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When we elect a Mayor to our local Councils, his job is to be an impartial ambassador for the Borough you live in. When you elect someone to Mayor of London, their job is a bit more involved. Bikers have been protesting in Westminster to say no to the motorbike parking charges. The [...] London Travelwatch have criticised the Mayor, Boris Johnson, for ploughing ahead with his plans to scrap, or mothball the bendy bus in London. Can London afford to pay for the extra buses, to have the extra traffic on the road? Just for the sake of the few drivers and non-users who supported Boris’s election pledge [...] I have to share this – no matter how often I see it, I giggle… Boris Johnson, the newly elected Mayor of London, helping to clean up a river… This is the man whose lack of co-ordination, leadership and strategy brought London to a standstill on 2nd February 2009 – the day it snowed. [...] Value for money is a term used an awful lot by people nowadays, and mostly used as an alternative to ‘cheap’. The term has been used by corporations such as the BBC, Gordon Brown, local councils and even supermarkets, to give their message the idea that cost is an issue, and that every penny [...] Back in March 2008 I pointed out that there are 1,043,761 buffoons in London, and signalled the death knell to the London we know and love. Twenty-five weeks on, how is Boris doing on those pledges? First thing of note is that the Venezuelan oil deal brokered by Ken Livingstone has been scrapped. As a [...] Okay, it’s a popular vote, more people voted for Boris than Ken, so we’ve got Boris as Mayor for four years. Hands up, how many of you voted for him for the hilarity of the idea? I’ve just had a good read through backboris.com – here are the main points from Boris’ manifesto – here’s [...] |
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