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Updated Boris Johnson, George Bush images, created from scratch with not a pixel of original campaign material used.
The silhouette may look similar but it is a ‘vector’ drawing created using a photo as a guide.

UPDATE : My posters are based on The Daily Telegraph’s ‘Boris Johnson In Quotes’ rather than the full article in The Spectator which was the source of their quote.
So here’s a small correction :The quote used is taken from his own newspaper, The Daily Telegraph here. This seems to be taken out of context from The Spectator but what’s good enough for The Telegraph to publish is good enough for me

I may come up with an alternative later for those who don’t want to use the quote, maybe not.

UPDATE - In the interest of transparency and fairness, I have removed the Spectator full quote images and replaced the Spectator ‘warmonger’ images with those featuring a very similar quote, taken from this, penned by Boris in The Telegraph nearly one year after his Spectator article :

Bush owes Blair – and must deliver

By Boris Johnson
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 04/11/2004

In a hotly contested field, the most dismal awakening of my life took place yesterday morning, alone, hungover, in a hotel bedroom in Tel Aviv, when I found that the television was still burbling from the night before and that Don King, the infamous boxing promoter with the conviction for assault and the Van der Graaf Generator hair was on screen announcing to an appalled planet that the American people had awarded a second term of office to the cross-eyed Texan warmonger George Dubya Bush.

If ever there was a moment for burying your head in the many superfluous hotel pillows, and issuing a groan of self-pity, this was it.

Not four more years of a man so serially incompetent that he only narrowly escaped selfassassination by pretzel, and also managed to introduce American torturers to Iraqi jails. Who on earth, I moaned, can conceivably have supported this maniac with his monochrome Manichaean rhetoric that has done so much to encourage the nasty strain of anti-Americanism that now afflicts so much of the world?

Here’s the link.

Different sizes :

Warmonger 350px wide
Warmonger 200px wide

Link to very large version below (bigger than most screens so please don’t click if you have no use for it and help save my bandwidth)
Warmonger Link

IF YOU HAVE FOLLOWED A LINK DIRECTLY TO THIS POST, THERE ARE NEW, UPDATED IMAGES AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT POST :
http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog/archives/866

Those of us who live in London will be able to show our support of two great statesmen at the same time when President Bush visits the City that crowned Boris Johnson as Mayor.
Boris has previously voiced support for George Bush and the decision to invade Iraq but he has also quite viciously condemned him.
correction : according to his own newspaper, The Daily Telegraph here. This seems to be taken out of context from The Spectator but what’s good enough for The Telegraph to publish is good enough for me

To show my appreciation of his change of heart I have created (using a genuine Boris Johnson quote) a couple of DRAFT posters - maybe buttons or banners for websites so that President Bush can clearly see how the Mayor of London (sometimes) feels about him.

I’ll be a bit busy over the next day, producing a special version (obviously using a silhouette created from scratch) of this which you may see travelling around London and/or in various media but will do my best to tidy up the drafts and produce different sizes if the demand is there.

Four Hundred and Sixty Five Grand for his team, some of whom have already completed their tasks.
All here at Boriswatch
and hat-tip to Tory Troll

and a mention for image-thieving-for-profit Associated Newspapers as well. The London Evening Standard checked out the costs. The paper is now suggesting a special type of extended congestion charge zone for the citizens of Kensington and Chelsea.

The difficulty is however that those living in the western zone, a largely residential area, have become used to their resident’s discount and would suffer if traffic levels rose following abolition of the extension. Also, more motorists in the western zone would affect the many cyclists passing through it en route to central London. The answer could be concessions on charging hours so that commuters by road were still discouraged but it became easier to visit shops inside the zone.

So, a nice little congestion-gated community in London then…

Well I said the last one was work in progress. I liked the concept of the city hall as armour but I reckon this one could remain in progress for some time unless I start from scratch. Needs more work, caricature included but I reckon I’ll leave that for some other time.
Hopefully a short animation later today.
Here’s Quaequam on the Venezuela Oil Deal cancellation.
And, surprisingly Associated Newspapers (owners of The London Evening Standard) are having a dig about Boris over at the image-thieving-for-profit Daily Mail (I prefer not to link directly).

The media onslaught will be interesting over the next couple of days.
A few old images..

In my rush to repost these images, I forgot this :
With thanks to Wikipedia user Arpingstone (Adrian Pingstone) who released the base image of City Hall, London, England into the Public Domain.

For anyone who has seen The London Evening Standard commit editorial hari-kiri and turn into an election leaflet over the last few weeks, there is a great Martin Rowson cartoon on Comment is Free today.

The Lib Dems must be overjoyed at their rebranding as the ‘not so fluffy and slightly nasty party’ by Brian Paddick and his imported advisors.
Paddick contributed to the London Evening Standard today with a follow up assault on Livingstone after the Daily Mail’s sister title majored on religion and claiming Livingstone was receiving support from a backer of suicide bombers.
The headline ‘Suicide bomb backer runs Ken’s campaign seems to (deliberately, falsely) imply that any ‘campaign’ is part of Livingstone’s official election set up.
Things are hotting up in London and I reckon it will have implications for the rest of the UK in terms of national party perceptions and especially political campaigning on the web.

I honestly haven’t made my mind up of who I’ll be voting for but it will be influenced, in part, by campaign tactics and, of course, my opinion of the behaviour of the incumbent since taking office - and that is far from favourable.