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Industry View On Parker’s Exit

August 29th, 2008 No Comments

Transit magazine is an industry journal dealing with, er, the transport industry.  It previously came up during the elections in May as pouring cold water on Boris Johnson’s Son-of-Routemaster idea, and now they’ve got some interesing quotes about Tim Parker leaving TfL:
Sources with strong Conservative Party connections told Transit that it would now be more [...]

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Fares Still Not Fair?

August 29th, 2008 5 Comments

Sir Simon Milton’s reported comments that the half-price bus and tram fares for income support claimants will continue raises further questions about the nature of the deal and any ‘hand back’ of moneys.  To refresh our knowledge, here’s what the Mayoral spokesperson said recently about the deal during a recent spat with Ken Livingstone:

“The fact [...]

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Milton: half-price bus fares WILL continue

August 29th, 2008 1 Comment

Speaking on tonight’s Any Questions?, on which Ken Livingstone was also a guest, Sir Simon Milton, Boris’s knife-wielding Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, said without the slightest equivocation that Boris has said he will continue with half-price bus fares for Londoners on income support.
Unfortunately no-one challenged this statement, but given that Income Support claimants [...]

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That Brian Coleman article in full

August 29th, 2008 1 Comment

The Labour Councillors of Barnet alerted me earlier to the brewing storm over Brian Coleman’s comments on the British Olympians being “tainted with the blood of Tibetans” and leaving “their consciences at passport control”, mentioned earlier by a fellow Boris Watcher.
They sent me a scanned copy of the article, which you can see in full [...]

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Brian Coleman Spoils The Sport?

August 29th, 2008 7 Comments

Brian Coleman has declared that Britain’s Olympic medal are “tainted with the blood of tibetans“. A wounded Boris has replied, “preposterous“.

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