Boris and the Liberals
By all account the Mayor’s turn at the 1922 Committee hit the spot last night. James Forysth reports that Boris “left no erogenous zone unstroked”, but what Guido hears he said of the LibDems is worth noting. When asked “what are you doing about the Liberals?” he replied:
“Ah, our beloved coalition partners. Crikey. Haven’t even thought about them. What am I doing about the Liberals? When they become a threat I’ll come up with a strategy. What are we doing about the Liberals? …what should I be doing about the Liberals?”
Apparently the Tory backbenchers replied with cries of “love-bomb them”. “What’s that? Love them? Righty ho.” Classic Boris, but rather dampened by the news this morning that the LibDems will not be budging on his proposed airport. The Guardian claim that Downing Street is blaming Boris for letting the yellows throw a spanner in the works with his briefing to the Telegraph. He’d do well to remember that the love-bombing is not mutual…
Nick Clegg has threatened to veto a new airport in the Thames Estuary amid growing concerns that it is “unaffordable” and will damage the environment.
Question. Can Cameron sack Cleg or is he stuck with him?
Just ignore him; thanks nick, nice input – close the door on the way out
Thank you Nick your input as always is invaluable but after some consideration we have decided to run with our original proposal.If you have any further thoughts on the matter please do not hesitate to voice your concerns as we are always open to your ideas.
somewhat open
BORIS FOR PM !
Yes ! In April 2012, please !!
Ironic that Clegg supports the relatively useless HS2 and yet is against the airport…
Boris secures the vote around heathrow – while labour say they wish to put a thrd runway in and the yellows just dont know where they stand
George,I think the reason he supports HS2 is because it will shorten the time it takes to get from London to his constituency;assuming of course he hasn’t ditched the HoC for a better paid job & pension in the EU.
Just think, if the Liberals were in charge our green land would be covered in windmills and minced bats and birds, and our rooftops with PV panels. And to pay for this our electricity bills would have doubled. Looks like Nick is in charge then.
Just think if Boris were in charge. Turkey would be a member of the EU, an airport inaccessible to anyone west of Chiswick would be built, and further immigration would be welcomed.
Boris is a dangerous buffoon.
It’s getting like a political interview on here. Answer the question.
Can Cameron sack Clegg? Yes Or No
I shall answer the Right Honourable Lady in due course, at the appropriate juncture, in the fullness of time.
Before so doing would the Hon. Member please put his spectacles on and take a second look.
If it does not require a vote in Parliament, Dave can tell him to jump off Westminster Bridge.
That estuary airport will probably mean a flightpath over my house
So Nick’s alright in my book
Your house is in the middle of the sea?
They all are as the Country is drowning in debt !
what is your book?
Retards’ Guide to Living in the middle of North Sea
The boat that i row.
I’m no expert on the geography of that part of the world, but the pictures yesterday were on a peninsula.
Gravesend?
The site for “Boris Island” is actually on probably the most uninhabited part of the south east, the Isle of Grain, next to Allhallows marshes.
Can I have a job there? I speak fluent Estuary English.
He charges £ 100,000 per hour, payable offshore in Swiss Francs. Next !
The Isle of Grain has an oil refinery on it (or what’s left of it) and is close to the “Richard M. Montgomery” a sunken WW2 liberty ship which still has a lot of unexploded munitions on board. The approach will be from the seaward side but as aircraft usually take off in to the wind, and, the prevailing winds are south westerly, a lot of people in Gravesend will get an early morning call from Messrs Pratt & Whitney going at full throttle.
Tip for residents of Erith: Do not eat blue ice. It isnt a lolly!
Clegg is despised. Cable is useless.The Liberals are irrelevant.
Luvbumbing more like.
if Boris is being nice to Liberals I bet they are wearing skirts.
Do they ride bicycles too?
Does anyone know what happened to those spread sheets explaining how the London bike scheme would be self financing within 5 years?
I think Boris better sort out the bike shed first before we let him loose on the airplanes.
Or make more than one bus.
You know, I thought private companies designed and made buses, but apparently in london you have to get the Mayor to do it.
The bike idea is an EyoU mandate for every major city. Like trams etc, they all cost a fortune and lose piles of money but hey, that’s your problem taxpayer.
Does anybody actually believe that Boris Island will be built with landfill? Like the Chilterns? When the Japanese built Kansai they just dredged sand and created a channel to the new container port. Job done. And, incidentally, the decision on Kansai was quick.
I have seen the future.
it is DONCASTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
Nay lad, it will be … Wigan Airport on the Northern Knoll
Slogan “If you’re a regular flyer, you’ll like WANK”
You are Michael O’Leary and I claim my five pounds plus VAT
To be sure, to be sure, but there’s an admin charge of £10 for paying you your winnings, so you owe me £5 (plus VAT plus credit card charge plus insurance).
And if you cancel we do not refund the airport tax unless you pay an administration fee that is actually more than the tax.
Tanks fer yer money ye gullible feckers!!
Don’t you mean Robin Hood airort Charlie?
For God’s sake shhhh. Don’t tell everbody.
I’m absolutely amazed at how useless the libdems have turned out to be in government.
I used to think before the election that they had a chance to replace labour as the main opposition. But frankly once the real spotlight of government was turned on them they were revealed as gods with clay feet.
That because they wont let me take the wheel and be the driving force in the party. I know where the party should be in the opinion polls and can take them there real fast.
Looks like Nick has put his foot down!
You wont need to drive, Huhne, you`ll be in the back of a prison van.
With me as your deputy Chris. We would show them. Boaz.
Look on my works ye mighty and despair
There was nothing wrong with my feet……..Float like a butterfly…
Remember when everyone just used to say, ‘I agree with Nick’ ?
That was the happiest fortnight in my life.
Comment of the day.
Or in Paddicks’ case “clods with gay feet” ?! Cable beyond credulity, a small scraggy Parakeet. Occas’nly cloth comes off cage so he can squawk squark etc etc etc
“crikey”.
doesn’t half take a long time for Boris to say “dunno. nothing” does it?
What he says is so much more entertaining though, n’est-ce pas?
David Cameron is walking down the street when he sees Ed Miliband coming the other way accompanied by a penguin.
“Ed,” says Dave, “you really shouldn’t be walking around with a penguin. You should take it to the zoo.”
Next day, Dave sees Ed again. He still has the penguin, but now it’s wearing sunglasses.
“Ed,” says Dave, “didn’t I tell you to take that penguin to the zoo”.
“Yes,” says Ed, “and we had such a nice time that today I’m taking him to the beach.”
++LOL++
There is nothing Liberal or Democratic about Nick Clegg.
He is the “pensioned” quizzling of a foreign power.
Even the pensioners around here call him a traitor.
There is nothing Liberal or Democratic about his party either. They are all either failed socialists, autocratic nannies, eco-fascist or, more usually, a mixture of all three.
You forgot gayers, too.
“failed socialists”
What’s a successful socialist? Stalin?
Crony capitalism.
Is that where politicians get the taxpayer to “invest” £100 billion in HS2 then flog it off to their mates for a quid?
got it in one
Just use PFI and saddle future generations with all the repayments.
Last year I heard something about the millenium dome, and basically there were a lot of back scratching deals to make it work.
I’m not sure what sort of deal Boris did to get Barclays to sink loads of money into bikes.
The millenium dome needed all those sweeteners because investors were worried about the Y2K computer bug. It was the millenium, so everyone had to be very careful. I am a fighter, not a squitter. Where do I send my invoice?
You just know that Branson will be sniffing round it like Bill Clinton round a trashy bottle blonde with big tits.
Still preferable to what Al Gore spent his time sniffing around. Poor Tipper…
Or indeed David Blunkett’s dog.
This London airport business is like being in a time machine back forty years. Then it was Foulness on the Essex side of the Thames estuary that had all the birdlovers up in arms and ,even then, there was a suggestion to transfer “holiday business” entirely to Gatwick and a then much smaller Stanstead.
There was a big fuss over somewhere called Wing (“Wings off Wing”) which I think was somewhere N/NW of London and I think that some long-dead High Court Judge (Roskill I think) wrote reams on it.I wonder if anyone has had the sense to read it and save some money.
>Sense
>Current Generations.
Pick one.
You will probably get a better result picking your nose.
What would possibly make you think that Boris is not a liberal? If he wasn’t he would have been hounded out of office.
It’s the bleeding obvious that a Thames estuary Island airport is the ideal solution to our congested urban land locked aiports. My advice to Dave is to put a few windmills and a sandal lounge in the plans to win the Liberals round.
A fine plan to raise the 100 million quid.
sorry. loads more zeros required in that number
It will be self financing and a cash cow. Just Google Changi to see how many jobs and trade it would create. We are very fortunate that we have such a large Estuary right next to a massive metropolis.
I don’t believe the hype.
If all that is true you just give them planning permission and let them get on with it.
Its got to require all sorts of state intervention to make it a “new hub”, not least of which throwing money into underground holes for the high speed trains to go into.
And insist all staff are gay.
Don’t forget to put windmills all along the coast on either side to chop up the birds before they can get sucked into the jet engines.
This airport, and the jobs it will bring to north Kent and this much deprived and long-neglected area, is desperately needed. The Isle of Grain is an eye-sore where you could not want to live – beyond Gravesend, Greenhithe to Hoo, overlooking the Thames and Medway estuaries. An ideal location that would relieve pressure on Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted. It’s been talked about for more than 30 years.
As an ex-native from this area you get my vote Boris.
+1
But the BBC are running articles about the plane crash in the Hudson River as a scare story, with the implication that the nasty tories want to kill everyone by crashing their plane into the Thames
Tell you something. I’d rather an expanse of open water at the end of the runway than a school, office block and housing estate.
500 acre goose down pillow please.
Its even better when its a lifeless heap of oozing mud at the end of the runway, where no geese have been seen since the start of the industrial revolution.
the hudson plane crash no one died. If a plane ws to crash over london like the cargo jet in the netherlands the consequenses could be many dead. Look at the BA 777 crash, it only just made it over the perimeter fence because it was on a 3% flight path. Imagine a A380 crashing on the M25.
Why can’t they just develop Manston (near Ramsgate)? Ex wartime airport already functioning mainly for cargo. Just needs a bit of expansion and Robert is your mother’s brother.
Jahbulon. There’s nothing Boris can teach me and my ex-Soviet friends about love bombing. Boaz
Book out soon, darling.
Not at all clear why a Conservative government is thinking of embarking on state socialist type mega-project like another airport for the great capital. Total loss of plot.
I thought you were dead, Kim.
Fuck off Clegg you utter bastard.
Midlanders and northerners are complaining that the island will be too inaccessible for them.
Excuse my ignorance, but why can’t the Tilbury line be upgraded, giving direct access from the Essex side?
It would cause some disruption but only chavs and other Estuary-speakers would be affected, and they cause quite enough disruption to the rest of us already.
This is the nudes: Viewers stunned as Shameless sex scene plays in background during the news.
Guido, did you put Dan Hodges up to this?
Guido, why is my comment “awaiting moderation”? It was perfectly innocuous, apart perhaps from a passing reference to wearers of the Adidas / Burberry.
I hereby resubmit.
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Midlanders and northerners are complaining that the island will be too inaccessible for them.
Excuse my ignorance, but why can’t the Tilbury line be upgraded, giving direct access from the Essex side?
It would cause some disruption but only [persons wearing reverse baseball caps and tasteless clothes] and other Estuary-speakers would be affected, and they cause quite enough disruption to the rest of us already.
Stupid boy!!!! the word is “speeeeeeeekers” geddit?
I think we can alleviate a lot of the pressure on airports by building a toll-free six lane road bridge across the channel. It would save billions if everyone could simply drive over the France whenever they feel like it.
Do Italian cruise liners use that sea route?
You thick bint Polly. MPs can not create one nano second of daylight. Your expensive private education requires a refund.
A 25 hr day will mess up gps satelites.
What’s the betting that Polly charges by the hour for her particular brand of journalism. That means an extra five and a bit weeks worth of dosh to add to her already very high salary
Bit on the Beeb news today about physicists discussing whether or not to move all the clocks forward by one “leap second”. Causes total chaos every thousand years or so if the clocks are not kept to the “right” time.
So why would the MPs want an extra hour of daylight on Friday? Why only MPs? Shouldn’t we all be entitled to and extra hour of daylight and not just on Friday either!!
Sorry Polly, but even if they did vote for it how would it be done? All daylight comes from the sun and that will shine in the way it has always done for millions of years. It does shine on some parts of the world and not others but we call that day and night. We cannot control that so I’m not sure how you can arrange to get one hour of daylight to shine on one location on one particular day.
Perhaps if we took the sun in to state ownership……?
Boris favours this Tory led bill as well.
I know Anon, but look at what Polly wrote. It ranks with “I opened the door in my pyjamas” and “I’ll hold the fence post and when I nod my head, you hit it”
La Toynbee should learn to write good clear English, even if she only has 140 characters with which to do it. But what do I know? I am not a very highly paid journalist with an expensive public school education.
Another lazy socialist who cannot get out of bed in the morning. Remember Polly, ‘The day is old by noon’.
I was up at the crack of Dawn once………..lovely girl, Dawn………..!
Don’t cry for me Argentina!
How many of these jobs will go to British workers? Boris’s Buses will be driven by drivers recruited from Poland. What’s the betting that when the contracts go out to French, German, and Polish firms we hear that familiar “single market” “Free movement of labour” claptrap.
PS.I’d bet that the majority of contracts to build HS2 will go to foreign companies.
Don’t Guardian bods always ‘claim’ some shite or other?
Why change now?
‘F**k the nimby liberals’ airport is a great name.(Or an anagram at least)
Don’t live anywhere near London so I don’t care.
Labour did ‘getting one up on the right’ politics, we should return the favour.
She Winces @ the theory of “Algorithms” ?! or just the tipper de iceberg. Ho ho ho or even a rapper ho