box then there won’t be any money in there next morning…
But there’s no money left, so it won’t happen, will it?
You mean he is known to to be a little heavy on the old expenses?
As usual the usual shit from the usual suspects. Farage gets paid exactly the same money and expence allowance, as EVERY other MEP. What applies to him applies to EVERY other MEP in Brussels.
That would be the same Farage that has his wife in the EUSSR trough with all four hoofs?
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-dif/4525_13-01-2011.pdf
Pork farms anyone? Oink, oink!
Wasn’t the defence that “everybody does it” tried out in the expenses trials and found to be not valid under English law?
Do you want to try the “my mates said it was alright” defence that was also given a run out? That also seemed to come to grief.
If I may suggest, the “recompense for EU Parliamentary expenses take place in Brussels and is therefore outside the competence of the UK courts” defence might be the best line.
Apparently it has klaxons and warning lights that go off whenever anyone says something wacist – the bus then drives on autopilot to the nearest nick so they can be arrested for their own protection, while wirelessly transmitting footage of the event to Youtube for inspection by the faux-outrage stasi.
Very sensibly, the system is calibrated to only target whites, since according to Julie Birchill and Jo Brand only they can be wacist. It’s about power, you see.
Unless that power involves you being raped and/or having your brain kicked to a mush by an effnic gang. That’s not power, it’s a righteous protest and an inevitable result of Tory cuts. Or something.
Haha
Anyone else noticed how now it is increasingly frequent that you’ll hear about someone being arrested for being “racist” or making “racist” comments.
Was that woman arrested for using obscene language in a threatening way? Or was she arrested because she doesn’t approve of the mass immigration of recent decades
The BBC and Guardian think that anyone against the tyranny of the EU is a “racist” – how long before expressing that idea becomes an offence?
The BBC and Guardian think that anyone against the tyranny of the EU is a “racist”
According to the EU, WW1 & WWII were ‘civil wars’ (seriously!). I expect that the BBBC & the Graun will adopt that view as well.
George Orwell would be proud of them.
Emma West has been sent to prison and her children abducted by the state because she has politically incorrect views. How very like the old East Europe, the new ‘liberal’ EU has become.
I wonder when Boris will become an MP again and then PM?
So now you’ll have something nice to look at when the full bus goes past.
There’s only 8 of them planned. That’s less than operate on a single route.
What I don’t understand is the premise of the post, which is that an expensive and impractical gimmick represents some sort of contrast with Flashman.
Both chips operational and performing to specification I presume, Jimmy?
Could have been worse. Rumour has it he originally wanted the one with Leona Lewis coming out of the top.
I suppose it’s a contrast with all those black taxi drivers that Ken’s “fund” supposedly bought…
You wait years for a decent bus and then 8 come along at once.
Shame they cannot be painted blue!
when i get on a bus during the day i usually are the only paying customer as most of the others are on some kind of benefits. What really annoys me is the young mothers with 1 year old child in pushchair, the child could easily walk but no the fat slob (mother) cant be arsed to get her child to walk.
The child is sat on 3 kilos of crack cocaine that the mother’s pushing around on behalf of the current boyfriend.
“it uses a small diesel engine to generate electricity, when it is needed”
Wouldn’t one of the laws of thermodynamics suggest that that would be less efficient than using the diesel engine to move the bus?
Not necessarily. Diesel-electric is used in trains due to Diesel engines having a narrow performance range whereas electric can have a high torque at low speeds.
Electric motors produce even torque throughout their rev range. Diesels make good torque at the lower end of their rev range. Blah, blah……
Easy answer to this. According to TFL’s standard economy test, diesel double deckers do 5.6mpg, hybrids about 8.6mpg and this bus 11.6mpg.
The battery can store all the energy recovered when braking. And buses do a lot of braking when bus stops are only 500 yds apart.
Yeah- quicker to walk, surely?
I travelled on a bus recently, and I was indeed sat there thinking that it would have been quicker to walk. The bus stops seems to be about a bus-length apart.
(BTW, ta to AC1 for the info.)
Red Ken promises a bus that will actually PRODUCE diesel. (The fuel consumption is off balance sheet)
Roll up Roll up All Aboard for the Boris Magical Mystery Tour
With Ed Miliband as The Fool on the Hill.
You wait ages for a manifesto promise to materilise, then they all come along at once.
Well done Boris. ol’ chap.
He showed up just as I lit a fag…
You’ll get jailed for that*
*unless you’re muslim, and “new” to alcohol, and meet a mad soft-racist judge.
Not THAT kind of fag, but I know what you’re saying…
As far as not being able to hold liquor, I believe Grampa and Dr. Archie have the solution:
Boris is not the immediate threat to Camoron. The member for Chingford, has a very big axe to grind after being shafted by CMD in favour of calamity Clagg over benefit reform. He may not have the personna of his predecessor for that constituency but when the time is right out will come the Doc Martens and the boot will go in.
There’s no shortage of Tory backbenchers spoiling for a fight, it just needs a big name to light the blue touchpaper.
The only question is whether Dave will have the balls to tell Clegg ‘sorry, foxtrot oscar’.
IDS was one of the main opponents of the Maastrict Treaty and gave Major vast amounts of trouble in its passage through Parliament so don’t underestimate the support he has with the Thatcherite Eurosceptic wing which is 4 times as big as it was then and when Major came within a whisker of losing a confidence vote…the fact is that Cameron is haemorraghing support within his party where he was never very popular but was put up with because the party thought he was the best chance they had of returning to government but he failed in 2010 to achieve an overall majority by his and his advisers bad tactics….hence the LibDems having too much say in matters which to the right of the Tory Party is worse than Labour being in power
Call-me-heir-to-blair is the 21st Century’s Richard II. Weak, inconstant,vacillating and eschewing his british councillors for fair-weather friends from rival parties and the Continent. Richard !! is the reason we didn’t go down the road of the Devine Right of Kings. Dave may well be the reason we steer away from the Devine Right of PMs as instituted by NuLabour. Perhaps fortunately, “uman writes” will spare him from the Fate of Richard – a red-hot poker up the anus.
Stiffen the sinews!
Er, jellyfish don’t have sinews, do they?
He’s just a Dick.
I’m very frustrated…
Sorry, dahling, but even I have some standards…
SUBJECT: English (local??) Politics
Dave was concerned about Boris
His affairs with too many a Doris
‘If you must let us down
As mayor of this town -
I’ll sack you and get Shagger Norris’
I think that we all know the answer to that
Cameron is managing expectations downwards regarding any concessions being achieved at Summit especially regarding that Transaction Tax or any special consideration for City of London so he’s in big trouble…spin will no longer do…if he vetoes a new treaty then Franco-German Axis will go for treaty involving only 17 nations and ignore him. He can no onger bullshit his way out of this.He has to concede an in/out referendum as such a move will seriously impact on the Britishh National Interest…
To add to his woes Barroso has warned leaders ahead of the meeting so expect stormy weather ahead next week in Parliamentespecially if Cameron tries to duck issue or spin this as a success…he can not refuse to concede a referendum and expect the continued support of the majority of his party any longer
” Barroso said he expected leaders to come to the talks not “saying what they cannot do, but what they will do for Europe”. …which runs counter to all that Cameron has been spinning this last week
I really dont see the problem in letting the 17 have their own treaty – as long as they cant force any daft tax or regulation on us. There is nothing stopping them voting as a single bloc now so what would change?
They wouldn’t be able to come up with only have one entry betweeen them for the Eurovison song contest.
Something else we should steer clear of.
Like the EU the UK makes one of the largest contributions and that’s why even though we get “Null” points every year we always get an automatic bye to the Final
Is Israel still part of Europe, dear?
We should plead poverty and cut the contribution the BBC makes to the European Broadcasting Union which runs the contest.
The argument that it tests the technology for international transmission of TV pictures is no longer valid; all the technology needed is nowadays developed by competition between private firms.
It’s a statist solution in an internationalised world.
Bye bye, bye.
CaMoron doesn’t get to sit at the table when they decide how many unicorns can fit on a Euro.
How many of the 17 will still be there in 12 months time?
Even the Germans can’t carry the PIIGS alone and none of the others who are not in trouble, want to get sucked into trouble by them either.
You can have the best buses in the world, but what’s the point if all the passengers are misfits and nutters?
speak for yourself
The bikes project was started before Boris was Mayor, btw. He just happened to be around when the project came to fruition.
Yes, but where are the on-board back rubs and jacuzzi?
Where did those bendy buses come from. Were they one of livingstone’s bright ideas?
Yes. They use them on the revolutionary boulevards of South America, so Leninspart thought Londonistan should have them as well.
Bloody hell and not one p@ki in sight. You should see Derby Now it’s more like Derbystan
So, we started off with horse drawn trams, then the electric powered tram, then the electric trolley bus, then the diesel bus and now the diesel electric bus. When will we go back to the horse drawn tram?
Never. CAGW theory says that too many animals will destroy the climate by producing CO2. Expect to see buses being drawn through the streets of London by long lines of ASBO’s on community service orders.
Should I knock gold on the head and get into horses?
Soon.
It’s a bus, am I missing something here?
Your train, dear?
Diesel is 10p per litre more than petrol in our part of the country!
What a bloody rip-off.
I spotted my Mooslim neighbour screaming for help from his bedroom earlier, as his house was burning down.
So I fetched a ladder like any decent citizen would do, and climbed up to jam the window shut
That is rather gay of you, dear. I would have poured a gallon of four-star in before nailing the window shut.
As Neville Chamberlain said “Hitler has missed the bus”
Poor Ken..
Boris bikes
Boris buses
next?
Boris beetroots
Boris bananas
Boris bollox
Johnson’s Jonnies followed by lots of little Boris Bastards.
Can’t wait. I’ve missed the Routemasters which Labour took off. Fuck the rotten bendy buses.
140 million on 5,000 bikes is 28,000 pounds per bike.
Someone must have seen Boris coming.
It’s a disasterous project and we are going to be paying through the nose forever.
Have you a reference for that statistic? I’m sure we would all like to see it.
Namely how to create a he@vily armed militia in addition to a large army? That’s the TRUE politics of the left.
Emma West was right that spongers should go back to Nicaragua
How do I pronounce that again?
Dropping the Routemasters was the prudent, diverse and New Labour thing to do.
On some routes the bendy buses worked fine.
Did we lose on them, taking them out of commission early?
Very very likely we did.
Throwing them all away was simple spin and PR.
A load of bollocks all paid for by tax payers cash.
No they were hated by everyone except those who did not want to pay. They would block the roads and especially pedestrian crossings, too long for London’s winding roads. More suited to a grid like communist city, which is why c*nts like you and red Ken liked them.
If they were really just useless in London, why not sell em to somewhere like Milton Keynes?
AFAIR Top Gear had bus racing including two different brands of knackered bendy-bus, so presumably they’re already in use somewhere else in the UK.
Is that a poem, dear? They’ll make someone a fine greenhouse, won’t they? How many pot plants could I grow in a Bendy Bus, I wonder?
What, turn it into a cannabus ?
Sherry -> screen moment, dear.
You remember the last scene of the Godfather?
The man shuts the door in Diane Keatons face, Gordon style.
Richard James Bright was his name.
Killed by a bendy bus in New York.
Personally I don’t care what sort of buses they get, I’ll drive my Jag anywhere and everywhere I want to. I like driving a nice fossil fuel power station around. The more the greenies tell me not to do something the more i will do just the opposite! Don’t they realise that unless public transport is a genuinely cheaper and ‘better’ alternative we will continue to do what is most convenient!
BBC seem insistent that the fire this morning was a double decker:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16085550
sure looks like a bendy to me.
If the last bendy has burnt to the ground, virtually on the last day of service, it is a sign from God.
And the funniest thing I’ve heard in years.
And a clear warning to Ken Livingstone’s campaign.
Nah, double decker. One deck in front of the other.
I think the new buses look great.
Clever Boris to go for something so visible!
And British built!
Tonight’s Question Time panel includes the former Mrs Huhne, Vicky Pryce.
Help Guido. Im being hassled bye that chick again. BTW giudo sorry for bothereing yuo again guido/neo but ive customised the “booth” and painted a muriel of you both on the back wall. It ain’t fully finished yet so dont get to angry when you see it.
Bullfrog Barroso , Just given a stark warning to “Call me Spineless”
“Don’t come here telling us what you won’t do !
Come here and tell us what you will do for Europe !
The whole world is watching !”
That’s it then we are fucked , “spineless” will sign us up to anything they want
“It’s the right thing to do”
Downing Street has said that “yesterday’s summit meeting between Heads of Government to resolve the crisis in the Eurozone has been very productive and a success..Once again the Prime Minister has stood up for the national interest. ”
Commentators have said that legislation to enable the necessary treaty change will be put before Parliament in the New Year. “It’s is a triumph for British Diplomacy and Common sense !” went on the PM’s Press Spokesmen ” and totally removes the necessity for the matter to be put before the people in a referendum !”
“and totally loses the opportunity for the matter to be put before the people in a referendum !”
Hey Billy that wanky cricket tosser “Bung adin ” has just broken some record or other ?
Please go back to your chamber and reconsider until you come up with ‘its totally constitutional.’
You’ll all get an extra layer of gold plate on your pensions if you do.
Or Panzers at the gates if you don’t.
Who cares about constitutionality!? This is about protecting our phoney baloney jobs!
Give von Rumpy a Harumpf!
Denmark on the news this morning 54% of Danes want their old currency back !
also most Greeks want the Drachma back
60% of Germans want the return of the Deutschmark
36% of the French want out
yet these dictators still insist on wasting billions against the will of the people !
The rigsdaler and the skilling? After 136 years?
I think I’ll stick with LSD, dear.
From Helsinki in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain is descending across the Continent
The bendy bus reflects Livingstone, and how he bent the truth.
The BBC luvvie lefties take great pleasure in talking down the UK. How how desperately they want it to go wrong for Cameron and the country.
Err, Cameron I can live without, the country however……..
Why wasn’t the new bus fitted with 50 sets of pedals? Now that would have been enviromentally friendly.
The new bus is brighter that Peter Hain’s face.
Vy are you Britisch keep menschionink ze war?
Because you keep singink about davor.
Lili Marleen
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Vor der Kaserne,
Vor dem großen Tor,
Stand eine Laterne,
Und steht sie noch davor
See? You started it.
Slow news day?
Isn’t it just. I’ve just seen the headline:
“Hurricane-force winds batter Britain – 100mph gales cause many schools across Scotland to shut”
So in other words, “Hurricane-force winds batter Scotland. Rest of UK is rather mild.”
And what, for heaven’s sake, *doesn’t* force a school to shut? I’m pretty sure my local comprehensive shut due to the Leonids meteor shower.
It just aint cricket!
Don’t know where you are Billy but we wuz getting ready to put our swimming trunks on, the rain came in horizontal and bloody hurt, the roads looked like rivers, it’s calmed down now only high winds.
My local rag has the Peanuts strip. Yesterday’s showed one flake of snow falling and all the kids yelling in unison “Shut the schools”.
Oh sh*t. try again:
My local rag has the *Charlie Brown* cartoon strip. Yesterday’s showed one flake of snow falling and all the kids yelling in unison “Shut the schools”.
Kids in Unison ?? Great idea !! We’ll charge ‘em half price.
Every day is a slow news day.
I read they’ve found two new black holes, the smaller of which is 10 billion times the size of our sun. But, they’re 300 million light years away.
Wouldn’t it be cool if there was another similarly-sized black hole that had snuck up on us while we weren’t looking, and it was going to be here next Tuesday?
That would be a great news day. For once, something worth reading. But on the down-side, it would piss me off because I’ve just ordered a load of Christmas presents from Amazon.
Would we see it coming? Anyway, ordering anything from Amazon is a little like staring into a mini black hole, isn’t it?
We’d see it coming, sure. All the outer planets would get pulled into it, and the it would block-out the stars.
As for amazon, so far everything’s arrived. And a lot cheaper than on the high street, too. How’s the High Street doing, I wonder? All those overpriced shops, with their dismal assistants who are more interested in texting their m8s than actually acknowledging their customers’ existence?
I bet it’s doing really well. *laughs*
What you save in healthcare and benefits is offset by the economic damage that’s incurred when the Highways Agency cone-off the whole area – to a radius of about 3 miles – for about 10 hours while they investigate the death of one pointless lycra-clad hippy.
I bet the £56,403 doesn’t include the end of year performance-related bonus (let’s say.. £20,000) that will be awarded to the public-sector cretin who ordered the game in the first place.
Looking at that thing , whoever designed that have been watching an exfilm star now California goveners films.
Tthat glass to replace will probably cost just as much as the bus, it looks like an upturned rasberry jelly in a plastic mould, still Boris said he would do it, shame our so called PM can’t keep to promises made.
As I don’t inhabit the UK I do not know if this latest vehicular monstrosity is going to be called Routemaster II or the Bojowaggon. Anybody help please?
Committees will be working on the name, now. There will be focus groups, design forums, public consultations. And lo, it will be called..
The Big Red Bus.
“it is multicultural. Built by Wrightbus in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, its hybrid control system, electric motors and drive axle are German; the battery is Chinese; the doors are Dutch; the seats and windows are Italian, and the seat fabric is Austrian.”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23900952-is-the-new-routemaster-boris-johnsons-ticket-to-re-election.do
So when do the strikes in NI start? Got to time my holidays properly
fuk off
Tony Benn is insane
Tony Benn is senile.
I agree. New head of state for Zimbabwe.
Little Johnny can be the head and you, Silly Sally, can be the state.
P.S. Maybe you misheard. Perhaps Benn said head of snake.
Sure thing, E. I’m a long-time admirer of yours and, anyway, John seems to think he’s too important for such playfulness.
When I hear “John Bercow” and “head” together, I think of something else he’s more logically a “head” of.
He, TB, is a sandwich short of a picnic.
SB is a slapper.
Boris is a fucking twat
My opinion is formed solely on the Barclays Cycle Hire (Boris Bikes) in London will cost an estimated £140,000,000 or £28,000 per cycle
Lard ass fucktard twat Boris should try working in Black Country engineering company sweating his bollocks off to only to pay corporation tax for some ringpiece to spunk on a fucking bike or two
Room for one more on top Guido?
It’ll never succeed !! Bring back my beloved
benderbendy buses. Free travel for all !!Kenny If you can hear me get back in the pond.
Power to your elbow Boris
Glad I moved away. From what I see in the news, I would have been blown hard today.
U has not been re-boned recently , I C x .
SC x .
I would like to thank God for sending a violent storm to Gordon today. Long and hard may it blow.
Makes sense to use double deckers as they take up less room on the roads and it’s good for giving the tourists a better view. I think it looks ugly though, the winners of the “design” competition made it look like a retro routemaster, rather like the new mini has a retro look of the original. I wonder why the winning designs did not make it through to the production version?
Is Poland under contract to provide the drivers?
How can you just walk away from me?
When all I can do is watch you leave?
Cos we shared the laughter and the pain
And even shared the tears
You’re the only one
Who really knew me at all
You disguised yourself as the leader
And buggered my country, you bleeder.
A son of The Manse
Who shits in his pants
Then sits on yours truly, dear reader.
©Rockin Horse 2011
Scans OK, E.
Ta.
they actually look pretty good. traditional but modern. good work on the fuel consumption as well.
thumbs up from me.
The support by some on these pages for Emma West is really unsettling. Whatever your views on immigration, she’s exactly the kind of foul accented illiterate council estate chav mum you normally and rightfully condemn.
The Guardian says Its all the fault of the police.
Most people on this blog don’t care tuppence for her personally, in all likelihood, but the principle is what’s important. The woman is getting banged up because the video went viral and the System is embarrassed– no other reason. She’s a poke in the eye with a sharp-pointed stick, which is what most of the posters on this blog are. (Odd that lefties champion people they’d dread being alone with, come to that.)
Her foul mouthed tirade seemed slurred by drink and was racist and unacceptable and so was the looting and burning of Croydon and other places. Mass immigration has destabilised British society and the rot looks incurable.
She said nothing that isn’t regularly said here.
Does that mean it’s OK, Jimmy? Does it? Does it?
Is that what you want? More racism? Is it? Is it? I suppose you think Steven Lawrence being murdered was OK, was it? Was it? Is that what you think, is it? Is it?
Hey, this is easy. I can see why lefties make it look such an art.
My concern is that if everyone who expresses cretinous and obnoxious views on race gets banged up then it’ll just be me and Moussa on here and frankly I just don’t have the time to run the place.
Don’t worry Jimmy. You’ll have Labourlist traffic levels within a week. Much less work.
Quality rather than quantity in other words? Very kind of you to say so.
“Cameron, who promised so much in his manifesto, might be a little discomforted by such an eye-catching public service advance.”
No, Cameron’s probably looking forward to the spectacle of poor old Boris making a fool of himself, as usual, by jumping up and down and shouting “Look at me! Look at ME!”
In honour of Boris the bus should be called the Rutmaster.
Grrrr!
Breaking news from America !
A gunman is shooting people at Virginia Tech university
the same location where a few years ago another gunman carried out America’s domestic killing
Murdering 34 people
Nice to see as a result of last time they tightened up security so it wouldn’t happen again !
greart are they being sent back to Germany?
An interesting equation:-
(Toenails + Al-Beeba + David Cameron + Attention to Europe) = 1,000,000 x (Toenails + Al-Beeba + Gordon Brown + Attention to Europe)!
Al-Beeba is more interested in DC prospects than the prospects of future Europe FFS!
Cnuts!!
Once more Londoners are pampered whilst the rest of the country suffers on below par public transport. What is wrong with bendy buses, was the feng shui wrong?
I like the look of the new one and hope they’ll be eventually on the routes I use (9, 14, 22). I also say “good riddance” to the bendy bus: http://dasteepsspeaks.blogspot.com/2011/12/bendy-chariots-youre-fired.html
superb
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Bus fares will have gone up by 50 per cent under Boris Johnson. He has also cut bus capacity at a time of growing bus ridership – leading to more crowded buses. The new routemaster buses are incredibly expensive and there will only be 5 or so on London’s roads by next May. Forget the propoganda put out by Guito from City Hall and look at the facts.
What a relief that the bendy buses have gone! They really did nothing but clog the streets. The ‘Boris Buses‘ look great. They will so much more economical and ecological for London.
Sophie Hobson, deputy editor, LondonlovesBusiness