from his site
and of course: http://www.backingboris.co.uk/
must get in line behind this gentleman; he bikes to work!
pay no mind to his distractors
ruffians. charlatans. wanks.
for you facebookers: http://apps.facebook.com/backboris/It is a woeful fact that you are more likely to be mugged on the streets of London than in New York. Almost every day I go for a run down the bemerded pavements of North London - down a stretch of road that has more CCTV cameras than anywhere else on the planet - and yet almost every day there seems to be a new giant yellow sign pleading with the public for information about the latest stabbing. No wonder people are fearful of crime, even in areas that are comparatively crime-free.
Everywhere you go in London you see colossal wealth side by side with poverty and deprivation; on one side the stuccoed villas of the super-rich, and on the other a family stuffed into a tiny flat - or just one of the thousands of empty homes that are contributing to the cost and shortage of housing. Almost every time I go on the Tube I am amazed and appalled at the Blitz-like stoicism in the face of the mystifying inter-station stops, the sweltering armpit-nuzzling intimacy that makes it feel like Tokyo.
Is there really nothing to be done to reduce the morning congestion on the streets, the profusion of lorries and cars dropping kids at school? Is there nothing that we can do to encourage more cycling and walking, when most trips are less than 2 miles?
And why should we cyclists be scraped to a paste by these blasted socialistic bendy-buses, so out of scale with the London streets that they block the traffic like beached whales? I am one of those who used to approve of Ken's style - at least of the way he seemed independent of the Labour party. But I just can't believe we are getting value from the present Mayor's £200 share of the council tax, or from the 47 press officers he has at his disposal.
and of course: http://www.backingboris.co.uk/
must get in line behind this gentleman; he bikes to work!
pay no mind to his distractors
ruffians. charlatans. wanks.