Remember what happened to Scargill
I can remember exactly where I was when I experienced my first spasm of savage Right-wing indignation. It was 1984, at breakfast time – about 10.40am – and I had a spoonful of Harvest Crunch halfway to my lips. The place was the Junior Common Room of my college.
For the previous two decades I had viewed politics with a perfectly proper mixture of cynicism and apathy. Whatever I read under the bedclothes, it certainly wasn’t Hansard. Like everyone at my school, I had undergone vague sensations of enthusiasm when the Falklands were recaptured, but otherwise, frankly, I did not give a monkey’s.
Occasionally I would glance at the political columnists in the newspapers, and be amazed that anyone could pay them to write such tosh. I hadn’t a clue who was in the Cabinet. The world was too beautiful to waste time on such questions.
New Arts Policy
Boris will unveil some new tentative arts policy ideas at Party Conference in October.
Watch this space – Olly, researcher to Boris, will post a preview soon.
Constituency Issues
Henley
Main issues that Boris Johnson is taking up on behalf of constituents:
(September 04)
- Phone mast on land at corner of Green Lane and Greys Road
- Woodcote to Henley Bus Service 145
- Chiltern Resource Centre
- Firearms Controls Consultation Paper
- Special Areas of Conservation status for Bolton Fell and Solway Moss
- trade justice
Day 2 – Many thanks
Many thanks for writing in and contributing to this new site.
We, in Boris Johnson’s Office, are overwhelmed by such a warm response.
In answer to some questions:
- registration for comments: not a bad idea… we will see what we can do but let’s see how long an honour system lasts, first. It makes comments more accessible to the general public, so unless they’re likely to be scared off or drowned out by others who abuse the comments function, we’d like to keep them open for now
- RSS: does exist and we are putting a link to it on the front page.
Thank you again for your enthusiastic comments
Melissa & Co
Boris reporting for duty
Hi folks, this is Boris Johnson here. Welcome to my blogsite, where I hope to be blogging for some time to come. You may ask yourself why on earth I am filling the electronic ether with yet more of my stuff, given that I can already be discovered in the pages of the Henley Standard, Daily Telegraph, Spectator etc.
It is a damn good question.
The answer is that very persuasive man called Tim has recently been to my office in the Commons. He told me that blogging is the future. He spoke of the online community, and its rapid expansion. He said that newspapers were outmoded.
He spoke of a new kind of politics. He waved his hands and rolled his eyes. So I have acceded to his advice, and begun to blog.
Tim tells me that the idea is that I fall out of bed every morning, blazing with inspiration, and thunder out 3000 words on the issue of the hour, so generating a pandemic internet controversy. I am not sure, frankly, that I will manage that. But I hope that there will be some other bloggers out there who may feel moved to give me some advice – not least on the funding of the Arts, to which I am now devoting my meditations.
Must blog off for the time being.
