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Conservative Party Conference 2014: Boris Johnson speech at fringe event; ENGLAND: West Midlands: BirminghamINTBoris Johnson (London Mayor) arriving and speech SOT- Includes these comments: Never once in the last 10 years have I had so much as a whisper, or a sniff or the teensiest finger-crooking soupcon of a suggestion that I should defect to another party / Ed Miliband has never thought to ask me to join Labour, even though he and I went to the same school / life is not only better under the Conservatives, it is longer my friends / not a peep from the Liberal Democrats, no secret talks with the Clegger, even though I almost certainly fulfill much of the Lib Dem agenda, if you could only discover what it is / you would have thought I deserved some wooing from the Greens / the Greens show no sign whatever of inviting me to be their leader / is there any other party that anybody can think of? / UKIP, well, I did meet Nigel Farage in a pub about 20 years ago, mid 1990s / he pushed across the caviar and the vodka... and do you know what I said to him, I said no, I said no Nigel, you join us / if any kipper was so rash as to approach me again today I would say no with extra confidence because this is an amazing time to be a Conservative / London is going through a golden age / I can't guarantee you won't be accosted in a park by Ed Miliband in search of inspiration for his woeful speeches like those poor women in Primrose Hill / I've just approved, just started the consulation one should say, for the east of Tower Bridge, that will happen, when we start consultation and I give approval is the same thing / I don't think I can be judicially reviewed for saying that / flip flops, I don't mean a Lib Dem, flip flop, which of course there are many / in Australia they are called thongs, as in you've got a nice thong there, Linton / the London effect is rippling out / living wage / sort out our relations with Europe / we all want reform don't we / I read in the Daily ...