Yippee!

Hip Hop Hooray!

BIG JOHNSON IS RIPPING US OFF!

Red Ken shouldn't be too sad. If he learns Spanish he can be mayor of Caracas. Maybe Hugo could appoint him.

Outstanding! I nice bit of news on a dreary New England day!

Cool! Change I can actually believe in.

It's about bloody time. DLTDHYWTGLSY.

HIP! HIP!

Something new for the Imams to piss and moan about.

re: #8 haakondahl

HIP! HIP!

HOORAY!

Good riddance. How long was he in office? Seems like forever.

Boris Johnson seems a bit of a buffoon, but he's gotta be better that Livingstone.....

Pop the popcorn and watch the weasel's on the BBC tonight! Hooray!

Don't let the door hit you in the ass as you go, you bloody twit!

OMG, we actually have some good news today....

Piss off, you bugger!

This is good news. Brits need to get their country back

Buh-bye.

I guess he just couldn't get enough of the transgender Islamist vote.

While Red Ken was over the top, I wouldn't be surprised if the Tory mayor is just as much of a tool. The torries have been spouting all kinds of anti-american pro-terrorist drivel in their role of Labour opposition to Blair. I only hope I am wrong and we don't hear anything of this guy. Thank goodness Red Ken is packed off to wherever old commies go to moulder and die.

/dancing thru the streets handing out sweets

Ah, Ken. We hardly knew yee.

/

re: #18 JammieWearingFool

Buh-bye.

I guess he just couldn't get enough of the transgender Islamist vote.

George Galloway has got that demographic locked up.

Can you imagine the meltdown in the newsrooms as the returns came in? Whole lotta heads splodin'!

Any word how that freak George Galloway fared?

Is there hope for the Brits yet?

Please don't tease us, mates.

Ah, so sweet! Going to be a great weekend :)

I blame global warming .... All increased CO2 does is raise taxes :-)

But can Boris reverse Britain's four-wife per mahomedan welfare cash payments?

It's time more clear eyed folks stepped up to the plate & cut welfare cheats off.

Margaret Thatcher's spirit must live.

Change!

My ancestors were Tories. Glad they've finally shaped up.

re: #12 coquimbojoe

Boris Johnson seems a bit of a buffoon, but he's gotta be better that Livingstone.....

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Hope he's not a Jesse Ventura type who ends up nuttier than when elected.

I didn't know Red Ken was a newt fancier. Somewhere PG Wodehouse is smiling....

From Wiki: "He is known for his enthusiasm for keeping and breeding newts."

As horrible as "Red Ken" is, what do we know about the guy who won?

I'd hate for an anti-american communist to be replaced with a quasi-anti-american socialist...

Not that the mayor of London has much sway in American foreign policy..

Just curious, is this guy's wife named Natasha? Labour should have run Moose and Squirrel against them, rather than some moron like Livingstone.

Hopefully Red Ken can retire in style with all of that filthy lucre he successfully snatched from his "oil for food" glory days.

re: #21 tommygum

Blimey! Now that I've got the sack, you blokes mind if I stop 'er for a cuppa?

He can now join Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Jihadi preacher and Jew-hater and move Qatar.

Would any lizard from Britain like to opine as to why this occurring?

Up front, I am not well aware of London politics, but do you think the voters are concerned about terrorism?

Any other issues?

Yay. May he be thrice Lord Mayor of London.

re: #34 flydiveski

Just curious, is this guy's wife named Natasha? Labour should have run Moose and Squirrel against them, rather than some moron like Livingstone.

Moose and Squirrel. Now that was funny.

re: #33 LanceKates

The new mayor of London is a Tory, but he's not much of a conservative. An improvement but not a huge one.

re: #33 LanceKates

As horrible as "Red Ken" is, what do we know about the guy who won?

I'd hate for an anti-american communist to be replaced with a quasi-anti-american socialist...

Not that the mayor of London has much sway in American foreign policy..

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London is a great center of mahomedans, think of all the Indians & Pakistanis who live there with dual citizenship. Saudis too.
Karl Marx lived there & wrote his awful stuff.

a newt fancier

Some orange juice for Mr. Spink-Bottle Livingstone

I can't believe there's no picture of him in that cat costume licking milk off that other reality contestant. That should always accompany any red ken story..

re: #43 Lady Mondegreen

Some orange juice for Mr. Spink-Bottle Livingstone

precisely!

Based on the election results from all over Britain and Wales, it looks like the people are fed up with business as usual. They've sent a resounding message, and, thankfully, they didn't do it by electing fascists like they did in Rome.

re: #41 Kenneth

The new mayor of London is a Tory, but he's not much of a conservative. An improvement but not a huge one.

So it isn't as much of a celebration of getting a conservative there, just a celebration to be rid of Red Ken.

Ok. That's what I was wondering.

OT: Did you see where the suspect UN World Food Program is sitting on billions, yet pleading for more $$$!

re: #32 Bloodnok

I didn't know Red Ken was a newt fancier. Somewhere PG Wodehouse is smiling....

From Wiki: "He is known for his enthusiasm for keeping and breeding newts."

Dang! At first reading I thought you meant Newt, as in Gingrich.

re: #40 NoSubmission

Moose and Squirrel. Now that was funny.

No it wasn't.

The people who laugh at us behind their hands beat the people who spit in our faces, I'm so excited already.

re: #38 formercorpsman

All across Europe the move is away from the socialists. Terrorism, immigration, high taxes, unemployment... the left is getting blamed for all these things.

re: #46 Sharmuta

I am just a bit afraid of the head of Tory party Mr. cameron. He seems to be a naive person. Hopefully I am wrong

"I send lady spy to moose and squirrel with package which is really bomb. Door gets stuck. She can't get out. Who gets blown up? Me." Boris Badinoff. Local 3, Villians, Thieves and Scoundrels Union.l

.......Another one bites the dust......

re: #52 Kenneth

All across Europe the move is away from the socialists. Terrorism, immigration, high taxes, unemployment... the left is getting blamed for all these things.

Well duh! The left IS to blame for all of it.

re: #52 Kenneth

Kenneth, are you accross the pond?

If I'm not right back, I'm not being rude, just working.

re: #48 alegrias

OT: Did you see where the suspect UN World Food Program is sitting on billions, yet pleading for more $$$!

It takes lots of money to let that food rot, do you have any idea how expensive warehousing rotting food is?

re: #52 Kenneth

All across Europe the move is away from the socialists. Terrorism, immigration, high taxes, unemployment... the left is getting blamed for all these things.

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Zapatero's re-election in March disproves your claim, unfortunately.
Where are the brave Europeans supporting NATO actually FIGHTING terrorists in Afghanistan? We just had to send in US Marines to Helmand Province, where Prince Harry served until recently.

And here in the US, the left blames Pres. Bush for all these things.

Damn, this is sweet. Okay, it's not like the Brits just elected Berlusconi, but even a sidestep to the right is a healthy measure - and it's nationwide.

Whatever help Blair was in Iraq, 'New Labour' had a whole lot of Old Labour troglodytes embedded therein, and the rest of the Labour government has been beavering away full-time on the surveillance nanny-state.

Now it's time to go point out to the Livingstone acolytes on the SF Board of Supervisors, with their congestion-charge plans and their tongues firmly up George Galloway's ass when he came to town, what just happened to their hero.

re: #58 CyanSnowHawk

not to mention the security you need to hire to keep the starving people away from the food.

I seem to remember another group of people with food for the poor who would not let them have it.

He blamed America. They shot down one of our blackhawks.

re: #44 macofromoc

I can't believe there's no picture of him in that cat costume licking milk off that other reality contestant. That should always accompany any red ken story..

That's was Galloway.

re: #53 winston06

“I think these results are not just a vote against Gordon Brown and his government, I think they are a vote of positive confidence in the Conservative Party,” he said. “I think people see a party that has changed for the better, that is united, that’s got a strong team of leaders and increasingly they are looking to us, trusting us, to speak out on the issues they really care about - in terms of improving schools and improving our hospitals and dealing with crime on our streets.

This is from Mr. Cameron- it doesn't sound naive to me- sounds like he and his party have a better idea what the electorate is really looking for in terms of the issues that are important to them. But maybe it's because I see the term "crime in our streets" as code, since the J word is verboten.

Oh, my bad your right

re: #58 CyanSnowHawk

It takes lots of money to let that food rot, do you have any idea how expensive warehousing rotting food is?

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You're right. Somehow, I think the UN Food Program doesn't spend our money on warehousing "food" for Phakestinians for example.

Remember how lizards calculated they were shipping hundreds of pounds of "flour" per person--highly suspect, are the UN Relief Workers/Food program people.

re: #57 formercorpsman

Nah, I'm up in Canada. But I try to keep up with the news from the motherland.

re: #62 JammieWearingFool

That's was Galloway.

I have been looking through British papers, but haven't found out if Galloway was given the boot...Any info on that? Labour lost 300 seats, the Tories picked up 278, so that's better....

re: #53 winston06

I am just a bit afraid of the head of Tory party Mr. cameron. He seems to be a naive person. Hopefully I am wrong

From what I've read (not much!), it sounds like he is less of a conservative than even McCain. But I still think these electoral trends are good, in that they show a rejection of the way the left is handling things.
But if the conservative parties of Europe do not offer some kind of improvement, what then? (I hate to think about it.)

re: #65 alegrias

* * *
You're right. Somehow, I think the UN Food Program doesn't spend our money on warehousing "food" for Phakestinians for example.

Remember how lizards calculated they were shipping hundreds of pounds of "flour" per person--highly suspect, are the UN Relief Workers/Food program people.

Of course they needed tons of "flour" per person. The ammo hidden under the flour is heavy.

re: #59 alegrias

* * *
Zapatero's re-election in March disproves your claim, unfortunately.
Where are the brave Europeans supporting NATO actually FIGHTING terrorists in Afghanistan? We just had to send in US Marines to Helmand Province, where Prince Harry served until recently.

And here in the US, the left blames Pres. Bush for all these things.

Okay, it's inconsistent. The French took a healthy step, the Italians just mopped most of the Left right out of national government and gave Berlusconi the tightest control he's had yet. We need to be careful because in parts of the East the 'conservative' choice is the old Communists.

The Left in the US (and everywhere) blames President Bush for their smelly socks and genital warts, so who cares what they think?

now, this is some change we can get behind.

re: #70 Kosh's Shadow

Of course they needed tons of "flour" per person. The ammo hidden under the flour is heavy.

* * *
Kosh, exactly. And yesterday some Phakestinian who worked for the UN relief outfit as a school headmaster was outed as a terrorist too, after dying in his 'metal' shop hit by Israeli strikes.

Send them packets of seeds to grow their own eats in those greenhouses left behind by the Quartet.

I dunno why it made me think of this....
Bye Bye

re: #62 JammieWearingFool

That's was

re: #75 Pope Insouciance IV

Good thing my garbage pail was nearby. It caught all the vomit.

i bet even saddam was repulsed by him.

I love the smell of a good mauling in the morning.

George Galloway's American nemesis, the lovely Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman, may still beat the not so funny leftist tax cheat Al Franken!

Please support Norm Coleman's bid for re-election in Minnesota--he was courageous and outed the UN Oil For Food cheaters & debated icky George Galloway.

re: #62 JammieWearingFool

That's was Galloway.

The respect party doesn't list him as a win.... Who knows, they haven't listed him as a loss either.

No doubt Toronto mayor David Miller is crying now that his political mentor has been deservedly turfed out in London.

Note to Miller: PC-suffused leftist lunacy on the Council of a major city only is tolerated for so long (too long in Livingstone's (spit) case).

re: #79 alegrias

George Galloway's American nemesis, the lovely Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman, may still beat the not so funny leftist tax cheat Al Franken!

Please support Norm Coleman's bid for re-election in Minnesota--he was courageous and outed the UN Oil For Food cheaters & debated icky George Galloway.

Do you really think Al Franken can win?

re: #69 wolfie

But if the conservative parties of Europe do not offer some kind of improvement, what then? (I hate to think about it.)

Then the fascists try to fill the void.

re: #68 coquimbojoe

George Galloway right now is out and about campaiging...On April 22, 2008 he was hit on the head with a stress ball (the attacker was arrested, and Galloway was hospitalized.)

Red Ken, kicked to the curb like a cur. How profoundly good and right that is, how satisfying.

Let the celebration begin London, free'd from the jihai-shill, liberty hating communist, boot licking scum bucket, Red Ken.

Fire up the grills and open the taps. Big fun in Britain tonight!

re: #68 coquimbojoe

I have been looking through British papers, but haven't found out if Galloway was given the boot...Any info on that? Labour lost 300 seats, the Tories picked up 278, so that's better....

This was local council elections, don't think it had anything to do with Commons seats except insofar as it shrinks Labour's national base for the next parliamentary elections (which I gather Gordon The Useless can stall for a while.)

Galloway sits for Tower Hamlets, which pretty much seems to be Islamabad-on-the-Thames anyway, so it'd be hard to get the guy out with anything but a large canvas bag and a CIA jet.

I could never get a handle on that guy. He seemed to be having too much fun to be taking it all seriously, but who the hell really knows? Maybe he was the next Josef Stalin, or maybe he was like the Russian "boomer" commander (now retired) I've come to know here in Canada, who would never have launched, and who reveled in the absurdity of it all.

re: #84 J.S.

George Galloway right now is out and about campaiging...On April 22, 2008 he was hit on the head with a stress ball (the attacker was arrested, and Galloway was hospitalized.)

Read that. Felt schadenfruede.

re: #81 Earl

You hear Miller has asked the province to give him greater executive powers? He can't stand having to work with the elected city councilors.

re: #44 macofromoc

I can't believe there's no picture of him in that cat costume licking milk off that other reality contestant. That should always accompany any red ken story..

That was Galloway and I was thinking of Galloway too. regarding my post # 35.

re: #86 mrkwong

This was local council elections, don't think it had anything to do with Commons seats except insofar as it shrinks Labour's national base for the next parliamentary elections (which I gather Gordon The Useless can stall for a while.)

Galloway sits for Tower Hamlets, which pretty much seems to be Islamabad-on-the-Thames anyway, so it'd be hard to get the guy out with anything but a large canvas bag and a CIA jet.

There's always hoping....

re: #86 mrkwong

Galloway sits for Tower Hamlets, which pretty much seems to be Islamabad-on-the-Thames anyway, so it'd be hard to get the guy out with anything but a large canvas bag and a CIA jet.

Quoting one's own post, what bad form...

And for what it's worth, if anyone wants to establish a charitable foundation to create a comfortable but completely secure and isolated island onto which we can place Jimmy Carter, Ramsey Clark, and perhaps a few others like Mr Galloway, I'll throw in $100.

re: #83 Sharmuta

Then the fascists try to fill the void.

That is what I fear.
If the center cannot hold,........

OK, finally Red Ken is gone!

/And some people still insist that there is no God.

re: #89 Kenneth

So what is going on with Lizard luncheons now? I've missed at least 4 or 5, but my schedule should permit my attendance during the glorious Spring season in Toronto...

Haven't seen WriterMom online for a bit, but that's probably since I'm barely here myself these days.

re: #93 mrkwong

Quoting one's own post, what bad form...

And for what it's worth, if anyone wants to establish a charitable foundation to create a comfortable but completely secure and isolated island onto which we can place Jimmy Carter, Ramsey Clark, and perhaps a few others like Mr Galloway, I'll throw in $100.

You have an intriguing idea there. We set up the island, and then we invite all of these Elders (ahem!) to a giant Peace & Justice Conference. Then we leave 'em there, where they can blabber perpetually among themselves, "solving" all of the world's problems.

re: #96 Pro-Bush Canuck

WriterMom has been in Israel. She was posting from there a few days ago. She should be back in Toronto soon. Yeah, we should get together & shoot the breeze.

re: #68 coquimbojoe

I have been looking through British papers, but haven't found out if Galloway was given the boot...Any info on that? Labour lost 300 seats, the Tories picked up 278, so that's better....

This is all I could find on him.

In London, voters were also electing the 25 members of the London Assembly, the body that holds the mayor to account.

Eleven of its members are elected by proportional representation – raising the possibility that George Galloway, the anti-war Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow and former Celebrity Big Brother contestant, could win a seat.

There is also a chance the far-right British National Party could gain its first seat.

re: #97 wolfie

You have an intriguing idea there. We set up the island, and then we invite all of these Elders (ahem!) to a giant Peace & Justice Conference. Then we leave 'em there, where they can blabber perpetually among themselves, "solving" all of the world's problems.

Excellent idea!

Great!

Well, this is happy news, but I've been bothered by some of the Tory statements as well. It seems nobody over there truly has the UK's best interests at heart. Kinda like our own politicians. Sadly. :(

re: #97 wolfie

You have an intriguing idea there. We set up the island, and then we invite all of these Elders (ahem!) to a giant Peace & Justice Conference. Then we leave 'em there, where they can blabber perpetually among themselves, "solving" all of the world's problems.

It can be run by the UN. In fact, we should move the UN there as well.

re: #98 Kenneth

WriterMom has been in Israel. She was posting from there a few days ago. She should be back in Toronto soon. Yeah, we should get together & shoot the breeze.

My "axis" is Bay/College through to Queen West, around Spadina, pretty much daily. I'm also in Dallas and New York for a few days this month.

BRAVO CHAPS! Well Done!

re: #82 jetpilot1101

Do you really think Al Franken can win?

* * *
Minnesotans can be notoriously moonbatty, "progressive" leftist laborites. When their previous pro-marxist Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, democrats ranted at his wake like at a San Francisco rally. The backlash elected Senator Coleman.

It would be a travesty if Al Franken were elected to the Senate from Minnesota to continue taking liberties with our country, after he crashed AIR AMERICA using your tax dollars.

re: #103 Kosh's Shadow

An absolutely splendid idea! Splendid!

re: #82 jetpilot1101

Do you really think Al Franken can win?

The latest poll shows Coleman in a comfortable lead, then there's the latest scandal. The MN Senate race for dems is starting to mirror the national race as two other candidates are considering not letting weird al walk away with this nomination.

re: #83 Sharmuta

Then the fascists try to fill the void.

* * *
You know, there are centrists & moderates in this world.

re: #105 Yankee Division Son

BRAVO CHAPS! Well Done!

Heh.

Lot's more where he came from. It does feel good for the bad guys to lose ground now and then, however.

He needs to go live with the terrorists he loves so much. As with all liberal scum, he likes his comfortable living too much to do so.

re: #104 Pro-Bush Canuck

I'm languishing in Scarborostan, but I am happy to get downtown for lunch.

Afternoon, Lizards.

As usual, poster Ayatollah Khomeini (sp?) had a great post on this topic this morning - DT #535 and I'll paste it here.

*applause*

Europe Shifts

In the last few years Europe has taken a hard turn to the right. The expected accent of Boris Johnson, a charming witty train wreck of a Tory (I mean that in the nicest way) to oust Red Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London is a case in point.

No one is really talking about why this shift in political tastes. Of the largest countries in Europe, only Spain has a socialist government. Sarkozy, Prodi and Merkel are almost certain to be joined soon by Brittain's Cameron.

The reason for this sea change can be summed up in a single four letter word: fear. At hoem and abroad, Europe feels tremendous insecurity. The impact of unchecked immigration, lawlessness on the streets of Europe and the threat of domestic terrorism has finally sunk in. In Europe you are now free to express any opinion so long as it is not critical of the EU or Islam. Thank you Labour said the voters, we are now Tories. The daughters of Britain are prostituted by illegal immigrants, the sons are beaten to a pulp for asking directions in Bradford. Even the Austrian basement dungeon story resonates with European voters who see criminals being tapped on the wrist while people are afraid in their own homes.

The socialists have zero credibility regarding crime and national security. The Brown government is busy planning to build whole new cities for immigrants while the cost of a home has become utterly unaffordable for the average Brit. Then there is the small matter of a Police Departement that has become a useless bureaucracy, spending 30% of their time filling out forms from the simplest arrest. Meanwhile, up from a mere 500 (500!) residents of Britain so dangerous they require permanent Police Counter Terror monitoring are now 2400. Meanwhile, Labour appointed judges refuses to deport open supporters of Bin Laden for fear of what might happen to them if they were no longer safe in the UK. The danger such a person represents to the citizens that pay the Judge's salary are less important than the right of al Qaeda to have secure ope