Boris just can’t help himself.

Hot on the heels of an ITV appearance in which he insultingly accused an audience member of making up an accurate news story, and suggested he could cut crime on buses by 100%, Boris was today slammed by a crime expert for claiming that "everyone" in Islington has been burgled.

The Tory Troll post linked above points out that this is part of a long-running trend of gross exaggeration, instilling fear in voters with an aim to drive them to vote for him.

But when Boris is the only one of the three candidates not promising to cut crime by at least 6% per year for the next four years, this is a bizarre leap of logic.

Boris has no targets on crime at all, and a Freudian slip on ITV suggests he knows he will be cutting funding for the police so they would have no chance of hitting any targets he set anyway!

Boris’s manifesto is the least impressive on crime, but his rhetoric is also the most full of exaggerated claims and outright lies about how dangerous a place London is.

If his claims were true, he’d be the last person anyone should vote for to fix the problem; and if they’re not true, why should anyone vote for a proven liar who denigrates the city he wants to lead by labelling it as some sort of crime-ridden hell on earth?

This entry was posted on Thursday 24 April 2008 at 20.27 by Mr. Stop Boris and is filed under Blogs, Crime, Lies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS2 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.