Boris Is the Fiishbowl of Tory Contradictions

Andy Ray Tue May 06, 2008 at 04:56:05 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook


Fortunately for the Labour Party, Boris Johnson not only remains a contradiction incarnate but now provides the public a high-profile fishbowl of Tory (opportunistic) contradictions too! As we know, despite his, and the Tory Party’s, proclamations, Johnson’s actual policies contradict them and do not give anyone any confidence that they will help lead toward the proclaimed goals. How would Johnson justify and reconcile his apparent anti-crime tough stance with his actual opposition to the proposed automatic five-year sentence for knife/firearm possession? Or reconciling Cameron’s green leanings with his own declared intention to undermine Ken’s new Congestion Charge initiatives against the gas guzzlers?   





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Re: Boris Is the Fishbowl of Tory Contradictions (#1)

by sianlloydwebber on Tue May 06, 2008 at 05:58:31 AM GMT

Very true, Andy, but don't forget that Labour has its own fishbowl of contradictions incarnate in Gordon Brown too. To begin with, his mindset is hypocritically contradictory: he says he will be listening and will learn the lessons, and in the same breath he reiterates that there will not be any change in his policies. What will he be listening and learning for, then? His economics is contradictory: not only the gap between the rich and the poor has been  ever-widening under New Labour, the so-called friend of the poor, “ordinary-background” man Brown nonchalantly removes the 10p tax band, but lacks the moral guts to tax at 50% those people who earn over £10m a year. If Brown is honest about equality of opportunity, why doesn’t he abolish the Inheritance Tax for all having wealth up to £1m, and impose a 40% IHT rate on any wealth up to £10m, and 80% IHT on anything above it? (All these will give him more money for public spending too.) And his politics is contradictory: a la New Labour’s new-found (neo-con) friend George Bush, Brown & Co wax lyrical on Zimbabway’s democracy, they turn a blind eye to the torturous Saudi regime. So let’s not have too much schadenfreude, Andy.          


Re: Boris Is the Fiishbowl of Tory Contradictions (#2)

by treborc on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:37:55 AM GMT

The idea that Boris is going to muck it up is dangerous assumption because if he does not, we are going to look like real fools.

This week my councilor who lost his seat said to me, if you had voted for me and the other so called Labour I'd have won, I said remember your words to me, do we want Thatcher back, she is old and cannot speak without dribbling, we aren't going to get Thatcher back, I said if you had spent twenty minutes telling us what you were going to do I might have voted. but nope you spent ten minutes tell us about Thatcher.


Re: Boris Is the Fiishbowl of Tory Contradictions (#5)

by Group51 on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:44:41 PM GMT

I agree, given the Cameron does actually live in London, I doubt that Boris will be allowed to cock it up.


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Re: Boris Is the Fiishbowl of Tory Contradictions (#4)

by Prbo on Tue May 06, 2008 at 02:39:09 PM GMT

Boris may have his contradictions, but then Red Ken was hardly without them.  Anyway, all of these were well known to the electorate when they pronounced their verdict last week.  And it was a resounding thumbs-up.


Boris Is the Fiishbowl of Tory Contradictions | 4 comments (4 topical)