Comments on: Yes, Boris really didn’t propose, authorise or know about the axing of ‘anti-racism’

By: TyburnTree

TyburnTree — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:06:11 +0000

“A month and a bit in, a so called million vote mandate and we still don’t know who’s really… running London” is what really concerns me. In fact, it underlies pretty much everything at the Boris Mayoralty. It’s plain the man is out of his depth with London, plain that the plethora of Deputy Mayors are necessary to fill the void left by their Great Chief, and plain now that what was hinted at during the election period (Boris going to delegate to a ‘vast’ array of talent) is precisely this: Boris is the front man for…?

Which may explain why his oh-so-learned historical references are to Classical Greece and Rome rather than France c. 1600 and L’Eminence Grise (‘a person who exercises power or influence withouit holding an official position’ – OED, 11th ed., revised 2006). Unless the ‘vast array of talent’ is flock of headless chickens at Conservative Central Office? Surely not!

And this is a real concern, in that what London needs is a Mayor who knows and understands the wider city and can place and sustain it in the wider context of global capitals. What we are getting, it seems, is local borough particularism speaking through a bumbling, ill-briefed mouthpiece.

By: leon

leon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:20:42 +0000

Yep, I feel an angry post over at Pickled Politics coming on.

By: Mr. Stop Boris

Mr. Stop Boris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:21:51 +0000

Leon: that’s about the size of it, yes. Infuriating, isn’t it?

By: leon

leon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:47:08 +0000

A month and a bit in, a so called million vote mandate and we still don’t know who’s really fucking running London???

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:06:20 +0000

The line will be: “Oh, but that’s dear old Bozza for you, he forgets these things. Yet is sharp as a tack, of course, razor sharp. It’s not his job to know what’s going on, just to keep you Londoners happy while we try out a few ideas, because remember? BOZZA IS A LEGERNDLOLLOLOL. And be grateful you’ve got him because otherwise you’d have that dirty Red Ken, and he’s not a LEGERND, no, not at all. Dirty Trot, dirty, dirty Trot, remember how bad he was…”

And I worry it’s still early enough that some will swallow it…

By: BenSix

BenSix — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:02:41 +0000

Two exposures of ignorance in twenty-four hours…
And to think – the Conservatives thought that he’d be a PR winner.

Ben

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:02:40 +0000

What was that yersterday at Mayoral Questions about a vaccum at the centre of power which Boris so stringently denied?