Boris Watch

Boris has a web page up about the strike, this time on london.gov.uk, which is more political than TfL.  He duly starts with a rant at the RMT:
“It is utterly demented of the RMT leadership to proceed with this strike when two thirds of their members did not vote for it and when real progress [...]

Boris, obviously stung by criticism over Snowday, has decided to go all pro-active ahead of the 48 hour Tube strike:
The Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) have unveiled a raft of extra services as part of a major effort to help Londoners and commuters get around the Capital, if a planned 48-hour Tube strike goes [...]

I haven’t blogged in ages. All the action’s over on Twitter these days [although I think Tom’s the main tweeter through our account, for clarity], as this quick post perhaps shows.
The RMT’s calling yet another strike. Boris has tweeted:
Can’t believe the RMT leadership. Urging a strike in this economic climate is simply monstrous.

(Apparently it took [...]

Remember us speculating about a possible Summer of Discontent on the rail and tube networks, with hardline troublemaker Bob Crow testing out Boris’s mettle while the Blond Blunderer attempts to channel the spirit of Thatcher?  It’s not quite worked out as it did for the Iron Lady:
Workers on London Overground are to receive a 20% [...]

I still think Boris’s most ludicrous manifesto policy was the Routemaster one, but a close runner up was the idea that he could negotiate a no strike agreement with the Tube unions to save us all from the bother of uppity Marxists like the RMT’s Bob Crow ruining our day in their nasty lower class [...]

Success, ladies and gentlemen, may take years – decades, even – of hard graft and dedication. Failure takes only a moment and a poorly thought-through manifesto pledge.
Our new blond boy hasn’t even had a chance to get over his celebratory hang-over (I kid because I love), and he’s already facing a tube strike. Now, that’s [...]