Boris Watch

Just a quick reminder that the Progressive London conference is on the 24th January at Congress House, starting at 10am.  It’ll be interesting to see how much it’s the King Ken in Exile show and how much a genuine meeting of minds among London’s red/green/yellow Rainbow Alliance, all of whom got a vote from me [...]

This is just turning bizarre.  Large, blond bloke Boris talks to large, blonde woman Vanessa (he really goes for the tough gigs, doesn’t he), and completely reverses direction on his policy of reintroducing conductors.  Last time he talked to Vanessa he told us it would cost £8m a year and they’d be proper conductors.  He’s [...]

Back to bendies, and a thought that occurred to me when trying to wargame the expected results of Boris’s first real people-affecting policy test.  The 38 bus is obviously going to be replaced, probably next November, by bog-standard double deckers with most of the seats upstairs and a single wheelchair/buggy space, just like any other.  [...]