You'll probably have heard about the interview with Boris Johnson on the Andrew Marr show in which ol' buffoon Boris was humiliated in front of a large TV audience - not dissimilar to the infamous Chloe Smith interview in June 2012. I believe this did a good job of telling the British public about Boris Johnson, and how him gaining power should be avoided at all costs.   

While I generally dislike political presenters such as Andrew Marr, I have got to take my hat off for him in this instance. His questions were brilliantly tough, acting as the perfect test for the wannabe PM to see what he could withstand. He failed. The highlight for me was when Boris used the typical excuse of them not having enough time to explain the situations he was questioned on - such as the shocking case of him giving the address of a journalist out for the purposes of violence. It was one of the few points at which I genuinely wished there was no TV schedual to stick to - sure, it stops utter mayhem evoking on TV, but for the sake British political interview shows, it would be really fantastic. 

Well, there we have it. Fingers crossed Boris keeps his mitts off power. You can watch the highlights of the BBC1 interview here: http://aggbot.com/Headline-News/article/19246848

In other Boris Johnson news, the buffoon has expressed his wishes that we were the French and has demanded streaking high speed rail lines, power plants and airports across the countryside: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9933118/Boris-Johnson-Build-airports-power-plants-and-railways-on-the-countryside.html

You can always rely on him to save our nation. 

On Friday the 22nd March, the Telegraph exposed that Nick Boles had held a private meeting with developers promising further deruglation and liberalisation of the planning system, which, under the Conservatives, is already in a state of turmoil. Of all the horrific things that were said during that meeting, the worst must have been this, when he says "he couldn't care less who owns the bloody things". 

In my opinion, the fact that this meeting was held privately and that he promised to further deregulate planning to those people just exposes that he's in it for the money - and the developers have a deal going. While this may be a cynics's view, it seems logical after what this government have done to help big, destructive business - George Osborne boosting the fossil fuel lobby and David Cameron refusing the minimum alchohol pricing are just a few named examples of the pains ordinary people have had to withstand. 

Why our countryside? It's estimated that if we use all our brownfield sites, 500,000 new homes will be supplied. The fact is, Greenfield sites are cheaper to develop, and that's what devlopers and construction indiustries are concerned about. Not the general wellbeing of people, not the state of nature and biodiversity. Also, look through city centres. Countless office blocks stand empty, ambandoned, maligned. These could be ideal places for affordable housing, and even these could aid in creating new communities without getting the bulldozer out on our countryside. 

So instead of creating jobs knocking down our trees and nature, let's get Nick Boles out of his job and create jobs by bringing new life to old, derilect areas of cities nationwide. 

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