Boris Watch

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Following the GLA grilling of Sir Simon Milton and Martin Clarke (the GLA finance chief, inherited from the previous regime) on Martin ‘Mayorwatch’ Hoscik’s Twitter feed:
Milton says Chief of  Staff is not his official role although the Mayor sometimes calls him it.
Milton says he signs off Mayoral decisions before the reach the Mayor and helps [...]

It’s getting to be a habit, this re-announcing of existing policy as brand-new-Boris-manifesto-rah stuff, accompanying by drooling troglodytes in the Standard comments.
Today’s story is Boris visiting what the Standard describes as an ‘Oxford track’ to run an uneducated eye over the new ‘S-stock’ sub-surface Underground trains, due to start being delivered for the Metropolitan Line [...]

Oh, Google Cache, I love you so.  Boris gets the airbrush out:

We are at war with Bexley Council.  We have always been at war with Bexley Council.

Usually, the adage goes, dodgy Labour politicians get done in by money and crap Tory ones by sex.  Under Boris’s brave new not-sure-what-it-is-yet politics, the Tories have started trying to combine money and sex at the same time, and predictably failing.  Ian Clement has gone, number three in the list of Deputy Mayors, leaving only [...]

Look, I know we’ve had our disagreements with Andrew – and it’s beyond the remit of the site – but, hey, he’s got a damn good article here on the Iranian…
It may not matter all that much: although some blogs are rather important, the vast majority are not.
In London, various blogs obsessively attack the Mayor.
After [...]

Glad to see that Jeremy Smyles is still going:

(I, on the other hand, have been contemplating calling it a day while my cloak’s intact. Goodbye, if so.)

We’re currently in the middle of the Story Of London, a month-long “festival” intended to celebrate the city’s past, present and future. The GLA website promises hundreds of events taking place across London, so wherever you are in the capital, you’ll find an event near you. However, I’ve failed abysmally in finding even one event [...]

More from our car-loving Thatcherite throwbacks at Hammersmith and Fulham – according to the local HammersmithToday website they’ve somehow managed to persuade TfL to stump up £2.5m to widen a road at the Hammersmith gyratory system, in order to speed up cars, along with a bit of traffic light rephasing thrown in and for some [...]

Bear with me on this one.  Dave Hill’s memory hole retrieval of the transport manifesto [PDF] allows us to check the wording of the no strike agreement:
I will look to reduce the disruption caused by strikes on the Tube by negotiating a no-strike deal, in good faith, with the Tube unions.
That’s ‘unions’, plural.  So, if [...]