It's official - Tories announce Boris for mayor!
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citydreams
on the road again
Haller said:
What kind of power do you mean? With respect to poverty in London he has the power to influence wages. He has set the Living Wage in London at £7.20 making it easier for unions to claim better conditions. He's been resolute on affordable housing, preventing luxury-style flats being built without a percentage being allocated as social housing. http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/article...es-50000-New-Affordable-Homes&article_id=1166
He's also made transport more affordable and more reliable...
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
citydreams said:
Exactly the Mayor of London has control over transport, development /planning, waste management with greater powers in the pipe line.
What is Boris's transport plan.. "gosh chaps.. Giles & Sophie got held up in their Range Rover on Notting Hill by one of those dreadful bendy bus thingys.. I know lets get rid of them (the bendy buses, not Giles, Sophie & their Range Rover, unfortuneatly..)
Kenny Vermouth
Wankers
Spot on.tbaldwin said:
citydreams
on the road again
Andy the Don said:
(From what I've read)
Retain the Congestion Charge
New London double decker inspired by the old routemaster to replace the bendy buses
Air Con on the tube
Strong supporter of Crossrail
Extend DLR and East London Line
and no prizes for guessing this one.......strongly pro-bicycle.
Sources include
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/interviews/2007/09/boris-johnson-a.html#more
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6975796.stm
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
Bodmass said:
Retain congestion charge, but not extend it westwards - don't want to upset Giles & Sophie aka your core voters.
New double decker, great if you are not elderly, disabled or using a pram/buggy.
Aircon on tubes - impossible unless you are willing to throw vast sums at the problem.
Crossrail & DLR/East London line - same as Ken basically..
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
I heard Boris on the news a few weeks back, flummering on about how he'd reduce bike crime by encouraging other cyclists to shout out if they saw a bike being nicked. Genius!
Andy the Don said:
He hasn't said anything about scrapping the Western Extension so I assume he will keep the existing extended zone
I don't think there is a tremendous problem with using *modern* DDs (no-one could pretend the old routemaster was disabled friendly....), but obviously that depends on able bodied people being prepared to go upstairs if the bus gets busy.
See above- he needs to flesh this one out if it was a real promise and not just a quick throwaway line
Indeed- he needs to say *why* he would be better at running these things than Ken.
Much to be done, Mr Johnson. But there is time.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Where did you find out this information? Was it from one of Boris Johnson’s own newspaper columns or editorials, by chance? Who, apart from Johnson would know whether or not he revised for examinations?chymaera said:
Wasn’t Jeffrey Archer once a Tory candidate for the London Mayoral position; and, wasn’t he a committed self-publicist, as well a convicted perjurer?
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
You watched him not revising?chymaera said:
Urbanblues said:
It was dropped on him totally out of the blue to make him put his money where his mouth is on the subject of exams now being easier. He shot the program makers down in flames by getting a 1st. (It has to be said it was as much a surprise to him as it was to them.)
PaulOK
Robin DiAngelo is my co-pilot
You heard it it here first - Boris won't win.
He may have a chance if all of London was like Kensington and Chelsea but it's not and his comment about Black children being 'smiling picaninnes with watermelon smiles' will be used by Labour for all it's worth.
The playing of municipal racial politics, mastered by the Democratic party in the big US cities in the 70's-80's, have been deployed by Ken and his team with a great deal of success. Boris will be hung out to dry and, sure, he may garner the middle class White voters in places like Bromley but his selection shows the Tory party have given up on ever winning the Mayorship given London's racial and social make-up and is just using him to increase it's profile.
He may have a chance if all of London was like Kensington and Chelsea but it's not and his comment about Black children being 'smiling picaninnes with watermelon smiles' will be used by Labour for all it's worth.
The playing of municipal racial politics, mastered by the Democratic party in the big US cities in the 70's-80's, have been deployed by Ken and his team with a great deal of success. Boris will be hung out to dry and, sure, he may garner the middle class White voters in places like Bromley but his selection shows the Tory party have given up on ever winning the Mayorship given London's racial and social make-up and is just using him to increase it's profile.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Sounds ok to me.PaulOK said:
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
What, out of the blue?chymaera said:
citydreams
on the road again
Urbanblues said:
same old...
from wiki
Upon graduating from Oxford he lasted a week as a management consultant ("Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious"), before becoming a trainee reporter for The Times. Within a year he was sacked for falsifying a quotation from his godfather, Colin Lucas, later vice-chancellor of Oxford University.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
nothing secret about a society whose main result is to get its' members loudly, publically and obnoxiously drunkzoltan69 said:
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Just for the Record, my blues are as a result of a curious Celtic fatalism, not the Tory kind.PaulOK said:
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