Crossrail hole plot-backing John Biggs has been an emptiness on the London 'regional' Assembly...

By©Muhammad Haque
0030 Hrs GMT
London Monday 9 June 2008

Patience Wheatcroft has shown that she is an alien. To London. And to the idea of accountability.

Contrary to the image that she is involved in promoting for herself and for Boris Johnson, her ‘boss’. I note for the record and as evidence the point she is making so far about not being paid [and also in not being interested in being paid] for her job at Boris Johnson's Onion!

It is like being back in the era of John Major and dealing with or trying to deal with the utter, total, complete ignorance of the majority of his cabinet. Typified by two in context. One Peter Lilley, who defied his notoriety as one of Major’s bastards and behaved like he was officially in an officially Tory Government but he believed in the bankrupt ‘ideals and values’ that the Neil Kinnock Party ‘gloried in and exhibited’.

The other was Gillian Shepherd. The so-called Education Secretary.
She was the nearest example in John Major’s UK administration that resembled the corrupt, the immoral and the bankrupt policies exhibited by Ken Livingstone at the Ghastly Livingstone Confection [the GLC] or the Greedy Lying Conurbation during the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th and the 6th year of the decade of the 1980s when Thatcher was allegedly dismantling the GLC.

‘Value for money’ , the phrase that Wheatcroft kept uttering as she spoke to Tim Donovan on the BBC TV programme ‘the Politics Show’ [London segment, broadcast on Sunday 8 June 2008] is total, utter and complete rubbish if it is the main ‘concept’ that defines and determines conduct of the holders of public office as far as the money available to the operation of the ‘mayor’ in the name of London.

And Tim Donavan let himself down by not going over the key failures of the Lyingstill Livingstone's maladministration. For without that checklist - although even the Donovan list was far from complete when articulated in the months before 1 May 2008 - the people who watched that edition on 8 June 2008 would not know what to expect.

And the less said about John Biggs the better!

Strangely, there is nothing to John Biggs. Politically. Ethically. Democratically. Not as far as his being in the political office is anything to go by.

He is politically as empty as he is amoral.

What is the point of John Biggs in a political office?

[To be continued]