Boris was in the London Evening Standard’s office on Wednesday to meet Evgeny “Louche” Lebedev and lobbied quite hard for Sarah Sands to get the vacant editor’s desk. His sister Rachel was tweeting yesterday, too:
@joy_lo_dico Tell him, from me, if he knows what's good for him, it's got to be @sandsstandard—
Rachel Johnson (@RachelSJohnson) March 07, 2012
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
Another story from the Daily Journo !
I’m always lobbying for the ladies over their desks
Apparently 8% of men in the area occupied by the Mongol Empire are direct descendants of Ghengis Khan. I think Boris is going for a similar approach in the London area.
I must admit that Politicians who are specialist actors and Hacks who are like politicians are Scum. Hacks should hold the Political elite to account by letting the electorate know how degenerate and uncover their hypocrisy, not keep the dirt to control Policy or threaten the democratic process by blackmailing the Homesexual, the Drunk, and Drug takers fraudster Political class.
As a warty newt, I have my fair share of admirers & assorted wifelets
You have to kiss a lot of Labour Toads to get one Newt
I thought Eric Joyce was a Newt ?
Me too and the younger the better. Boaz.
Who are all these non-entities Geedo keeps coming up with?
Don’t answer that, I really don’t care! Does anyone else?
I know who Boris is but don’t really care about him either.
No ! Because Gweeeeedo is now a “High flying ” Journo we have moved away from parliament to newspaper stories about faceless people who we neither know or give a flying fuck about !
You don’t know Boris? Maybe you should stick to the Beano.
His Beano gets very sticky.
I’ll give Sarah one too.
Rachel Johnson looks like Boris in drag.
Better than looking like the Newt Man
Indeed. But any time I see those pictures of her lying on a chaise longue looking all seductive all I actually see is Boris in a frock.
Nope. Not doing it for me, Rachel.
Even beer goggles wouldn’t help.
See..
Boris in a frock…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072552/The-Lady-magazines-matriarch-Julia-Budworth-renews-bitter-feud-Rachel-Johnson.html
No way am I opening that link of yours.
Why? Does the Daily Mail make you feel dirty?
The Grauniad has that effect on me.
Suddenly you’re back to being wierd.
No. “Newspaper tribalism” versus “disturbing transgender confusion involving boris”
Daily mail is just fine for pictures of big Kardashian bottom.
Thanks for clearing that up. Yep “disturbing transgender confusion involving boris” describes Rachel Johnson perfectly.
Have her and Boris ever been seen in the same room? Actually, they probably have.
No lady puts het boots on a chaise longue.
ditto her boots
That’s vert unsettling, because she does! BoJo in person’s worrying enoug, but looking like a LimpDem on a day off is doing my head in.
i haven’t done a poo for a week
I’ll wait
Boris rocks!
Sure does
Narrrrrrrrrrrr!
when did Lorraine take over this site?
As GF often says, the site all about the Parliamentary bubble
So this is nothing to do with newspapers, ok?
Offer him some drugs. He loves his drugs.
Is the Standard a step up or down from the Star on Sunday?
Asking for a friend.
I think you’ll find they’re both a step down.
I was under the impression Sunny Hundal was a c*unt. I’ve never knowingly read anything by the chap though so I may be mistaken.
Is he a c*unt or not?
Next Week, Syrian Army Kills Millions – My defence of the Assads!
They’re doing it to show the imperial Western aggressors who’s boss.
This sort of nonsense would never have happened when Assad’s dad was alive. Homs would be simply shelled into oblivion and bulldozed off the map by Daddy Assad. None of this low-level sniper nonsense.
Bloody wishy washy liberals.
If you don’t like Assad there’s always Morrisons and Tesco.
Such a tribal defence it could be a comedy act.
Although I believe in Numan Rites, I’ll even defend an inhuman toad
1976. So the electromagnetic radiation from the original broadcast has travelled 36 light-years from Earth and will have been detectable in the planetary systems, if any, of at least 50 stars. I wonder WTF the scientists there make of this, any more than Muffin the Mule or Coronation Street. What sort of picture of life here are they assembling? Will they puzzle over the singer’s lips being out of synch with the soundtrack, or the middle-aged types in evening wear on the dance-floor?
No wonder we’ve had no credible visits from UFOs. This is the one positive thing you can say about the BBC: the politically-correct shite they spew out, all day long, from every orifice, is keeping the aliens at bay.
Best defense of the BBC I’ve read yet. I think I’ll borrow it for Canadian blogs bitching about CBC (we’ve lots of that). Keeps aliens at bay! Love it!
But can BBC top this one: CBC was importing soft-core French porn for the francophone audience. With my tax money (they get funded out of general revenues so I have to pay even though I have no TV).
Just read his defence of the salivating salamander – that sounds like “Yes, he is a fucking useless, lying, nest feathering, racist, tax avoiding wanker, but Boris tells big fibs and went to Eton so he loses on Top Trumps.
Does he get paid to write this sort of limp wristed crap. Huhne should use him to write his mitigation speech to M’Luds.
tip of the iceberg
just wait for the next few years as our PC government turn a blind eye to this.
Then………………………………
We will reclaim our country
Trouble is we won’t reclaim our country.
It’s gone beyond the point of no return.
Politicians and pressure groups have engineered this. They have given Isalmists a special status. They are to all intents and purposes above the law. They are outbreeding the native population in places like Luton and we will soon see Sharia ghettos that we will be forced to tolerate in the interests of keeping the peace. There will be police no-go areas and the Muslim ‘communities’ will be allowed to ‘police’ themselves – i.e. Sharia by the back door.
This will be repeated in Birmingham, Bradford, parts of Manchester, parts of London and then will spread outwards.
There will be no uprising by the natives of this island as we have become to soft, stupid and appathetic. The police will be on the side of the politicians, who are on the side of the Islamists.
In a nutshell, this country is fucked.
Short of a coup by the military, Britain as we knew it will be but a memory by 2050.
Trouble is we won’t reclaim our country.
It’s gone beyond the point of no return.
Politicians and pressure groups have engineered this. They have given Isalmists a special status. They are to all intents and purposes above the law. They are outbreeding the native population in places like Luton and we will soon see Sharia ghettos that we will be forced to tolerate in the interests of keeping the pe@ce. There will be police no-go areas and the Muslim ‘communities’ will be allowed to ‘police’ themselves – i.e. Sharia by the back door.
This will be repe@ted in Birmingham, Bradford, parts of Manchester, parts of London and then will spread outwards.
There will be no uprising by the natives of this island as we have become to soft, stupid and appathetic. The police will be on the side of the politicians, who are on the side of the Islamists.
In a nutshell, this country is fucked.
Short of a coup by the military, Britain as we knew it will be but a memory by 2050.
It’s diversity pal! We have it in Canada too but are not so crowded and here in BC we get a lot of Chinese, who seem rather uninterested in religion. Co-existing with them is really not so bad.
Oh is that right ‘pal’?
Chinese imigrants tend to be decent, hard working people who mind their own business, do not subscribe to medieval death-cult religions and who have no wish to kill anyone for being gay, a woman, or simply not being like them.
Not exactly a like for like situation, is it?
Er, I was being sarcastic.
Actually I think it WILL lead to civil strife, and not too distant either. Of course the civil authorities will side with the M*sl*ms, but the police have’nt the recources to protect every mosque adequately, and it will only take a couple of burnt mosques to spark communal riots, probably of an enduring nature. The BBC will of course try to hide all news items of civil disorder; but the British public has already decided that UK society would be much improved with fewer , much fewer, M*sl*ms.
Any mosque burnings will only result in more protection for the Islamists.
Think it through. “See how persecuted we are? Something must be done to protect us etc.”.
There will no doubt be the odd but of ‘civil strife’ caused by pissed up skinheads and so on but there will be no organised resistance.
There are just too many of them here. Second and third generation. We can’t send them back to the lands of their forefathers without inviting the opprobrium of the ‘civilized’ world. However that would be a price some of us would gladly pay to get our country back.
The white British are now too lazy and complacent and unaware of what is happening around them (except for those unfortunate to still live in the multi-culti hell holes like Luton). They are like the proverbial frog, being boiled so slowly that it doesn’t notice anything is wrong until it is too late to jump out of the pot.
Send them all to Portsmouth, my boys will house them and we will all make millions out of it. They can demonstrate as much as they want down here, so long as the Home Office are paying us for it. I live out of town so it doesn’t bother me. Jahbulon.
Now I don’t usually insult Boris this much. (to this level I mean, not the quantity of insults):
Sounds a bit French to me. “Piston”
This is an inverted pyramid of de Pfeffel.
If you want more comments on your Atul Hatwal story then link it to the main page not the side-b*ar.
Link in top corner (on twitter feed).
Rachel Johnson is like Nancy Dell’Olio gets her beak into everything and they both look like 70′ drag queens I am sick of them both
That Nancy Dell’Olio (sp?) is a total mystery to me. She’s old. She’s not pretty. She looks like a slightly younger Dot Cotton after a visit to Caroline Flint’s hairdresser.
How the fuck does she get invited to anything?
She is helping keep the pressure off Dave and his ill fated hopefully soon to be forgotten Nigerian expedition.
Never mind only one Italian dead and that nice Italian President is being so awfully pleasant about it all.
Why should Dave consult with the Italians anyway? Surely Merkel is running the country now.
Recently Mail on Sunday reported Nancy as dating Dave’s mate Sir Stuart Rose so maybe Nancy is being used as a barrier
Maybe the Italians should have consulted some grown-ups before dr*iv*ing ships around the Med.
her door is always open
Politicians and the fuckin Press should not mix.
End of fucking story and end of fucking Boris and his cost neutral fucking bikes.
Londoners have been screwed enough by this bloated egotistical product of a private public school education.
He should fuck off now and go and live in soddin South Africa.
Surely we should be encouraging all the Africans in London to fuck off back to Africa rather than Boris.
I may be from Africa Sir but I pay my taxes here and I do not fuck about with women.
I work in my take away seven days each week.
No one has ever given me money for writing and talking complete and utter crap.
I agree with you Jane .
My council tax bill is enormous. You should come to Tooting to see it.
Then there are the charges for taking the rubbish from my takeaway.
And now I pay a fortune on the Tube because it is cheaper than having a car. Every time I leave my car out a bloke wants to put a fixed penalty ticket on it.
There are so many things wrong in London we need completely new people in charge.
Not much racial diversity within the group of potential London university students interviewed on BBC breakfast this morning
Jane Birkin and South Africa – a strange mix like oil and water.
Blah blah blah Evening Standard blah blah blah Indy blah blah waffle waffle waffle blah blah blah.
“I ‘ad that Sunny Hundal in the back of the cab once.
‘Oi! No food in ‘ere mate!
I haven’t got any food,he said.
‘Oh’ says i,”must be the chips on your shoulders then..go on ..awaat the door wif yer.”
“And be unlucky..you sap!”
I bet Boris’s Column is bigger that Guido’s little Column
Column inches is not everything.
They are when you’re ” horny as buggery” and “love a good long f*ck”.
Don’t be vulgar, I was trying to make a serious point about journalistic content.
D’you wanna see my pants?
This thread is going downhill…
Have Justine Greening and Yvette Cooper ever been on the same Radio programme? They use the same voice
And boy are they both ugly too!
I’d shag the pair of e’m !
Talk about the wonder of the human voice, Robert Peston ruined a perfectly
charming little programme last night with his whining enraging tone.
Had to turn off “My life in books” last night. Would have led to extreme violence otherwise.
Is there any other organisation that would put such a weirdly modulated voice on TV or Radio? Except, perhaps, as some comedy turn on CBeebies?
It’s must be a registered disability which allows the Beeb to claim they’re being ‘inclusive’ or somesuch.
It is the single most off-putting voice on TV. And there’s plenty to choose from. Ken Livingstone for example. But with Peston I simply cannot get beyond his weird highs, lows, random pauses, screeches and other errr… idiosyncrasies to begin to bother listening to what the fuck he’s actually saying.
What the fuck is the c*unt doing on TV? Haven’t they got anybody else that can talk properly? Regional accent – good. Weird Max Headroom tribute act – not good.
Vocal eccentricities can sometimes be attractive, but in Peston’s case his voice could be used as an undiscovered weapon system. As you say, only in the BBC.
The BBC output on anything to do with politics, business and world affairs is woefully pathetic, stopped bothering with even the 6 o’clock news now, you just know they will lead with some inconsequently rubbish that will take up most of it anyway and with the same tired old faces, the usual suspects.
inconsequential.
Even their own newsreaders can’t stay awake.
And only telling us what we already know but in a very biased manner and leaving out the most important bits that do not meet their agenda.
The talking heads programmes are just as bad – telling us the bleeding obvious – there I have had my daily rant.
This Livingstone creep has no shame – and any gays that turn up to be ‘used’ by him in his silly fundraiser antics will be showing their stupidity.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/07/ken-livingstone-denies-scaling-down-150-a-head-gay-fundraiser/
£150 a-head, does that include a buffet afterwards?.
Cackle
Nice one Annette.
I’m told that at private fundraisers taking place in telephone-boots prices have been as low as a fiver. I’m glad, however, to see Boris and Rachel lobbying on the behalf on the otherwise unemployable.
+ 1
Tee Hee +1
This slimey little Hunt was going around bragging that the Olympics were fully funded and would be delivered on budget at a cost to Londoners of about 20 quid per household.
The brown stuff is now well and truly hitting the fan.
If this slimeball comes anywhere near me he might just get a good kicking.
Looking at Mr Livingstone’s face I think someone has beaten you to it.
Mr Kennedy looks as if he has taken a pounding too.
This morning the “labour party chair of the Home Select Committee” stated that security was always an important issue with the Olympics, and there was no need for this excuse to be used to the constant ramping up of costs.
She must also have a serious memory loss disease as I remember the 3 Olympic budgets put out on a fag packet by the female (now shadow) Secretary of the Olympics.
Message seems to be we Labour girls must protect each other – something to do with Woman’s Day.
Olympix are a racket.
Missed this, though.
Beaver County Times reports, ” Man accused of hiding transmitter under wife’s bed.”
A scoop for the correct count.
hat tip Drudge.
Boris is a lying toad. Never confuse a posh accent with intelligence.
who is this Boris Zinoviev anyway?
any relation of Ivan the Bloody Terrible?
While we’re on the subject – is Len in?
Joyce on sky explaining the sanctions placed upon him, no sanction about shagging school girls, so that will make him happy