Boris Johnson on Andrew Marr

[weltweit]

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- Diversity International, a company run by an associate of Jasper. It was paid £346,000 to create a website for London businesses that never appeared. The money is said to have vanished.
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£346,000 is a vastly excessive sum for even a complicated website.

Someone should have seen through that very early on.

 

[JHE]

But it was going to be an exceptionally vibrant and diverse website!

It's just as well Johnson hasn't dared to refer vaguely to 'some proposed website'. That would be like referring to some Caribbean festival as, well, 'some Caribbean festival'. Outrageous!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I don't think so. We have a representative democracy, not a direct one. Elected politicians should be allowed to get on with the job they've been elected to do, barring serious misdemeanours and criminality.

Would you employ someone to do a job then leave them for four years to get on with it with no guidance or input?

 

[stavros]

How about a majority of Londoners voting for another candidate at the next democratic election in four years' time similar to the one Mr Johnson has just received?

Well yes, obviously there's that, but I was wondering if there was some loophole to get rid of him quicker. I'm not an expert in political structures.

 

[STFC]

It wasn't just that that annoyed me, it was the way he said 'some Caribbean festival' as if it's just without value or relation to people. Fucker has no clue about the city he's now running.

So the event is called Caribbean Showcase, and it's some sort of a festival - but referring to it as "some Caribbean festival" is somehow offensive?

If he'd called it "a Caribbean festival", would that have been acceptable?

Really, some people...

 

[untethered]

Would you employ someone to do a job then leave them for four years to get on with it with no guidance or input?

It's not a job, it's a political office. Mr Johnson will get a great deal of "guidance and input", but like all other elected politicians he also gets a significant period of time to implement the largely longish-term measures he's been elected to do.