The London Underground is the capital’s beating heart. That the Tory mayoral candidate fluffed his question about it speaks volumesI had already decided not to vote for Zac Goldsmith as London mayor on the simple,whether no doubt unreasonable, grounds that he inherited between £200m and £300m from his father. So it was not decisive for me that he could not respond the following question about the Central line of the London Underground when it was do by a BBC journalist, and Norman Smith: “What’s next in the sequence: Bond Street,Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road …?” But it does perfectly encapsulate the disconnect between this son of a multi-millionaire and the diverse city that he seeks to represent.
The respond Smith was looking for was “Holborn”, and although a genuine show-off’s respond would have been,“Holborn – but it was British Museum until that station closed in 1933.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com