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.
BORIS JOHNSONWhen 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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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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If gay marriage was OK … then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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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.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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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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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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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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The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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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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