7 Responses to “All at sea in the Stop Boris campaign song”

1. Jason Plessas Says:
   April 20th, 2008 at 15.37

   Haha very good
   Personally I’d recommend putting the subtitles of the song along the bottom, just so the message really hits home.

2. Ben Says:
   April 20th, 2008 at 15.52

   This is actually genius. Posted on the front page of R&M and on Digg.

3. Mr. Stop Boris Says:
   April 20th, 2008 at 16.19

   Thanks to you both.

   I did consider subtitles but there was so much going on on-screen already I didn’t want to overdo it, hence the separate inclusion of the lyrics alongside it.

   However, the letterboxing necessitated by YouTube’s 4:3 format does leave a tempting subtitle-shaped black space at the bottom. I might add some subtitles in there and repost the video - sadly I don’t think there’s any way to replace a video at the same URL on YouTube so it would have to go up in addition.

   Either way I’m not going to have time to do that until probably Tuesday evening now, sadly. In the mean time hopefully a lot of people will pick up the lyrics from the YouTube description and/or the StopBoris.org ‘Campaign song’ page.

   Thanks again!

4. angela Says:
   April 21st, 2008 at 09.00

   I would give five stars for the singing, which is much better than Lily Allen’s.

   I would not give any stars for the lyrics. Boris does not tell lies and the stereotypical treatment of the subject did the writer no favours. There are so many untruths int he lyrics I cannot begin to correct them, and it is not very witty so O for the lyrics.

5. Mr. Stop Boris Says:
   April 21st, 2008 at 09.44

   If “Boris does not tell lies”:

   Why was he sacked from the Conservative front bench in 2004? Oh yes, for lying about his extra-marital affair.

   And why was he sacked from The Times, his first job in national journalism? Oh yes, because he made up a quote, i.e. lied about what someone had said.

   And why, more recently, did he say he had snorted coke, then issue statements denying it? One of those must have been a lie.

   And why did he guarantee he would not be naming any of his team members before the election, only to start naming his Mayor’s Fund team as and when he managed to find people willing to put their names to it? (I see he’s named some more today after Bob Diamond last week.)

   And why did he keep insisting his bus cost was £8m, only to admit when he didn’t think he was being filmed that the real cost was £100m (although even that doesn’t include conductors or drivers)?

   And why does he pretend that if TfL close some Tube station ticket offices, this will somehow result in unstaffed stations, when it will actually result in station staff leaving their enclosed booths in order to provide a greater presence in the rest of the station?

   And why does he continue to insist that he will be able to ban the RMT from striking when they have said that if he thinks they will agree to that he is in “cloud cuckoo land”?

   And why did his team insist to us at the Time Out hustings that “crime is up” when overall crime is at best significantly down and at worst stable?

   I suggest you have a look at this blog’s Lies category.

   Your statement that “Boris does not tell lies” in fact reveals that it’s not only Boris that tells lies, it’s his supporters who do so too! I await the withdrawal of your meta-lie!

   P.S. I will pass on your compliments to the vocalists

6. Clare Says:
   April 21st, 2008 at 13.33

   Ta!

7. Mr. Stop Boris Says:
   April 21st, 2008 at 14.15

   Ah, yes, ^ there’s the lead vocalist herself. Well done her!

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