Boris’s bus idiocy, part 99999
As seen on BBC London this evening, a person in the street captured on a mobile phone Boris admitting that his foolhardy Routemaster plans would in fact cost around £100m, not the £8m he’s been claiming for weeks.
He even claims it on tonight’s BBC London debate, which was only recorded last night. Are we really to believe that they finally did some sums between then and today when this video was taken – or is this evidence of him saying one thing on the ground and another in the media?
BBC London also had some footage from inside what we have decided to call Boris’s Blunderbus (the Routemaster he’s been campaigning from), where Boris could be seen looking worried as he received a serious grilling about what he had said to whom. It was almost enough to make you feel sorry for him: he looked like a schoolboy receiving a dressing-down for forgetting his lines in a school play. It was certainly a good insight into how under the thumb of his minders he is.
Just ten minutes until the BBC London TV debate on BBC One – don’t forget it, but don’t hold your breath for any major gaffes (other than his refusal to admit the bus figure he admitted today).
April 16th, 2008 at 00.43
You’ll have to do better than that. Buses are investment spending, not current spending. “The Londoner” [aka Pravda] is current spending - as are the salaries of Livingstone’s Press Officer Army (three times the size of Gordon Brown’s).
April 16th, 2008 at 07.23
I don’t understand your point, Anon. My post was about Boris giving out one message on TV and another when he wasn’t aware he would end up on TV; and the fact that he has been avoiding admitting the true cost of this policy for months yet suddenly just came out with it yesterday. Not to mention the interesting insight into how nannied Boris is being on his Blunderbus.
The fact that buses are capital rather than revenue expenditure is completely irrelevant to any of those points.
Incidentally, it’s interesting how since the exposure of Team Boris posting here, the number of anonymous commenters using random numbers @ webmail accounts as their e-mail addresses has increased enormously. A coincidence, I’m sure…
April 17th, 2008 at 00.01
I really wonder why team Boris or anyone else posts here (doh! silly me!).
If ever the zeitgeist has been misread it must be here. This election is about stopping someone remaining in power.
How about a sister site - Stop Morgan?
April 17th, 2008 at 07.52
Another equating of Ken and Mugabe? I think you’ve been reading too much Evening Standard. I haven’t noticed 100,000% inflation, starvation or GLA staff committing mass murder - although I’m sure that wouldn’t stop the Standard saying they were happening.