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Another £7 million bites the dust

August 4th, 2008 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Ken Livingstone responds to the ‘FAP’ report

July 16th, 2008 4 Comments

As you may have seen, Lee Jasper’s response to the ‘Forensic Audit Panel’ report appears in the comments on the previous post.
This is Ken Livingstone’s response, as issued a short time ago in a news release:
When he came to power Boris Johnson abolished the properly independent enquiry into Lee Jasper headed by Rabinder Singh QC, [...]

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Whoops! Half a million pounds slips past Boris

June 8th, 2008 4 Comments

A disappointingly under-briefed Andrew Marr interviewed Boris this morning on his BBC One show, overlooking the Income Support claimants’ bus fare-doubling, the reneging on various campaign promises, and many other controversies.
However, he did raise with him the near-half-million pounds spent on his transition team of ‘consultants’. This money is raining down on the people that [...]

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