Guess who’s coming to dinner
No doubt the new mayor of London will employ every ounce of the patented Boris bluster when George Bush visits town this month.
As Beau Bo D’Or points out, he’s going to need it:
It’s admirable honesty from Johnson and he should be saluted for it. The thing is, it much harder to say things to people’s faces. Will Boris stand by his all-to-accurate precis of London’s guest?
(Don’t forget Operation Manticore.)
Posted on June 10th, 2008 at 8:09am under Activism, Tories, US Politics
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It’s the colour scheme I love…
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill’s latest blog post… Lame Duck Comes A Visitin’
To be fair to Johnson, he actually used those words as a straw man in an article in 2003 that concluded that Dubya was just the chap, really, and people who thought he was an unelected cross-eyed Texan warmonger were just being infantile. Spectator leaders aren’t commonly couched liberal, peace-loving terms, and this one is, fairly unsurprisingly, full of the usual right-wing bluster and idiocy that we know and hate, even down to the ‘you wouldn’t be allowed to do this in Saddam’s Iraq, so be thankful to the Americans’ style bullshit. It sounds like Tony Blair.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/the-week/11811/infantile-resentment.thtml
He has a habit of writing articles like that, here’s another one, concluding in 2004 that Dubya was, again, just the chap, despite some Tories not agreeing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/02/26/do2602.xml
It’s against the backdrop of these that recent conversions along the lines of ‘Iraq isn’t quite so jolly and the Yanks are being bounders over extraditing my banking constituents’ need to be seen. He’s always been one able to adjust his opinions to fit in, after all.
“he actually used those words as a straw man in an article in 2003 that concluded that Dubya was just the chap, really, and people who thought he was an unelected cross-eyed Texan warmonger were just being infantile”
Agreed. But then, a year later, here he is joining them, using the exact same words:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/11/04/do0403.xml
Tim Ireland’s latest blog post… Nadine Dorries due to erupt in 5, 4, 3…
I have updated the images to show the Telegraph quote and I’d appreciate you updating the image and link.
http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog/archives/866
Cheers
Done and done.
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I’m sure Boris will either be friendly or be kept away from him. Cameron still needs to keep cosy with the Republicans in case they beat Obama.
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