London Banter - View Single Post - London bus and Tube fares go up 4.2% from January

Mizter T · November 12th 12, 05:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 12/11/2012 14:06, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:31:52 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:
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Looks like I'm having a bad spelling day. Or perhaps freudian slip!
"Mayor" Boris certainly isn't lazy when it comes to promoting himself or his
latest daft wheeze, but he doesn't seem that interested in talking about
anything that can't be used for self promotion or might be have negative
publicity. Eg the latest fare rises. I haven't noticed him in the media giving
us a good explanation of why we have be getting yet another above RPI rise.
He leaves his lackys to step into that firing line.

It was interesting that Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor for Transport,
was left to take the flak from Tim Donovan on the BBC's Sunday
Politics show yesterday. I did ponder how Boris would have performed
under Mr D's onslaught of questions and concluded that he would have
found it pretty tough. Ms Dedring did OK-ish but was rather evasive
on a few points.

The absurd notion that Bozza could one day be PM can't come from anyone
who's witnessed either his evasive answering to question sessions (MQT
etc), nor noted his evasiveness in avoiding being questioned if he can
help it (shunning Donovan and anyone else who might ask actual
questions). As a PM one has to answer questions - observe for example
the disapproval from many MPs including Tories directed at Cameron for
refusing to answer Chris Bryant MP's questions about Cameron's text
message exchanges with Rebekah Brooks (of News International) - it's
just not the done thing.

Still I guess the Tory right wing need to have their fantasies to keep
them happy - that is despite the fact that Boris's politics are really
quite as in alignment with their own as they might wish!