http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/14/charliebrooker.boris
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Get with the pogrom dude
S'from Monday, nearly 100 years ago.
I'm only trying to irritate GayGuevara
:D
I fucking hate Boris Johnson.
Bumbling fuckhead.
I am, of course, duty bound to response, but I only have 2 points to make.
1) This has been discussed on here before. Aside from Nathan Barley, i'm not Brooker's biggest fan, but come on, in this instance he has dropped the ball. It reads like it's been written by an A-level student; it's just really, really crap. I don't think anyone could suggest that's a good article, regardless of the subject matter.
2) (And this is a semi-genuine question) Does anyone here actually know anyone like the type of person being written about in the article? I'm sure there are lots of students like that, but it's many a year since I left higher education and, quite genuinely, don't think i've met anyone who sees Boris in the way described, at least not to such an 'ironic' level. I think (as with the Conservative Party in fact) a lot of people have a pre-concieved perception of Boris and his voter base, but this perception is very different to the reality.
Still, what do I care, we've got an 18 point lead in the (national) polls.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
My frieeends
AND WEEEEE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING
TILL THE END
*respond
Whether you think the article's well written or not
the point still is valid. I don't know how significant the student vote is in London, but it's fair to say having just come out of university that Boris as a personality does carry the affections of quite a lot of young people, and will skew the usual proportions of that age group towards the Conservatives. I even had a housemate at university who "became" a Tory almost purely on the back of him.
Brooker's plenty right in the sense that the personality issue's muddied this election far too much - he just (as ever) makes the point in a very overstated way.
in answer to question 2
yes i do. i was forced to shout at one of my co-workers (not a student) earlier in the week for uttering the phrase "london needs a change - we need someone funny to be mayor" amongst other such stupid arguments in support of boris.
scary i know, but these people do exist...
to answer question 2
yes. too many of them, the idiots.
thankfully, with one of my friends, me and my flatmate sat down with her and forced her to read through that little booklet they've sent to everyone, and to look on the websites of a few of the candidates
she'll be voting for Red Ken
Maybe you just hang around with a lower quality of person?
I don't know. I mean, I know one person who said "well, at least he'll be entertaining", which is not as bad as the article makes out. Aside from that, I honestly don't know anyone of the 'kerazy' persuasion. I just hang round with better people I guess.
subjective, subjective
voting for someone mainly because they're entertaining's a bit suspect to me but hey, beggars can't be choosers, right?
I don't know why, but
'Legernd' makes me giggle so much. :D
Me too
It still is some 2 and a half hours after I read it.
UPDATE:
it's still really funny.
Boris Johnson - Mayor
Its a shocking state of affairs, the guy is clearly a bumbling accident prone idiot
And the article is very cleverly written (I think). It captures the way that politicians appear to be "dumbing down" in order to capture the youth vote.
Boris Johnson is funny looking, lets have a beer and a laugh with him, YEAH, look he talks funny!!
My sentiments entirely
Its one of the wittiest and most on point things Brooker's written for absolutely months. Its slightly tarnished by his 'But I fucking hate Tories anyway dun'I' stance in the middle but otherwise top notch.
I don't think anyone came out of the QT very well last night.
Boris > Ken
But I am glad I don't live in London, and therefore can happily vote for neither.
justify this in any way pls
I'm glad he doesn't live in London too.
Otherwise he'd vote for Boris.
I'd probably abstain.
this is really fucking confusing
When people say "Boris" meaning "Boris Johnson", I still assume they mean the band. Hmm.
yeech
I live in Surrey, not London. No one near where I live is eligable to vote on this. Yet all the great big fuck off Surrey mansions have the huuuuge Boris Johnson signs in their gardens. Why exactly I do not know.
^ strangely comforting to know