Forget Ken's shadowy Trots, you get a better class of wrong'un employed in Boris's new era.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/03/london.boris

Have you ever seen Ray Lewis on TV, or read an interview with him? He's a fucking weirdo. He runs a sort of boot camp thing for problem kids, and takes it very seriously. One of those super-religious types with the air of a serial killer... they always give me the creeps.

Ray Lewis is a "deputy mayor". I didn't know there was such a thing. Does the term "deputy mayor" actually mean anything? Boris seems to have five of them. What do they do? Are they responsible to anyone other than Boris?

How does he find time to fit this around his duties leading the Baltimore Ravens defense?

Antonio Gramsci wrote:

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Ray Lewis is a "deputy mayor". I didn't know there was such a thing. Does the term "deputy mayor" actually mean anything? Boris seems to have five of them. What do they do? Are they responsible to anyone other than Boris?

I imagine they do everything that he can't ...i.e., everything.

Stop watching me, you bastards.

No. It's in the public interest.

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Last month one of his senior advisers James McGrath quit after remarking that Caribbean immigrants could always return to their places of birth if they did not like London under Johnson. The mayor insisted that James McGrath, his political adviser, was not a racist.

Why did Mr. McGrath not return to Ireland under Ken?

"'If I punch you and you fall on the floor, that's my fault,' Lewis says. 'If you're still there 10 years later, that's your fault.'"

Out for count?

Shouldn't we elect a deputy mayor directly? Or at least have one chosen from the GLA? Sounds like another Blatcherite idea that Richard Branson or whoever was supposed to be mayor wouldn't want to "waste time having internal discussions".

It is only fair to point out that people called James mcGrath are traditionally given the nickname "spud" I have no fucking idea why It just happens.

'We're quite disciplined,' Lewis tells me afterwards. 'We put an emphasis on testicular fortitude.'

Is Ray Lewis Talking Bollocks?

He's Gone http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7490687.stm

A rare victory for the poor, besieged, oppressed, victimised and tortured motorist http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7494495.stm

There were a couple of interesting letters in that free paper thing yesterday. People saying "Why is Boris banging on about trains and buses while kids are getting stabbed?" However much that's why whatever fucktards voted for him did so, maybe they've thought a little better of it now.

Also - I couldn't help myself. I texted the paper to say Boris was a buffoon and what did they expect. I think this may become a bit of a habit.

Stop now before it does. Once you've contacted one of the free London papers, a line has already been crossed.

Was it Metro or one of the afternoon ones?

Surely Boris has a point about the effects on congestion.

A car that produces more C02 doesn't create any additional congestion, and allowing lower polluting cars in for free would actually create more congestion.

If the idea is to reduce pollution rather than congestion then you have to come up with a different scheme.

E10, as much as I admire your political convictions, you're barking right up the wrong tree with this one.