Conservative Home this morning has a list of Boris Johnson’s 100 achievements since taking over in May 2008. But prolific London blogger, Adam Bienkov, outlines which actually add up.
On his Tory Troll blog, Bienkov outlines that:
“A few are real achievements but most are either deliberately misleading, or point to some new definition of “achievement” that I’ve yet to come across.”
He highlights two laughable “achievements”:
“27. The Queen’s portrait unveiled in City Hall.”
“73. Boris Johnson appeared in EastEnders visiting the Queen Vic.”
And goes on to examine the evidence base between some of the other claims:
1. “Frozen the Council Tax for two years running.”
Yes, but he’s also raised public transport fares for two years running. This cancels out any council tax savings by many, many times over.
5. “There are 400 more police officers for buses.”
Yes, but he is also taking 455 police officers off of the force overall.
63. “Knife crime is down by 30%.”
Yes, but gun crime has soared
79. “Overall crime on the Tube and DLR is down by 8%. Robbery is down by 29.2%, violent crime is down 2.6% and public disorder offences are down by 4.5%.”
But Gun enabled crime has gone up 67.1%, Homophobic crime is up 27.6% Rape is up 22%, other sexual offences are up 2.2%, Residential burglary is up 7.5%, business robbery is up 3.3%, Residential burglary is up 7.5%, Racist crime is up 6.9%
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19 Responses to “Boris’ achievements exposed”
Rory
The Labour government must take a large share of the blame for high crime in London. A government that really cared about cutting crime would build more prison capacity to prevent overcrowding without having to resort to early release. They would also do something to stop the mass drug abuse that goes on in our prisons.
I don’t even think that LFF would say that our prison system is something to be proud of.
Kris Jones
Build more prisons Rory? Since when did that have any impact on crime. In 1992 the prison population was 43,000. It’s now almost double that with noticeable impact on crime and fear of crime. All prison provides for many first offenders with an apprenticeship in crime and confirmation of a criminal career.
Rory
In the 1950s, when violent criminals faced long prison sentences – and in some cases the gallows – violent crime was lower. It has soared since the 1960s. I wonder why?
The reason they provide apprenticeships for crime is the way they are run. For example, the toleration of mass drug abuse.
Kris Jones
There were never more than 27,000 prisoners in England and Wales during the 1950s. I can’t find any evidence that sentences were longer then than now. However, the length of sentences has increased substantially since 1993.
Silent Hunter
Listen guys; if that’s the best you can do against “BoJo”, then he really hasn’t much to worry about from the yappings of the rabid left.
Out of 100 achievements – you can only find 7 that YOU don’t agree with.
Of that seven, two are from an obscure blog (left wing, surprise!) and the Guardian piece doesn’t even mention Boris.
Face it – what really pisses you people off, is his popularity with Londoners. They actually LIKE the guy and consider him to be more honest than Gordon Brown.
Only a few months left of Labour Corruption, then it’s F.O. Labour! – Woo Hoo! :o)