Boris Johnson has the basic duty of office to stop peddling Crossrail. He must get the facts right first and then make any spinning utterance...

By©Muhammad Haque
1515 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday 19 June 2008


Reviewing Boris Johnson’s statements as broadcast on the BBC: The ‘Drive’ programme on Radio 5 on Wednesday and ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4 on Thursday 19 June 2008:

First the ‘Today’ programme:

Boris Johnson has got to sort out his thinking and match his words and his thoughts! Or he will end up adding to the CROSSRAIl crassness...

The extent of thought and the status of thought that became apparent in the various utterances that Boris Johnson made on the BBC this morning... raise questions about what exactly is going on within the Boris Johnson administration... Because if he is not sure about Ken Livingstone’s ‘memorandum of understanding’ then he should not make statements that appear to refer to it in a way that says it exists.

For Johnson to reach half way or near the end fo an interview talking about things stemming from or linked with a memorandum of understanding and to say he doubts if it exists at all is not showing coherent thinking...

This is important. Why? Because the use or the abuse or the unnecessary expenditure of hundreds of £Millions of public money should worry all in society.

And if Boris Johnson hasn’t got to the bottom of the financial ‘deal’ between Ken Livingstone and Gordon Brown yet then he should make sure that no statement is made again ion his behalf endorsing Crossrail....

Before any more utterances are made peddling the same line as we have noted had been peddled by Livingstone, Boris Johnson must get the facts right and that way he will avoid calamitous financial, economic, environmental and political consequences......


[To be continued]