Anthony Browne & Boris Johnson: What Does "Liberal" Mean Again?

Remember Mayor Johnson's intriguing admission at the Pre-Pride reception last month, talking about the Dalston Lane peace mural?

"We have to be honest and say that 30 years on that carnival vision of London as a place of generosity is more or less what we see around us, and I think that is a great achievement ... and it's something I intend to stick up for as long as I am mayor."

Now, here's what his new Policy Director wrote from him in 2005 when he was editor of The Spectator:

"Britain’s self-loathing is deep, pervasive and lethally dangerous. We get bombed, and we say it’s all our own fault. Schools refuse to teach history that risks making pupils proud, and use it instead as a means of instilling liberal guilt. The government and the BBC gush over ‘the other’, but recoil at the merest hint of British culture. The only thing we are licensed to be proud of is London’s internationalism — in other words, that there is little British left about it."

Yep, it's pretty much the Full Melanie liberal elite takeover fantasy, right down to that froth-flecked "lethally." Read it all if you can stay awake that long. Then ask yourself if Browne will be embracing the "carnival vision" of London any time soon.