Today, Boris answers all your hard questions*
Your analogy is, er, Socratic indeed in its elegance. So...um, yes... police numbers?
Not being wedded, you see, to any particular template, we must consider this in every particular, if I may say that. Sorry the question was... ? You see, the thing is, er... can't you ask someone whose name I definitely do know this week, um, the Deputy Mayor?
So, Boris: Will you admit you're cutting police numbers?
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*This is of course an imaginary scenario, though we believe it replicates almost exactly the experience of being an Assembly Member trying to hold Boris to account at Mayor's Question Time. All these words (not necessarily in this order) have in fact been spoken at public events by Boris Johnson.
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Jenny Jones AM:
May 03, 2011 at 04:29 AM
So very true to life. Disbelieivers should watch a Mayor's Question Time and see the variety of non-answers the Mayor delivers. Not knowing the answer is never a barrier to a flood of verbiage.
Mark (ISPreview):
May 03, 2011 at 05:35 AM
This is perhaps more comedy than for constructive political debate :) . I mean what politician has ever answered a question properly? Usually the only ones that do are those who have just left the job behind and are thus able to speak openly.
Bob Irving:
May 04, 2011 at 11:04 AM
I think the point is that it is _as much_ for a political point as it is for comedy, if not more so!
Sigh:
Apr 23, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Demosthenes didn't say 'in vino veritas' since that is Latin and he was Greek. As a fellow Oxbridge Classicist Boris would know that and not state something so manifestly ridiculous. Who's lying now?