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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Taxi for Boris

Very amused to be handed this receipt by a London cabbie. Apparently the campaign is giving away the books of receipts free to cabbies. Ambient marketing...

28 comments:

the janitor said...

Watch your back Guido!

Today's the anniversary of the other G. Fawkes' hanging :-(

Anonymous said...

Guido have you seen the Boris video on Adam Boultons blog

http://adamboulton.typepad.com/

Seems the PM was telling lies yesterday and Boris straightened things out, very good reposte

raincoaster said...

That's hilarious! You can't say the campaignbots don't know their demographic.

an honourable member said...

Can you provide a contact address where one might obtain several such books of these blank receipts?

The Politbeeb said...

Nice one Boris!

OT - Have we been too harsh on the BBC?

This morning I listened to Jim McLabour and Robert Peston on the Today programme.

A perfect match. Bumbling Peston can neither form nor finish a sentence, while McLabour won't allow anyone else to finish a sentence. A perfect fit!

If these people were in private industry, they might cause some damage.

Surely the beeb is performing a public service by - effectively - caging these people in a radio room?

Anonymous said...

There is a blue, green, yellow and pink Boris, but now brown Boris. Boris must be a racist and hate all brown and black people. I'm going to write a Guardian piece about this.

PV said...

Is this Boris chap an independent candidate?

Anonymous said...

Looks like Boris is trying to prove he's a bit of everything.

We have blue (tory) Boris looking rather sharp.
The Green Boris is on his bike.
The yellow (liberal?) Boris with hands in pockets is evidently getting down with the kids.

Meanwhile the pink (or light red - labour?) Boris just looks really fucking confused. Scratching head, and probably stumbling over every sentence like our beloved prime minister.

Love it.

Not a sheep said...

Seriously good marketing angle.

Ratsniffer said...

Don't cabbies like Leninstone for bringing in the congestion charge? After all, it probably pushed a bit more work their way?

THX1138 said...

Not sure that a Tory mp should be associated with all the fiddling of expenses that goes on with Taxi recipts after the Conway snout in trough episode. Saw him in the street last week couldn't believe how short & fat he was.

Anonymous said...

ratsniffer - yes, but you don't seriously think Bozza is going to get rid of the congestion charge, do you?

Anonymous said...

May I remind non-Londoners that the normal procedure is to give the cabbie a generous tip, in return for which he will hand you a dozen or two blank receipts. These may be used to fund essential purchases, such as a child's university education.

Ratsniffer said...

"you don't seriously think Bozza is going to get rid of the congestion charge, do you?"

I thought he might decide to tweak it a bit.

stanislav said...

In Scotland, where the English pay for free universities, MSPs' taxi receipts pay for mistresses. They are not used to pay for boys, powerful people just help themselves to them, from the council care homes. Smart successful Scotland. That's what they call it. George Lord Robertson is from Scotland.

thick as thieves said...

boris you cunt where is my fee?
I am the fucker who said on air (and I know you fuckers listen to the station) that your declaration to stand was such a scrummage it looked like borismania, y'know beatlemania.
and then you go for the four figure beatles image.
next time I see you I will make a demand for my dollars you cunt.
come up with your own ideas.

Julian said...

Why IS the pink Boris scratching his head with one hand and doing something around the rear with the other one? Is this quite how one should go about securing the gay vote in London?

PS, please do remember to register to vote. We can't get rid of the odious Livingstone unless enough people vote to remove this abhorrence from office. You can get more information by clicking here

thick as thieves said...

have you heard that one from the duet conway and robertson
get your money for nothing and your boys for free.

Call Me Dave said...

Awesome idea. But where the fuck is Boris? He's invisible or he's dropped out. He's the only good thing the Tories have going for them and he's nowhere to be seen.

Turn up the visibility guys. If the average moron doesn't see him - a lot - they won't bother voting for him.

Robert McIntyre said...

Well a decent mayor would do away with cabbies. No knowledge needed just satnav, a driving licence and the miniumum wage driving electric cars. Cabs are overpriced, a social nuisance and an environmental danger.

M Person on no fixed political abode said...

The Boris on the right, scratching his head, is saying: "I wonder how Ken Livingslime can claim to be non-racist and yet have led a vile, odious, deeply cynical campaign against Trevor Philips?

"Is it that Trevor was 'the wrong kind of black?' in that he was not relying on Ken to slip him £100,000s worth of funding for doing fuck-all, like his dear friend, Jasper the Grasper and assorted cronies?"

Anonymous said...

didn't bother tipping, then.

Anonymous said...

He was on the London Bolshevik Broadcasting station yesterday for an hour, and despite baracking from the ZaNuLab creeps who anchor the station came across very well. So much for him being invisible.

dougal said...

I live in Taxi Driver Country - most of them hate what Leninslover has done to London, look at some of the barking-mad regulations that he and his pals have introduced.

nit picker said...

Guido, i dont see an imprint on the receipt- if this is a campaign thing then it should have promoted by and printed by etc etc

Curly said...

Reminds me of putting election cards over the tops of milk bottles twenty five years ago.

Alas we cannot find sufficient milkmen these days.

Anonymous said...

Cabbies hate Ken because of the huge and expensive inspections he makes their cabs go through. £2k for a special catalytic converter? They must love that!

Aaron Aardvark said...

nit picker @ 7.41 I have several pads in front of me now, and the legal stuff is all there in very small letters down the right hand side.
If anyone thinks congestion has decreased in cental London since the charge has come in, they are sadly mistaken.


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