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Boris’ transport nonsense

The most worrying thing about having Boris as mayor isn’t that he´s pretty much inactive, going around the city giving vacuous speeches, being embarrasing in Beijing and managing to lose two deputy mayors in as many months. Crime is on the up and so far Boris’ only decision on that area is to sack Sir [...]

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More incompetence from Boris

Boris Johnson seems to be unable to spend a week without making new mistakes. Our new mayor has decided that not only Porsches and other luxury gas guzzlers shouldn’t pay more to enter an already congested city but rather he’s paying them £400,000 of taxpayers’ money for fee costs for a legal challenge they started.
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It’s customary that the first 100 days of a new administration are relatively opposition-free for the new team to settle in and start the serious work. Boris’ 100 days honeymoon have shrunk to 60 due to his own incompetence. During the campaign he managed to change his popular image of a witty but not very [...]

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It’s Crosby wot won it?

It all started a couple of days ago in Vote UK with a London map coloured according to the May 1 Mayoral race results (you can see it below). It followed in Luke’s blog and Guido’s. And finally Tim Watts over at TOK who asked the question of whether Lynton Crosby was to be blamed [...]

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Adapting Frank Luntz’s ultimate quote, ‘It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear’, to Saturday’s night boozing on the tube party and the first victory for Mayor Boris in winning the hearts and minds of the London electorate.
As many will know Boris Johnson’s first act as Mayor was to ban alcohol consumption in public [...]

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Maintaining Labour’s levels of funding for public services while cutting down costs through greater admnistrative efficiency that will have a positive impact in living costs for the citizens. These words represent Cameron’s Tories. All Tory candidates are using them in their campaigning across the country. Boris Johnson did too in London. And as he’s the [...]

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