Trusting Boris Johnson On Education
SAYS the sire Arabella Weir, on Boris Johnson in The Guardian’s desperate chrestomathy of leftyluvviedom for Ken:
How do we trust a guy who says he knows about London, when he’s just taken three of his kids out of state school and put them into private schools?
Question asked, question answered…
May 4th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Aren’t they divorced yet?
Come on , we are used to promising politicians turning into absolute clowns, so you never know Boris just might come up trumps
May 4th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Private school or comp - you have the money. What do you do? And note how much the Labour Government loves choice…
May 4th, 2008 at 10:13 am
and their high salaries and expenses accounts….
Although to be fair when Christine Butler ran for CPBC she did live in a council house. Oddly didn’t get returned for a second time
May 4th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Oh, buggy! Wasn’t a bad dream after all.
Goodbye London, hello gridlock.
I’m not surprised he’s sending the kids to boarding school…
May 4th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Is it boarding or day?
May 4th, 2008 at 11:03 am
IMO it shows Boris DOES know London and that he also knows that most of the schools have been wrecked by the dreaded ‘policy’.
Not in his childrens educational liftime will that be turned around so good luck to him. Why should his children suffer to make a point??
Good old Ken managed to get round it by keeping his kids existence secret so we don’t know about them or their schooling!
Hmmmmmmmmmm
May 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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JuneJohnson Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Is it boarding or day?
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In a gridlocked London it might be difficult for any child to get to school much before teatime…
M and A
This is true, mind you we can do gridlock out here in the Essex sticks, a pile up on the A13 and its at least 4 hours, and that isn’t in the rush hour…
May 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I live on a main Essex road (A127) the furthest end from London and its gridlocked all day every day… London is no worse or better.
I can look down a line of cars and KNOW which one will let me out of the driveway.
I have no chance with the young female drivers, old men in flat caps or buses.
Boyracers and youngish men in suits will usually let me as will lorrydrivers. Middle aged men and women? depends on the expression on their faces!
However, I like living on the main road (22 years) ….. no children playing football outside and no problems with neighbours because I don’t know any of them!
May 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
On the Andy Marr programme I think it was alleged Bojo said
‘I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy’
So on education he can now say-
I’d rather put my kids in private school than have them late ‘n play the fool.
May 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
M and A
This is true, mind you we can do gridlock out here in the Essex sticks, a pile up on the A13 and its at least 4 hours, and that isn’t in the rush hour…
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Indeed, but then you didn’t have someone like Ken playing hardball.
I can remember what it used to be like before congestion charging, and the mere thought of going back to it is distinctly unpleasant.
Of course, as far as Gordie’s concerned, Bowser really screwing up London is a silver lining to the clouds…
May 4th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I live on a main Essex road (A127) the furthest end from London and its gridlocked all day every day… London is no worse or better.
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But London isn’t gridlocked. That’s the point…
May 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
chenier…. I spend a lot of time in London, usually in cabs and usually in gridlock unless its 3am. But then every major city in the world has a traffic problem. Many many years ago I used to drive in central London but now I don’t. Just grit my teeth and pay the cab charges.
May 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Coolandcalm
Which bit of London do you spend time in?
Here in the City we are most definitely not gridlocked, which is a great improvement on the way things used to be.
And you can’t say that is because it is a quiet backwater; a quarter of a million people travel into the City to work each day…
May 4th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Boris hasn’t said he will scrap the congestion charge. His only complaint about the transport system is the bendy bus which is an abomination in the eyes of the lord. They are so long that I had to crank the old BMW up to 80 to get past one the other day. Now that’s dangerous
May 4th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The congestion charge only work if you use the money from it to subsidise public transport. Boris doesn’t like subsidising public transport.
Take away the subsidised public transport, cut back on all but the most popular bus routes, and people will have to use their cars.
Goodbye London, hello gridlock…
May 5th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Chenier - school buses are the answer LOL
May 5th, 2008 at 10:36 am
And, of course, the ever important school bus!