Sunny Hundal at Liberal Conspiracy has spotted quite a few Boris watching sites out there, and makes the very useful point that with the press either expecting their reward for supporting Johnson’s campaign or in full honeymoon mode, it’s only us rank amateurs who can actually take up the mantle of checking up on the new Mayor.
Boris may have won the mayoral election but all this isn’t over yet.
With London’s only paid paper slavishly in love with the person it helped elect, it is left to us bloggers to watch Boris Johnson and see if he lives up to his promises. And the technology is on our side.
He lists us and two others, which I’m delighted to link to here:
The proposed booze ban is interesting - on the way into town last Friday I caught the tube at Hammersmith, boarding it along with a highly presentable young lady holding a can of Magners. Watching like a hawk, I noticed during the course of the journey that she didn’t curse anyone or vomit everywhere or even slash the seats open. Nevertheless, I applaud Boris Johnson’s stern resolve when he proposes that she should be harassed and arrested by police officers for carrying an item it’s perfectly legal to possess.
After a pleasant evening spent ranting at people, trying to forget the election result and witnessing a street fight instantly broken up by about twenty narky policemen on bikes, in cars and just plain sprouting out of the ground (when they could have been usefully employed harassing highly presentable young ladies in Tube trains? It’s a disgrace), I staggered onto a bus at 5:40am with about a gallon of mixed stout and whisky inside me. However, merely containing rather than carrying alcohol, I could safely travel the network knowing none of Boris’ goon squad would bother me. It’s good to know I can trust his ‘libertarian-conservative instincts’, as Paul Staines put it. Incidentally, Paul, I can recommend taking the bus home when rat-arsed, you get less hassle from the cops.
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Wouldn’t it better to consolidate these efforts into one blog? It’s mean a dedicated team, a good deal of content and a real focus to the watching…
There’s another one here:
http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,121672,121672
As for linking up, the nice thing about the Internet is that you can monitor each other’s sites and link to each other, but it’s definitely worth thinking about. At the moment we’re still at the ‘great minds think alike’ stage where the vital thing is spotting the little things.