Boris Watch

Boris Johnson hasn’t ever seemed a particular fan of the European Union, in fact last May he seemed to attract the approval of EU hating nuts like UKIP specifically because of perceived anti-EU tendencies.  The RM/bendy bus lunacy also seems to stem from a manly Anglo-Saxon v. masculinity-sapping health and safety culture apparently blamed on [...]

First signs of spring, first signs of the honeymoon being over for Boris with some of his most dewy-eyed cheerleaders:
The London Daily News consistently supported Mayor Johnson in his pre-election campaign against the then incumbent Ken Livingstone who was seen as promoting the ridiculous and the in some cases extreme left politics, ahead of the [...]

The BBC are going quite large on this, which suggests Boris might have a bit of trouble getting his side across, if he has a side to get across.  Basically the Transport Committee found that TfL didn’t so much fail on Snowday as were very slow getting going, which given that Boris was coming back [...]

In my second post for BorisWatch, I will now abuse my position:
Is there something about Boris which means that many campaigners don’t bother to lobby him? I’m sure one of the others can find the stats on this.
A big deal was made of Ken’s support for the EMD Cinema in Walthamstow, I seem to recall, [...]