Fight The Compass Lies About Boris

A war has broken out of some intrest on the Compass site (http://www.compassonline.org.uk/) which is in my list. It is interesting because it one of the few times I have seen genuinely differing points of view opposed. This was an especially good comment from Paul D . Please visit the fron and let them know how much you , like me , despise their lies and low name calling ...( The bastards). I was going to post but got carried away with the fun of it all . This was a mighty blow from Paul D who I know from the Boris Blog of old ...

In your assassination job on Boris, could you please explain why the following were not included in the "setting out of his record"?

On the low-paid http://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2005/04/whos_fighting_for_the_hardwork_1.php
"...the best thing I can do is to publicise this outrage, that in a country of ever rising taxes it is the poorest who seem to be clobbered the hardest..."

On Tories
http://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2004/12/safe_cycling_and_the_road_safe_1.php
"Why is the Tory party - the TORY party - proposing an infringement of liberty, when of the 19,000 accidents involving cyclists per year, not a single one involved the use of mobile phones? It may be that it will gratify the resentment and jealousy that burns in the breasts of British motorists, to see the pedallists punished. But that is no way to make law."

On degrees
http://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2007/08/mickey_mouse_degrees_are_just.php
"We can laugh at degrees in Aromatherapy and Equine Science, but they are just as vocational as degrees in Law or Medicine, except that they are tailored to the enormous expansion of the service economy."

On grammar schools
http://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2007/05/grammar_schools.php
"It is no use the Tory party now calling for a wholesale restitution of grammar schools, as some kind of symbol of ideological virility, when many parents would simply interpret that as a savage willingness to let their children be judged and found wanting at the age of 11."

On the tabloid press
http://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2007/02/tabloid_moralising.php
"The paradox, the mystery, is that this paper - let us call it the Beast - is just about the most savage and hysterical and reactionary paper in Britain.... Every week these tabloid papers pry, bribe, lie and bug in order to reveal that human beings are sometimes engaged in carnal activity.... They then publish these titillating details, which are devoured across the land with a mixture of gratitude and self-disgust, and which are indispensable to maintaining circulation."

On jobs
"It would be wrong to go into the next election promising a huge purge of public-sector jobs."

On Iraq (let me remind you of the Compass report's take: "Boris Johnson’s support for the war in Iraq was extreme – indeed to a point that even many supporters of the war might find distasteful ...")

"It is now commonplace for people like me, who supported the war, to say that we "did the right thing" but that it had mysteriously "turned out wrong". This is intellectually vacuous.

...we must be honest and accept that the price has been far too high, and that General Dannatt is right to say that our presence is making things worse.

...There is one last excuse for those of us who were so trusting as to support the war in Iraq -- and that excuse is disintegrating before our eyes.

...look at the war in Iraq, which I supported, but which has proved a grim lesson in the hazards of imposing one's own world-view on others. because it was in the interests of the people of Iraq.

... We didn't do it for ourselves - oh no, we weren't being selfish - we did it FOR THEM. And that was the argument I swallowed myself, when I spoke for the war in March 2003; and I must now admit, in all intellectual candour, that it looks pretty thin.
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So this is the incurably hardline Tory right-wing monster you so despise.

How many of you have got this far, or is it fingers in ears, la-la, turn the page quickly?

I must, however, commend the authors of the Johnson assassination for one thing. At least they did not label him a child killer, as some of the left have done, for his rational objection to an EU proposal forcing parents to buy car booster seats for their children. Ten to one they were tempted, though.