New London Mayor backtracking on the environment

cedric

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Sun Aug-10-08 04:37 AM
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New London Mayor backtracking on the environment

Boris Johnson is making long-term decisions that are in danger of making London less green, environmental and social campaigners say, as the new mayor reaches 100 days in office.

The mayor had pledged to make London the greenest city in the world before the elections but London is rapidly losing its reputation for being at the cutting edge of dealing with environmental and social problems, said Darren Johnson, London assembly member

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/08/climatechange.greenpolitics

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Kutjara

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Sun Aug-10-08 04:46 AM
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1. They elect a toffee-nosed, upper class, Conservative twerp...

...and are then surprised and dismayed when he turns out to act like a toffee-nosed, upper class, Conservative twerp. Couldn't have foreseen that. Nosiree.

Good to know America doesn't have the monopoly on political idiocy.

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cedric

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Sun Aug-10-08 11:23 AM
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3. Didn't expect otherwise

though not living in London I had no part in the election.

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Kutjara

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Sun Aug-10-08 03:37 PM
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4. I moved to LA from London two years ago.

When I heard Boris "Have I Got News for You" Bufton-Tufton Spectator Johnson was running for mayor, I thought "surely nobody'll vote for this bumbling git." Of course, I said the same thing about George W. Bush, so it shows you how good my political radar is.

I'm guessing he ended up with the job by default. People were tired of Ken Livingston, and weren't going to vote for the other weirdo, so Johnson shambled into the job by default.

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bdf

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Sun Aug-10-08 06:32 AM
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2. Boris is a grandstanding twat (n/t)

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