Boris Watch

Boris’s Tory Cronies LDA Hatchet Job Panel – he calls it the Forensic Audit Panel for short – has published its Interim Report today.
It’s a pathetic three pages long, but despite that I don’t actually have time to look at it properly myself today. It does appear to contain approximately nothing of any significance at [...]

After a post-election period of linguistic moderation, Boris has moved firmly back onto the offensive. In a newspaper interview today, he blithely described the supposed English antipathy for “forking out for things in Scotland”:
“They’re forking out for things in Scotland and you’ve got Scottish MPs, the Prime Minister and Chancellor, who are treating the [...]

Boris didn’t just change his tune on bendy buses in that Marr interview. His line on the bottles of wine apparently stashed away in City Hall subtly altered itself too.
Have a look at yesterday’s article in the Torygraph where the story broke. Here’s the original quote:
“They were very fine bottles left behind by Mayor Livingstone. [...]

A bit of fun for a Sunday morning. Come on, Boris-watchers, do your worst with this beauty, captured from this morning’s Andrew Marr Show:

(The first person whose entry consists only of the word "Exterminate!" gets devoured by Vashta Nerada.)

A disappointingly under-briefed Andrew Marr interviewed Boris this morning on his BBC One show, overlooking the Income Support claimants’ bus fare-doubling, the reneging on various campaign promises, and many other controversies.
However, he did raise with him the near-half-million pounds spent on his transition team of ‘consultants’. This money is raining down on the people that [...]