Re Boris: I'm not sure how true that is
Certainly, he's thick-skinned. But the whole thing about bringing back routemasters and scrapping the bendy buses? Smells to me of someone trying to rouse a popular vote based on nostalgia. (Personally, I think scrapping a more efficient form of public transport in favour of a slightly prettier but ultimately quite inefficient method of transport is a twattish thing to do.)

And the whole drinking-on-public-transport campaign? Drinking on the toobs was never a problem. The problem was people who were already pissed getting on the tube or bus home and causing trouble. I was gobsmacked when, after that rather bizarre last-night-of-drinking-on-the-underground party a couple of "incidents" occurred, he claimed that this totally vindicated his point. No it fucking didn't.

If I'm honest, I've yet to see anything which will make me take him seriously as a politician. He's obviously clever, as he's worked out that playing the dopey Eton fop and drawing attention to his clown antics makes him popular. I'm just waiting for him to do something clever in his capacity as mayor of this depressing turd-barrel of a city.

Oh, and my shoes are still wet. Grrr.

@Davros: congratulations! Good to know someone's having a good day today.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 12:08, Reply)