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Arise Sir Mike! Bloomberg the Brit wannabe revealed by New York Times -- Ascot, top hats, staying with Prince Charles, all part of the new Mike

Posted on Friday, February 08, 2013 at 07:41 AM

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            New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right,

             greets Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, left as her husband Prince Philip watches (Credit:AP)

The mystery over what Mike Bloomberg will do when he stops being Mayor of New York seems to be solved.

The New York Times reveals today that Bloomberg wants more than anything to be British and is building the ultimate vanity project in Britain, his own ‘grandiose’ development in London’s financial district, named after himself--who else?

The article also reveals that Mayor Mike loves to attend Royal Ascot races in his top hat and tails and has stayed at the country home of Prince Charles. Thrilling stuff!

The Times notes that, “He bought a box at Ascot, the high-society horse racing grounds, and flew in celebrities by helicopter from London. (Guests received a photograph of themselves drinking Champagne with the top-hatted host.)”

The Boston-born, New York Jewish mayor has clearly had a major attack of Anglophilia, an incurable affliction when it infects American wannabes.

Mike is buying his way into high society in London. “There is no question,” Ms. Peyton-Jones, an art gallery director said, “he’s among the most important supporters of contemporary culture in this country.”

I’m sure he is and I’m sure the Brits are snickering all the way to the bank with the NY mayor Brit wannabe writing all the checks they want.

As The Times notes, Mr. Bloomberg, “an Anglophile with a taste for English Regency style — is exporting his vast quantities of financial, social and political capital to this ancient city, where he has long yearned for influence.”

Regency style dear reader is when you are a fan of the neo-classical architecture that reigned during the time of George IV, who ruled in the early 1800s. Bronx residents will be very familiar with it and speak of little else.  Bloomberg Place, The Times tells us, is “roughly the size of a Manhattan city block, is the future European home of Michael R. Bloomberg’s company and charity.” And perhaps Bloomberg itself, it seems like. 

So intent is Mike on making an impression that Prime Minister David Cameron has roguishly suggested he should run for Mayor of London.

The Royal family are also in his sights and he spent a night at the home of Prince Charles in Scotland but alas, didn’t like it; “Won’t stay there again,” he said of the vast estate.  Bloomberg it appears offers considerable help to Conservative party politicians. He dispatched a top PR team to help David Cameron get elected and has spent $1.5 million on Conservative candidates.

It is all a long way from the Bronx and Staten Island and their mundane concerns. But Mayor Mike will surely do us all proud as a British wannabe. 

Reader it is only a matter of time before we’ll be referring to Sir Mike and bowing and scraping in his presence!

When you are knighted you have to walk backwards out of the room so as not to show your rear end to the monarch. 

Hope Mike doesn’t make a horse’s ass of that. 

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curtisjohnson | Feb 10, 2013, 09:10 PM EST

True - McGuinness is genuine about reconciliation - the british not so much.

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anglo-norman | Feb 10, 2013, 05:42 PM EST

It's amazing how british McGuinness is..

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anglo-norman | Feb 10, 2013, 05:36 PM EST

It's amazing how british McGuinness is..

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RedBranch | Feb 10, 2013, 01:35 PM EST

Myor Bloomburg would be in good company with Martin McGuinness then. A man who shakes hands with the Queen, takes the Queen's shillings, waxes lyrical about cricket, has been hosted at Chequers and Downing Street, has an eye for horseflesh and fishing exclusive private stretches of the finest salmon rivers, oh and parades around in a chauffer driven black and expensive vehicle. Arise Sir Martin of Londonderry I say!

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curtisjohnson | Feb 10, 2013, 11:53 AM EST

So RobinForester exposes itself as a supremacist imperialist. Britain itself has always been more akin to a commercial oligarchy rather than any "democracy." It certainly did not "birth" American democracy which it opposed at every step. Moreover, one can trace nearly all of the world's trouble spots to british imperialism - Afghanistan/Pakistan, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, the occupied statelet, etc. The point re Bloomberg, you moron, is that he is a multi-billionaire to whom the salary meant nothing other than to use as a campaign prop by foregoing it. Do you know him personally to say that he is a "fine" man? Of course, disgusting anglo supremacist trolls like this Forester creature will defend all manner of british atrocities – the murder of children, sick sexual and other tortures inflicted on colonial populations such as the Kenyans, the use of poison gas on indigenous populations, rape, the pitch and cap, half hanging, planned famines, etc. She cares far more about the death of animals who are exploited for use in aristocratic sports. Britain’s imposition of modernity on colonial populations was purely out of self interest rather than any benevolence.

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RobinForester | Feb 10, 2013, 12:13 AM EST

I think Curtis Johnson revealed who she really his by this callous remark: Quote cut from her post: "And she takes a story about an egotistic and grandiose US Mayor to begin a lunatic rant about dead animals and the IRA". So according to her a fine man who works unpaid as a public servant she despises, and a Derby winner she calls a dead animal. I'm shocked by this and inclined to ask what on earth went wrong in his / her life when these a Mayor and an racehorse deserve such lack of respect, somehow I think if she was riding Shergar the whip he/she would carry would be wrapped in hate. Read more:

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RobinForester | Feb 09, 2013, 11:53 PM EST

Overall British History is not that bad and the major democracies they founded witness that fact, e.g. America, Canada, Australia, NZ, and South Africa. Even today the People of Indian still say "Everything was so much better when the British ran India". With regards to Ireland one day the mood in Ireland is going to swing the other way; and people will say to themselves "What on earth did we gain by independence and what good did it do us". For proof look at Scotland, in a recent referendum a majority of Scots voted to retain Union. I would like to see an Independent Ireland, but I would also like it to be part of the British Isles, our very own brotherhood of man, no matter what the hotheads say 'we are, all of us full brothers' 'we are cousins' and we do belong together through thick and thin and when crisis threatens. It's all well and good living in the nostalgic past of the 1830s, but be fair, did the average English person in those days have it any better?, no, they certainly didn't, they were agricultural worker slaves who could be fired for not bowing to the Lord or his agent when he passed them in his fine carriage. It was the first World War 1914 - 1918, that broke the Lords and toffs rule over them along with free schools and education, learning to read and write proved mightier than the gun and caused a huge rise in better social rights and freedom for the individual? The poster k/as Curtis Johnson fails to mention that Irish Volunteers made up a huge section of the WW1 British Army, and this tradition continues more so today. What I am saying or meaning is: 'Always look behind the curtains of history' and don't ignore those jarring little provable facts that conflict with your nostalgic and sentimental views about Ireland, rest assured that even though I am a Brit, my love for Ireland is in no way affected, it's the same as those fine Americans who love SIX other English speaking nations as brothers and kinfolk.

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curtisjohnson | Feb 09, 2013, 10:26 PM EST

robinforester - brit troll nutbag extraordinaire. The british terror state has tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered all over the world – particularly in Ireland – and she takes a story about an egotistic and grandiose US Mayor to begin a lunatic rant about dead animals and the IRA (although the IRA never targeted women and children for rape and murder like the british)! Just have a glance at the middle class brit rags – Daily Mail, Sun, etc. and their comments section on any article directly or indirectly dealing with the Irish and you’ll learn all about these “kind hearted brits” – lol. “I understand he pays himself a $1.00 a year which indicates what type of guy he his.” Yeah – that shows he a real great guy – an egomaniac billionaire who the salary meant nothing to other than as a campaign prop. Incidentally, he’s not enthralled with joining the common british culture but with being accepted by its oligarchy – a massive difference.

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anglo-norman | Feb 09, 2013, 08:35 PM EST

seanomelb- Maybe you are Mr Ed?

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seanomelb | Feb 09, 2013, 07:57 PM EST

RobinForester has no Idea of The IRA or its history. She is just another anti Irish ignoramus posting here. Well may she shed tears for shergar! Iwonder how many tears she shed on bloody sunday. I feel like humming the song from Mr Ed.

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anglo-norman | Feb 09, 2013, 05:06 PM EST

Kidnapping an animal & killing it. You couldn't make it up.

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RobinForester | Feb 09, 2013, 04:30 PM EST

Warrenpoint, The first word of my post clearly addressed it to a poster called Seamor, whose anti-British remarks could not go unchallenged as they lied by omission, omission being he did not reveal the full IRA story, and left out facts which would embarrass before a Court of honest opinion the IRA. I think what I said was fair and above board, and the owners of every racehorse in the world will agree with me when it come to the killing of Shergar a Derby winner and stud horse. If you look at page 1 of this post you will see I praised Mr Bloomberg and in few words told the world I admired him. I understand he pays himself a $1.00 a year which indicates what type of guy he his. May I suggest you read Seamor post.

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anglo-norman | Feb 09, 2013, 04:06 PM EST

warrenpoint00- Grow Up

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warrenpoint00 | Feb 09, 2013, 02:50 PM EST

What a rambling nut this Forester dude is.Some one tell this guy that this story is about Mike Bloomberg ,not about the welfare of IRA soldiers, race horses or kind hearted brits.

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McNamara31 | Feb 09, 2013, 02:16 PM EST

Ahhh Mike....What is the true legacy of the British Empire? In India, In Ireland, In the Caribbean and America? Ruthless oppression (and Slavers) of all they came in contact with. So, pick your head up Mike, and be glad their ships never reached Israel, because the same would have been done to your people by them as well.

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