I’m no communist. I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
BORIS JOHNSON
BORIS JOHNSON
Boris Johnson on communism
Boris Johnson97 quotes“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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Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson 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.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson It just happens I write fast and always have done.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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