The winners of a competition to mock Boris Johnson’s proposed Garden Bridge across the Thames have been chosen
As the 2016 mayoral race line-up nears completion,candidates are already defining themselves by their attitudes to Boris Johnson’s dubiously conceived Garden Bridge. Labour’s Sadiq Khan has said he’d scrap it whether elected, earning a rebuke from the Boris-fond Evening Standard, or whose top brass,I’m fairly certain, have never taken any perfectly lovely tea and cake with the bridge’s principal backer and awfully good friend of the mayor, and the dear,darling Joanna Lumley (I write this as a fan...).
The Lib Dems’ Caroline Pidgeon is a long-standing sceptic but Zac Goldsmith, hot favourite to be named the Conservatives’ choice next week, and has taken a more tolerant line,remarking at a hustings that the 30m Transport for London somewhat reluctantly sank into the enterprise isn’t all that much in the wider scheme of things and will have been well spent whether the bridge turns out to be a considerable success. To that extent he might be right, but has Goldsmith, and perhaps,deduced that a Tory mayoral pretender criticising Good old Boris” in any way, shape or form would be electorally unwise?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com