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Boris the libertarian! Submitted by Elijah Lineberry on Thu, 2007-09-20 07:50.
Boris Johnson is the number one..(and only?)..libertarian in British Politics. He is MP for Henley (a place fortunately devoid of Working Class people), is very upper class, went to Eton, has a massive following among the British public, is pathologically hated by the left I confess...Boris is a hero of mine He is the Conservative Party candidate to be Mayor of London, where he is fully expected to easily win against the Communist incumbent. SOLO UK is a bit 'light' on content at the moment If you want a good laugh He also has a weekly column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper each Thursday.
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and is always eager to speak his mind by talking about freedom and common sense.
I hang on his every word...he is great! (I would happily give him one)
This
week Boris talks about the missing compact discs with 25 million people's records on them.
Amusing, although not covering much new ground, but I thought I would highlight it anyway.
This
weeks article by Boris Johnson makes some good sense, and has its amusing high points.. "..who stopped children being sent up chimneys? the Tories.."
As a personal view, I would be in favour of paper shopping bags rather than plastic, but as a voluntary move in response to customer requests, rather than what the London Councils have decided.
However, a typically splendid article from Boris.
Bravo Boris! A caveat though
Bravo Boris! A caveat though (he never suggested it, but he never ruled it out either): Never by force!
All the evidence shows that we can help reduce population growth, and world poverty, by promoting literacy and female emancipation and access to birth control.
That's part of the solution to what may become a problem. The other is the genetic 'engineering' of crops for density and reduced labour.
i.e. less land produces more food, and you don't have to breed 10 children to get 6 boys to farm it.
A
very impressive article from Boris this week.
He talks about population levels in the World as being the number 1 real issue facing mankind, and how population control is an unmentionable subject these days...
Boris
has a very funny article in the Daily Telegraph this week
(I now present my findings to the Royal Society of Telegraph Jam-Makers)
..so amusing! 
You
chaps thought I had forgotten, didn't you?
Yes, it is Thursday and that means....
the latest column from Boris!
This week I confess to not entirely agreeing with him.
If you want to stop this sort of mindless violence it would be better to be honest about the sorts of people committing it in the first place...and simply remove them, rather than cleaning up the mess they cause, after they have caused it.
It
is that time of the week...
Here is the weekly column from Boris in the Daily Telegraph.
Boris
has stolen the show (yet again)
at the Tory Conference.
He said that if Gordon Brown does not call a snap election he will be a big girls blouse!
So amusing!
Ahhhh...good old Boris!
Oh
what joy
Boris has been officially confirmed as the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London.
Now he can get on with winning!
Yes!
He has, actually, on "Question Time" he once described himself as a "Tory Libertarian"...and also in a couple of speeches during the 2001 and 2005 general elections in his own constituency.
His maiden speech in Parliament saw him expressing support for "libertarian concepts" ...which is not necessarily the same as saying "I am a libertarian"...but you get the general idea.
Has Boris...
Ever actually described himself as a Lib? Or are you just adding his opinions up?
Dear
Boris has his weekly article for the Daily Telegraph, and once again talks a lot of sense about British Veterans from Iraq and Afganistan, and how the Public would probably like 'welcome home' parades, and be fully supportive of the troops.
I would ask all Solo-ists to spend 3 or 4 minutes reading the article.
I like Boris...
...he makes politics interesting in the UK and I agree with about 90% of what he says.
However I am not sure that he is very effective as a politician, because the public here laugh more at him (even if affectionately) rather than with him (at socialists).
I didn't realise he was a Libertarian
I lived in the UK for a few years and was very fond of Boris. Sigh, I do miss 'Have I Got News For You'.
Oi! Marcus!
"SOLO UK is a bit 'light' on content at the moment"
What have you got to say for yourself!?
Here's the clip
Here's the clip
Yes!
Vintage Boris
Oh I didn't realise he was
Oh I didn't realise he was libertarian. I've seen him once on "Question Time" regarding the Rushdie knighthood. He took a completely different stance from both Hitchens and the hopelessly spineless and utterly vile Baroness Williams; arguing instead against the knighthood purely on literary grounds, he was quite funny.