Boris Watch

Mr Stop Boris has already detailed Boris’s failure to release details of the pay of his “interim staff”, but we didn’t wish to be purely negative. The Mayor, after all, can only listen to us if we make the effort to talk to him.
In his campaign materials, Boris promised that he would “make City Hall [...]

The Tory Troll points out this morning that Boris has broken another of his campaign promises.
Like all his carefully learned campaign lines, I lost count of the number of times I heard Boris assure us that "from day one" he would ensure that "every pound spent" by the GLA was put online for public inspection, [...]

First the buses, now the tubes - the TfL guerilla Ken Legacy Promotion Campaign is moving ever onward.  We’re getting more answers to the question ‘what happens if Boris wins and TfL’s figures were *right*?’.
Transport for London (TfL) has welcomed the announcement that crime on the Underground and Docklands Light Railway (DLR) have gone down [...]

Got some figures now.
At the time of the scheme’s announcement, Livingstone faced questions from LA members, including Richard Barnes (now one of the Deputy Mayor Brigade), who I have to say comes across as rather a tit.
To cover all the people that you are talking, I suspect we would be talking about pretty much substantially writing [...]

Since no one appears to know what the nature of the deal with Venezuela that Boris isn’t extending, I’ve been reading the legals.
The deal is technically between GLA and TfL and Petroleos de Venezuela Europa (a Dutch company, as it happens, although obviously an arm of the Venezuelan state oil company), and the details are [...]

Policy Exchange is a British think tank, whose mission statement claims that it attempts to ‘develop and promote new policy ideas’. The Telegraph described it as “the largest, but also the most influential think tank on the right”, while The Guardian lambasted it as a “neo-con attack dog”. Despite the organisations claim to be “independent”, [...]

Without wanting to distract from today’s main news, which should certainly be your main concern if you have only time to read about one thing (summary: Boris intends to make 80,000 of the poorest Londoners poorer still as soon as possible), I wanted to post something about this too.
Last year, one Saturday in May, I [...]

Well, you wouldn’t have put your house on it lasting the year, but it’s now official that the deal to subsidise London public transport fares for the low paid (via a deal with Venezuela) will be scrapped in August.  Forced to choose between breaking with the pro-US ideology of his chums at Policy Exchange or [...]

OK, this is a blog.  It’s a blog written by amateurs, either students or (in my case) full time workers and parents without a lot of free time.  At most I might (as tonight) get a couple of moments spare between the kid going to bed and the missus coming home with her mates from [...]

I subscribe to the TfL press release RSS, at least while it’s still considered useful to tell the population what’s being done in their name - perhaps the advent of Mad Axeman Tim Parker may put an end to this service, who knows?  Transparency and accountability don’t seem to have been high priorities so far.
Anyway, [...]