I live in Oxfordshire but I spent the first 32 years of my life in London. I am consequently a proper Londoner and remain proud of that great city, despite my strong attachment to my new home.
I was thrilled when London beat Paris to get the 2012 Olympics and increasingly excited as the handover ceremony from Beijing to London approached.
This growing excitement was cruelly shattered as I watched in horror a shambling, almost simian oaf emerge into the fabulous Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing to represent the entire UK, in turn saluting the crowd (!!!), placing his hands into and out of his pockets as he bumbled along next to his Chinese counterpart, grinning like the idiot he clearly is (I don't buy into the 'hiding his genius' argument) and generally humiliating us in front of billions of spectators as he failed even to wave a bl**dy flag properly.
He then later insulted his hosts by claiming 'ping pong' as British - as if anyone cared - and generally behaving like a clown - and not a very good one at that.
This man is tipped by some commentators as a future Prime Minister...If you live in London and you voted for Boris Johnson to be London Mayor, see what you have done.
Monday, 25 August 2008
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You can hold whatever oppinions you like about Boris. Its one of the great thngs aboutthis country which makes it beter than China- one reaosn we don't have to spend $40Billion to buy public acceptance for our leaders.
The answer will come in 2012 with stadiums full of real sport fans, with fair judging and athletes free to compete and have a genuinely good time in a city which hasn't lost its soul to the concrete mixer.
What Boris clearly doesn't buy into is the fake pseudo-religiosity that the Olympic carpet-baggers have endowed their means of making a living off genuine sport with and which dictators and mountebanks the world over want a piece of.
He also doesn't claim to represent the country. Its one of the refreshing things about him as a politician; he takes neither himself, the processes of politics or the pomposities of his fellow politicians very seriously.
As for waiving a flag, the unfairly elected Mayor of Beijing and the Belgian fraudster did no better.
I can't think of a better ambassador for the festival of rent seeking, taxation and nationalism that is the Olympics...
It might make the IOC consider moving the games to Paris so we can be rid of the damn thing.
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