Foals Slam 'Self-Satisfied Old Etonian' Mayor Boris Johnson

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by Jason Gregory
Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Foals Slam 'Self-Satisfied Old Etonian' Mayor Boris Johnson

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Foals have reacted angrily to the appointment of Conservative MP Boris Johnson as the new mayor of London.

Writing on their Myspace during a flight back to London, keyboardist Edwin Congreave said they feared “flying into a city that isn't so much a newly fascist city-state than one big gilded joke of a newspaper column made rotten flesh [is another].”

Johnson officially began his role as London’s new mayor at midnight on Sunday (May 4th) after his triumph in last Thursday’s mayoral elections.

The Conservative, who is as known for his tabloid headlines as he is his politics, replaces Ken Livingstone, who held the position for eight years.

Congreave said that the band would like to “salute” Johnson, “sort of like we'd salute any smug, self-satisfied old Etonian holding a statute-book to our heads.”

“Congratulations and good luck with the Olympics,” he added.

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Sorry the Foals ? and you are ? and why do i give a shit wot some poxy little indi band think ? or are you part of red kens group ?
~ by goon 5/6/2008

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“sort of like we’d salute any smug, self-satisfied old Etonian holding a statute-book to our heads.” They are very articulate, aren’t they? What does this mean? Insulting the newly elected mayor is insulting democracy and insulting Londoners who have just elected him. Mayor Boris won’t JUST be a laugh; he’ll be an excellent mayor. His enemies know that, and that’s why they are scared and throwing insults at him. His first act? Appointing Ray Lewis,
~ by Chas 5/6/2008
How about they stick to their jobs and let BJ do his? They will get judged on their music just as he will get judged on his performance as mayor.Would they like to be dismissed as uneducated fucktards? No? Unfair? Of course it would be.So what makes it any less unfair for them to dismiss BJ on account of his privileged background and image even before he has started the job?
~ by AVN 5/6/2008
WTF are the Foals? I assume some stalinist music band - I have never heard them and they can stick it up there arses for all I care tax dodging layabout scum
~ by Foal are losers 5/6/2008
Bit much from a band made up of ex-public schoolboys and Oxford University drop-outs
~ by Mike Wood 5/6/2008