Boris Watch

You may remember the No Strings Attached initiative, launched by Boris Johnson in October last year and run in conjunction with Time Out magazine.
Assembly Member Dee Doocey requested an update from the Mayor at last week’s Mayor’s Question Time and in the written answer supplied Boris Johnson replied that the running of the initiative was [...]

Thanks to Mr. Darling’s masterful intervention over the weekend the pound has again plummeted.  Therefore the $32m annually that Boris has rejected due to his scrapping of the Venezuela deal is now worth:
£17,754,106
or about 9% more than when Boris took over.
The oil price is only about $5/barrel more, but with the fall in the value [...]

Assuming this news release from the previous Mayor is accurate, it appears Boris’s wasted money account has notched up another £7m.
Boris Johnson has been forced to give £7 million back to Venezuela following his decision to cancel the Agreement between Ken Livingstone and the Venezuelan government which exchanged cheap diesel for technical advice and assistance [...]