Shamik Das


Monday, March 31, 2008

All shook up ... rattled Ken compares Boris to Nixon

"There will be no whitewash in the White House"

KEN LIVINGSTONE launched an astonishing attack on Tory rival Boris Johnson today, likening him to disgraced former US President Richard Millhouse Nixon.

Livingstone lashed out after the latest Evening Standard poll put him on 37 per cent, ten points behind Johnson in the race for London Mayor and down seven since January, with his rival up by the same amount.

Though stopping short of calling the opinion poll complete balderdash, untrue and ludicrous conjecture and an inverted pyramid of piffle, he described the findings as "flawed" and questioned the methodology.

However, it was Johnson who felt the full force of his paranoia.

"Basically, Boris Johnson is being managed in the way Nixon was in 1968," he told London Tonight.

"They project an image which bears no relation to reality.

Ken Livingstone  Boris Johnson  Brian Paddick

"We were all told there'd be a new Nixon; it turned out he was a war criminal and a mass murderer and a liar who was driven from office."

When voters' second preferences are taken into account, the figures look even worse for Livingstone, showing the incumbent trailing Johnson by 56 per cent to 44 per cent.

The poll results also make grim reading for Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick, a distant third on ten per cent, down two from February and up two since the turn of the year.

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Ken Livingstone
Boris Johnson
Brian Paddick

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Remember him?

"I didn't see anything!"

COMICAL ALI, who five years ago today predicted a glorious victory for Saddam Hussein's new model army, doing the same now for Arsene Wenger's gang of despots.

And if you think his vision of Gunners glory is wide of the mark, remember, remember the fun we all had in March 2003 as the bombs rained down on Iraq at the commencement of Shock and Awe.

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"

"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all."

"Our initial assessment is that they will all die."

"I blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!"

"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."

"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their tanks."

"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!"

"We are not afraid of the Americans. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid."

Ah, memories, memories; where does the time go?

A tribute to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
President Bush's speech marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war