Boris Johnson on Saddam's killing

Post by **faceless** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:12 am

[web]https://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2 ... p#comments[/web]

I thought this was a good read...

popinjay · Post by **popinjay** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:21 am

I suppose even a stopped clock is right twice a day (and does entertaining tackles in charity football matches) but at the end of the day he's still a Tory, and his party supported the war as much as Labour did.

Post by **faceless** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:38 am

I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in so far as at least he's ready to speak in public about it, which is a lot more than most MPs (even opposition!) are willing to do.

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:33 pm

A tory is a tory, but how many MP's could be quoted with -

"The President is a cross-eyed Texan warmonger, unelected, inarticulate, who epitomises the arrogance of American foreign policy."

He is according to Humphrey Lyttleton known as the thinking man's idiot.

I think you are right about most of our elected representatives having no personal opinion, or at least an inability to voice it, but I'll go with Humph