Mayor Boris On TV
I missed both TV appearances made by Mayor Johnson yesterday afternoon, so thanks to reader Rob for his account of his Sky interview in comments here. From that it seems we can be sure that the Sunday papers will be being fed plenty of goodies from Patience Wheatcroft et al, probably even as I write. I'm grateful too to William of Lewisham who blogs in a deeply disrespectful fashion about Boris's subsequent encounter with Riz Lateef on the Beeb. The main points: a "two month plan" to get more police on the streets and firm pledge to be chairing the MPA "from October"; a promise that the competition for the new Routemaster will be launched in "the next few weeks"; a commitment to extending the Freedom Pass to 24 hours for pensioners "by next year," which he appeared to agree meant before 1st January 2009. Watch it for yourself here. Let's just say it's all very blond.
Oh, that's a shame, I didn't know about the Sky interview. I did however watch the BBC London interview, and have written it up here:
http://www.boriswatch.co.uk/2008/06/07/whats-boris-learnt-so-far-rubbish/
It really was an extraordinary show of unprofessionalism, his reply to that last question in particular.
Posted by: Mr. Stop Boris | June 07, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Apparently he was on Capital Radio yesterday as well[1] - suggesting a renaissance in public drinking water fountains[2], and is doing Andrew Marr's show on Sunday morning. It seems only a few days ago that his critics were suggesting the Mayor was afraid to submit himself to questioning, and now you can't switch on the TV without seeing him.
I'm surprised nobody at all seems to have asked him about the removal of half price travel concessions yet, although I wouldn't be surprised if Andy Marr pushes him to clarify what's going on there.
1. http://www.capitalradio.co.uk/Article.asp?id=735107
2. http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2008/06/thirst-quenchin.html
Posted by: Rob | June 07, 2008 at 02:34 PM