Comments on: Literally watch Boris

By: Chunters

Chunters — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:20:19 +0000

Mr Stop Boris said “Chunters: while we’re discussing things with no relation whatever to my original post, what do you think about Boris reneging so quickly on his pledge to bring back open-backed, conductor-managed Routemaster-style buses? Do you acknowledge that all the reasons given were raised and supposedly rebutted during the campaign but are now being acknowledged because he’s already been elected, thus showing that Boris is a liar who has conned the London electorate?”

I refer to Toms post above but also refer to Kens ‘ I will not raise the congestion charge after I’m elected”. Liying peice of garbage.

As for buses, I don’t use them and I could not care less what they look or how they work.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:10:09 +0000

To be fair, my reading is that he never specifically promised to bring back Routemasters (the competition idea was always in the manifesto), but allowed that impression to be formed in people’s minds. There’s a good bit of evidence for this in the Standard and other publications over a few months, using the usual tabloid trick of having a headline bearing no relation to the story.

What the concentration on son-of-RMs did mean was that no other transport issue got a look in, which was great news for the Boris camp given their candidate’s total lack of interest or experience The other thing it means is that a lot of people who believed what they read in the papers are going to be going ‘wtf?’, which is where we come in.

I’m working up a post on this and any putative bendy bus withdrawal programme, which is a complicated area as they are actually leased from companies who presumably expected them to have a slightly longer life than four years, and will have priced this into the contracts (i.e. hand them back early and it’ll cost yer). Leasing companies don’t like having expensive assets not earning money.

By: Mr. Stop Boris

Mr. Stop Boris — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:20:04 +0000

Chunters: while we’re discussing things with no relation whatever to my original post, what do you think about Boris reneging so quickly on his pledge to bring back open-backed, conductor-managed Routemaster-style buses? Do you acknowledge that all the reasons given were raised and supposedly rebutted during the campaign but are now being acknowledged because he’s already been elected, thus showing that Boris is a liar who has conned the London electorate? Or do you choose to ignore the bad things Boris does at least as much as you accuse us of ignoring the good things he may or may not do?

By: BenSix

BenSix — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:19:14 +0000

“Well they didn’t hold the last one to account…so why start now?”
Chunters, Ken’s had MORE opposition as Mayor: http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/Londoners-Have-Voted-for-Less-Scrutiny-of-Mayor-Boris-article_id-1609.html

By: BenSix

BenSix — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:59:39 +0000

You’re right, Chunters, that is a good thing to do. I’m not sure why you think that this is a ‘gotcha’ moment, though. We’d all be pleased if gratuitous tax was abolished.

By: Chunters

Chunters — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:55:29 +0000

This can only be a good thing…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=567060&in_page_id=1770

Tackling waste will bring down our tax bills…or at least stop rises in the future.

Oh dear another GOOD thing that Boris has done.

By: Chunters

Chunters — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:40:40 +0000

Mr. Stop Boris said “Will anyone actually hold Boris to account properly?”

Well they didn’t hold the last one to account…so why start now?