Boris Johnson, Part 1

Listening to the catalogue from the beginning as I have (finally) joined the Mayoral Benevolent Fund and twitching my neck as I realise Riley got too close to the lathe with the joke about proscribing Lions Led By Donkeys 🥹

Lmao I have been on that sky gondola thing across the Thames and boy was it a hysterical time. Just me and my mum losing our shit like „is this it?“ after she‘d spent a week convincing me to ride it with her

"I want a parade job" - November Kelley, known polyamorist.

Wait, there are incredibly kitch, ugly luxury flats that inexplicably cost a ton of money and are full of mould? Why did they give Tiffany Henyard the building contract?

No God Emperors No Majordomos, is this anything?

The Bendy Buses were good, actually. Lots of people who couldn't pay could jump them, including me when I was a skint London student. And whilst I do respect the drivers for some of routes, this is not so different from driving 'normal' buses in lots of parts of London. And it was the tabloids that said they were a threat to cyclists. They weren't. They did slow up traffic sometimes when they were half across a junction but that was good. The flood of private hire vehicles that blocked up the roads with 30k more cars came later with uber.

Fish speakers mentioned

One great thing about my ever-deepening TF Universe exposure is re-hearing about Riley’s Adbusters camp

I'm loving the podcast so far with Eric Adams in the news so much. The Rob Ford episodes really hammer home what a real POS he was. I remember him as a joke as the crackhead mayor (or I guess, the white, Canadian crack smoking mayor) but I will only sub if you lot promise to cover some of my local mayors, and assuage my cold, cold New England heart! If you want a hilariously corrupt, mobbed up mayor take a trip on down to Providence, RI and cover Buddy Cianci, who was crooked as a dogs leg and twice as funny. And Mayor Thomas 'Mumbles' Menino, our longest serving mayor and his many controversies and dumbshittery, like his decades long feud with the fire dept for not giving his brother a job like forty years ago. That man could hold a grudge!

I may have read Adbusters when I was like 16. Adbusters camp was a blast from the past. Flad they escaped.

Riley I’m afraid I have to correct you on W postcodes and Barnes. Barnes is 100% Like That but across the river from Barnes ie Hammersmith is the real exception to the W postcodes (tho I fear as it continues to gentrify it may linger remain so. But for time being..)

New merch request: Mattie please draw a bespectacled guppy with the phrase "I was gupped at Constantia and all I got was this shirt"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%27Angus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Drummond for your consideration in the mayoral cerebro

It breaks my heart and soul to know of and inform you, that The United States of America unfortunately has had it's own franchise of Have I Got News for You for 3 weeks and a day as of writting

is anyone else unable to stop chanting great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies? it is a top bojo quote

Boris Johnson could be an excellent pro wrestler from the 80s, if he just added a few jabronis and "oh yeah's" or "brother's" In to his speeches.

surpise its the goddamn news cameo

If I remember correctly the water cannons were bought from a German company, and were subject to German arms export laws that boiled down to "you can't sell these on to anyone Germany wouldn't sell to." Predictably, the only people keen on buying Boris' highly illegal second-hand water cannons were regimes the Germans wouldn't sell water cannons to directly.

Smh you can come ride the Boston cop slide for *free*

Slight correction - Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003

ah so bromley is britain’s staten island