Comments on: I name the guilty ones

By: Imogen

Imogen — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:39:29 +0000

Boris – you are officially “cool” – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3699368.stm

“It was bad news for politicians as only one made the list – MP Boris Johnson.”

Rate This: 0 0

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:45:59 +0000

Cheers Scaryduck – you got a good thing going… let’s hope it evaporates soon too.

Boris’s Parliamentary Office.

Rate This: 0 0

By: Scaryduck

Scaryduck — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:54:11 +0000

Have you seen the “Photoshop Boris” competition on http://www.b3ta.com yet?

I feel I should apologise, as it appears to have been my idea.

Rate This: 0 0

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:50:29 +0000

Boris Johnson names the Guilty Journalists in favour of removing Saddam.

I notice you didn’t risk taking your colleague Mark Steyn on, Boris. Reading the Telegraph today, I nearly fell off my chair laughing at him nearly falling off his chair laughing. Rowan William’s C of E (an eldery emaciated gelding) may be a soft target, but he even scored a palpable hit on the redoutable Niall Ferguson.

It seems to me that the two short items at the end are not standard Johnsonia but have a Littlejohnish tang to them. “Baby”? I ask you.

Rate This: 0 0

By: Michael Schewitz

Michael Schewitz — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:07:31 +0000

I simply cannot understand the new found Tory enthusiasm for Greg Dyke and the BBC. It is this kind of duff thinking that gives you no chance of returning to power even against an unpopular Labour party.

Boris, face the facts, the BBC and Dyke are completely opposed to just about everything you preport to hold dear. I listen to the BBC nearly every morning – and it is pretty much unrelenting leftism or, at best, social democratism. Their coverage of George Bush and the USA s a caricature, and they were totally against the war in Iraq from day one. Dyke’s hypocritical resignation (that he did not expect to be accepted) and his comments post his resignation shows that he is a political animal through and through. In every statement that he has made, it is clear that Dyke has little time for the old style, even-handed journalist. His cause at the BBC was always the “progeressive” cause.

One of the reasons the Tories cannot get their message accross is that the BBC, while not hostile to Tories per se, is deeply hostile to the Tory message. The Tories should have used this as a justifiable opportunity to show up Beeb journalists for the proslytisers that they are.

Instead, now you consort with your enemies. Is your party so removed from reality that you think that Dyke or the BBC will ever support you? You expressed no doubt at all about Hutton until he found for Blair. IDS, for all his failings, was principled on Iraq. The current Tory policy on Iraq has achieved the remarkable feat of making Blair look consistent. (And God help you if in the long run Iraq becomes a democracy and succeeds.)

Rate This: 0 0

By: poons

poons — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:30:39 +0000

Boris, based on your voting record and lack of Parliamentary comment on the invasion of Iraq

(see http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/howtheyvoted/0,,-2735,00.html)

Would I be right in thinking you were, and remain, against the invasion?

Rate This: 0 0

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:17:19 +0000

I disagree with Mike and Dave. That Gilligan’s fantasies turned out to be reality does indeed make them possibly the most insightful piece of Iraq war journalism, because without discrediting Gilligan, the government could not have justified the war. That the Hutton report did this job very well for the government is, IMO, neither here nor there. And since a major “independent” media organisation was successfully manipulated by the government, and a man took his own life, surely it is worth raising again and again until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and those responsible for it are removed from power.

Rate This: 0 0

By: Mike Cresswell

Mike Cresswell — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:55:13 +0000

I see that you say that Boris wanted this posting. Could it be that you didn’t – sharing my view that it isn’t worth giving another airing?

Rate This: 0 0

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:20:42 +0000

That Gilligan’s fantasies turned out to match reality does not restrospectively convert them into journalism.

Rate This: 0 0

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:53:35 +0000

@Simon – “I guess it’s a Guardian side column, rather than a coded message to Col Gaddafi.” – That made me laugh man.

Will Boris ever actually post something on this site? I demand Boris writes something new and exclusive for his internet audience or I shall burn my RSS subscription.

[Ed: please don't do anything so rash - it won't be long before Boris surprises you again]

Rate This: 0 0