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Monday 7 April 2008

Boris Johnson in his own words

ON ISLAM

"To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia…seems a natural reaction... Judged purely on its scripture...it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions." (The Spectator 16/07/2005)

"The proposed ban on incitement to "religious hatred" makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself." (Telegraph, 21/07/2005)

"When is Little Britain going to do a sketch, starring Matt Lucas as one of the virgins? Islam will only be truly acculturated to our way of life when you could expect a Bradford audience to roll in the aisles at Monty Python's Life of Mohammed." (Telegraph, 21/07/2005)

ON RACIAL DIVERSITY

‘It is common ground among both right-wingers and left-wingers that racism is "natural"’ (Guardian, 21/02/2000)

‘They say [Tony Blair] is shortly off to the Congo . No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.’ (Telegraph, 10/01/2002)

ON DIVERSITY & TOLERANCE

"We must begin...the re-Britannification of Britain" (Telegraph 14/07/2005)

“There seems no reason to behave respectfully towards that little old woman coming out of the Post Office if you feel that she belongs to a culture that is alien from your own.”

ON WOMEN

‘The chicks in the GQ expenses department – and if you can’t call them chicks, then what the hell, I ask you, is the point of writing for GQ.’

ON THE IRAQ WAR

“If we know the Pentagon, there must be a very good chance that this will be an outstandingly successful and stress-free war."

"I am an ardent neocon."

ON GEORGE W BUSH

‘Whenever George Dubya Bush appears on television, with his buzzard squint and his Ronald Reagan sidenod, I find a cheer rising irresistibly in my throat.”

‘Not only did I want Bush to win, but we threw the entire weight of The Spectator behind him.’

ON SOCIAL EQUALITY

‘We seem to have forgotten that societies need rich people, even sickeningly rich people, and not just to provide jobs for those who clean swimming pools and resurface tennis courts.’

ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE

“Do you really mean to say the empire wasn’t a good thing? ... The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more… The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.”

ON THE ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

"If I were an Israeli, I would be astounded that any member of the British Government or Opposition felt able to criticise Israel at all."

"If we were Israelis…we would dispatch an American-built ground-assault helicopter and blow the place to bits. Then we would send in bulldozers to scrape over the remains, and we would do the same to all the other houses in the area… this is the best way to deter Palestinian families from nurturing these vipers in their bosoms, and also the best way of explaining to the death-hungry narcissists that they may get the 72 black-eyed virgins of scripture, but their family gets the bulldozer."


This man is well on his way to becoming the next Mayor of London, with £10bn and one of the world's most diverse cities under his control

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