When I lived in New York I loved the fact that many Mayors were real New Yorkers; feisty, barmy, eccentric...

Both Boris and Ken are real Londoners - and I like that. Funny, bright, barmy - both cities have a great deal in common - I love them both.

JK2006 wrote:
When I lived in New York I loved the fact that many Mayors were real New Yorkers; feisty, barmy, eccentric...

Both Boris and Ken are real Londoners - and I like that. Funny, bright, barmy - both cities have a great deal in common - I love them both.

Boris was actually born in the U.S.A and is of Turkish decent. He's not an apple and pears man at all. I can't think of anything good that he has done. The Boris bikes aren't working, London is too overcrowded and polluted for that. Also banning booze on the underground is unworkable and unnecessary. There is no one around to enforce it and no one did it anyway.
Ken brought us travel zones, oyster cards, and best of all the congestion charge (hitting all gas guzzlers where it hurts).

robbiex wrote:
I can't think of anything good that he has done.

I can. I'm reading his "Dream Of Rome" at the moment. It's surprisingly good. Otherwise I agree with you. Boris' eccentricity is just about his only saving grace, and it's what makes his writing style so good {plus, I have to say he actually has a very real understanding of what made ancient Rome tick}. But neither his eccentricity or his grasp of events two millennia in the past qualify him for high office, and what kind of a fist he's making as Mayor I'd rather leave it to Londoners to judge. Still, I guess that what he's doing now is better than smashing up restaurants.

robbiex wrote:
Boris was actually born in the U.S.A and is of Turkish decent. He's not an apple and pears man at all.

Bit UKIP, ain't it?