Boris Watch

An attempt to enhance the accountability of the new London mayoralty

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Submit your questions for Boris

March 24th, 2009 No Comments

He may have run scared of Time Out’s Mayoral debate a year ago, but Boris has now agreed to be interviewed by them in a few weeks’ time for (I assume) their Mayor Boris anniversary edition at the start of May.
The best part of this is that we can all go to Time Out’s web [...]

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Insert Operation Hummingbird Reference Here…

March 24th, 2009 1 Comment

The knives have been rather abruptly unsheathed at City Hall…
CITY Hall staff today told of a “climate of fear” as up to 120 positions were cut as a result of Boris Johnson’s restructuring plans.
This chimes with the nervous sentiments expressed by Anthony Browne in an article for Canada’s Globe and Mail…
“We worry about how deep [...]

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Red Boris And The Bengalis

March 24th, 2009 9 Comments

Remember this:
“When, next month, the full (forensic audit) report comes out, and the GLA’s new cost-cutting chief executive, Tim Parker, starts work, we will see that second essential revolutionary moment: the part when selected victims are led out to the firing squad. It will be politically correct London’s equivalent of the credit crunch and, with [...]

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