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
By: Niall O'Dowd | Published Friday, February 8, 2013, 7:47 AM | Updated Friday, February 8, 2013, 7:54 AM
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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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.curtisjohnson | Feb 10, 2013, 09:10 PM EST
True - McGuinness is genuine about reconciliation - the british not so much.
anglo-norman | Feb 10, 2013, 05:42 PM EST
It's amazing how british McGuinness is..
anglo-norman | Feb 10, 2013, 05:36 PM EST
It's amazing how british McGuinness is..
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!
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.
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:
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.
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.
anglo-norman | Feb 09, 2013, 08:35 PM EST
seanomelb- Maybe you are Mr Ed?
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.
anglo-norman | Feb 09, 2013, 05:06 PM EST
Kidnapping an animal & killing it. You couldn't make it up.
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.
anglo-norman | Feb 09, 2013, 04:06 PM EST
warrenpoint00- Grow Up
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.
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.
anglo-norman | Feb 09, 2013, 01:14 PM EST
RobinForester- RESPECT
RobinForester | Feb 09, 2013, 10:25 AM EST
Seanmor, Why don't you reveal that virtually all the the IRA members were drawing British unemployment pay and benefits during the troubles, including children's clothing allowances to buy clothing and shoes for schools, there children got free school meals and whilst they were in prison these benefits continued to be paid to their wives who were given an extra travel allowance to visit their menfolk in prison. Why not mention that they lived free in British Council houses paid for by the taxpayer, and add 'that whilst they professed to represent the Catholics of Northern Island, the vast majority of them had never visited a Catholic Church since being baptised. The IRA was a scam and pretence movement from 1965 on. Do mention if you will that Gerry Adams as a university student was a Socialist Communist Party member who said in a 1978? on a USA TV show he wanted (and I quote) for Northern Ireland to be similar to East Germany. And let's add when his thug Billy Powers and five others blew up a pub in Birmingham killing 11 young people, Powers was living in a Birmingham City Council house and receiving British Government benefits cash each week. Without doubt the people who were victimized were the kind hearted Brits, and, why there wasn't anti-Irish riots in England I don't know. Irish people are respected in England, and their sizable contribution to our society allows us to ignore the IRA faults and shortcomings, the exception being the IRA killing of the famous racehorse Shergar, the English Derby Winner owned by the Prince Aga Khan, this horses death saddened and disgusted many here and caused the IRA to be the laughing stock terrorist movement of Europe, if it had been Secretariat the Triple Stake winner I'm certain the St Patricks Day Parade would have been cancelled that year out of respect for an USA legend.
Schlomo | Feb 09, 2013, 09:57 AM EST
Funny, I remember His Honor smoozing with the natives in Knock, Co Mayo a few years ago. Bloomie goes where the smell of financial rewards is. Gee, that makes him an honorary Irishman fer sure, fer sure!
Seanmor | Feb 09, 2013, 09:46 AM EST
Realist: I've never been a great fan of the Brits either (even tho I was born in Londo).During the 30 years of the 'Troubles' in the Northeast corner of Ireland, my sympathies weere very much with the victimized Nationlists. However, in recent years as G.B.has increasingly came under the influence of foreigners (legal and illegal) from the Third World who are bent on destroying what is left of British cultur. Now I find myself identifying more and more with the highly civilized Britons. I should also mention that I admire P.M. Cameron for publicly stating the killing of 13 Nationalists (by british Paras) on Bloody Sunday were "unjustified. and "unjustifiabe".
handsome68 | Feb 09, 2013, 09:35 AM EST
Jimmy Savile was knighted, wasn't he? I rest my case.
RobinForester | Feb 09, 2013, 07:24 AM EST
he's popular, a good Ambassador for America and New York, well liked and welcome in Britain, and if he wants to be Mayor of London I'll vote for him. Of course HM the Queen likes him, but will the men of Sherwood Forest? they being the remnants of Robins Bnad of Merry men, maybe, just maybe if he asks for an Official Sherwood Foresters meet under the Great Oak of England we'll look him over and see , it would help to cement our friendship if he promises to bring some bagels, some chopped liver, herring, lokshen and not leave behind a NY Golem or two (we have enough Golems of our own thank you) then we might make him an honorary member? Will someone tell him we now have a ban on bow and arrows and all weapons following the tragic events in Connecticutt and bodyguards with guns are not allowed.
Thomas84 | Feb 09, 2013, 06:23 AM EST
Anglo norman ... Im not sure if you were on another planet at the time but the only people allowed near the queen when it got here were people who had signed up 4 months before hand, everyone else was kept at a minimum of 80 meters away from it. When it was driven through dublin nobody was even allowed to be on the same street. Why are your comments about this full of outright lies ?
Realist | Feb 09, 2013, 05:48 AM EST
Yet again, another new low. This is not journalism. Just more pathetic attention seeking ex-wife behaviour. If you dislike the British so much, why do you keep going on about them? Get over it.
cillowen | Feb 08, 2013, 05:19 PM EST
England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia.
cillowen | Feb 08, 2013, 05:18 PM EST
test it
cillowen | Feb 08, 2013, 05:13 PM EST
ashamed of their holocaust - not the bloomie ilk. Snippit of history on Erin. .. In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company..
anglo-norman | Feb 08, 2013, 04:37 PM EST
It never ceases to amaze me how british the Irish are..
cillowen | Feb 08, 2013, 04:34 PM EST
a licking is not unknown to the many who we know in ould erin gone belly-up.
eireog68 | Feb 08, 2013, 03:55 PM EST
Please don't wait another minute take him now you can have him he is a self inflated pompas ass. He cares only about himself and his ideas of grandeur it is do as he says or else.
seanomelb | Feb 08, 2013, 03:45 PM EST
Bostonrugby Quinn is Irish/American and Bloomberg is Boston/? It's not about Ireland,maybe it's about your anti Irish slant.Comparing him with a few plastic ex Irish like wogan and Geldof is reasonable.
lyoness555 | Feb 08, 2013, 03:24 PM EST
HA HA!! So funny! Why just yesterday I was reading about how Prince Phillip and one of the other Royals were HUGE HITLER supporters so he had better watch his azz.
anglo-norman | Feb 08, 2013, 02:34 PM EST
Yet when the Queen went to Ireland they grovelled to her especially in Cork. Irish people wearing english jerseys & lapping up english culture. Sir Bono,Sir Bob,etc.
mayoman | Feb 08, 2013, 02:15 PM EST
Much ado about nothing.
A mothers love | Feb 08, 2013, 01:16 PM EST
Slow news day Mr O'Dowd, I've read some s:* % on this website but my God this takes the biscuit. Why are you so bothered? You sound like a jealous man!
willieric | Feb 08, 2013, 12:23 PM EST
Sir Bob Geldof?....Sir Terry Wogan?..iconic irishmen....Is there a difference?
pilib04 | Feb 08, 2013, 12:19 PM EST
umm, who cares?
bostonrugby | Feb 08, 2013, 11:42 AM EST
And what is the difference between Bloomberg aspiring to be British and Christine Quinn aspiring to be Irish. I don't see any reference to Quinnie here, that might be a more relevant article.
Mary Caulfield | Feb 08, 2013, 11:08 AM EST
I wish to God he had stayed in Boston. He's an embarrassment to many NYers. I found it vey telling that to her dying day his mother found his ambition troubling. I read an article where she said she kept asking herself why he had to make so much money, have so much influence, etc. He's as is cringe inducing as Donald Trump in some ways.
irishdragon1967 | Feb 08, 2013, 09:54 AM EST
They can have him. I hope they don't like their drinks bigger than 20 ounces.
jamieLM | Feb 08, 2013, 09:48 AM EST
@Mr. O'Dowd, you sound like you're jealous. So why should you, or anyone else, care what he does with HIS life and HIS money as a private citizen? If he chose to live in London full time and become a British citizen, that's his business. Or are you only making snide, sarcastic comments just because Bloomberg's choices involve London, the Royal family, and the possibility that he might become "Sir Michael"??? Whatever... If he can arrange to move into Buck House, more power to him. If not, I know some great places to stay in London.
GEF | Feb 08, 2013, 09:40 AM EST
Oh, come on you guys, Mayor Bloomberg is not a nasty Orangeman but a wealthy Jew who prefers rubbing shoulders with the rich & famous. Indeed most of those who attend Royal ascot every year happen to be Irish race horsey lovers, bookies and punters from Ireland.
Gaelicpiper | Feb 08, 2013, 09:17 AM EST
Mayor Bloomer has a serious emotional problem. His conduct over the last few years can only be described as aberant. Lets go ahead and give him to the English. He fits right in with the insanity of King George the III; and a few other Royal, as well. But then, Blooomer believes he is King of New York.