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 Soaressilva rated 14 months ago - "As I say, there is nothing wrong with honours for achievement, and the whole apparatus seems to satisfy something deep in our instincts. We live in a gong-enchanted island, a nation divided into snobs and secret snobs; and on the whole our appetite for honours - for rank, dignity, title, prefe...
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- dreambird rated 5 weeks ago
- Boris takes on . . . something ~
"We cannot all eat moose, like Sarah Palin. We need cows.
It is time the world's leaders had the wisdom and courage once again to talk the fundamental issue, rather than babbling about our diet. It's not eating meat that does the damage. It's the huge and remorselessly growing number of people who want to eat it."
Cheers,
Boris
- Soaressilva rated 14 months ago
- "As I say, there is nothing wrong with honours for achievement, and the whole apparatus seems to satisfy something deep in our instincts. We live in a gong-enchanted island, a nation divided into snobs and secret snobs; and on the whole our appetite for honours - for rank, dignity, title, preferment - is a great spur to energy and aspiration. I have known lifelong Lefties, diehard republicans who have succumbed with trembling fingers to the letter from the palace, and gone out to get their morning dress with the hilarious excuse that, ahem, it is all a load of nonsense, really, but they feel obliged to accept because, er, you know, it's not so much for themselves, as a, ah, recognition of the work done by the institution in which they were privileged to serve..."
- oflahertymichael rated 16 months ago
- Boris Johnson the Good Tory.
- nutmeg rated 42 months ago
- Boris Johnson behaves like a dizzy blond but much of what he writes is well worth reading, even if you're not a Tory. This site has plenty on it - including his columns from the Daily Telegraph. A huge character and extremely likeable :-)
Here Boris shows how much he knows about his (then) party leader, Iain DS (who??) on Mastermind:
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- FergusMurray rated 42 months ago
- Boris Johnson is quite possibly the only likeable Tory this country has produced in my lifetime. Yes, he's a prat, but he obviously knows it, and is quite happy for everyone else to, too; having received an extraordinary degree of public trashing on Have I Got News For You, he amiably returned for two more episodes, and even acted as guest presenter twice. It's never been entirely clear why he's in the Tory party, except that he seems to actively dislike the Labour Party, but to love politics - he is also amazingly English, in a public-school-toff sort of way, so perhaps he just feels like he ought to be a Tory. The Make Poverty History banner/ribbon thing in the corner of his site is not the sort of thing you expect to see from actual tory Tories, though...
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