On 17 June, 03:29, James Farrar wrote:
Tony Polson wrote :

wrote:

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:31:40 +0100
Tony Polson wrote:
I wonder if so many people would have voted for Boris if they had
realised that once in office, he would be completely ineffectual -
apart from getting rid of Ian Blair, of course. *His finest hour. *

I voted for him, can't say I've been too impressed so far. OTOH he
seems fairly harmless unlike Ken.

I'm not sure that your "fairly harmless" is a compliment - I don't
think it is very far removed from my "completely ineffectual". *Surely
there is no point in a Mayor who achieves almost nothing?

Achieving nothing is infinitely preferable to being actively harmful.

In Boris's case, being ineffectual just means doing for the Tories
what Dobbo was meant to do for New Labour, ie be a figurehead while
they run London.