"Bring it on! My message to Gordon Brown through the Wall Street Journal is: You great big quivering gelatinous invertebrate jelly of indecision, you marched your troops up to the top of the hill in October of [2007]. Show us that you've got enough guts to have an election June 4. Gordon: Man or Mouse?!"
From an interview with Boris in the Wall Street Journal
Er... great Iain, really up to date. It's datelined 3 January.
ReplyDeleteSo? Had you heard it before? I certainly hadn't.
ReplyDeleteCertainly had. Can't remember how I found out about it (I don't usually read the WSJ) but it was reported on ConHome the day it was published
ReplyDeletehttp://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2009/01/oh-boy-you-know.html
Pass the cheese...
ReplyDeleteTerrific poster. The Conservatives should use this Nationally. Boris is well liked outside London as well!
ReplyDeleteI read that mandleson loves Philosophy!! Is PHIL C Mandleson?
or another name for the useless Draper?
No I'm not!!! Thought it was a good interview, just pointing out it isn't new... but I don't think it's got much publicity. Probably because it came out at New Year.
ReplyDeleteThis has to be one of the most sycophantic interviews I've ever read with a politician. The WSJ seems to be in thrall of Boris' vocabulary, history and personality and there's absolutely nothing about his vision for London or explaining his achievements even though he's supposedly done a good job.
ReplyDeleteAnyway what can you expect I suppose when the paper is owned by his Royal Highness King Murdoch!
As if our government don't have enough to worry about.. is there any area they won't stick their noses into?
ReplyDeleteDear All
I'm sure you’ve probably heard about the following proposals, but rather than jumping on the band wagon, I wrote to both the MU and Live Music UK, two organizations you would have thought would been champing at the bit to stop anything from restricting live music.
The MU said "they would look into it". Live Music UK apparently is supposed to be asking the right questions at a high level, though significantly their web site doesn’t even mention the proposals on their lead page.
Perhaps we are barking at the wring door and should be approaching the brewers about this; after all forget the £60m music industry, andlet’s talk to an industry that probably brings in ten times that amount per annum.
But music is our thing.
Exhilarating, romantic, emotional, colourful live performance.
Such is the mission statement of Live Music UK - you know the organization fronted by the former Undertones lead singer Feargal Sharkey (apologies for spelling)
you would have thought that this organization and the likes of the MU would be fighting the misguided legislation in our midst (see below), as if it reaches the statute book there will be little opportunity for experiencing the above.
As a live music promoter believe it or not I'm not crazy about big volume, but even someone with a minimal understanding of live music must surely realize that with a 75 decibel "clapometer", a live performance will be continually hindered, interrupted etc.
The problems involved are far better outlined below, but I just wondered how many people are aware of this piece of badly thought through and ill conceived legislation that has essentially been brought about to quash fights at late night discos and the like, nothing whatsoever to do with live music!
Here’s the proposal
It has been brought to our attention that new noise legislation is about to be introduced, that is likely to dramatically impact live music in the UK. Noise limiters have been around for many years. In all cases except acoustic music this has resulted in the cessation or severe restriction of live music.
As an example - The sound pressure at a Royal Philharmonic Orchestra concert can be more than some rock bands and is enough to turn the electricity off. How are their electronic devices going to cope. By cheating like everyone else? The regulation of these limiters will come under the control of local councils who are stretched enough trying to manage the governments draconian laws brought into place to destroy the pub and leisure industry.
Enough is enough.
There are enough musicians and music lovers to remove this government from their power. Pity we can't do it by clapping loud enough to cut them off.
There is of course a petition, but it is of course far more effective for pressure groups such as Live Music UK to fight this corner, but the silence if deafening!
The government wishes to consider it a legal requirement in the new tax year to introduce laws insisting anyone applying or re-applying for an entertainment license must have a noise control device fitted to the venue. This will be the final NAIL for ALL entertainment in the UK as the level at which these devices CUT you off is dreadfully low and damaging to musician’s equipment.
PLEASE DO NOT INTRODUCE THIS LAW, WE LOVE LIVE MUSIC!
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION HERE:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoNoiseControl/
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NOTE: You may also be aware that promoters of live music might soon have to fill in an 8 page document for each concert they promote outlining each musician’s full details from their ethnicity onwards. Whatever happened to the notion of art as being a free expression of creativity?
Regards,
Pete Feenstra
www.feenstra.co.uk
Bottler Brown will not call an election because he is just that. Bottler Brown. Will call an election if the polls are in his favour but if not, then
ReplyDelete"It is not the time to confuse the electorate"
Fekkin' arsehole.