Post Tagged with: "Boris Johnson"

• Assembly Budget: first real salvo of election campaign

  On Thursday the first meaningful salvo of the 2012 Assembly elections took place as the parties put forward their proposals for the Mayor’s budget. The Conservatives had already announced that they were proposing a tax cut (£3.10/year) and there were no significant surprises there. What the budget showed is that […]

   

• What’s with the Mayoral candidates this week?

  Sometimes a whole week goes by without hearing a peep from any of the Mayoral candidates. They are probably somewhere in London chuntering around looking for feral children to scold or non-feral children to kiss, but never-the-less at this stage of the election the general public can generally go about […]

   

• Just Boris: sad, lonely and ineffectual

  David Mentiply has been reading Just Boris: The Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity Back in 2009, City Hall blogger Adam Bienkov branded the Mayor ‘Boris the Boring’. This is perhaps not the first caricature that springs to mind when people think of Boris, but it actually turned out to […]

   

• A tax cut? Now? Really?

  It was only last week that Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson was telling fellow Tory Andrew Boff AM that whilst he was in charge of a “thrifty regime” he wasn’t going to be able to see his way to “cutting the precept” (the portion of our council tax that goes to […]

   

• Thursday’s London Links

  Dave Hill heaps praise upon the Greens’ Jenny Jones. Mayor Johnson is telling drivers to stop idling. Evening Standard. (Was there once a promise of ‘no idling zones?) Speaking of the Mayor Left Foot Forward have a great piece on his record on electric vehicles. (Hint: contains the word “piffle”) […]

   

• Video: sign the petition against Dirty Boris

  This video appeal from Assembly Member Darren Johnson asks us to sign the online petition to call on Boris Johnson to clean up the air along heavily polluted runs that run near to 1,148 schools in Greater London. You can also download a copy and take it around to parents at your […]

   

• Sort out cycling Boris!

  We can address cycling deaths in London, but we aren’t, argues Jim Jepps “If Transport for London’s roads were a factory it would have been closed down with this number of deaths and accidents.” So said Hampstead resident Tom Kearney at Camden Council’s Road Safety hearing on Wednesday night. The […]