tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19302868.post4646900854126216074..comments2024-01-25T11:14:39.042+00:00Comments on maniacmum: Meet the new boss...Jane Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17514534117777707886noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19302868.post-15138094704934449342008-05-10T21:38:00.000+00:002008-05-10T21:38:00.000+00:00I am enjoying all these references to the Who, thi...I am enjoying all these references to the Who, this is exquisite taste. I have stayed in a hotel that was once Keith Moon's home (in Chipping Norton), and revel in the fact that he was the apparent inspiration for Animal from the Muppets, a hero from my childhood. <BR/><BR/>As for Boris we'll just have to wait and see. Apparently one of his first acts was to ditch Ken's subscription to forty issues of the Morning Star (I'm not making this up; apparently Ken wanted to 'support' the publication and as ever wasn't averse to using taxpayer funds to do it). This amounted to about half the MS's total subscriptions, which of course they've now lost overnight. Taxpayers of London now ten grand better off a year and culturally much more so. <BR/><BR/>His appointment as deputy mayor - Ray Lewis - seems a very good move too, I have heard nothing but praise for Mr Lewis who is one of the last people in the land to believe in discipline and achievement and actually not be afraid to say so publically. <BR/><BR/>On the other hand, I think banning booze on the tube is a bit pointless. Trouble making hoodies who are already plastered will cause the same degree of trouble anyway, probably more as they'll start a fight over the booze. And the only ones who'll end up getting prosecuted will be the middle class hen nights and the chaps heading for the cricket. <BR/><BR/>And of course Ken's left a time bomb for his luckless successor in the form of the final bill for the Olympics. Boris will protest that he was stuck with it, but he will still cop the flack as he is required to hike up taxes and divert funds from more worthy causes ... <BR/><BR/>In New Zealand after a hung parliament it was six weeks at least before a new parliament was formed. For that time no new legislation or regulations were passed, and essentially central gvt did nothing. <BR/><BR/>The wheels didn't fall off, the economy didn't grind to a halt, unemployment didn't go up, no-one was visibly less happy ... and by the end people weren't wondering if we couldn't get rid of the feckers in toto. Sadly MPs figured this out and quickly got meddling again.Political Umpirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05025804183639479675noreply@blogger.com