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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.

Boris Johnson

It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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Ecosystems Greed Understanding
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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Decision Double Family Himself Lost
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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Country Place Want Work
Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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Finding Help People Volunteer Work
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
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Cheer Fall Queens
Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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Men Political Thinking
Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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Allow Country Ourselves Propose Serious
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Chance Finding Myself
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Conscious Myself Project Stay Try
I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
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Attitude Sports Thinking
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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Jump Love Swimming
The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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Community Creating Hardship
They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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Break Country Out Pangas Shortly Warriors
The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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Leadership Tall World
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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Disaster Discover Friendship Myself Opportunity
In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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Conservatism Journey Time Transportation
I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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Minimize People Risk See Terrorism Thinking
We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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Football Soccer Sports
It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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Appearance Believe Flip Human Wall
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Done Happens Writing
We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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Break Poor Restrain
I’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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Cutting People Want
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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Achieve Congratulations Thinking
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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Criticism Low Moments Skills Style Talk
I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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Allow Behave Grace Reality Way
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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Goodness Life Possible Pretty Time Writing
Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine.
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