Politics

[jamesthegill]

Boris Johnson knocked a chocolate eclair out of my hands earlier.

[hopeful traveller]

Boris Johnson knocked a chocolate eclair out of my hands earlier.

I'm sure it was just an accident if it did happen. He was probably in Bexley Heath and Bromley today on his New Bus for London.

[jamesthegill]

Boris Johnson knocked a chocolate eclair out of my hands earlier.

I'm sure it was just an accident if it did happen. He was probably in Bexley Heath and Bromley today on his New Bus for London.

He then ground it into the pavement with his shiny shoe, and guffawed at me.

[tubeguru]

Boris Johnson knocked a chocolate eclair out of my hands earlier.

I'm sure it was just an accident if it did happen. He was probably in Bexley Heath and Bromley today on his New Bus for London.

Boris sympathiser. I reckon he did it on purpose, the Nazi.

[hopeful traveller]

Boris Johnson knocked a chocolate eclair out of my hands earlier.

I'm sure it was just an accident if it did happen. He was probably in Bexley Heath and Bromley today on his New Bus for London.

He then ground it into the pavement with his shiny shoe, and guffawed at me.

It is called a joke.

[jamesthegill]

A joke?!? You think it's a joke when your fresh cream-filled pastry, covered in lashings of chocolate, gets knocked out of your hand by a bumbling buffoon intent on taking credit for his predecessor's transport plans? The same pastry you'd been looking forward to since December 20th when the small, family owned bakery nearby closed for Christmas? Oh sure, it's probably not that rare an occurance for you in your ivory towers with your daily cake deliveries. We are the 99% who don't have eclairs for breakfast!

[The Raven]

Power to the people! Revolution against the decident, privileged eclair eaters of the world. I tell you that I will promise, if elected, I will place an eclair in every home!

[tubeguru]

Power to the people! Revolution against the decident, privileged eclair eaters of the world. I tell you that I will promise, if elected, I will place an eclair in every home!

I don't like cream, so you can bugger off with that idea.

[hopeful traveller]

A joke?!? You think it's a joke when your fresh cream-filled pastry, covered in lashings of chocolate, gets knocked out of your hand by a bumbling buffoon intent on taking credit for his predecessor's transport plans? The same pastry you'd been looking forward to since December 20th when the small, family owned bakery nearby closed for Christmas? Oh sure, it's probably not that rare an occurance for you in your ivory towers with your daily cake deliveries. We are the 99% who don't have eclairs for breakfast!

I am sure that a mistake was made but he did not know the circumstances in which your éclair was delivered to you.

[hopeful traveller]

I make my first speech having been elected chairman of the school debating society.

BACK BORIS

Let me start by saying that Boris Johnson is a good Mayor of London, and some of Ken Livingstone's claims have been ridiculous, not helped by the fact that the BBC have been showing Mr. Livingstone lying, and saying that he is telling the truth.

A Labour lord criticised his own party yesterday by saying, and I quote, I am not making this up:

[He] has no explorative strategies, is losing the [...] argument, and overall [...] is weak.

Ken Livingstone's lying has reached new extremes, as he has "promised" more policing, claiming that we have cut police, yet visible police patrols will reach 1,000,000 by May this year. This shows a typical Labour candidate - lying his way in. However, as he has stood before, the public has past experiences of Ken Livingstone.

Our very own Geoff Marshall has made several comments about the tube upgrade plan. In 2003 he wrote on his website that,

the tube is in need of constant repair [...] needs upgrading.

Yet in 2011, at the end of his seventeenth attempt to break the Guinness World Record for Fastest Time to travel to all 270 London Underground Stations, he "tweeted" that

the tube is worse than in 2005 [...] I have the figures.

I asked him for the figures for the Jubilee and Waterloo & City lines (the two lines whose upgrade has been officially completed) and I did not receive a reply. If he takes some more figures before the election then he will see that the Victoria line upgrade has been completed as well. Just think - when was the last signal failure on the Jubilee Line? You have to go back to mid-December, and before that, October.

Independent research by the Financial Times blows Ken Livingstone's claims out of the window. Jobs have gone up in London by 2.9%, not down by 5% as Ken Livingstone claims. Crime has gone down by 10% (even when the riots are included), not up as Ken Livingstone claims.

This election is going to be a two horse race. But Labour Lad should be disqualified for lying.

[Root]

As chairman of your school's debating society, what is required of you? I would have thought impartiality would be somewhere high on the list.

[greatkingrat]

You can find all the performance figures since 2003 at

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesof ... /1592.aspx

so you can see for yourself whether things are getting better or worse.

[hopeful traveller]

You can find all the performance figures since 2003 at

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesof ... /1592.aspx

so you can see for yourself whether things are getting better or worse.

Total Journey time:

Oct/Nov 2010 - 46.12 mins
Oct/Nov 2011 - 44.05 mins

Consider your point backfired.

[hopeful traveller]

As chairman of your school's debating society, what is required of you? I would have thought impartiality would be somewhere high on the list.

Actually it was partly because of the fact that I suggested the idea but mostly because I had won the debating competition for two consecutive years .

[Steeevooo]

You can find all the performance figures since 2003 at

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesof ... /1592.aspx

so you can see for yourself whether things are getting better or worse.

Consider your point backfired.

What point was greatkingrat making exactly, other than pointing out that if you were to actually do some research into your speech as opposed to letting other people do the work for you that you could come up with some facts and figures of your own?