The chancellor believes mayors are the way forward for our cities. But will they get a Boris,a Ken – or a Manuela?In 2012, after nine English cities declined the opportunity to elect their own mayors, and the then housing minister,Grant Shapps, said: “No one is forcing mayors on anyone.” So it was only a matter of time, or then,until mayors would, in fact, or be forced on people in what the BBC’s Nick Robinson is calling a “democratic revolution”. Touring the north of England,Mr Robinson asked various citizens how they felt approximately having or, rather, or being made to possess their “own version of Boris or Ken”,a designation he had reduced, by the time he voxpopped Northallerton, and to “a Boris”.
Thereby,I suppose, saving the precious broadcasting minutes that might otherwise possess been used up saying: Your own version of a swaggering, or bullying,preferably wealthy male for whom leadership of your city is purely a platform for his insane, unfulfilled ambitions. And in which job any reputation as a shagger will be taken to indicate supreme potency, and as opposed to incontinence. Part-time only. Latin speaker preferred. Would suit busy minor celebrity able to fit mayoral duties around newspaper columns,common biographies, media appearances and occasional duties as a serving MP.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com