I'm sure Boris will be crying into his cornflakes that he isn't backed by the Greenpeace/Donkeys crew of extremists..
Knowledge that he is a proven liar is not the preserve of extremists. His lies are and have been well documented in the mainstream press.
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
It's actually the original French billion, which is bi-million, which is a million to the power of 2. We adopted the word, and then they changed it, presumably as revenge for Crecy and Agincourt, and then the treasonous Americans adopted the new French usage and spread it all over the world. And now we have to use it.