The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative" in the context of "BBC News Interview with Jeremy Paxman, BBC News, 7 May 2010
• Johnson on the possibility of a coalition after the United Kingdom general election, May 2010.
 • Johnson: Whatever type of, er, of Wall's sausage, er, is contrived by this, er, this great experiment, the, the dominant ingredient has got to be conservatism. The, the meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative, I would say. There can be plenty of bread and other bits and pieces.
  • Paxman: The question is whether it's a chipolata or a Cumberland sausage, I suppose, is it?
 • Johnson: This is fantastic to listen to. Enough of this, enough of this, er, gastronomic metaphor. Er.
  • Paxman: You started it!
 • Johnson: Well, I, I've had enough of it! I—
  • Paxman: Haven't you got a city to run?
 • Johnson: Say again?
  • Paxman: I say haven't you got—
 • Johnson: Yeah, I have got a city to run and that's exactly, that's exactly the point!
  • Paxman: Well go and do it then! Goodbye!
 • Johnson: The government of London, the government of London will carry on irrespective of the, er, temporary difficulties in providing a national government. Thank you.
  • Paxman: Bye bye, Boris!" to mean that wisdom is timeless.