May 30, 2005

boris on the bbc

6 Comments

Boris John­son, Con­ser­va­tive MP and mid-ranking celeb has a go at the Beeb:

Is this Bri­tain, my friends, or is this some Cen­tral Ame­ri­can dic­ta­torship, circa 1970? I can think of only one rea­son for having a tele­vi­sion in Oxfordshire, and that is so that I can refuse to pay Good­body his confounded 

6 Responses to “boris on the bbc”

  1. geoff lane says:
    May 30, 2005 at 7:25 am

    Con­ci­de­ring Boris is per­fectly happy to accept his appea­rence money from the BBC, I would con­ci­der his opi­nions on the orga­ni­sa­tion somewhat two faced.
    Boris isn’t the amu­sing buf­fer he likes to por­tray, he has ambi­tion and a pro­ven abi­lity to rise without trace. While he isn’t likely to get far in the upco­ming con­cer­va­tive party lea­der elec­tion, he does want to be a very public figure during the pro­cess so next time he might appear to be the “king across the water.”

  2. bernard says:
    May 30, 2005 at 12:55 pm

    I think Boris is a bit of a silly fellow. Like that first per­son said, he is happy to get his appea­rance money from them, so..either shut up, or don’t go on the BBC.
    I can say, as an Irish per­son, the BBC radio broad­cas­ting is a fine exam­ple of pro­per radio jour­na­lism, and pro­per radio pro­gram­ming.
    WRT the BBC TV pro­gram­ming, hmm, well its quite abit bet­ter than other English TV chan­nels.
    His exam­ples of “Nip/Tuck or Cele­brity Sex Para­dise” I think are wrong, as far as I am aware the BBC don’t run this dri­vel on their chan­nels.
    If Boris was a little more media savvy (and not so down right rude) peo­ple might not make fun of him, and his party.
    I mean a party that was trying to tigh­ten refu­gee laws, being lead by the son of a foreign per­son?
    hmmm.…
    RWB

  3. Ric says:
    May 30, 2005 at 1:06 pm

    And as an Aus­tra­lian allow me to sym­pathise with you for having had Lyn­ton Crosby as the archi­tect of the Con­ser­va­ti­ves’ immi­gra­tion plat­form (Lynton’s actually not a bad guy, but THAT line .…). Allow me also to con­gra­tu­late those Bri­tish who voted, and voted against it — you’re obviously a more dis­cer­ning lot than us Aussies.

  4. james governor says:
    May 31, 2005 at 11:39 am

    how could we not sneer at those fing idiots? come on boris for fuxake you know the last elec­tion was a frig­ging self-constructed disas­ter. i saw you on Ques­tion Time not having the bollix to cri­ti­cize the shit joib done. well if you won’t cri­ti­cize your­sel­ves, someone else will have to wake you up. what in the shit do the tories stand for> get on a liber­ta­rian kick and you might pull in some voters.

  5. naomi says:
    May 31, 2005 at 4:55 pm

    hi there — the bbc isn’t a state-owned ins­ti­tu­tion. it’s fun­ded by the licence fee, not by govern­ment money.

  6. rjmacf says:
    June 2, 2005 at 9:13 pm

    As a Scot­tish fellow…the musings of Boris John­son are to most those of an archety­pal media twit. A man lam­bas­ted in public (gene­rally by his class mates) for his poli­ti­cal and social nia­vity. Are we really obli­vious to the irony that these chup­pas gene­rally find an ideal home nest­ling in the moist peri­neum of old mother BBC? Is this mother fixa­tion?? Sud­denly out of favour and out of a job they try to focus cele­brity light on their pathe­tic and chao­tic lives by sti­rring mock con­tro­versy. The poor little chubby can’t keep his penis in his pants far less pro­vide a thought­ful com­ment. Why should anyone be inte­res­ted is the phi­lo­sophi­cal ques­tion of the age