One hundred days of Boris as Mayor of London
The Independent is remembering the first 100 days of Boris. Meanwhile, Boriswatch is on a repeat cycle with the same post four times running. To be fair, the first three occasions included the same set of links twice, and the last only once. A computer run amok, I suspect.
I’ll commemorate it with a quote from Ministry of Truth:
“I have to admit that, even as a Tory, I have quite a lot of time and no small degree of respect for Boris.
Do I agree with him? Not that often - having watched him operate its clear that it would be very unwise indeed to be taken in by the bumbling ‘upper class twit of the year’ routine that most people will associate with him from his appearances on ‘Have I Got News For You’. Look past the Bunter-ish public schoolboy act and watch him at work in a more serious political arena and it quick becomes apparent that he’s no fool and, pound for pound, possibly the sharpest political operator in the current Tory party. Certainly not an opponent to be taken lightly.”
In the meantime, the reason for Boris’s alleged U-Turn on the Sir Keith Park statue (which should be outside St Clement Danes anyway) is clear: the Fourth Plinth is for the Queen.
