Please speak up, Mick...

[crashtheparty]

Does anyone know more about this? I remember reading it somewhere before, but can’t remember where. This attachment was found on Twitter following Boris’s cringeworthy video.

[crashtheparty]

Here’s the source of the attachment. Must say, I’m quite unsettled by this. Joe writing to Boris about hunting? It’s documented that Johnson supports fox hunting.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... s.london08

[Marky Dread]

That's got to be satirical surely. Higher calcium consumption well not in the 70s when Thatcher took away free school milk.

[MarkyJacobs]

I saw somewhere, someone say that Boris Johnson can actually be seen in the crowd at the FBU Benefit/ Srummer and Jones re-union gig in 2002. I had assumed it was a wind-up. Now I daren't investigate further. I'm afraid of what I might find.

[crashtheparty]

That's got to be satirical surely. Higher calcium consumption well not in the 70s when Thatcher took away free school milk.

Did you see my first screenshot before the Johnson one?

[Marky Dread]

That's got to be satirical surely. Higher calcium consumption well not in the 70s when Thatcher took away free school milk.

Did you see my first screenshot before the Johnson one?

Ha no I didn't. What's your take on it?

[crashtheparty]

That's got to be satirical surely. Higher calcium consumption well not in the 70s when Thatcher took away free school milk.

Did you see my first screenshot before the Johnson one?

Ha no I didn't. What's your take on it?

I don't know what to make of it, I'm quite perplexed. I'd like to know more for sure. As far i know Johnson has always been pro fox hunting and he wrote a column for the Telegraph. I found the blog where the screenshot is from: https://confessionsofapsychotherapist.b ... r-joe.html

"Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of those quirky little programmes that Radio 4 does so well. Great Lives is one such programme, and I almost squealed with pleasure to find that today's subject was Joe Strummer, former frontman of The Clash. Phil Jupitus was discussing Strummer's life and influences, along with Chris Salewicz, Strummer's biographer. I hold a great respect for Matthew Parris, the interviewer, despite his toriness. He is a marvellous interviewer - respectful, knowledgeable and probing.


The programme was a delight. Parris suggested that punk was borne out of a rage at the prevailing zeitgeist, and in this respect had much in common with Thatcherism. I think this is a very dubious argument, by the way, but was tickled at the image he describes of trying to persuade Thatch to listen to The Clash and to court the punk vote. I suspect most punk rockers didn't vote. Anarchy was the thing then, and you don't pop in to vote tory on your way to your anarcho-syndicalist cell meeting. However, Chris Salewicz talked of the strange friendship that Strummer struck up with Boris Johnson a few years before his death. Sandinista was apparently Johnson's favourite album. He has always loved irony, I suspect, and surely that particular one wasn't lost on him? Apparently they would write to each other regularly, and Strummer would try and get his poetry published in The Spectator. Wouldn't you have loved to see that?

Strummer never lost his political passion. He didn't become a property developer in New York, or play the pseudo punk in the Australian jungle for cheap publicity and even cheaper laughs. He was a man of principle. And he wrote some top songs aswell."

[Marky Dread]

That's got to be satirical surely. Higher calcium consumption well not in the 70s when Thatcher took away free school milk.

Did you see my first screenshot before the Johnson one?

Ha no I didn't. What's your take on it?

I don't know what to make of it, I'm quite perplexed. I'd like to know more for sure. As far i know Johnson has always been pro fox hunting and he wrote a column for the Telegraph. I found the blog where the screenshot is from: https://confessionsofapsychotherapist.b ... r-joe.html

"Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of those quirky little programmes that Radio 4 does so well. Great Lives is one such programme, and I almost squealed with pleasure to find that today's subject was Joe Strummer, former frontman of The Clash. Phil Jupitus was discussing Strummer's life and influences, along with Chris Salewicz, Strummer's biographer. I hold a great respect for Matthew Parris, the interviewer, despite his toriness. He is a marvellous interviewer - respectful, knowledgeable and probing.


The programme was a delight. Parris suggested that punk was borne out of a rage at the prevailing zeitgeist, and in this respect had much in common with Thatcherism. I think this is a very dubious argument, by the way, but was tickled at the image he describes of trying to persuade Thatch to listen to The Clash and to court the punk vote. I suspect most punk rockers didn't vote. Anarchy was the thing then, and you don't pop in to vote tory on your way to your anarcho-syndicalist cell meeting. However, Chris Salewicz talked of the strange friendship that Strummer struck up with Boris Johnson a few years before his death. Sandinista was apparently Johnson's favourite album. He has always loved irony, I suspect, and surely that particular one wasn't lost on him? Apparently they would write to each other regularly, and Strummer would try and get his poetry published in The Spectator. Wouldn't you have loved to see that?

Strummer never lost his political passion. He didn't become a property developer in New York, or play the pseudo punk in the Australian jungle for cheap publicity and even cheaper laughs. He was a man of principle. And he wrote some top songs aswell."

I hope I'm right in thinking that Joe liked to understand people. To get inside a situation and understand the enemy by knowing why and what makes people think and make the choices they do.

[JennyB]

That's got to be satirical surely. Higher calcium consumption well not in the 70s when Thatcher took away free school milk.

Did you see my first screenshot before the Johnson one?

Ha no I didn't. What's your take on it?

I don't know what to make of it, I'm quite perplexed. I'd like to know more for sure. As far i know Johnson has always been pro fox hunting and he wrote a column for the Telegraph. I found the blog where the screenshot is from: https://confessionsofapsychotherapist.b ... r-joe.html

"Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of those quirky little programmes that Radio 4 does so well. Great Lives is one such programme, and I almost squealed with pleasure to find that today's subject was Joe Strummer, former frontman of The Clash. Phil Jupitus was discussing Strummer's life and influences, along with Chris Salewicz, Strummer's biographer. I hold a great respect for Matthew Parris, the interviewer, despite his toriness. He is a marvellous interviewer - respectful, knowledgeable and probing.


The programme was a delight. Parris suggested that punk was borne out of a rage at the prevailing zeitgeist, and in this respect had much in common with Thatcherism. I think this is a very dubious argument, by the way, but was tickled at the image he describes of trying to persuade Thatch to listen to The Clash and to court the punk vote. I suspect most punk rockers didn't vote. Anarchy was the thing then, and you don't pop in to vote tory on your way to your anarcho-syndicalist cell meeting. However, Chris Salewicz talked of the strange friendship that Strummer struck up with Boris Johnson a few years before his death. Sandinista was apparently Johnson's favourite album. He has always loved irony, I suspect, and surely that particular one wasn't lost on him? Apparently they would write to each other regularly, and Strummer would try and get his poetry published in The Spectator. Wouldn't you have loved to see that?

Strummer never lost his political passion. He didn't become a property developer in New York, or play the pseudo punk in the Australian jungle for cheap publicity and even cheaper laughs. He was a man of principle. And he wrote some top songs aswell."

I hope I'm right in thinking that Joe liked to understand people. To get inside a situation and understand the enemy by knowing why and what makes people think and make the choices they do.

I tend to believe this as well.

[oliver]

Mick is a very strong supporter of Labour. He is very invested in the defeat of (the unelected) Boris Johnson and the Tories

Must be an interesting Xmas dinner with Mick and Grant Schapps.

[BitterTom]

I saw somewhere, someone say that Boris Johnson can actually be seen in the crowd at the FBU Benefit/ Srummer and Jones re-union gig in 2002. I had assumed it was a wind-up. Now I daren't investigate further. I'm afraid of what I might find.

If he was there, he was there. Hardly scary stuff.

[MarkyJacobs]

I saw somewhere, someone say that Boris Johnson can actually be seen in the crowd at the FBU Benefit/ Srummer and Jones re-union gig in 2002. I had assumed it was a wind-up. Now I daren't investigate further. I'm afraid of what I might find.

If he was there, he was there. Hardly scary stuff.

Whatever. It's not fucking 1979.

[BitterTom]

I saw somewhere, someone say that Boris Johnson can actually be seen in the crowd at the FBU Benefit/ Srummer and Jones re-union gig in 2002. I had assumed it was a wind-up. Now I daren't investigate further. I'm afraid of what I might find.

If he was there, he was there. Hardly scary stuff.

Whatever. It's not fucking 1979.

Ok?

[MarkyJacobs]

Mick is a very strong supporter of Labour. He is very invested in the defeat of (the unelected) Boris Johnson and the Tories

Must be an interesting Xmas dinner with Mick and Grant Schapps.

I do wonder if Mick is afraid of drawing press attention to this family connection. I wondered it when André was so quickly dismissed as a possible replacement for Dan on the 2011 tour - although there's probably a perfectly innocent explanation.

[Heston]

That's got to be satirical surely. Higher calcium consumption well not in the 70s when Thatcher took away free school milk.

That's my impression too, the other scenario about McDonalds seems satitical too. Out of context it is hard to tell.

But I've yet to see this letter to Johnson and what it entails. And even If it exists. Until then it's all conjecture.