Comments on: Transport Committee – Diddums Walks Out

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:43:09 +0000

His childish walk-out from this select committee last month to avoid asking simple question about snow, shows a man out of his depth, no stamina, not prepared to research his job, ungracious, egoitistical and paranoid (the committee was apparently a Labour plot to have a go at him). This was a forum for him to shine as the questions about why the buses were not running were pretty easy to deflect. Instead it showed the man for what he really was; unpleasant, shallow, arrogant, incompetent and a complete embarrassment to this city.
Only once in a lifetime comes a politician who you disagree with politically, distrust their ability to run an administration as well as dislike and distrust on a personal level; Boris Johnson pushes all these buttons for me.

By: prj45

prj45 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:48:36 +0000

“There was nothing he could have done”

Can you explain why many roads were actually passable on Monday morning then?

I say passable, I mean in sections, where they were gritted they were passable where they were not gritted they were sheets of solid ice. however, I beleive this had more to do with lack of coordination than lack of equipment.

By: Uponnothing

Uponnothing — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:00:27 +0000

In fairness to him he was being questioned quite aggressively about why London virtually shut down during the snow, as if someone he could have done anything to prevent this.

There was nothing he could have done, bar wasting millions of pounds on snow plows etc which London could then use in 10 years time the next time it snows. No wonder he was pissed off – the whole enquiry is a total waste of time.

By: prj45

prj45 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:47:33 +0000

Well,frankly the night before was too late to do anythng anyway.

It’s obvious that if he’d knocked heads together a WEEK before (when they were pretty sure the snow was coming) a lot of London’s roads might have been passable.

Now, whether it is the responsibility of the Mayor to go round kicking councils up the arse is another question…

By: Richard T

Richard T — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:59:26 +0000

Bozzer doesn’t do responsibility so it seemed to me that the petulance was in direct proportion to the guilt. I seem to recall that he managed his Telegraph column though.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:29:34 +0000

Boris Johnson has failed to be mayor of London.

By: tommy-infinitylies

tommy-infinitylies — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:39:48 +0000

we have a man with the mental age of a teenager running the city

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:52:20 +0000

It seems he had agreed to give them 40 minutes, so after exactly 40 minutes of waffle he just left! Charming as ever.