Guildhall banquet snubbed by Bush

[sharonstone]

PRESIDENT BUSH rejected strenuous efforts by the City to persuade him to attend a high-profile event in the Square Mile because he did not want to be seen in the company of financial institutions, City sources claimed last night.

President Bush was offered a 600-seat banquet at Guildhall during his state visit to Britain next week, with the surrounding City streets sealed off for security by the Corporation of London.

“His minders in the States said they were looking for pictures beamed back of him with ordinary people rather than toffs and financiers ahead of election year,” one highly placed Corporation insider said. “After Enron, WorldCom and other such disasters, Bush doesn’t want to be seen in that company
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-890642,00.html

[ibegurpard]

1. But he'd gladly take their money

oh, yes, he would.

[Spentastic]

2. There will be nowhere he can visit

That won't need sanitising of "ordinary people "

Ordinary people think he's a prick.

[kayell]

3. ROFLMAO

“His minders in the States said they were looking for pictures beamed back of him with ordinary people rather than toffs and financiers ahead of election year,”

These are going to be some highly screened "ordinary " people.

I wonder how they plan to accomplish this, when chimps handlers are trying to close down London, all the ordinary people are planning on baring their bums at bush, and the SS is planning to shoot to kill anyone who makes it nervous. How many impoverished out-of-work actors willing to sell their souls are there in London? Our do they actually expect ordinary brits to greet them with flowers and dancing in the street?

[ibegurpard]

7. In a city of millions?

I'm sure they can find a few hundred people that can be bought off.

[LibLabUK]

8. exactly

I'm sure there's plenty of ex-pat Republicans living here....and Tories ofcourse.

[kayell]

13. If nothing else he brought enough people along in his

700 person entourage. Of course I am being silly to think * won't be able to find enough people to cozy up to for a photo op. After all, don't something like 17% of brits think he's just dandy? I'm sure that our captive media will be delighted to show nothing but cheering Brits for Bush_TM.

[northzax]

24. isn't he staying at Buckingham Palace?

yeah, them's real ordinary folk.

[izzie]

4. Now that pic and statement is really funny.

He is going around the US with a backhoe getting money while the tax payers pick up the bill so he can travel like the "Sun King" of old and he does want to be seen with the every day people. That is just way out there. Where are these people living, in a black hole someplace? I think I must be Alice and have falling down the rabbit hole.

[LibLabUK]

5. Hmm

Isn't it also traditional for the guest to speak at a Guildhall banquet?

Maybe he's scared of doing that without a teleprompter/autocue. Afterall, he could hardly talk like a cowboy to that crowd.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. I'm in London, and this is a slap in the face to the city --

These are great occasions --

How unspeakable are these people -- from the carnage in Iraq, all the way to something simply as ill-mannered as this?

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. the only people in the UK who do want him

and he's ashamed to be seen with them. What more proof is needed that this is a massive election photo-op?

"... the Corporation insider said. “We would have paid the bill for it. It’s not as though it falls on the taxpayer.” "

No, instead the taxpayer gets a £5 million plus bill. Send it straight to the bloody Republican party. And give me back my streets, you arrogant felch head.

[Spentastic]

10. Felch head

Ha ha ha ha ha

Aha

ha ha ha.

I reckon we should give him the streets. Just him, all alone in London.

[kayell]

14. That would be great to see

The Queen gives him his parade, and NOBODY comes. His 700 person entourage would be scurrying from intersection to intersection, trying to simulate the adoring British public.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Excellent idea. GIVE him the streets. All alone. By himself.

Just like Lady Godiva. No commoner must even set sight upon his Royal Chimpiness. Lock the doors. Close the shutters. And woe betide the miscreant who even attempts to gaze upon his manly-man wonderfulness. (He can't be riding a horse, though -- remember, Our Glorious Leader is afraid of horses.)

(On edit: I didn't mean to suggest that Commander Codpiece should strut through the streets nekkid. I would assume he would use the special "State Visit Flightsuit" with the inflatable crotch and the neon epaulets.)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. You may have to explain Felching to fellow DUers you know.

Thankfully David Baddiel gave me a full explanation many moons ago.

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. I'm sure many inquiring DUers

will have found out themselves, but here's some definitions:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=felch

Briefly, I'd define it (as a noun) as a mixture of more or less all bodily fluids and excretions. The term 'shithead' is too good for Dubya.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. Not just a matter of corporations....

Guildhall Banquet is traditional for visiting heads of state:

"...a state visit generally involves a formal dinner at Guildhall or Mansion House, the Lord Mayor’s official residence."

(I love that clown, too -- LOL! On second thought, maybe it's better our clown in the WH not make an appearance at Guildhall.)

[xchrom]

12. seen in that company?!?

he is that company.
it's not like he doesn't see them all the time.
that's who his circle of ''friends'' is made up of.

[sybylla]

21. Well, see, right there is proof of his good private school edjumakashun

He probably thinks the Guildhall is the same as what a guildhall would likely be over here - a labor temple. And he certainly ain't those kind of people.

[alfredo]

28. He saw Harry Potter, and that owl scared him.

[emad]

17. Softsoap for the imminent announcement of how he's going to

address both Houses of Parliament at a specially scheduled primetime?

To be followed by an invigorating exfoliation of the gonads by Cherie's lifestyle guru Carole Caplin in one of those see-thru capsules in the Lodon Eye

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Could we cut the power when they're at the top?

And leave them all there, David Blaine-style? We'd have the thanks of the world.

[Cocoa]

19. great find!

Bush must be doing that over here too, avoiding financial institutions, but it doesn't get attention until he does it overseas.

Interesting that Enron is still on his mind...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

20. Why does your pic remind me of Stephen King's "It"??

[Gin]

22. he will invite them all to crawford or Camp david...safe and secret.

may the force be against him!

[sharonstone]

25. WORST OF : POLITICS : IS GEORGE W BUSH THE WORST US PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME?

http://www.bestandworst.com/vote/processrate/rateballot.php?17694

[grasswire]

26. there is an explanation

The Lord Mayor dissed Bush in the last couple of days (I can't find the article now) by issuing an invitation to some citizens to be in a place where they will see Bush. Damn. I can't find the article.

So this is undoubtedly a rebuff of the Lord Mayor.

[54anickel]

27. Idiot son of an asshole.......

http://www.ericblumrich.com/idiot.html