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Hooray for Boris!


Boris Johnson in the Telegraph: Financial crisis: “Eat, spend and be merry – this is not the end of the world” I don’t want to seem indifferent to suffering, and I don’t want anyone to accuse me of minimising the likely effect of the recession, because the coming months will very probably be a lot tougher – for millions of people – than the boom times we have all recently enjoyed. But after reading the BBC’s special market crisis website, […]

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BBC: UK’s top policeman forced to resign


And l wish him well in his new career, provided it is not as a commentator. See also: Dominic Grieve MP: Sir Ian Blair’s resignation “the right decision” Mark Field MP on ConservativeHome. The Times: Boris Johnson forces Sir Ian Blair to quit as police chief Sir Ian is entitled to a full police pension. On the commissioner’s £240,000 salary that is estimated to be worth about £160,000 per year. The Telegraph: Met police chief Sir Ian Blair forced out […]

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Canvassing for Boris


Second session of canvassing for Boris tonight, this time in northern Bayswater. People are fed up with Ken, waste and bendy buses: we’re seeing a real swing from strong Labour to Boris. People think he apears a twit, but they also see through it. Must get people to vote! Conservative turnout is historically low in London: I will weep if Ken wins simply because everyone left it to someone else to vote.

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