Boris Watch

While we’re waiting for the online answers, here are a couple of choice questions:
1: Val Shawcross with her usual boot-in-groin moment:
Question number    0479/2009
Meeting date    25/02/2009
Question by Valerie Shawcross
Do you regret falsely claiming that bendy buses “wipe out cyclists, there are many cyclists killed every year by them”?
2: Ominous sounds – when Tories conduct ‘reviews’ they [...]

Boris is now fairly notorious in the thinking world for the WEZ consultation, which was, possibly deliberately, split into two sections which produced different answers.  The one Boris went with was an entirely unscientific write-in campaign orchestrated mainly by Tory boroughs including the Thatcherite ultras at Hammersmith and Fulham, whose well-fed leader previously helped Boris’s [...]

Normally when a senior member of Boris’s team leaves, we respond with a mixture of ‘haha’ and ‘phew’.  Today we respond with ‘oh shit’.  Tim O’Toole, MD of London Underground and one of the best transport managers in the country, has decided his future lies away from leading the Underground through the next few decidedly [...]