According to Boris Johnson we are all cornflakes who respond well to being shaken up in the "economic centrifuge" and greed is good. Those with the most intelligence and greed rise to the top motivating the rest of us cornflakes!
Simplistic, wildly inaccurate, ideas like this (& his continued obsession with building an Airpot in Kent which nobody actually wants) are born out of over privilege and only a vague connection with most peoples reality.
This man wouldn't know poverty or reality if it knocked on his door and took him by the hand to the local LIDL! On the day that I read that Nigella spends 7k a month of her and her husbands monthly 100 k credit card bill ( settled every month) I do wonder how these "top cornflakes" manage to lord it over the rest of us?
How annoying is this man!?
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They really know how us paupers live.
Why only last January, Blair received $300,000 plus expenses for a talk in Miami for US Finance company Alphamatrix.
For ONE afternoon!! Right on - Blair's all in it together!
That breadline martyr Brown received £48,803 plus expenses for talking to the same bunch of moneyed arses for an hour in Monaco last September, for his 'economic expertise which can only help the company'
Within weeks of this, sadly, the company collapsed with debts of $2.8 million to investors having transferred funds to another company.
Still, thank goodness Blair and Brown got paid.
Bring back the Labour rice crispy candidate for Meridian. No, wait, that was The Rev Paul Flowers. Now he knows how us ordinary people feel.
The PAs of Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi were spending an average of £76,000 a month between them, a court has heard.
Accountant Rahul Gajjar told the trial of Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo, the couple's personal assistants, that he did not tell his employers about his suspicions they were spending so much.
'Trivial matters'
Mr Gajjar told the court he did not tell art dealer Mr Saatchi and TV cook Ms Lawson of his suspicions that their personal assistants were spending thousands of pounds of their money, as he did not want to bother them.
Asked by the prosecution why he did not go to his employer with his suspicions straight away, Mr Gajjar said: "It was on the back burner.
Elisabetta (L) and Francesca Grillo
Elisabetta (left) and Francesca Grillo both deny fraud
"We were dealing with more corporate matters - more serious corporate matters - and Mr Saatchi and Ms Lawson normally didn't have time for what we thought were trivial matters."
I tell you something, it will be no laughing matter if every he got to be PM.
Not at all, absolute legend in my book! 100 times better than Red Ken!
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''Economic equality will never be possible because some people are too stupid to get ahead, Boris Johnson said on Wednesday night.
Natural differences between human beings will always mean that some will succeed and others will fail, the Mayor of London said in a speech.
Despite calling for more to be done to help talented people from poor backgrounds to advance — including state-funded places at private schools — Mr Johnson said some people would always find it easier to get ahead than others. “Whatever you may think of the value of IQ tests, it is surely relevant to a conversation about equality that as many as 16 per cent of our species have an IQ below 85, while about 2 per cent have an IQ above 130,” he said.''
Oooh, I'm really offended by these facts. Grrr.
There's a natural difference!
Which reminds me of a song....anyone?
Really?
Right on!
Champagne socialists rule!
My favourites are local councillors who live in gated communities. They are the best, and not self righteous at all!
Hurrah!
Vote Hypocrite!
Also love Charlton Athletic!
At least we have that in common!
The man is a pratt.
Can't have a war, the Tories, sorry, the Coalition have cut the armed forces to the bone and their hopes of filling the void with TA volunteers have been dashed. We haven't got a war in us at the moment.
Unless you mean conscripting all the public sector employees who've found themselves at a 'loose end' since the cuts kicked in