Boris Watch

I haven’t covered this owing to laziness, but Boris’s extension of half-price tube and bus fares to Job Seeker’s Allowance recipients is of course very welcome, not least because it’s a refutation of the ‘workshy-layabouts-on-your-bike’ Thatcherite mindset.  Let’s examine the detail of the scheme:
From 1 April 2009 the Bus & Tram Discount Scheme will be [...]

The blogosphere’s own Adam Bienkov (pronounced ‘Bee-en-kov’, Ken) and the Lib Dem’s Caroline Pidgeon are also on LBC this morning, and it’s turning into a Boris slap-fest.  Adam points out how insignificant the council tax freeze is compared to the fare rises (and he could have added the VAT cut, too).  Caroline is outraged by [...]

Via Ken Livingstone’s show on LBC (starring Roger Evans today, whose combination of affability and a startling lack of understanding of economics is frankly scary)  Martin Hoscik is reporting that the boroughs have got Boris to give up his reserve powers over Freedom Pass revenues (which come from the boroughs) in return for a five [...]