Sunday 4 May 2008

Predictions to remember, #1


Daniel Hannan rhapsodizes:
Under Boris Johnson, our capital city will experience a flowering of artistic and intellectual life. BoJo will be a second Charlemagne, attracting scholars and philosophers from all Europe. You doubt me? Just you wait.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's the way it's gonna be then. Out with the ethnics (Hannan presumably grown in a tube?) and lefties and in with a new age of whatever the **** Johnson is supposed to stand for.
London has always been an over-rated crap hole. Now it's really behaving like one. Let's hope people get good and scared off Dave Balloonhead, anyway.

KEITH TOLSTOY said...

As surely everyone knows, Daniel Hannan was grown not in a tube, but on the Tube: cultured by demented Eurosceptic scientists in a secret laboratory at Down Street Underground Station, disused since 1932.

Personally I persist in a defiant love of London. That's why I live in Leith. Then again, I am mad.

Did you see this ferocious knife-job on Boris by (of all people) Simon Heffer?

Anonymous said...

My dear, the noise and the people. Charlie Brooker in last week's Guardian was v acute too. I would agree with Hefferlump that you need a particular cast of mind to dislike Johnson (broadly, "very amusing and Woosterish. Ha ha. Now ****off, will you?")