Boris puts his paw in his mouth...
There is something to be said about tackling thugs who cause trouble on the streets. However, the intelligent Boris Johnson can come out with stupid comments. Tomorrow he is launching his campaign to become the Tory Party London Mayoral candidate. To succeed he needs to win the support of the public.
Psssst, Boris, might I suggest it is better not to upset them by calling them cowards? We have a police force to tackle thugs. It might be more popular if you said you intended getting them to do the job that they are paid for...
Monday Update: The Daily Telegraph picks up the story.
I believe you owe me a hat-tip. Do it now our I will send a meathead round to sort you out.
ReplyDeletezinzin: Sorry old chap, you are wrong. My source was an email from itv.com
ReplyDelete"Conservative MP Boris Johnson has urged people to tackle thugs who cause trouble on the streets.
Johnson, who launches his campaign to become the Conservative London mayoral candidate today, says people no longer have the “guts” to intervene because they’re scared.
ITV News wants to know if you would confront yobbish behaviour. Have you ever tried to stop a criminal act?
The police say they should be the first port of call for people facing criminal behaviour as individuals risk escalating the situation by getting involved. Do you agree?
Have the recent deaths of people who tried to stop anti-social behaviour led you to think it’s too risky to get involved? Does the law do a disservice to people who try to remonstrate with thugs?
Is it foolish to think that we can rely on the police to protect us? Do we need to take more responsibility for safety on our streets?".
Boris Johnson has made so many U turns and contradictions in his statement launching his campaign for Mayor of London that it is no wonder he has such a clearly well merited record for ‘buffoonery’ - managerial and policy incompetence. I suspect his crime policies will turn out to be just the same.
ReplyDeleteFor example, Boris Johnson now states that he will not get rid of the congestion charge, while previously he totally opposed it, writing: “In these dark days of the New Labour tyranny, when the maniac Ken Livingstone is charging you an extra £1,200 for the privilege of using the Queen’s highway”. (Life in the Fast Lane p185)
He now claims ‘I will be the greenest Mayor, far greener than Ken.’ (Evening Standard 3 September). A claim that is ridiculous given than he opposes even the Kyoto treaty on climate change: ‘But of all the tough-guy acts that Bush has performed in his first few months, of all the pieces of exuberant Reaganism, nothing has so intoxicated the world with hate as his decision to scrumple up the Kyoto protocol and use if for putting practice in the White House…
‘Because we still need a rich, confident America; not just to provide the cash for the global military leadership that the United States has to give from the Gulf to Kosovo, but also to keep the world economy moving…. If America were to meet its Kyoto targets now, it would require a cut of 30 per cent in emissions, and how, exactly, is that supposed to work in the current economic downturn…. It would exacerbate the recession, and when Bush says no, he is doing what is right not just for America but for the world.’ (Lend Me Your Ears p318)
He now declares that he strongly supports Crossrail, London’s most vital transport project, but he failed to participate in the vote on it in Parliament.
He strongly supported the Iraq war before deciding later to change his position – after tens of thousands of people were dead.
He supported the election of George W Bush in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 – now he thinks it was a mistake
London has no need of a Mayor who takes wrong decisions and then has to change them, but one who takes the right decisions at the time they need to be made – as Ken when he supported Kyoto, opposed the Iraq War, supported congestion charging.
Boris Johnson is not simply extremely right wing. He is also incompetent.
Well, I am still waiting for an intelligent successor to the fekkin idiot who gave EVERY SINGLE SCHOOLKID in greater london a free BUS PASS so that my own ELDERLY MOTHER IN DAGENHAM cannot use public transport because it is JAM PACKED FULL with SCHOOLKIDS waiting at a bus stop and travelling ONE fucking stop just because some FUCKING IDIOT mayor gave these kids bus passes to travel free on London Transport in the hope that these brain-dead kids would vote for him in later years?
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