Reply to: Boris Johnson - Mayor of London?

[shaunbhoy]

From the horses mouth, and I am surprised at you for agreeing with the ban SB, as a fellow anti leftie and hunter of tree hugging PC liberals, it may help you to take a closer look at who exactly is pushing for this ban and who supports it.


http://www.boris-johnson.com/archive..._in_public.php

DA, there are rich pickings on here for those of an inflammatory nature in stoking up the anti-ban lobby. Besides, I am about to embark on a mini-crusade against those who would dare to insist that I try and obtain a licence for my Sporran. Now THAT is meddling of the first order!!

[DodgyAgent]

Not sure how he stands on that but it is anything but PC nonsense, just level-headed common sense and bowing to the will of the majority as any good joined-up democratic legislation should.

From the horses mouth, and I am surprised at you for agreeing with the ban SB, as a fellow anti leftie and hunter of tree hugging PC liberals, it may help you to take a closer look at who exactly is pushing for this ban and who supports it.


http://www.boris-johnson.com/archive..._in_public.php

[shaunbhoy]

such as banning smoking

Not sure how he stands on that but it is anything but PC nonsense, just level-headed common sense and bowing to the will of the majority as any good joined-up democratic legislation should.

[DodgyAgent]

he refuses to get embroiled in all the PC nonsense that is slowly strangling the majority of our political leaders, and stifling sensible debate on a whole battery of issues. .

such as banning smoking

[DodgyAgent]

Feck me, how old are you DA?

45

[Kyajae]

The biggest attribute Boris has is that at a time when most politicians are losing popularity, his attraction is rising. And all that despite him outwardly appearing to be eccentric and absent-minded. He does not take himself too seriously and despite his slightly exalted background he remains someone that the public can warm to because he refuses to get embroiled in all the PC nonsense that is slowly strangling the majority of our political leaders, and stifling sensible debate on a whole battery of issues. Go Boris, you'd get my vote anyday before that sleazy little toerag Livingstone.

Hear hear.

[shaunbhoy]

The biggest attribute Boris has is that at a time when most politicians are losing popularity, his attraction is rising. And all that despite him outwardly appearing to be eccentric and absent-minded. He does not take himself too seriously and despite his slightly exalted background he remains someone that the public can warm to because he refuses to get embroiled in all the PC nonsense that is slowly strangling the majority of our political leaders, and stifling sensible debate on a whole battery of issues. Go Boris, you'd get my vote anyday before that sleazy little toerag Livingstone.

[snaw]

I beg to differ. Public transport has got worse. It used to be fantastic as the legacy of economic mismanagement by the previous labour govt meant that no one had jobs and few people used it. There used to be 100 staff and 2 trains to each passenger

Feck me, how old are you DA?

[Lucy]

Ken should be buried up to his neck in scorpions.

And pissed on.

[DodgyAgent]

I beg to differ. Public transport has got worse. It used to be fantastic as the legacy of economic mismanagement by the previous labour govt meant that no one had jobs and few people used it. There used to be 100 staff and 2 trains to each passenger

[snaw]

I recently visited London and was appaled at how bad transport has become and how expensive. It also seems more prone to break down these days too.

Eh, how bad it has become - you sure you've been here before?

[realityhack]

...who has a personal agenda that has absolutly nothing to do with serving the people of London. He is an arrogant self serving nasty little leftie, who pursues personal vendettas against anyone who tries to criticise him (the evening standard being one of them)

Exactly.

[wendigo100]

Boris has one attribute that most seasoned politicians lack - more people like him than don't.

[The Lone Gunman]

I know Ken gets a lot of credit from you guys, but I wonder if anybody else would have done a better job.
Ken is the first person to occupy thsi office and it was part of the remit for the job to take control of things like transport.

I recently visited London and was appaled at how bad transport has become and how expensive. It also seems more prone to break down these days too.

[snaw]

So like a lemming you accept that the status quo of transport is as good as it is going to get do you? So we should accept overcrowded trains, ticket machines that dont work, ticket desks being closed because staff are on "sickies" during a monday morning rush hour. What is more I cannot stand those ars***les with whistles shepherding us (customers) into trains reminiscent of how the Nazis used to load the Jews into the carriages to go to the concentration camps.

No, I quite clearly said it's got better. There are also quite clearly some issues that are extremely difficult to solve, regardless of politics - overcrowded trains are simply a fact of life in London, given the city the number of commuters who are in, or commute to London at peak times.

The transport unions here are a pet hate of mine, a bunch of people who get paid like city bankers and have the employment conditions of french government workers. They have us by the balls and they know it, answers on a postcard on solving that one.

The rest I don't personally actually experience very often - at least no more than you'd experience those things in any other major city in the world.