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Mayor visits Greenway in middle of storm
By adamg on Mon, 02/09/2015 - 5:05pm
Mayor Boris Johnson of London, that is, in town to promote business or something, and loving the idea of depressing highways. That's him on the left.
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He came to the right place
Depressing highways, we've got.
Mayor to Mayor
Maybe he can teach our mayor how to implement congestion charging. He must be entertained by all the snow as it rarely snows to this degree in England.
This
...is the best idea I have heard all year that didn't come from Belichick.
He likes depressing highways?
Good - he can have the expressway every day during rush hour. Now that's depressing.
He picked the right city to
He picked the right city to visit. Everything in Boston is pretty depressing right now.
Third time's a charm!
I swear, the first two comments that made this joke didn't even make me laugh a little. I guess Bostonian Universal Hub commenters think alike.
Depressing highways?
Well he certainly came to the right... d'oh!
You know why he was here?
Our highways are horrible.
(crickets)
5:14pm, 5:15pm, 5:16pm
I bet each commenter thought they were the first. Instead they got mired in a logjam of like-minded individuals... Just like sitting in traffic on one of our depressing highways.
Smells fishy
Fish brought him over to pump up the Olympic bid PR. I wish I were joking.
He Makes Bloomberg Look Like A Shrinking Violet
I have cousins in London. The right leaning ones love him. The lefties can't stand him. Massive ego, is assuming he is going to be PM after Cameron even though he isn't in Parliament yet.
He's got the whole package.
He's got the whole package.
Born in NYC and with horrible hair. Running for US president next, I assume.
He has a semi-good chance
He's looking at a safe borough in, I think, Uxbridge from which to stand for Parliament (the sitting MP is retiring after the general election). Cameron won't let Boris be heir apparent right away, but he's vastly more popular than any of the other Tories who are household names (the four scariest words in the English language are 'George Osborne, Prime Minister'). He hasn't been lumbered with some of the stupider moments of the soon to be forgotten coalition, and he gives good soundbites.
He's the closest thing to a viable Tory outsider you can get, and might be well positioned if he can win the Uxbridge/South Ruislip seat and not do anything embarrassing before Cameron inevitably wears out his welcome with his own back bench. It's entirely possible the Conservative government won't have a majority again after the upcoming general election, in which case Cameron will be on the chopping block for forcing them to form another coalition. May, Osborne and
Hagueare all names I'd expect to see tossed in the ring to take over the Conservative party if that happens, but all of them have substantial negatives.Honestly, he may not pull it off, but he's not crazy to think he has a shot.
ETA: Whoops, I forgot Hague is retiring from politics after the next general election.
Johnson and Fish
He says the Olympic Haters Will Get Over It in Time
I'm pretty sure King George said almost the exact same thing about stamp and tea taxes.
Won't be the first time somebody from London underestimated the obstinacy of Bostonians.
Coffee, Boris?
Good Gravy - An Opportunity!
As I recall, Boris got Westminster to give him (and other Mayors of London) significantly greater powers then they had before - particularly with respect Transport for London, and in particular, financing therefor.
Everyone having anything to do with public transit around here should be clamoring for a meeting with him.
He would laugh at the fact
He would laugh at the fact that the MBTA has added only one subway station in 28 years, and it wasn't even an extension.