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
Kris – From the fact that they used to hang the most violent offenders, I think you can surmise that those whose crimes were slightly down the scale would not have been released after a few years to commit crimes, as happens today. If we had a proper prison system – where for example, prisoners could not take drugs – I do not think we would have such a high prison population.
Rory
Silent Hunter – If you really are fed up with our corrupt politics, I wouldn’t get too excited about the advent of the ‘heir to Blair.’
Silent Hunter
Rory:
Oh don’t worry . . . I have no illusions about another Tory Government, believe me. But let’s face it Rory, even the hated Thatcher didn’t foist such fascist policies on us as New Stassi have given us.
Labour are just Corrupt Scum. I had no idea how bad they would be when I voted for them in 1997, expecting a turn around of our political system – remember the promised “ethical foreign policy”?
Well what we got, was an illegal war. So you tell me . . . where is the ethical dimension to that? Hmmm?
Silent Hunter
I see that no one has come back to counter the fact that Boris is very well liked by the people of London.
I wonder why? Could it be he doesn’t tell the LIES that Labour do?
Sevillista
Rory- capital punishment certainly prevents murders and violent crime in the US – we should copy their policy and aspire to the
low crime utopia it has created right?