Boris Watch

Boring Boris, was my prediction at the Pro London debate earlier in the year, and Boring Boris is what’s getting some of the froth-prone contingent on the right of sensible wing of the Conservative Party worked up recently.  Take this from ConservativeHome owner Stephan Shakespeare (no, really, please take it, I don’t want it):
There’s no [...]

If one seeks office in this country, it is as well to sharpen up one’s bargaining techniques because these people are no patsies. I fear that a life in the wilderness has left the hon. Gentleman with his customary good nature, but without that instinct for the jugular which so defines the Government, whom it is [...]

Whenever we write an article pointing out how unpleasant Andrew ‘Sockpuppet’ Gilligan is, he smears us in the paper, usually accompanied by a mind-boggling degree of psychological projection
There’s no such thing as bad free publicity
Therefore Andrew ‘Sockpuppet’ Gilligan smells
[twiddles thumbs] [waits for next Gilligan article]

BTW if anyone wants to see how far they can push [...]

Another day, another TfL press release asking us to give credit to Boris for something he didn’t start.  Uh-uh.  This time it’s the iBus automated bus information and location system, the rollout of which is now complete across all 8,000-odd London buses:
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: ‘I put providing Londoners with clear concise information [...]

Turning to the Evening Standard’s webpage, there’s an interesting picture of a sad balding has-been whose world collapsed last May and whose frequent subsequent ramblings about have been increasingly shrill and out of touch.  Yes, it’s Andrew Gilligan’s byline photograph, on a classic hatchet article about the Starlight Music Academy and Lee Jasper.  Boris has [...]

While Boris is in Davos, we turn our attention to a brewing revert-war (there’s a new phrase to me) over Mr. Andrew Gilligan’s wikipedia entry.  In the blue corner, a suspiciously familar-sounding contributor calling himself ‘Sandler151′ is simultaneously making pro-Gilligan edits to this one page and refusing to allow any inference or allegation or reference [...]

Considering what they did to his predecessor, Boris might be worried about what Dispatches are planning on his Island scheme, but then again on that basis it might be a puff piece, we’ll just have to see, particularly if they get a certain  Mr. Gilligan to present this one as well.
Also while we’re at it, [...]

Department of How Did I Miss That calling.  There’s a TfL document (presumably rather well hidden since I haven’t seen it before) detailing the tender costs for the 38, 507 and 521 routes.  This means we can finally put a true cost on the Boris Bendy Premium and nail Gilligan to the floor again.  Remember, [...]

Two more articles – first Pro London cover the matter here, while Andrew Gilligan displays his big worry – that his arch-nemesis Peter Hendy and his evil Ken-worshipping coven will undermine Boris’s wonderful Routemaster with their sordid attempts to run London’s transport professionally for its users:

I know your game, Mr Hendy
Ominous, little-noticed words from the [...]

One amusing by-product of the first debendifications is that they’re going to prove that Andrew Gilligan is a seriously bad journalist.  Take the now notorious attack on Boris Watch and myself in which he inadvertently revealed the kennite connection:
Each bendy route was competitively tendered; each operator was also asked to tender for operating it with [...]