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Some of my best friends are Norwegians...

23 July 2008

Boris Johnson's latest gaffe, which has left the Norwegians unamused, has an intriguing utility slant. The new London mayor, writing in his column in The Daily Telegraph, took a pot shot at his local Tesco. He doesn't like its design.


"We got red brick, slabby featureless yards of red brick, with no architectural punctuation except the featureless square windows. I mean no disrespect to Norway when I say it could have been a cut-price motel in Trondheim or possibly the headquarters of a small gas company."
The great man (Disconnector, not the blond bombshell) is intrigued by that analogy and wonders whether Johnson has ever visited a small gas company? Which one had he in mind?
Disconnector is not aware of the existence of any small gas companies here these days.
Surely he can't mean the Windsor headquarters of Centrica/British Gas, or, perhaps, BG Group in its Reading offices?
All very perplexing.

Tags: BG Group, British Gas, Centrica

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