To the Man who would be King

Boris Johnson has opened up his campaign to become Mayor of London with perhaps the worst sweeping declaration of any politician in history. His grand plan to win over us voters is to scrap bendy buses should he win the vote. Now whilst bendy buses are large, difficult to manoeuvre and cause congestion they are also very useful in transporting the huge volume of people around London on a daily basis. So what then, does Boris Johnson plan to do with the huge number of bendy buses that he is going to scrap? Where exactly will they go? Didn’t some people somewhere along the line, namely us taxpayers shell out a fortune for these bendy buses?

But in his recent article in the telegraph Boris assures us that this is all okay because scrapping the bendy bus will enable us to bring back the antiquated Routemaster buses in a modern format will help us tackle fair dodgers. Fair dodgers? Is this what Boris expects us to believe, that tackling fair dodgers will balance the books of public money that he is going to blow on his revamp of London transport. Let’s not forget who Boris wants to fund his vast fleet of double deckers. Beneath his fair dodger excuse Boris has offered little further reasoning for scrapping the bendy bus other then paper thin excuses relying on bluster at best and some lame-duck arguments about how uglythey are.

So is this how Boris will base decisions that will have such a massive impact on the economy? It’s enough to make anyone run back into the waiting arms of Ken Livingstone, because let’s face it, whilst Ken may be jacking up the price of an Oyster card every five minutes you can bet that after three months in power, Boris will be looking at his budget sheet and doing exactly the same thing.

P.S I'm a bit sick at the moment so i'm lashing out at all and sundry, i just saw Boris's face on BBC news and had to attack!