Bozza’s been at the Conservative Party Conference this week and the general consensus was that he’d won the ‘funniest speech’ award in a competition with, er, one entrant.
In a performance that would make Jimmy Carr quake in his boots, Boris cracked funny after funny. After pointing out that the wheels for London’s new rolling stock are being made in a factory in Manchester, Bozza said: “So I say to my friends in the Treasury, not all of whom I see here – I see Dave here – F. D. Roosevelt had the new deal, I give you the wheel deal.â€
Wheel deal! Ha ha ha ha.
And, after the Mayor had paid tribute to ‘the broom brigade of Clapham’ who cleared up after the riots, he could not resist adding: “That’s right. Clap ’em.â€
Clapham! Clap ’em! You see what he did, there?
Boris also made a guest appearance at the Tory Treasurer’s party on Monday night. According to City AM, the Prime Minister greeted Bozza with ‘a huge hug and a firm arm clasp, to cheers from the crowd’. The Mayor joked: “The last time we gripped each other as tightly as this, people thought this was the first civil partnership in the Conservative Party.”
*splits sides with laughter*
Interestingly, the Mayor’s increasing confidence and appeal resulted in this assessment from the Daily Telegraph. “We blow the gaff on Boris: he is in danger of losing his hard-won reputation for being gaffe-prone… “
Boris and his cycle hire scheme team, view churches as a soft touch for building his bike rails out side of, he has no consideration for places of worship and this is a stumbling block that his critics will capitalise on, see the light Boris