Ask Boris: One Year On

By · April 9, 2009 at 9:51 am · 9 Comments · Latest News · Report an error ·

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So, as a buoyant BJ sucks the glass testicle from Ken’s lap, will London find itself in a sticky mess, or stand proud for a new era?

So pondered we on 2 May 2008, as Boris romped home with the London mayoralty. The anniversary of his election is now just a few weeks away. Following the Dispatches programme the other week and the prospect of us attending the State of London debate on 9 May, what would you ask Boris?

To get you going, consider the Johnson occupied City Hall has seen the tube booze ban, resignations, wiff waff, bendy buses, boxing and latin, neologisms, bankers, C-Charge changes, 2012, Sir Ian Blair, airport analysing, sweary rants and so much more.

Has your opinion of Boris changed? Do you want to ruffle his barnet or are you relishing the prospect of replacing him with Alan Sugar or bringing back Ken in 2012? Is a year long enough to judge anything in the vast and complex world of City Hall? Freewheel and fire away and help influence how we mark the Borisaversary.

If this has got you thinking, you can register to attend the State of London debate on 9th May and ask him something (in advance) yourself.

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  • Lindsey

    So, what are you going to do with all the defunct bendy buses?

  • markle

    Having asked him a question at the last People’s Question Time, and getting a response that was waffle and entirely ignored my question, I’m not sure that there’s any point in even trying to ask him a remotely taxing question.

    Here’s one for size though:

    How will we pay for conductors on all the routemasters that you want to put on London’s streets?

  • Lindsey

    Why are you so inconsistent over your approach to towers and London’s historic skyline, that you pledged to preserve?

  • http://undefined RachelH

    Why are you reducing funding for improvements for cyclists, despite your jolly cyclist image?

    Why were you willing to publicly express concern over Damian Green’s arrest, but can barely find the time to issue one mealy statement during an outcry over G20 policing?

    Who really was at fault for the transport shutdown when it snowed?

  • http://undefined RachelH

    Actually, I quite like this comment piece in the Independent looking at the positives and negatives of Boris’s year. An immigrant amnesty and introducing a living wage – yay! Lobbying against tighter financial regulation and cutting back on green schemes, boo.

    • Dave

      The Independent article starts out well, including a well-reasoned explanation of Boris’s economic insanity, but then sadly descends into stupidity.

      I stopped reading when the article started tripping itself up by confusing the Congestion Charge (which was brought in to ease congestion) with sort sort of ill-defined ‘emissions-potential tax’. This (sadly oft-quoted) view really is just rhetoric for the hard-of-thinking, and falls down almost immediately in the face of any *reasoned* discussion on how to reduce carbon emissions in the capital. I thought that the glaring falsehoods in this argument had been pointed out enough times for no-one to be taken in by them any more, which is why it’s really disappointing to see them still being published in national newspapers (albeit via online opinion pieces).

      • http://undefined RachelH

        Ah, so you didn’t get to the really dumb bit at the end, where he starts laying into Boris’s advisors?

  • Dave

    Bearing in mind your history of making insensitive ‘gaffes’, how do you intend to avoid following in the footsteps of your predecessor (who repeatedly got himself into trouble for making anti-Semitic remarks, etc.)? Is the ‘new Boris’ more or less circumspect than the ‘old Ken’?

  • Karimakhan23

    I want to haow a man like that is running England. what an opportunity that is to run a country.

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