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Expenses: Did Boris Just Get Landed In It?

June 24th, 2009 7 Comments

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 [...]

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Pyong-yang Update: Do Not Displease Your Leader

June 23rd, 2009 No Comments

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.

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So, Farewell Then, Ian ‘One Jag’ Clement

June 23rd, 2009 3 Comments

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 [...]

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