"This wasn't justice. This was a sectarian lynch mob. This was a snuff movie. How dare the Prime Minister pretend that it is somehow nothing to do with him" - Tory MP Boris Johnson on the execution of Saddam Hussein.
"To compensate for my fare going up, the train company has decided to give me more value for money. The journey now takes longer" - Richard Cutler, of Newbury, Berkshire, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph.
"It's very nice but what I see is a silver-haired guy with piggy eyes and not looking quite his best" - Ex-President Bill Clinton, on being described as a sex symbol.
"Ladies! Have a fit upstairs" - Sign on a tailor's shop in Hong Kong.
"Both politicians are gifted in the art of delivering the banal and the obvious as if they have just discovered something really important on our behalf" - Commentator Janet Street-Porter on David Cameron and Environment Secretary David Miliband.
22 comments:
Is that the same Boris Johnson who voted for the war in Iraq? How dare he pretend it's nothing to do with him?
He didn't say that in the quote "ian". Also in the same article he says that we all arrived at our varying opinions on the war based on the same false information. That is now undoubted.
Views based on evidence are subjective. For example, if I said you were an idiot for your post then I wouldn't expect everyone here to agree with me.
BBC Radio 4 News
"Tony Blair has "Cut short" his holiday to save the Ulster peace process...."
pass the sick bag - when was he due home?
Ian, dear, voting for something (even when the supporting evidence is flakey, at best) is not the same as stage managing it or taking operational ownership of it.
We both know where the blame squarely sits when it comes to that.
You may want to check the archives but didn't Boris say on his blog that he'd made a mistake in that respect?
"That really hurts"
Jeremy Jacobs on having his "trek" jabs done this morning.
Watch out for the Lions
Why is the Iraqi government's inability to organise something as simple as an execution Tony Blair's fault?
""It's very nice but what I see is a silver-haired guy with piggy eyes"
What's Bill doing spying on Boris Johnson?
Mind you I have to say that on the Saddam snuffing, Boris has nailed it once again!
Glasshouse, because though it is their pub, our (well, G Dubbya) brewery owns the mortgage, with clauses that say "we whistle, you sing!"
"Ladies! Have a fit upstairs" - Sign on a tailor's shop in Hong Kong."
. . .who does tit-raising plastic surgery on the side?
Queue of A-list customers outside?
Politically, Boris Johnson is just a large mouth who is going nowhere.
In terms of Iraq, the invasion, the Conservatives quite specifically did not behave as an opposition, the primary Parliamentary Opposition Party. They didn't ask the strong questions that an Opposition is supposed to ask of a goverment.
I actually feel that it is a tragedy for democracy that Blair, with a couple of hundred thousand Iraqi people dead as a direct consequence of his lie, can actually leave office at a date of his own choosing.
I would hate to see the Conservative Party profit by Blair's leaving. Their policies are as arid as the deserts of Iraq, but without the oil.
Andrew
JS Porter talking about the banaal. People in glass houses.....
To all the America-haters out there, the military personnel on the helicopter that delivered Saddam to be handed over to the Iraqis offered him tranquillisers.
He didn't accept them, but they were offered.
Meanwhile,Blair is "cutting his holiday short" (by one day) to come and rescue the ludicrous "Irish Peace Process". He is such a cheap individual.
The Boris quote made me laugh. Not because it was funny, but because George Galloway yesterday said the same thing! ("This was a sordid little lynch mob")
Boris can be accused of many things and his article is utterly pointless. However, it is unfair, scandalous even to question his integrity. A well meaning spoon as opposed to a cowardly, morally bankrupt wanker like Bliar is going a bit far.
Boris is correct in all he says but let down by Cameron, maybe with justification, who has decided to do fcuk all and wait for the prize to fall into his lap.
I am not sure quite how to describe the NuLabour time but lets remember we have yet to discover the true scale of Bliars actions.
Sobering thought.
Didnt a drunk bloke in a plumed hat once dissolve the Aussie parliament for a laugh?
Surely someone could get the bubble at buck house a few sherbets and put us out of our misery.
It does appear that not one person has the balls to finish this government off.
How much longer is this shit going to go on for?
Robert Mugabe will be pissing himself watching our apology for democracy collapse.
"TV has attention deficit disorder built into it"
Garrison Keillor, speaking this week at the release of "A Prairie Home Companion"
Couldn't agree more.
I love Boris more than life itself ..well a lot anyway and this was an infuriating article which has lead to further polraised debate on the death penalty on his site.I finshed of like this ..
Perhaps not being allowed to say anything interesting about domestic policy leaves him slavering for controversy who can say ? What I can say is that when Boris starts getting pompous about a joke ,( Diedre ...etc.), I wonder what the world is coming to.
There isn't even the, "anything to damage Blair ",excuse. Brown is almost certain to realign policy in Iraq the second he is there. I almost suspect our re appraisal is delayed in order to give him a good "new boy bounce" so all of this will be irrelevant politically.
Boris Boris Boris have a look at the highly dodgy Smith Institute ,get us up to date on the boundary commission scam , take us on a trip down memory lane to Browns Trotskyite past ...make a sandwich , I don't care just don't do this.
I hate Garrison Keiler, as I hate all folk "humour". They say things that look profound and mean squid all.
Anonymous 12:02 - Brilliant analysis. You are right. Not one person has the moral or intellectual wherewithal to finish this slimy, cowardly, showboating, ignorant back room of thieves and glory-seekers off.
Why, I wonder. Why? Why? Why?
Freddie Forsyth writimg in the Express last week,
on an exchange in the commons two hundread years ago.
But the real cracker comes from 200 years earlier. Rascal and libertine John Wilkes had so outraged Lord Sandwich that the beet- faced peer jabed his finger across the commons shouting: "you sir will die upon the scaffold or of veneareal disease." in the following silence Wilkes drawled: "That depends my Lord upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
Verity.. obviously not read Marshall McLuhan, or this from a slightly more credible source:
"A study from the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that watching videos as a toddler may lead to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, also called ADD in UK) in later life.
TV watching "rewires" an infant’s brain, says Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis lead researcher and director of the Child Health Institute at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Wash. The damage shows up at age 7 when children have difficulty paying attention in school."
So you are wrong. I am not interested in Garrison Keillor, but what he said about TV having ADD built in is literally true.
Do try not to be so pissy about things you are ignorant about. It makes you look like an utter twat.
The one that gets me is Janet Street Porter. She could be talking about herself and I've never been able to forgive the cow for finishing the OGW.
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