London fare rises

I'm appalled by the Mayor of London's fare rises, that's a 30% rise in Oyster fares since he came in. That's tough at the best of times, but considering all that's going on at the moment, it's terrible.
I'm sure I heard something about Boris boasting about cutting the budget of his administration, well I can see who's paying.
Throw in the 'bendy bus' disaster (less capacity, higher price) and I feel that Londoners are being screwed by a mayor who's only interested in promoting himself to be prime minister one day.

Then all this 'oh it's the previous lot's fault' or "fares on national rail are being depressed artificially for election purposes." is rubbish.
It's about priorities. National fares are linked to inflation, rather than being decided on a whim

Boris Johnson's mate

It's alleged that Boris Johnson's mate Veronica Wadely was rejected during the interview process for the Arts jobs he's trying to get her into.
According to a mate's law, if someone's written it, it must be true. It may only be true for Guido though, who's strangely quiet on the matter.
"Boris Johnson was today accused of lying to the culture secretary, Ben Bradshaw, in an attempt to install a close former media ally as the head of Arts Council London."

"Johnson dismissed [the accusation of lying] as "complete nonsense"."
But then he doesn't have a great record of telling the truth when accused of wrong-doing. An 'inverted pyramid of piffle' anyone?

Boris Johnson's time as London mayor

If you're after a quiet and balanced view of things, Simon Fletcher is not one to go after. But that holds true for just about everyone on the net, and most people off it.
However, that doesn't make it untrue.

"It is striking that the editor of the newspaper that orchestrated a months-long campaign based on trumped-up charges of cronyism to smear the Labour mayor (Livingstone) should now be exposed as an apparently willing beneficiary of something that looks very much like cronyism from her own candidate Boris Johnson."

Fletcher doesn't criticse Labour, but those who comment at the bottom do, so it all balances out in the end. La la la, lovely lovely

Boris Johnson on Europe

This like watching a car-crash, I can't believe he's Mayor of London.
I wouldn't put him in charge of anything, blimey

"The reason why there isn’t enough money for rape crisis centres"

Priorities:
"It seems that Boris Johnson needs to spend £600,000 on a logo instead:

“Londoners are being asked to help design a new logo for the city to rival New York’s “I ♥ NY” campaign. One of the firms bidding to design the logo, to be used globally in the run-up to the 2012 Games, called for ideas to be posted on Twitter, with hundreds of members of the public submitting artwork ideas.

Mayor Boris Johnson is spending £600,000 on the logo and a shortlist of six design firms will be drawn from more than 450 entries after tomorrow’s deadline for bids.”

It sounds like something that Ken Livingstone would do."