The very latest awfulness to emerge
Spanked
Feb 21, 2012. Comments (0)
Dave Hill gives a rousing account of the first (and one of the toughest) hustings meeting of the 2012 campaign. Run by AgeUK, a hall of pensioners grilled the candidates this afternoon, and the verdict of the Guardian's City Hall specialist was that Boris got 'a spanking', and this in front of his supposedly strongest age group too:
In fact, it was a rout at times. Boris started well, charming a packed house with tales of his excellent house-keeping skills and appalling it with mention of a legendary Livingstonian trip to Cuba. But soon after that he was wearing an ambushed look.
He concludes...
It really was quite extraordinary to see Boris so out-quipped, out-witted and out-laughed. He produced all his now standard negative lines about the Tube unions, the council tax and old Fidel, but precious little for people to stand up and cheer.
Also worth checking out is Helene Mulholland's extensive live blog of the event, where she gives high marks to Brian Paddick's development since 2008 as a campaigner:
Today he exuded more confidence. Paddick's team are happy with how things went today, and in my view they have reason to be.
The headline has to be the spanking though. Boris got a spanking. Google, note these words.
God f*ckin help us, you made Boris Mayor...
Feb 15, 2012. Comments (0)
So chuffed to find this in our inbox today. The excellent folk/punk band Steve White and the Protest Family have just recorded their very popular 'Have I Got News for You' song and put it up on YouTube for everyone to admire.
Altogether now...
We said you wouldn't do it
We said you woudn't dare
You wouldn't vote for Boris just because you liked his hair
We waited half the night for the Boroughs to declare
God f*ckin help us, you made Boris Mayor...
Naturally, piles and piles of SACK BORIS oyster wallets are now winging their way to the band for giving out at upcoming gigs. You can enjoy a live rendition of the song at Chingford this Saturday, at Kings Cross on 16th March (UCU benefit) and Leyton on 17th March. Visit the band on Facebook or their website for all the details.
Thanks again chaps for the video. It's spiffing!
Boris Johnson Turing test
Ask Boris a question with our very clever answer generator, and see if you can tell the difference - click on the image below to have a go.
(Actually it's not even all that clever, but still manages to sound remarkably like Boris not answering any questions at Mayor's Question Time.)
Boris has put up bus fares 50% since 2008 so 'touching in' with one of these is a marvellous way to show your displeasure.
Thanks to the TSSA union, we can send out our new edition wallets for less. Donate just £2 or more today and we'll send a batch with each colour to brighten up your journeys.
If you can, please give a bit extra to help us print more wallets to give away. If we raise £2,000 we can have 10,000 extra wallets, and for £7,000 we can print 50,000 of these beauties!
@SackBoris2012
- RT @garydunion: Boris deputy @richardbarnes_ "applauds the objective of UpRise". The same objective that BoJo stripped from its predeces ...
- Standing in for the frontrunners are Deputy Mayor @richardbarnes_ and would-be Deputy Mayor @ValShawcross. #C4UpRise
- Turns out it's a no-show from both Boris and Ken for the #C4UpRise debate. Both have sent surrogates. (ht @Siobhan4Mayor, @charliesaidthat)
- @Siobhan4Mayor @UpRiseFestival Is it confirmed they're not coming, or are they just not there yet?
