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Foals slam new London mayor Boris Johnson

Foals SXSW 2007

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Band describe Johnson as 'smug' and 'self-satisfied'

Foals have voiced their disappointment at Conservative MP Boris Johnson's recent win in the London mayoral election.

In a MySpace bulletin keyboardist Edwin Congreave slammed Johnson, joking that he was only elected because of his distinctive blonde hair.

"We're flying back to London from New York," he wrote. "The jet lag is one thing, but the fear that we'll be 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].

"Boris 'Picaninny' Johnson, we salute you – 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.

"At least when California elected a clown as governor they elected one who'd made his name as a muscle-man [Arnold Schwarzenegger]. Boris appears to have been elected simply because he has blond hair."

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wowzer555 

May 6, 2008

'smug' and 'self-satisfied'? - that's rich coming from foals.

lholmes4130 

May 6, 2008

Maybe instead of crying about it, he should have voted. The irony of any member of Foals calling anyone 'smug and self-satisfied' is amazing.

jimmy626 

May 6, 2008

Who cares what Foals really think? Boris has only been in charge a couple of days, i can't think of anything he's done that is smug or self-satisfied yet.

jumbo999 

May 6, 2008

aren't they from oxford. what concern is it fo theirs?

artbrutfan1 

May 6, 2008

foals are ridiculous.................also they should stop using insults from fall songs.

lipgloss 

May 6, 2008

attaching yourself to a current mass news story can't be bad for any band... if said band has some tunes to back it up!

wellduhobviously 

May 6, 2008

As much as I dislike Boris Johnson, I know more about Foals' political opinions than I do their music. Something isn't right here.

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