Boris Johnson | Interview & Lap | Top Gear

well I hosted have I got news for you last year seven people telephoned the BBC to say I was a very poor presenter when my guest tonight hosted it 85 people rang up and said he was an excellent presenter he is the Conservative MP for Henley he's editor of The Spectator and it seems he's 92 times better than me at hosting topical news quizzes ladies and gentlemen Boris Johnson koke this have I got news for you malarkey yes this tricky isn't it very tricky I mean tricky for me but it was tricky it was trying to remember which bit you were supposed to be looking at at any given time I think Angus Deaton earned his money I think they should bring back Angus well we all who thinks we should bring back Angus snob bring back Hey but bring begging yeah the thing I've got to find out that really is most politicians Franz act worker are pretty incompetent and then have a veneer of competence the eloquent you do seem to do it the other way around yes oh you can't rule out the possibility of you know beneath the elaborately constructed veneer uh but you know blithering idiot the alerts of blithering idiot which is it are you what's not known am i different oh what's this about you driving the tractor through a bomb then yes it's perfectly true that this a long time ago you know if you if you ever driven attracted very fast no nobody has well this was actually rather a fast run but by my standards massey ferguson tractable they had a great many very complicated gears and at the crucial moment i couldn't remember which gear was the one you used when you wanted to slow down and I just saw whiteness descended my wind died through the back of the barn and through the wall yeah and anyway it was alright in the end they they docked my pay where I was working but sales puppy to replace the water could you explain what were you a tractor driver then a part-time years part-time guys froze and now you write about cars I do what I do I but I you know Jeremy I sit at your feet in the terms of you know writing by cars anyway I'm gonna like it's Aeschylus feasting at the yeah from scraps from the rich banquet of Homer yeah something something against I'm big on Top Gear yeah that's a good is it it is a good thing because I mean I do enjoy if it's in GQ magazine you're motoring column yeah it is very good it's faith I don't know anybody's ever you know I don't know I shouldn't say that yeah dunno and I know more can I just can I just share a little observation that Boris made about the Maserati here look how much has been crammed in the great big fat long things the vast doo-dah with the squiggly bits coming out of the just look at those sucking fella no joke I do think I do what do you really know your stuff there by cars absolutely no idea yeah no genuinely I have no idea how an engine works people have sat me down and said no no no the petrol goes and you know no no faintest and then this Pistons go up and down and somehow you go a lot how does that happen he'll know that he's got a beard and a rover mister now about it is a miracle but I am I'm very keen cyclist I'm like you I think you're like me knows I mean you and you talk on a mobile phone while you're doing it no you I do I do yet they the foot when I said no I wanted to why I wanted to make a point about the with my willingness to to learn and to reform because it's perfectly true that I did once talk on a mobile phone um while cycling and actually why shouldn't you be able to talk on a mobile phone because you can touch the brakes you can with one hand oh I have this exact are you saying are you saying that people with only one arm shouldn't be allowed to ride a bicycle are you I'll put it to you I put it to you and that is that is destiny yes that's discriminatory yes people around should not be allowed to ride a bicycle on the basis that what you mean no one should be allowed to ride a bicycle ah they take up too much space on the road and they don't pay to be there well I think bicycles are absolutely wonderful you wouldn't park in a cycle lane would you parking lot you wouldn't bargain us no but I do drive in them fairly regularly you drive inside they are bus lanes I think the bus lane is a very good idea for you yeah because you think everyone's not in this fantastic I'm late I'll just zoom is it are you allowed to say that on telly I just did whether you die I defy I defy the makers of Top Gear to keep that admission in you know in the final edit well now when life is a little challenge until Sunday night we're not going to know whether it makes it into the final edit or rages what the die driving bus lanes through here drives in bus lanes one or two exactly there's only three of us who drive in bus lanes that empty four are used so what's it like on the road either kind of guy that has your car towed away the whole time uh it has been 10 when I'm in here it has been towed away I wouldn't I wouldn't hide it from you oh I have to say the last time it happened it was it was in defiance of every bylaw it was it was my car was legally parked it was absolutely equation life and I had two testimony of two traffic wardens but it was legally parked in a residence permit parking bay mm-hmm but the point I want to make I want to make is that once your car do you know this once your car has has a one inch off the ground once it's in that dreadful hammock and they've got it it is no longer yours you have no rights over that vehicle anymore you cos nothing you can say to the chat Litella I have a theory on that what you'd like to hear my theory on that yeah I think if you left on to the bonnet as it was dangling around got one wheel down onto the top marrow health ins there's no way in hell at a health and safety law is going to allow you to be sweet thou have to put it back down again I'm sure of that now of course you're here really to find out just how good a driver you are I guess yeah I have an idea about that I didn't really have good at having anything like you extremely bad really extremely bad yeah you'd like to see Boris's laughs here we go well that was a start give me my stick I was driving levy tax hey thanks well there we are across the line don't feel bad about the off-road excursion there was it uncomfortable no it was fine it was very very good Carla yeah it is a very good car very reasonably priced that you can buy them now for about 25 P sure now where do you think you're going to come here do you think you're gonna be up with JK and Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay are you gonna be more a Jonathan Ross Harry Enfield I gun towards the proof not the very last I mean I've no idea well no you couldn't be slower than Harry every Friday I date I'm Nydia I'm not he's he's terrified someone gonna come one day and be slower than he's only 12 13 seconds slower than JK is me 13 seconds on that track is about four years well time anyway I have your time here you did it in one minute 56 seconds everybody ladies and gentlemen Boris Johnson you

Channel: Top Gear

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Keywords: BBC, Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, Stig, Boris Johnson, London Mayor, Car, Lap, Suzuki Liana, Video

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Length: 8min 2sec (482 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 22 2010