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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.

Boris Johnson

Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.
BORIS JOHNSON

Dangerous Earth Legal Perfection
It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Easy Hard Promise Work
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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Book People Play Watch
When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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Conservatism Cycle Gold Power
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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Country Hero War
Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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Country Done January
I want to win and I want to be in office.
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Myself Office Win
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Food Healthy Myself Pressure
We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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Barriers Break Breaking Down
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
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
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
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Done Happens Writing
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
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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Mars Olive Pms Trees
All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
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Clothes Leaving People

It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.

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