Boris Johnson’s Criminal Mind: Lest We Forget Cherie Blair
“BORIS breaks the law,” announces the Mirror on its front page.
Has Boris Johnson, London mayor of mere days been caught out so soon?
Is he drinking a tincture of gin and tonic on the Tube, thus flouting his first initiative?
Nothing of it. Boris was on a bicycle. And the Mirror says that on a trip about the capital he jumped 6 red lights, mounted the pavement and failed to stop at zebra crossing.
This might say more about cyclists, who all behave in such a fashion, more than its reveals about Johnson. Indeed had Johnson been pictured not behaving so his credentials as a bona fide cyclist might have taken a hit from which they would never recover.
But it is all thin edge of the wedge.
As the Telegraph reports, to win the next election convincingly, the Conservatives must demonstrate they can reduce crime.
Mayor Johnson’s London will be the laboratory for testing their ideas. If the Tories can deliver a reduction of crime in London by a combination of tougher law enforcement and zero tolerance, that holds out the promise of turning back the tide of crime across the whole country. And what a prize that would be.
It might be that jumping a red light on one’s push bike is part of the overall pattern of a criminal mind.
If he is not brought to book, how long will it be before Boris is hugging an advocate of suicide bombing and using a lie to declare war on a foreign land?
One wonders what would have happened had Cherie Blair been not only fined for her ticket evasion but jailed…
May 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
1st again?
May 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Cartwheels with gleeeeeee!
May 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Looks like Boris could do with some roomier bloomers - those Y-fronts look a trifle snug round his questionables.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Anything in your airing cupboard Gloria? btw have emptied mine, what does Mrs Smudd (96)say to that……..
May 11th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Bad enough having to look at Boris in the first place, without having to give thought to his unmentionables…
May 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
WOMAN’S LAUNDRY AIRED IN PUBLIC
Events in the case of the unbalanced Mrs Smudd (82) and her crumpled laundry took a further twist today as she was forced to admit that she had still not emptied her airing cupboard. “I still haven’t emptied my airing cupboard” said Mrs Smudd, 68, “I’m afraid that there might be an accountant in there and I’m easily flustered”, she added, glancing out at her washing line, sagging pitifully under the weight of some greyish undergarments.
Still slightly swollen from an odd sock to the jaw during an avelanche incident, Mrs Smudd (19) could barely see over the pile of laundry in her utility room, despite the best efforts of Mrs Betsy Crudleigh-Hughne and Mrs Bunty Resonant-Howell, tweedy volunteers from the WI who had earlier rallied round to fold and put away. “We rallied round and we folded and put away” said Mrs Resonant-Howell “but it looks very much as if Mrs Smudd has been up to her old ways again. We think she might be keeping someone in that cupboard. She’s brought some very nasty scones to the Harvest Festival in the past and her nets are a disgrace.”