Another deputy goes but Boris is still in trouble ; The Mayor should not hope to diminish the Ian Clement scandal by announcing improvements to the Tube [Edition 2]
Evening Standard - London › June 25, 2009
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YOU know things must be getting bad at City Hall when they crank out the "air-conditioned Tube trains" story for the third time in a year. On Tuesday, as the Standard revealed that Boris Johnson's deputy had dined his mistress at public expense, then lied about it, the westbound Distraction Line once again emerged from its siding.
The "news" that the Tube's sub-surface lines are to get air- conditioned trains has, to my reckoning, been announced no fewer than eight times: on 7 April 2003, 6 July 2005, 6 December 2006, 24 April 2007 and 29 May 2007 under Ken Livingstone and on 24 June 2008, 25 September 2008 and 23 June 2009 under Boris. If only they could get the Circle line running as frequently, all our problems would be over.See the full content of this document
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Another deputy goes but Boris is still in trouble ; The Mayor should not hope to diminish the Ian Clement scandal by announcing improvements to the Tube [Edition 2]
This week's Tube air-con "story" helped obscure an event even more regular than a City Hall policy reannouncement -- the forced exit of another of Boris Johnson's senior aides, whose bodies are beginning to block the corridors like a scene from some 1970s disaster movie.
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