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	<title>Comments on: Boris Johnson&#8217;s problem</title>
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		<title>By: Ravi Naik</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2100#comment-122976</link>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Naik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;especially when you have a BNP man at your elbow at mayorâ€™s question time.

This is spot on. What makes me laugh more is that when people now criticise Boris Johnson,&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

It is outrageous that a man is being called a racist, a BNP-lite, and even sacked for having fallen to a racist trap. The &quot;journalist&quot; from The-Latest.com asked James McGrath to comment on the rumour that some blacks would return to the Caribbean if Boris was elected - what the fuck? Why is it racist to say that if people want to leave the country because they are not happy with a democratically elected mayor, they are happy to do so? And if James McGrath is sacked for saying something totally reasonable, why wasn&#039;t the journalist sacked as well for setting up a race-bait question - and using BNP language?

I voted for Ken because I know that Boris will fuck up. But these attacks are just spiteful, mean and bitter. I really hate what the Left has become.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>especially when you have a BNP man at your elbow at mayorâ€™s question time.</p>
<p>This is spot on. What makes me laugh more is that when people now criticise Boris Johnson,&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It is outrageous that a man is being called a racist, a BNP-lite, and even sacked for having fallen to a racist trap. The &#8220;journalist&#8221; from The-Latest.com asked James McGrath to comment on the rumour that some blacks would return to the Caribbean if Boris was elected &#8211; what the fuck? Why is it racist to say that if people want to leave the country because they are not happy with a democratically elected mayor, they are happy to do so? And if James McGrath is sacked for saying something totally reasonable, why wasn&#8217;t the journalist sacked as well for setting up a race-bait question &#8211; and using BNP language?</p>
<p>I voted for Ken because I know that Boris will fuck up. But these attacks are just spiteful, mean and bitter. I really hate what the Left has become.</p>
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		<title>By: marvin</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2100#comment-122814</link>
		<dc:creator>marvin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mikeyboy

What a bizarre statement. So anybody who is sceptical makes you feel sick?

There&#039;s a fair few conservatives in the Tory party - their only philosophy being moderation and scepticism.

I can only presume you are referring to the neo-liberals</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mikeyboy</p>
<p>What a bizarre statement. So anybody who is sceptical makes you feel sick?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a fair few conservatives in the Tory party &#8211; their only philosophy being moderation and scepticism.</p>
<p>I can only presume you are referring to the neo-liberals</p>
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		<title>By: Mikeyboy</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2100#comment-122762</link>
		<dc:creator>Mikeyboy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t engage in tory basing myself - any sort of tory makes me sick regardless of how they are prepared for table.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t engage in tory basing myself &#8211; any sort of tory makes me sick regardless of how they are prepared for table.</p>
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		<title>By: marvin</title>
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		<dc:creator>marvin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry guys I&#039;m all up for a decent critique of a politician or political party, any and all of them...

But what the hell are you guys on about?! Boris has been in power for weeks! 

I don&#039;t mind Tory basing, but let&#039;s get some concrete substance to it.

Dave Hill doesn&#039;t really of actually of said anything at all of substance. Am I missing something??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry guys I&#8217;m all up for a decent critique of a politician or political party, any and all of them&#8230;</p>
<p>But what the hell are you guys on about?! Boris has been in power for weeks! </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t mind Tory basing, but let&#8217;s get some concrete substance to it.</p>
<p>Dave Hill doesn&#8217;t really of actually of said anything at all of substance. Am I missing something??</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2100#comment-122737</link>
		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL! Is anyone seriously expecting a Tory to be honest when it comes to financial waste of their political allies?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL! Is anyone seriously expecting a Tory to be honest when it comes to financial waste of their political allies?!</p>
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		<title>By: BenSix</title>
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		<dc:creator>BenSix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;LFat - I see you havenâ€™t written about the half a million wasted on the â€œtransition teamâ€!&quot;

Or the Mayor&#039;s salary ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;LFat &#8211; I see you havenâ€™t written about the half a million wasted on the â€œtransition teamâ€!&#8221;</p>
<p>Or the Mayor&#8217;s salary <img src='http://www.pickledpolitics.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Sunny</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sunny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LFat - I see you haven&#039;t written about the half a million wasted on the &quot;transition team&quot;!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LFat &#8211; I see you haven&#8217;t written about the half a million wasted on the &#8220;transition team&#8221;!</p>
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		<title>By: Little Richardjohn</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2100#comment-122683</link>
		<dc:creator>Little Richardjohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So let&#039;s get this clear.

James McGrath is definitely not a racist, both Cameron and Johnson say so, and they&#039;re both honorourable men, and so he must be sacked as quickly as possible.

That&#039;s clear as mud then, like the Johnson administration and its Cameron backers.

So either Cameron and Johnson don&#039;t know what racism is, in which case they are idiots who shouldn&#039;t be running a creche. Or they do know, and are therefore a pair of standard issue tory slimeballs only fit to run a second hand car showroom.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So let&#8217;s get this clear.</p>
<p>James McGrath is definitely not a racist, both Cameron and Johnson say so, and they&#8217;re both honorourable men, and so he must be sacked as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s clear as mud then, like the Johnson administration and its Cameron backers.</p>
<p>So either Cameron and Johnson don&#8217;t know what racism is, in which case they are idiots who shouldn&#8217;t be running a creche. Or they do know, and are therefore a pair of standard issue tory slimeballs only fit to run a second hand car showroom.</p>
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		<title>By: fug</title>
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		<dc:creator>fug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what a skank, scavenging the bombed out residence of an iraqi politician. i suppose its representative of wider british society so must be legitimate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what a skank, scavenging the bombed out residence of an iraqi politician. i suppose its representative of wider british society so must be legitimate.</p>
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		<title>By: Sid</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2100#comment-122674</link>
		<dc:creator>Sid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aah, bashing Boris. Nice to be on relaxing, comfortable ground again instead of arguing with tossers on the Muslim threads. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aah, bashing Boris. Nice to be on relaxing, comfortable ground again instead of arguing with tossers on the Muslim threads. <img src='http://www.pickledpolitics.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: persephone</title>
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		<dc:creator>persephone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>was not aware of London having a womans adviser or what their role entailed - be interested if anyone knows this. Until then, and on the face of it, why have that role - if the others in situ cannot relate to womens issues surely that is the aspect that needs sorting. Perhaps there should be an adviser too for people who are 5 foot 4 inches tall with brown eyes otherwise I feel my interests won&#039;t be represented until there is</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>was not aware of London having a womans adviser or what their role entailed &#8211; be interested if anyone knows this. Until then, and on the face of it, why have that role &#8211; if the others in situ cannot relate to womens issues surely that is the aspect that needs sorting. Perhaps there should be an adviser too for people who are 5 foot 4 inches tall with brown eyes otherwise I feel my interests won&#8217;t be represented until there is</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Essentially theyâ€™re saying that criticisism of Boris Johnson for his long litany of mistakes in a manner of weeks shouldnâ€™t be allowed.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yep and I&#039;ll be damned if I&#039;m going to listen to such idiocy either! 

From what I&#039;ve seen Boris Johnson isn&#039;t up to the job, and no amount of delegation or briefing is going to change that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Essentially theyâ€™re saying that criticisism of Boris Johnson for his long litany of mistakes in a manner of weeks shouldnâ€™t be allowed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yep and I&#8217;ll be damned if I&#8217;m going to listen to such idiocy either! </p>
<p>From what I&#8217;ve seen Boris Johnson isn&#8217;t up to the job, and no amount of delegation or briefing is going to change that.</p>
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		<title>By: Letters From A Tory</title>
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		<dc:creator>Letters From A Tory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does London need a &#039;women&#039;s adviser&#039;?  Happy to see that back of that, what a waste of money.

http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does London need a &#8216;women&#8217;s adviser&#8217;?  Happy to see that back of that, what a waste of money.</p>
<p><a href="http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: cjcjc</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2100#comment-122663</link>
		<dc:creator>cjcjc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>His worst crime apparently being unaware of the change of theme of a music festival.  Hang him!! 

Dave goes on to say at the end of his piece that if Boris *does* embrace the &quot;multiculturalism&quot; he supposedly previously despised he could go on to win a whole load of new friends.

Indeed, you could imagine him doing this rather stylishly.  No doubt we will be treated to the odd gaffe, but at the same time we will be spared Qaradawi and Castro.

The first test will be his appearance at the Gay Pride.
I can&#039;t wait to see the photos!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>His worst crime apparently being unaware of the change of theme of a music festival.  Hang him!! </p>
<p>Dave goes on to say at the end of his piece that if Boris *does* embrace the &#8220;multiculturalism&#8221; he supposedly previously despised he could go on to win a whole load of new friends.</p>
<p>Indeed, you could imagine him doing this rather stylishly.  No doubt we will be treated to the odd gaffe, but at the same time we will be spared Qaradawi and Castro.</p>
<p>The first test will be his appearance at the Gay Pride.<br />
I can&#8217;t wait to see the photos!</p>
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