Boris Watch

Boris Johnson’s latest Tory Party Rally People’s Question Time took place at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon on 22 July. Regrettably, I found myself unable to attend due to a rather more pressing engagement of watching TV that night.
For those unable to attend, the transcript [PDF] is now available to divert and delight.  Remarkably, Boris [...]

Andrew Gilligan, writing as kennite, ross281, etc., opined that the reason for his hatred of bendy buses was all about the seating capacity:
With only 2,009 seats available in the peak hour, as against 3,960 under the old Routemaster regime,the “new 73” was not better from every angle at all (PX, 2005, as himself)
And because the [...]

Munira Mirza, London’s pet Stalinist ideologically driven obsessive monoculturalist zealot, would appear to be behind this latest attack on perfectly inoffensive (and free to enter) aspects of modern society – it bears all her hallmarks, particularly being complete nonsense – how is refusing to enter a free competition demonstrating a new way of ‘bringing Londoners’ [...]

Boris has finally grasped what we’ve been saying for a while – sticking to a contract expiry timetable for bendy replacement means 100 or so bendies in service in May 2012, likely more than any species of Routemaster and thus highly politically damaging.  Naturally no stone must be left unturned and no pound unspent to [...]