August 4th, 2012

Broadsheet Boris Bounce

If Oscar Wilde is right that there “… is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about” then the Olympics has made things worse for Cameron and better for Boris.

Every single broadsheet this morning is talking about and analysing the prospects for Boris replacing Dave in Downing Street…

As always, you read it here ( Boris2020.org ) first on May 4


311 Comments

  1. 1
    Blowing Whistles says:

    No doubt Peter Oborne – will be in the running to be bojo’s media frontman / spokesman if he gets it.

    • 2
      Tachybaptus says:

      I hope that Boris will have the nous to avoid him.

      • 16

        Boris on maneuvers?

        Nah! Surely not…

        • 20
          Anonymous says:

          Under the bed covers maneuvers more like.

        • 41
          Rat's arse says:

          S.C., it’s manoeuvres. Get a grip mate!

          • Thanks Rats. Quite right and I am glad you have corrected me.

            You may not realise that I have had a long but very *productive* night… ;-)

          • Noah Webster says:

            Yeah, well, if you want to be technical about it, it probably should be “main-oeuvres,” i.e., French for “hand-works,” connoting dexterity and adroitness in the handling of a situation. That’s the etymology. The word came from the elision of those two words. But the British, with their damned stubborn refusal to pronounce words as they are written, prompted me to change the spelling to more accurately reflect the pronunciation. We Yanks are winning the spelling war, get over it.

          • Peed something says:

            Wot u on abart? innit! nowotoymeen?

          • Lou Scannon says:

            There is a glaring omission from GoogleTranslate and that is the absence of an option to translate American to English.

          • Oscar Wilde, posing as a "Somdomite"[!] says:

            “Two great nations divided by a common language”…thanks for the compliment of thinking I wrote that clever phrase to anyone who does so, but it was really George Bernard Shaw. Not a problem– people tend to mistake one iconoclastic paddy for another. Of course, as iconoclastic paddies go, Guido is in a class all by himself…

          • Sir William Waad says:

            Almost all of Noah Webster’s proposed spelling reforms were rightly and enthusiastically ignored.

            One afternoon, Mrs Webster came home unexpectedly and found her husband in bed with the maid. All she could find to say was “Oh, Webster, I am surprised!”

            “No, my dear” he replied. “It is we who are surprised. You, surely, are astonished.”

          • Business Cat (specializing in yarns, Cdn owned & op) says:

            Why is it be necessary to criticize the tiny number of spelling improvements made by the Americans (and mostly adopted in Canada too)?

            Can gaol be defended as a better spelling than jail?

            America-bashing is popular in Canada only by the Leftist chattering classes, who feel threatened.

          • Lou Scannon says:

            I have the misfortune to be employed by an American company (though it wasn’t when I joined). Unless you’ve worked for such a company yourself you simply wouldn’t believe the amount of unintelligible corporate gob-shite that they bombard me with every day.

          • Funambulist says:

            This morning on R4′s Saturday Live, one of the guests was James Partridge, founder of the ‘disfigurement charity’, Changing Faces. He rattled off a long list of words he objects to and which he wants *banned*. These included everyday words such as ‘ugly’, ‘scars’ and common playground insults. Partridge also wants these words removed from all TV shows/movies. Naturally the beeboids agreed with him, guest Gerald Seymour being the only dissenting voice (of sanity.) Rarely have I felt I was closer to living in a repressive totalitarian PC society as listening to this ridiculous attack on free speech and the very language we write and speak.

          • Your Friendly Neighbourhood Corporate Trends Observational Service says:

            What happens is that corporations, believing they should be “au courant,” blithely latch on to whatever bollocks comes down the pike. Thus, they engage in whatever parlance seemingly gives them an edge in trying to app*ear “ahead of the curve” or “thinking outside the box,” to cite two examples of expressions that have found their way into fairly-well-educated ordinary people’s vocabulary. (Assuming what we just said isn’t an oxymoron.) It comes from Corp-spe*ak-laden volumes of self-advancement literature that only succeed in showing conformist drones as being even more clueless by actually using such phraseology. (Think “The Office.”) Every profession seeks to have its own argot, the better to impress the hoi polloi that they are saying more than they really are, by the use of “magic words,” but Corp-spe*ak is more egregious in that it seeks to impress members of its own profession. American corporations, being from the land that produces such literature in such great abundance, would more naturally have a greater fluency with all this bafflegab. Think the “cool” kids at school and how they knew all the new expressions before you did and always tried to one-up you; the Yank managers brought to the UK are in that position. Basically, corporate politicking is your teenage years writ large, innit? And so it goes.

      • 35
        Brenda says:

        Is that the royal nous ?

    • 37
      Dave says:
      • 42
        Twitter says:

        Twat

        • 111
          David Laws Lib Dem Fiddler says:

          Long past caring what he thinks. He is history and no one in their right mind believes a word he says.

      • 49
        Vic says:

        When it comes to rowing, the guys who script our soaps are second to none.

      • 53
        Raving Loon says:

        Get out of my way Miliband, this bandwagon is for me!

      • 58
        Olympic bandwagon says:

        You are right Dave. Too many tweets do indeed make a Twat.

      • 93
        English Liberation Front says:

        Twit. Show some dignity you preening waste of space. New Labour dragged the office of Prime Minister down into the world of soap, celebrity and Twitter. You don’t have to maintain that disgraceful nonsense. Show some gravitas and cancel your Twitter account, you twit.

      • 131
        Lord Jensen Interceptor says:

        ‘Call me Dave’ is an iveterate fucking liar.

      • 225
        Twatter is for Twats says:

        Why do politicians think that we hang on every word of this constant stream of crap?

    • 44
      Blowing Whistles says:

      Phew! just glad to get one in first for once – am I in the No 1 Club now – is there an annual No 1 club AGM I can attend?

      • 46
        Clause formerly known as I like it up me says:

        Yeah. 6th August 8:00pm MegaPizza Bolton Avenue, Rochdale. Fancy Dress Compulsary. Theme: “naughty schoolgirls”.

    • 122
      Sir William Waad says:

      I’d be worried that Boris would turn out like that Ancient Roman fellow who “would have been a great leader, if only he’d never become one.”. Boris could give you the quotation in Lat., no doubt.

    • 311
      Anonymous says:

      This is the silly season, Boris has too much baggage to be PM or even an MP !making a fool of himself in London is one thing but pull the same stunts on a world stage and he would look retarded !

  2. 3
    Kebab Time says:

    I would think Boris would make a perfect foreign sec.

    Hmmm Guido are we getting a post today (apart from stats) to make up for no Star on Sunday column?

    Oh and Labour member puts foot in mouth > http://kebabtime.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/i-missed-this-other-day.html

    • 21
      erm... says:

      ……good internal chat there…..good to swamp the market too. and as for Boris. he likes powerful and intense emotions…..power and control……dark stuff……all the external stuff is a means to an end…….what that is …is unclear…..but what is clear is that he is a born survivor….hiroshima or no hiroshima. all the best.

    • 95
      English Liberation Front says:

      Much ado about nothing. “Social media rows” and Twitter mobs are two cheeks on the same moronic arse. Those who live by the Tweet shall die by the Tweet – or apologise like wimps once the shrieking starts.

  3. 4
    Clause formerly known as I like it up me says:

    I love Boris. Just my kinda Etonian. Bumbling fuck up with a big shit eating grin. Evelyn Waugh couldn’t have invented a better stereotype. Only Waugh would’ve put him in a crumbling pile, married to a simple-minded horsey type and spending his days collecting moths and demanding spotted dick for dinner.
    He wouldn’t have put him with scud missile range of number 10.
    Up the workers!

    • 71
      The Paragnostic says:

      The difference being that Waugh’s sort of oaf would be genuinely stupid, and not a deliberate concoction of malapropisms and classics hiding a genuinely intelligent and cunning mind.

      At least with Boris in charge we wouldn’t suffer from Rusty’s clumsy PR and lack of ideas.

      • 96
        Prof. Dan Gleebitz B.S.E. says:

        “…a deliberate concoction of malapropisms and classics hiding a genuinely intelligent and cunning mind.”
        One is reminded of the second and third Mrs. Gleebitzs, sir.
        Mrs. G number four, on the other hand, was just a twisted, conniving, money-grabbing bitch.

    • 233
      Forkbender says:

      Maybe a good subject for a Tom Sharpe novel, the author of Porterhouse Blue and other books, very black comedy.

  4. 5
    UKIP convert says:

    No doubt the CMD, the Now Less than One Term PM, is chillexing this weekend with his Chipping Norton buddies to even bother about reading these reports.

    Hope so as it just hastens his demise & should not mean Ed Millieturd & the rest of his annal rejects are gong to sweep back in & complete what they started in 1997 during the 13 long years reign of terror.

    People have had enough of the ConsLieLaborLibDems Blood Brothers Alliance…

    Its time for REAL CHANGE VOTE >>>>>>UKIP >>>>>>UKIP >>>>>UKIP

    • 99
      Susie says:

      NIGUUUULLL! UUUUUUKIIIIP!

    • 146
      Black Mask says:

      I could do with some serious chill-axing myself.

    • 214
      taC eht abbaJ says:

      “Its time for REAL CHANGE VOTE >>>>>>UKIP >>>>>>UKIP >>>>>UKIP”

      Crash test dummy Farage running out of expenses money so he’s sent you out with the begging bowl looking for local mugs?

  5. 6
    Gawd Help Us says:

    A shop mannequin could replace Dave in Downing Street and probably make a better job of it.

    • 68
      Handycock (Teen Fondler) says:

      I am a far better candidate than Boris to replace Dave in No10. Firstly I have had far more publicity than him, secondly I have impeccable foreign connections and finally Boris is an amateur in comparison for pulling the young girls. Boaz.

      • 108
        Jethro Grammariensis says:

        I know it is old-fashioned, but the rule used to be, ‘First… secondly…thirdly…’.
        Again, it is old-fashioned, but the rule used to be ‘I have had… than HE…(has – verb understood).

      • 156
        Business Cat (specializing in yarns, Cdn owned & op) says:

        No one has your experience, Handy. Jahbulon.

      • 175
        Eric Joyce (Teen Fondler) says:

        You’ve got my vote too Handy. I will be your deputy. Together we will sort this country and the toff Tories out, when we are not on diplomatic duties in eastern Europe. Boaz.

        • 179
          Vladimir Putin says:

          I’m behind you too Handy. The first thing to do when you become PM after visiting me and the girls, will be to abolish MI5. Jahbulon.

          • Robert Mugabe and Goodluck Johnathan says:

            Hey Handy are you and your boys still making millions bringing asylum seekers into Portsmouth and building flats to house them in? We will be sending plenty more, emptying our prisons at this very moment. Boaz.

  6. 7

    It is the silly season after all, and the Broadsheets are living up to expectations.

  7. 8
    nellnewman says:

    At least Boris is human and amusing – more than can be said for the three party leaders who have about as much charisma as a piece of mouldy bread.

  8. 9
    Hormel Cahvez says:

    Removing Dave from no.10 will be easy, but removing him from Clegg’s @rse may prove to be difficult.

  9. 10
    MrAngry61 says:

    The Spectator had a Boris for party leader/PM issue last August/September.

    • 169
      The Wrong Miliband says:

      Bowith doth theem to have a thertain je ne thay quoi with the whiff whaff.

  10. 11
    Helpful says:

    o/t might be of interest.

  11. 12
    annette curton says:

    • 91
      Slippery Slope says:

      Not dissimilar to M. Python’s Upper Class Twit of the Year sketch. But Spike was first, of course. Python just copied him.

  12. 13
    Roscoe Rules says:

    The country’s fucked anyway,might as well have a larf on the way down.

  13. 15
    Ken Lunchbox says:

    I’ll back Boris for PM, then I can get myself elected mayor.

  14. 17
    Jan says:

    O/T I see that Brian O’Connell of RTE 1 has been ‘bigging up’ Guido. Whilst I think Guido is doing a tremendous job in the UK .he has been woefully quiet on Irish politics,.To say that Irish politics stinks is an understatement.Cronyism, brown envelopes,dodgy planning decisions,absolute waste and downright gombeenism are the order of the day.I have been shocked by the shenanigans here,my friends say ‘oh that is just the Irish way’ . Some of them blame the British.Apparently it’s all down to us that the Irish have developed this nasty habit of fraud.Yet O’Connell says Guido is getting down and dirty.Guido’s home of Wexford is just one example where the politician’s are just not fit for purpose. I’ll believe Guido when he manages to get a slot on Vincent Browne’s excellent political slot on TV3.Browne makes Paxo look like a YTS kid. He takes no prisoners.Come on Guido,your country needs you.

  15. 18
    Daviejohn says:

    Boris may project himself as a bit of a fool but underneath he is pure politician, unlike Cameron who projects himself as a serious politician but IS an incompetent fool.

  16. 19
    Clause Forever says:

    I’m gonna celebrate our vibrantly diverse multi culti ethnicity by getting pissed on jungle juice and rimming a Polish tramp.

  17. 23
    Anonymous says:

    An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
    Oscar Wilde

  18. 24
    A hard PressedTax Payer says:

    Never forget this mad man Gordon McMental & his legacy, the price we are still paying while he & the rest of nut cases just walked away, excepting no responsibility at all.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0h9dLMWF4E

    • 133
      Nappy Draper, psycho to the Rich n’ welfy, - and reaping healthy rewards – huh! says:

      I certified him sane!

  19. 27
    The Biased Bul££shitting Corpse - otherwise known as the Brown Broadcasting Co. says:

    We covered with this on NoosNight last night!

    After expert analysis – by our experts – we found he hasn’t got a chance! That’s good noos for us at the BBC – we couldn’t tolerate it if someone even faintly capable came into power!

    No, – rather, we found that Camertwat – all mouth and no guts, – a supporter of all we and Our Beloved Chief believes in, will just about stay in power until the Glorious Helmsman regains His Throne in 2015!

    That is all.

    Now get back to work – or watch our EMOTIONAL coverage of the O£umpics – with emphasis on the EMOTIONAL!

    Heil The Mighty He£msman!

    • 94
      Biased Broadcasting Corporation says:

      It would put paid to all their hard work since 2010 when Labour were kicked out, wouldn’t it? Can’t have that now, can we? The Marxists in the BBC Newsroom would be distraught.

      Look out for a lot more Boris-bashing on BBC News if he begins to look remotely likely to succeed.

      • 178
        The BBC, - otherwise known as the Biased Bul££shitting Cuntz, - bringing you Bo££ocks every day! says:

        At last, – the 10,000 metres! The kind of race that we can show without fainting away! Most are Bl@ck! And all are winners!

        • 205
          A message for the sheepel says:

          There’s no such thing as race because it’s just a social construct, genes hereditary and DNA play no part in anything because we’re all the same.

          • Sir William Waad says:

            Broadly true. Homo sapiens shows too little genetic variation to be divided into races, from a cladistic viewpoint. The obvious differences are rather trivial adaptations to different climates and diets.

          • AC1 says:

            There are great cultural differences in regard to
            deferment of reward.
            reciprocation.
            stoicism.
            That are just a coefficient of wealth creation.

  20. 29
    Celeb & Sons news says:

    “In the Dock” in Bournemouth Daily Pravda

    “Mark James Redknapp aged 42 of Lavender Road, Bournemouth. Admitted driving a Mini on Banks Road with no insurance policy in force. Fined £400. To pay victim surcharge of £15, costs of £35 and licence endorsed with six points.”

    • 51
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      Quite a bargain for a night’s fun, don’t you think?

    • 129
      'Arry Redface's Dog With The Bank Account says:

      Thank goodness it was Mark, the brother, and not Jamie Redknapp. A certain blogger (who posts as Kebab Time and whose former nom-de-plume must not be mentioned, though his Twitter address, @Ontablets, is allowed) might have been traumatised if that had happened.

      • 163
        Business Cat (specializing in yarns, Cdn owned & op) says:

        I am relatively new here. Is @OnTablets 8illy? Or so somehow connected to “Ewe & Me.”. I do hope this will get through.

        • 189
          'Arry Redface's Dog With The Bank Account says:

          Actually, Bizcat dearest, you can find out for yourself by going to Twitter.com/#!/ontablets. All questions will be resolved. No fun giving the whole game away!

  21. 30
    alexsandr says:

    not sure Boris will be golden boy for long once the Olympic euphoria dies down and people look again at the expense, the empty London, the zil lanes, g4s and the protection if sponsors advertising rights. Esp if the public accounts committe call him as witness.

    • 34
      the collective consciousness of a sea cucumber says:

      Have you ever (god forbid) watched TOWIE or the XYY Factor? I can assure you that the public have other things on their stoopid minds.

      • 43
        Chlöe Sal Gerbeeba says:

        That would be on the Hypnotoad channel, would it not ?

      • 76
        The Paragnostic says:

        I inflicted TOWIE on my grey matter last week, in an attempt to understand what the fuss was about.

        How the characters manage to go about in public without getting punched is a mystery – perhaps they are more tolerant of twats in Essex than we are in Hampshire?

        However, the winner in the triteness stakes was an item on C5 “News”, in which two rather dim fashion “journalists” were oohing and aahing at the fact that Kate Middleton chooses her own clothes, and how that makes her a real person. Thoroughly puke-making, and another product of the Desmond oeuvre.

        • 82
          Elsie Beattie (83 and a quarter) says:

          Does that nice Desmond Oeuvre still present Countdown, dear?
          At what time do the siestas in Hampshire commence, Mr. The P?

          • Rat's arse says:

            Behave yourself Elsie you naughty old thing. Bet you were a bit of a goer 60/70 years ago. Did your Reg die of exhaustion by any chance?

          • Elsie Beattie (83 and a quarter) says:

            No, dear. He died of breathing his last breath.

        • 101
          Civilised Person says:

          I’m sorry, but what does ‘TOWIE’ mean?

          • Sue Age says:

            Thick Odious Wankers In Essex.

          • Business Cat (specializing in yarns, Cdn owned & op) says:

            I didn’t know either, but was suspicious of that answer. Google tells me it is a TV show called “The Only Way is Essex”.

            So perhaps that first answer is about right.

  22. 31
    I don't need no doctor says:

    Here we go again more shit from the UK’s dumbed down press. Nothing to say, poor journalism, print some made up shit.
    Journalism, money for nothing.

  23. 32
    Axe the BBC NOW! says:
    • 38
      Anonymous says:

      It’ll take an unencumbered by bed wetters second term in office for Dave to do anything about this, so it ain’t gonna happen.

      • 48
        Cato Street Conspirator says:

        I assume there’ll be a referendum on whether to sell it to the Aussie-Yank or not. After all, like the NHS, it does belong to us.

    • 132
      The BBC, - otherwise known as the Biased Bul££shitting Corpse, - bringing you quality Bo££ocks ! says:

      We hope it has escaped NO-ONE’S attention that we are pushing all O£ympic presenters, – not just the Wimmin (for whom it is natural) – to go heavy on the Emotional Emoting Bliarist Bollocks.

      This is quite intentional – for emoting is the new ‘Cool’ – well it’s a bit old hat really, – but what else is there?

      NOW! – we dare you to say we don’t spend the Telly Tax wisely – and on our Huge Pension Pots too of course!

      Now go and watch the BBC – or go to work – to your lowly Office Cleaning jobs that Fatcher wanted you to do.

      AND PAY YOUR TELLY TAX!!

  24. 40
    Nad luvs BoJo says:
  25. 47
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Of course, the Cameron crowd are pushing the ‘Boris for Leader’ as hard as they can. If The Clown is built up so high that no-one else gets a look-in, Cameron is safe.

  26. 52
    Oscar Wilde, posing as a "Somdomite"[sic!], says:

    I also said I was able to resist anything except temptation. Except for the gender of the other person involved in our affairs, Boris isn’t all that different, is he?

  27. 54
    keredybretsa says:

    Let ‘em write top-shit about me, as long as they keep on spelling my name right!
    Thought of the day Boris style.

  28. 56
    Gordon Brown says:

    Were Johnson to become PM it would be yet another example of the disgraceful discrimination that has tainted British politics for generations.

    Once again, the man who inhabited No. 10 would be someone who did not enjoy playing with his own poo.

  29. 57
    Mrs Balls says:

    “People should only be allowed to settle in this country under these rules if they can pay their way, live by our rules and contribute value to our country. We need strict controls, properly enforced, and all of the mainstream parties should agree on that.”

    http://www.labour.org.uk/people-only-to-settle-under-these-rules-if-they-pay-their-way

  30. 63
    BBC Newsroom says:

    STOP PRESS: STOP PRESS: STOP PRESS:

    Breaking:

    We need to interrupt the Heptanthlon coverage. Get the tissues out. Radio Five Shite drags on political correspondent to report that Rupert Murdoch shakes hands with Jeremy Hunt at the Olympic Stadium…and it shows they are as close as ever.

    Tissues, more tissues please!

    • 65
      Tomorrow's Chip Wrapper says:

      The BBC are having a bad time. First they were slagging off the UK’s efforts to win any Golds and were gutted to see Team GB starting to win some;then they are going on about the lack of visitors/shoppers to Central London(conveniently forgetting that they were one of the main doomsayers regarding the predicted transport meltdown for months before the Olympics and now…after bigging up the “Witch Hunt Trial” now find that very little is likely to happen and that the public don’t really care either way

      • 88
        Dame Jowell, the Jewell in the £ieBore Bucket says:

        I’m priceless, – and I will be a priceless relic of The Games, – I mean leases I mean -

    • 67
      annete curton says:

      Whatever happened to perspective BBC?, Rupert Murdoch is evil but Gaddafi was a good buddy.
      http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4JYbL6ZZXaU/TWas2eO6L5I/AAAAAAAAAKw/Tp99rtCz9hA/s1600/20110223_gaddafi-blair_w.jpg

      • 150
        Blowing Whistles says:

        Murdoch doesn’t let murderers, thieves and their ilk stand in the way of his profiteering – he’s been doing deals with the devil all of his life.

  31. 66
    Jimmy says:

    Well the tube has been working so well.

    Never going to happen.

  32. 70
    THE STAR on SUNDAY Read it and Wipe says:

    Does anyone know of any good political blogs ?
    there used to be one here but it’s been replaced by one about hacks , media and rags
    shame really it was getting quite good

  33. 72
    David Cameron says:

    I wish I had said that.

  34. 79
    Ah! Monika says:

    Cameron. Fifty Shades of Yellow.

  35. 105
    Popeye says:

    As a clown, Boris far outclasses the clown Cameron, but PM?

    • 117
      Anonymous says:

      Exactly. Boris as PM? The rest of the world would be pissing themselves.
      Just an over-rated philandering oaf. He may be intelligent but he ain’t a leader.
      Mind you neither is Cameron.

    • 118
      Living in 98 percent white Merseyside says:

      We love old Bozza to bits up here – literally. An Old Etonian would go “down” very nicely on the Dock Road!

  36. 107
    Double-Durrr ..... says:

    I note that, having already been debarred from using her real name on here, E has been prohibited from posting under her “M*dB*t” moniker.

    I find this rather ironic, considering she invented the fucking word and, with six stabs of her keyboard, launched it into the English language.

    • 110
      eats shit and leaves says:

      Who cares? I expect she’ll get over it. A little bird tells me she’s a fairly tough cookie.

  37. 109
    Anonymous says:

    I find Cameron and Gideon utterly vile, but is Boris really the solution Britain needs?

    We already have a pair of bullingdon twats in office and look how that affair is turning out, do we really need another?

    • 112
      eats shit and leaves says:

      Not really, but apart from blowing them all up and starting again what…can…..

      …..*thinks*..

      • 114
        Garden Shed Horse Psychologist says:

        How is the abstinence going, E?

        • 115
          E says:

          Not too bad, thanks. I could murder a pint though :P

          • Darlin!!! You’ve been asleep ages!!!

            I must be careful on here darlin, because others might be listening in, but you woz fantastic last night. I woz gazin at your perfect form this mornin, so sweet in your sleep, an it happened again darlin. I thought of wakin you but realised I woz jus bein selfish to press myself into you again, so I kissed u gently and left quietly without being seen, I hope, for your reputation. I have never done it so many times in one night before, darlin!

            Love you completely!! At last we has spent our first night together!!!

            *thinks: hopes that woz really productive – GF needs many more posters in the years to come*

            SC xx ♥♥ .

          • Schrödingers dingaling says:

            Who are you, E’s echo ffs?

          • If you were kinder and more considerate, you may have become as fortunate as I feel today.

          • Schrödingers dingaling says:

            I don’t feel fortunate, I AM fortunate.

          • Now on that I can fully agree.

            *thinks: strange. I don’t normally talk to my own anatomy – puzzles*

          • Momma says:

            Try talking to the paw.

          • Business Cat (specializing in yarns, Cdn owned & op) says:

            Is this inter-species?

      • 126
        Joss Sayin says:

        They’ve already started in Stoke-on-Trent.

    • 119
      Desperate dandruff says:

      How much money Gideon could save the public purse, simply by ending his policy of leaving Bibles in hotel rooms!

      • 121
        National Socialist says:

        And Michael Gove giving out bibles to schools…

      • 161
        Libby Wryside says:

        We could have koran-fired power stations to reduce our energy bills.

        • 167
          ByStander says:

          Why stop there?

          There must be years of free power in the tons of printed €USSR regs – all would burn well!

          • ByStander says:

            [afterthought] – and as we’ve already paid for the fuckers, – why not try to get some of our money’s worth?

          • Make a date with a bonfire says:

            Plus Blair’s 3000 unwanted and completely unnecessary new laws. Lots of fuel there too!

  38. 123
    Anonymous says:

    It has been revealed that Conservative London Mayor, Boris Johnson has given Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng free tickets to watch the finals of the swimming. These tickets have been some of the most sough after tickets in the Games, with fans who applied months ago being turned down disappointed and the families of swimmers taking part have only been issued with one ticket per swimmer and have also been turned away.
    Rupert Murdoch’s News International is under police investigation and is the subject of the judicial Leveson Inquiry. Apparently none of this matters and as usual the mayor has treated not just Londoners, but the entire country with disdain, doing exactly what he wants, when he wants and how he wants. In 2010 Johnson has previously described complaints about Murdoch’s newspapers hacking the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and others including top politicians and celebrities as just “codswallop”, so I guess we all know where he really stands on this.

    • 125
      It seems that 99% of the population aren't bothered though says:

      Is anybody listening to you ?

      • 138
        Anonymous says:

        It’s a common failure of those who suffer from Murdochophobia.

      • 165
        erm... says:

        .
        ppl are not bothered when they are within BJ’s aura…..kinda get carried away with it. But …. is it ultimately down to integrity…. the gods have decided that integrity does not matter…. chinese do ok without it.
        .
        .
        .
        #play.to.win…..and..not…play.to.struggle.

    • 145
      Ting a ling a ling fate calling says:

      I suppose when Bliar finds his HOC expense claims paperwork and WMD in Iraq and the Libor party pays the £100billion that the lunatic Brown removed from the pensions and they take personal responsibility from the mass immigration and pay for it then maybe people will listen, but really who cares, Boris has his master and will repay him when he becomes PM.

    • 196
      Nullbymouth says:

      You are Tom Watson and I claim my 5 free cancelled local constituency surgery meetings

  39. 139
    MB. says:

    I think Boris is enjoying himself too much as Mayor to worry about party leadership or PM.

  40. 140
    ToonBob... says:

    Do I recall the French President taking the p*ss out of us a few days ago re our lack of medals??

    Not just vertically challenged then ??

    • 149
      UKIP.i.am says:

      Not just him. This was an Australian paper 3 days ago.

      http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/london-olympics/borat-knows-best-when-it-comes-to-winning-gold-medals-team-gb-take-note/story-fn9dheyx-1226440264291

      “AFTER four days of competition at the London Olympics the Brits have failed to win a single gold medal.

      It’s a sad and sorry state of affairs. Except that we’re neither sad nor sorry.

      Forget the fact Australia has one gold medal and Britain has none. Nada. Donuts.

      The really amazing thing is that while Britain has, just to reiterate, no gold medals, Kazakhstan has three.”

      GB now has 11 gold medals. Australia has still only got one.

      • 153
        Gordon says:

        Didn’t I sell all of the gold?

        • 157
          Anon Voter says:

          No you gave all of OUR Gold away, at the rock bottom price because you Jock Numskull went on the Biased Broadcasting Company aka BBC so called news channel & announced how much you were going to sell & on what day……..even someone with very basic ‘O’ level in Economics would not have been that daft, but of course it was nothing to do with you, no doubt it was all Sue’s Fault yet again !!

          It will be nice one day to see you lined up against a wall & they let you have it !!!

          The UK population would be elated especially if your boss was next to you getting what he deserves as well !!

          • Blowing Whistles says:

            A little remembered fact – who were ‘advising’ Gordon the McMental at the time he sold the gold? – messers Goldman Sachs. The same company who have pulled in a £4m fee – for ‘advising’ outsourcing firm Mouchel [basket case] in their debt restructuring as published in the Mail, Indy and Graph – but not the Bournemouth Echo – for the benefit of local taxpayers…

          • AC1 says:

            GS had a big Gold shorting position. Gordo made them a fortune at our expense.

          • Anonymous says:

            Perhaps we should have some sort of inquiry about this, similar to the one suggested for the Libor rate ‘scandal’.

        • 181
          Gordonaev Brownstainovich says:

          Well wasn’t I just the genius I knew I was then?

      • 160
        Team GB says:

        Rolf Harris, Waltzing Matilda, Julia Gillard your boys took a hell of a beating ;-)

      • 177
        AC1 says:

        New Zealand is above their neighbours in the medal tables.

  41. 148
    UKIP.i.am says:

    Many Kings throughout the ages have had court jesters to entertain both the elite and the public. I know of none who have become King.

  42. 154
    Anonymous says:

    Many kings were fornicators…

    • 158
      Bullington Big Girls Blouse says:

      But here most of the so called ruling political elite are all fcuking shirt lifters……..

      Pity they all don’t just bugger off…..although most of them would settle just for the

      buggering but still want to continue to control everything as well…………

  43. 155
    CamerB£liar - the differnece is becoming more diff to discern says:

    I just love emoting and gushing and hypocrisy – just like Tony!

  44. 173
    Gordon Brown says:

    I am soooo glad that Jesicca Ennis took my advice on how to run the decathlon

  45. 176
    Anonymous says:

    The city hall clowning and buffoonery is all very drôle, and I particularly enjoyed the daily mash’s satirical send-up of Hunt and Johnson as super-hero duo Twatman and Bobbin, but London mayor, Boris johnson must accept full responsibility for the London metropolitan police force’s pre-planned execution of Mark Duggan last year in Tottenham. I hold absolutely no brief for those involved in gang-activity and rioting, yet 12 months on the public have still received no satisfactory explanation for the gunning-down of an ostensibly unarmed man by a mob of highly-armed law-officers, and so this popping-point of police-handbook principle (which has the potential to affect the life each and every one of us) remains completely unanswered – as do questions about the true provenance of the concealed firearm and the rôle played by the metropolitan police, who were patently pre-aware that the piece had been put into circulation.

  46. 186
    annette curton says:

    Arrgh!, not the penalty shoot out again (out again), how hard can it be?.

  47. 187
    BoJo's one eyed trouser snake says:

    Vote for meeeeee…..ten tins of paint better than cock juice Dave!!

  48. 195
    The BBC says:

    You just LURVE our mawkish coverage of U know wot – – don’t you!

  49. 197
    Gordon Brown says:

    Nurse! … I can’t get to sleep!

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  51. 204
    Blowing Whistles says:

    4 gold medals earned at the olympic stadium within hours
    1 – Jessica
    2 – Farah
    3 – Greg
    4 – Channel four news for their memorably – piece outside the stadium – takin
    de pisse out of Bojo (completely stumped for an answer), Murdoch and
    wendi (Taxi for Mr Murdoch!), Hunt (collaborating with the enemy), Bliar
    (Olympic International Criminal Court – war criminal on the run)

    That CH 4 news piece was the most memorably piece of newscasting I have seen forever.

  52. 207
    The BBC Olympics department of patronizing bastards says:

    It’s perfectly ok to say Africans are better at running than other peoples of the world with the abundant amount of evidence there is, but we’d like you to leave that train of thought right there!

    • 215
      Beeboid says:

      It’s about role models rather than genes, genes play no role at all.

    • 239
      Another Engineer says:

      It іsn’t еvеn аs gеnеrаl аs Afrіcаns.

      Yоu wаnt spееd – оnly а vеry smаll аrеа оf Wеst Afrіcа wіll dо. All thе tоp sprіntеrs (Jаmаіcа еtc) hаіl frоm thеrе оrіgіnаlly. It іs а rеmаrkаblе cоrrеlаtіоn.

    • 251
      The BBC - patronising you every day! says:

      It’s your money we use!

  53. 213
    tt says:

    TomWatson is gold medal blaclhead sqweeze

  54. 221
    albacore says:

    So now it’s plain Cast Iron’s a lame duck
    The toytown Tories ain’t arf in the muck
    If Boris advances on a duck shoot
    Are the rest set yet to give Dave the boot?

  55. 228
    DZ says:

    St Pauls / Cambridge eductaed Socialist Jonothan Miller is helping pay his grandchildrens PRIVATE school fees

    What a complete fucking hipocryte

    How dare a rich bastard like Miller preach socialism

  56. 231
    Dave666 says:

    Boris appears to have what the current parliamentarians lack and thats Charisma.

  57. 232
    David Cameron (Leader of the Nasty Party) says:

    I wish team GB football team the very best of luck in the Olympics,and if they don’t win Gold I will resign as Prime Minister.

    • 235
      retardEd Miliband (leader of the party that started a war that killed 100,000 civilians) says:

      Winning is elititht. There thhould be no winnerth. Everyone mutht fail.

  58. 236
    white devil says:

    Until the Olympics I didn’t think there were so many British looking people about these days, a ginger won the long jump ffs! Perhaps they’ve all been off training and preparing for the Olympics. After decades of media footage suggesting that we’re a 50% plus black an Asian nation, all these white people appear from nowhere on our screens ffs. Thank you BBC for putting our perceptions into some kind of perspective, although last night there was some geezer about to go off on a riff that perhaps there were too many white, blue eyed competitors from independent schools, but to be fair the BBC presenter cut him off midstream.

    • 238
      Bemused of Suffolk says:

      Where I live, almost everyone is white. The one exception is a woman who works in the local supermarket. Other than her, I don’t remember when I last saw someone (in real life, in front of me) who was black.

      Yet when I switch on TV, there isn’t a single programme (unless I’ve missed one) that doesn’t have black presenters.

      It strikes me there’s a little bit of racial discrimination going on in TV la-la-land.

    • 240
      Another Engineer says:

      Whіtе mеn cаn jump!

  59. 242
    David never-mind-the-gold-I-sold-out-the-entire-country Cameron says:

    My personal psychophants tell me I should be more animated when I laugh. My true self really shows through when I jiggle my shoulders up and down.

  60. 243
    Gordon Brown says:

    I won a chocolate gold in the Lympdics!

  61. 244
    The Lesson unto Noo (Utterly Confused) Progressive Cons is taken from the Book of Dave, Chapter 94 says:

    1. And it cam to pass in those days, that Dave, being swallowed up in his own conceit and foolishness came unto a place wherein lay a fiend.

    2. And the fiend was called Ura-twat, and sometimes Ura-Urotwat, which, being translated, meeneth, Not only art thou a fool but a Eurofool.

    3. But Dave, being slow in mind and matters, understandeth not. And persisteth in his folly.

    4. And lo, there cometh a Newish and Mighty Wonder! And it hovered over the place where many lay. And the name of the Wonder was BoJo.

    5. And the people, being of one mind, questioneth one another, saying: who is this Grate and Mighty Wonder? And how hoevereth he over us?

    6. And the Wonder that was BoJo openeth his mouth, and spake unto the people, saying: People, I bring you signs and wonders! Yeha, and even grater if thou, even thou, assisteth me unto the ground whereon thou standest.

    7. For Wonder that I am, I, even I can do nought until I standeth upon the erth, yeha even ground level.

    8. But the people, marvelling at this sight, said one to another, it is a Grate and Mighty Wonder. And waiteth for an Miracle.

    9. And Bojo fluttered his flags.

    10. And Dave muttered.

    Here endeth the Levyson and all other useless and wasteful Inquiries.

    • 249
      Anonymous says:

      That would be great, but Bojo is an ardent Europhile, just like Camerhoon.

      • 262
        R J Mitchell says:

        Evidence, please – or has the BBC programmed you to say that ?
        We do know that Boris has condemned the BBC for being europhile and much more besides. Are you suggesting that that is a front ?

        • 269
          Anonymous says:

          Does Bojo support Turkey’s membership of the EU for instance?

          • R J Mitchell says:

            Apparently he did, although it seems to have gone quiet on that front lately. Perhaps that means they’re hoping to sneak it through when no-one’s looking.
            Obviously any expansion of the EU is to be deplored; the criminal cabal that runs the EU has to be brought to justice.

             

            I think we need to try to clearly establish just what Boris does stand for
            – is he part of the solution or is he part of the problem ?

             

            BTW, I’d never have guessed that Boris’ great-grandfather was Turkish.

      • 267
        P*sslamophobe says:

        Like Cameron and Hague he also wants a rapidly re-Islamising Turkey to join the EU. Those the Gods wish to destroy they first send mad.

  62. 246
    Aidan Burley says:

    Multicultural crap !

    • 298
      AC1 says:

      I wonder what dismal shite we’ll see for the closing “ceremony”.

      They should just have a parade of those competing.

  63. 250
    The Piss Soaked Tramp known as TAT says:

    Jess Ennis could marry me if she wanted to.

    • 257
      Anonymous says:

      You’d make a good pair, what with her being a choc ice, and you being a reverse choc ice, white on the outside black on the inside.

  64. 252
    • 258
      Derek Acorah says:

      Jimmy is here now…he’s saying something…sounds like..”Ows about that then”.

    • 259
      The BBC, protector of pedos and sexual deviants says:

      You’d think he was a saint if you’d heard Thought for the Day on the Today programme last week following the auction.

      • 261
        Ah! Monika says:

        The town mentioned is the surname of the blog generator. But Jim also enjoyed himself in Jersey, although he later denied he had ever been there.

        As Guido says ” There’s more…”

  65. 260
    Your Friendly Neighbourhood Hollywood Icons Remembrance Service says:

    Goodbye Norma Jean, fifty years ago today. RIP Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

  66. 268
    John Doe says:

    Aidan Burley MP has deleted his twitter account.

    Another victory for Team GB

  67. 270
    For Old times sake says:

    Tell you something. It’s great that the Frogs have become public enemy number one again and the BBC has had to show crowd scenes which prove over 99% of Britain is white, unlike their politically contrived staffing ratios which show the opposite.

    • 279
      Diane Fatbott says:

      Living in Hackney even I didn’t know there were so many whiteys about. This country is racist!

    • 282
      The Traitorous Tit in No 10 says:

      As you know, I’m something of a PR (Up the Bum) Expert!

      And I’m committed to promoting the French, – that is, the €USSR – weltanschauung – at every opportunity!

      I give you my word – and I think you can trust me by now . .

    • 293
      Ting a ling a ling fate calling says:

      Been out to a car boot sale, thought I had taken plane by mistake instead of a bus and ended up on holiday in Poland.

  68. 275
    Twattering Dave says:
  69. 276
    Ah! Monika says:

    The £3million school for union reps. The Sun

    You read it there first.

  70. 284
    Ah! Monika says:

    Some lovely bums running in the Ladies marathon.

  71. 286
    Fuddled Sid says:

    Did something bad happen to the national grid last night? The Pute is all confused, the answer phone flashing and the fridge defrosted.

  72. 287
    Sick Making says:
  73. 290
    THE STAR on SUNDAY Read it and Wipe says:

    About time British tennis had a competition where you can win something for not winning
    We are really good at being the bridesmaid

  74. 296
    THE STAR on SUNDAY Read it and Wipe says:

    Nice to see Paul McCartney and family had such good luck in aquiring all the tickets they needed turning up at the cycling to steal the medalist thunder by conducting the audience into singing beatle songs and then turning up at the athletics stadium to steal their medalists thunder by leading another sing song of his music


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