Dropping the Prat ...

[muriel_volestrangler]

courtesy of Martin Rowson of The Guardian.

[D-Notice]

1. Poor Boris...

Without him the Tories will be a lot less entertaining...

Let's have him as the permanent presenter of Have I got News For You?

[LibLabUK]

2. Hehe

Hehe... Boris is the perfect example of the 'Peter Principle'...

Although I think he's a good host (in the sense that his bumbling manner is amusing) for HIGFY, Alexander Armstrong would get my vote for permanent host as his delivery and timing is probably the best of all the guest hosts so far.

[T_i_B]

4. I agree about Alexander Armstrong

I think he's the best candidate for the job on a permanent basis.

As to Boris, well looking at the thread below I must admit it becomes quite logical that he would get in trouble for publishing silly comments about places outside of the Home Counties.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x265

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. Nonsense

HIGNFY has never been the same since Angus Deayton left, and it never will be unless they bring him back. Accept no substitutes!

[non sociopath skin]

3. Actually, I tend to agree with my wife ...

... that Johnson is an unpleasant, upper-class slob. Don't find him any more entertaining than I found other right-wing "characters" like Auberon Waugh or Gerald Nabarro.

I just calls 'em, "the enemy."

The Skin

[T_i_B]

5. "Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad" says Boris

Just thought that this arrticle by Boris Johnson in today's Telegraph might be of use on this thread.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;sessionid=AN05HTZJT1R5LQFIQMFCNAGAVCBQYJVC?xml=/opinion/2004/12/02/do0202.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/12/02/ixportal.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=72606

It is meant as no disrespect to the man who sacked me when I say that the whole experience has unexpected advantages. There is the sudden sense of freedom. There is the feeling of broad horizons and the wind on your face, not just for me, but for the entire Tory front bench, which is no longer under the heavy obligation of having to agree with every word in Spectator editorials.

But mainly I'd recommend getting ignominiously sacked - and I want you to know that I insisted on my right to be sacked: "Sack me," I said, by way of an ultimatum, "or sack me!" - because it is only by being sacked that you can truly engender sympathy. Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

Nothing is so calculated to melt the hearts of your rivals. "How are you?" they ask, clasping your hand with genuine solicitude, and when you mumble some halting words of thanks, they repeat: "No, but how are you really?" And who could possibly grudge them their innocent Schadenfreude, their tender satisfaction in your plight?

The more one considers the position, the clearer it is that there were no grounds whatever for sympathising with me; and that is why I would like us to turn our thoughts to the tens of thousands across Britain who do now face the loss of their jobs, in circumstances far more serious than mine, and through no fault of their own.

[non sociopath skin]

6. Aaaaaaawwwwwww!! Ickle Bowis has a heart after all!

But only after his big mouth and obnoxious arrogance has landed him in the doo-doo. Bleccchhh!!! :hurts:

The Skin

[T_i_B]

7. Ah yes, the Liverpool saga

Now it may have actually been Simon Heffer who wrote that idiotic editorial about Liverpool but all the same Boris Johnson, as editor of the Spectator should have put his foot down and kept it out of the editorial columm.

Mind you, I don't think that the Tories have learnt from that. Only last week David Mellor was making comments about Northerners being thick in the sports pages of the London Evening Standard. All it takes is somebody to pick up on it in the same way that they did the infamous Spectator editorial and voila! yet more bad publicity for the Tories again.

[non sociopath skin]

8. Yes, the mask keeps slipping, doesn't it?

They try to be "diplomatic" and cover up their prejudices, but every so often the contempt overflows the flood barrier.

Trouble is, it isn't just the Tories.

In the dying days of my Labour Party activism, I grew more and more angry at being patronised by "New Labour" bureaucrats whose supposed "advisory" function and cold "good manners" never masked the utter and absolute contempt they felt for us old-fashioned, elderly (well, over thirty), Northern oiks. By God, some of them were almost ... gulp ... Socialists!!!!

I actually preferred some of the old-fashioned Tories I had to deal with. At least they saw us as honourable adversaries.

Nasty Little Bliarses - we hates it, my precioussss.

The Skin

[sweetheart]

11. True aint it

Disregarding politics, it seems that howard would be a nicer chap to
have a pint with, as likely he'd at least be polite and not facile.

What has the nasy Bliarses gots in its pockets... nasssssty LLLIIIAARRR
we hates it, my preciiooouuss. :-)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. I've always considered Boris as bafoonish and not at all entertaining n/t