Aunty's Knickers

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

are totemic symbols dividing our ruling tribes ...

see Boris in the Graf today


in or out up or down .... where the power mongers want to put them tells a lot about there tribal affiliations ...

it seems to me that very little of our political debate in the last few decades when the population has lost interest in politics and trust in its practitioners, is about policy or strategy merely [as Kahneman or Haidt would have it] justification of pre-existing affiliations formed at Oxbridge with concomitant social groupings and career channels ..... endlessly repeated versions of the drones v the beavers v the plutos

it was not always so .... there was real ideology and venom once .... and much bigger tribes at war in politics .... now they all sit at home in the great black hole of Brit culture whilst the plutos the drones and the beavers yabber yabber and the CORPOCATS steal all the money

where are people? it seems as if less than 5% of the population read/follow the arts/do anything much .... very few now vote ... where is the mind of Britain now located .... in Aunty's Knickers?

[MrGongGong]

What a pile of utter nonsense
people like Boris because he is a buffoon who appears on TV and knows a bit about the Romans

repeating the mantra that the BBC is somehow "left wing" and "anti business" simply flies in the face of all the evidence !

As we are in for a summer of toadying "yes, you Majesty, no, your majesty" Witchell rubbish ........ how does that square with being "left wing" and "europhile" ?

[amateur51]

Is it appropriate for the Mayor of London to make these sorts of comment? - the BBC is now more in Salford than in London. Boris is not a national politician.

Or is he writing as a Telegraph hack? - I find it almost as difficult to discern the difference between the two as apparently Boris does

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it looks like a bit of opportunistic yah boo aunty sucks to me since his rival Dave will have to oversee a new appointment soon and the Coalition will no doubt not appoint a rabid right wing Tory

but Boris will not mind one bit another carving another notch of appro when the time comes innit ...

[amateur51]

it looks like a bit of opportunistic yah boo aunty sucks to me since his rival Dave will have to oversee a new appointment soon and the Coalition will no doubt not appoint a rabid right wing Tory

but Boris will not mind one bit another carving another notch of appro when the time comes innit ...

[Serial_Apologist]

Is it appropriate for the Mayor of London to make these sorts of comment? - the BBC is now more in Salford than in London. Boris is not a national politician.

Or is he writing as a Telegraph hack? - I find it almost as difficult to discern the difference between the two as apparently Boris does

What we're now seeing is the real Boris, testosteroned up, logo-imprinted, tattooed right up to the political fundamental on the sorts of issues that will make him a totem equal to Kapoor's private funds-raised erection in the eyes of the Tory right, come the day when Cameroon gets ditched.

We ain't seen nothing yet!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

but it is still just noise in the playgrounds or bust ups in the disco .... no one is reforming finance, addressing a growth agenda or actively pursuing a fairness or green agenda for example ...

[Serial_Apologist]

but it is still just noise in the playgrounds or bust ups in the disco .... no one is reforming finance, addressing a growth agenda or actively pursuing a fairness or green agenda for example ...

It's contriving the mood music

[amateur51]

but it is still just noise in the playgrounds or bust ups in the disco .... no one is reforming finance, addressing a growth agenda or actively pursuing a fairness or green agenda for example ...

These are exactly the sort of crucial issues where Boris is literally clueless - he can croon the words into the ears of floating voters but come the implementation of his plans to address them, his cupboard is bare.

[Serial_Apologist]

These are exactly the sort of crucial issues where Boris is literally clueless - he can croon the words into the ears of floating voters but come the implementation of his plans to address them, his cupboard is bare.

Yeh but it's still the mood music that matters, ams.

If you've ever had the pleasure of attending a Conservative Party cocktail party fundraiser in the suburbs, you will hear the impotent cheerleading whenever the leadership is devoid of ideas or solutions: "Goddamit, something's got to be done about it! I don't know what, but something" It's the Tory grass roots battle cry, their willing subordinate excuse for replicating Arnhem, going over the top. We see it on here from one or two. And in response from the roomful of glass clinkers? "Bravo, young man, that's the spirit! Yes, yes, harrumph, that's what we need - something to be done about it. More people with backbone running the show, what? Thank you sweetie - G and T if I may"

[Lateralthinking1]

This is an unwarranted attack on the BBC. It also shows that the office of Mayor of London is a waste of public money. If it is the priority within days of re-election to write tripe, he hasn't got enough to do. He would have spent the time better running a comb through his peculiar yellowy grey locks. He offers not one shred of evidence for pro EU bias in the BBC. Two of the most notable BBC programmes on the EU were "Europe's Choice" which asked "Did Germany sow the seeds of the eurozone debt crisis?" and "File on 4 - Europe's Missing Millions" which considered fears over 'widespread' EU fraud involving the Mafia. Will Gompertz has been a BBC employee for just three years. He is hardly a die-hard and quite a lot of his past was in the private sector. Richard Morrison works for the Murdoch press. In The Times he said of the Old Etonian's latest vanity project that Johnson was similar to Hitler, Stalin and Ceauşescu in their acts of "phallic politics" in building grandiose monuments. Criticising the lack of public involvement, he described how it would be an "undesired intrusion by the few into the consciousness of the many". How very Boris it is then.

This ArcelorMittal Orbit - the "c" should have been an "s" - is of course not only highly pretentious but a global advertisement for Mittal Steel and its owner Lakshmi Niwas Mittal. Visitors are still having to pay a big entrance fee to it. The project is expected - note that word "expected" - to cost £19.1 million, with £3.1 million coming from the London Development Agency, ie the taxpayer. So to the tune of £3.1 million we are paying for an advert for Mr Mittal, plus entrance fees, at a time of recession. And actually we are paying for all of it. Mittal is the richest man in the UK, India and Asia and the sixth richest man in the world. Estimated to be worth US $20.7 billion, how many years of a 5% tax deduction will it require for us to pay for this "gift"? Not many. Probably not any. Still, it should seal his place at the top of that list of the Top 1000 wealthiest in the UK, whose combined wealth has swelled by almost 5% to more than £414 billion pounds. I give you Adele, Coleen Rooney, Aston Merrygold of boy band JLS, the woman who runs Bet 365 and all of the other well-deserving, caring and sharing, job creators. Seize all their assets. The Greek problem is wiped out faster than it takes to listen to 4 minutes of non-music and to lose a shirt on a money-dripping haggard old nag.

Employees of Mittal have accused him of "slave labour" conditions after multiple fatalities in his mines. During December 2004, twenty-three miners died in explosions in his mines in Kazakhstan caused by faulty gas detectors. Mr. Mittal has been accused of running a series of coal mines in Kazakistan with abhorrent safety records. Between 2004 and 2007, the lax standards were responsible for the deaths of 91 coalminers and the subject of a criminal investigation. Mittal purchased the Irish Steel plant based in Cork from the government for a nominal fee of £1 m. Three years later in 2001, it was closed, leaving 400 people redundant. Subsequent environmental issues at the site have been a cause for criticism. The Government tried to sue in the High Court to have him pay for the clean-up of Cork Harbour but failed. The clean up was expected to cost €70m. There is plenty more including questionable behaviour in regard to Romania and past donations to the Labour Party although the allegiance may well have altered. Johnson once said ""I'm backing David Cameron's campaign out of pure, cynical self-interest." That might appear to define his relationship with anything or anyone. A pile of manure would have been more fitting and could still be dropped down by helicopter.

[amateur51]

Vintage stuff Lats - I love it when your dander is up

[Lateralthinking1]

Vintage stuff Lats - I love it when your dander is up

Thank you amateur51. Meet the mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville:



And this is a genuine quote from the Mayor: “It’s hard to imagine mascots more in tune with the times.”

The faceless yet bulging, in Tory and Lib Dem colours, doing a Nazi salute. He might just be right for once there.

[scottycelt]

I think our friend Goldilocks is complaining of pro-EU bias on the BBC ... ?

Once I read that utter gem, I didn't bother reading any further ...

[MrGongGong]

Thank you amateur51. Meet the mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville:



And this is a genuine quote from the Mayor: “It’s hard to imagine mascots more in tune with the times.”

The faceless yet bulging, in Tory and Lib Dem colours, doing a Nazi salute. He might just be right for once there.

It's where the torch relay came from..............