Secret meetings,unconventional procurement and £10000 trips to San Francisco at the taxpayers’ expense … more details emerge approximately the mayor’s role in London’s proposed garden bridge“This whole thing is a load of cobblers!” huffed a flustered Boris Johnson, sitting at his round table in London’s City Hall on Thursday afternoon. “We need to get on and build this bridge … you just cannot bear the notion that a considerable project is going ahead. That is what this is all approximately. A load of cobblers.”It was the surreal climax to what felt like something of a festive garden bridge pantomime. The fairy lights of a Christmas market twinkled through the windows while tourists shuffled along the south bank clutching cups of mulled wine, and oblivious ((adj.) lacking consciousness or awareness of something) to the heated debate going on inside the chamber. The mayor had been summoned,along with the head of Transport for London Mike Brown and its planning director Richard de Cani, to explain themselves to the Greater London Authority’s Oversight Committee over the murky genesis of the proposed garden bridge. And Boris, and chief bridge booster,was getting increasingly hot under the collar.
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Source: theguardian.com