Comments on: Open letter to Henley constituents http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:22:12 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: metro http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19622 metro Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:20:47 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19622 Does anyone else not understand my point, or is it just PaulD? Does anyone else not understand my point, or is it just PaulD?

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]]> By: angela http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19605 angela Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:58:43 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19605 A week ago, I was on the tube and some guy leaned forward, dropped his can of lager and puked all over my shoes! Some of the idiots in the drunken binge on the tube before it became illegal had the honesty to admit that they SHARE the tube, and the results of heavy drinking aren't nice for other passengers. Still, just think! Ken did a deal with Sian Berry and she advocated the legalisation of ecstacy and Dutch style coffee houses selling cannabis. If that had happened, half of London would be high as kites and the other half too out of their heads on ecstacy to know if people were drinking. It's a ruddy good idea to ban alcohol on public transport, as we can see from results in New York. (they can't eat on public transport either, by the way.) A week ago, I was on the tube and some guy leaned forward, dropped his can of lager and puked all over my shoes!

Some of the idiots in the drunken binge on the tube before it became illegal had the honesty to admit that they SHARE the tube, and the results of heavy drinking aren’t nice for other passengers.

Still, just think! Ken did a deal with Sian Berry and she advocated the legalisation of ecstacy and Dutch style coffee houses selling cannabis. If that had happened, half of London would be high as kites and the other half too out of their heads on ecstacy to know if people were drinking.

It’s a ruddy good idea to ban alcohol on public transport, as we can see from results in New York. (they can’t eat on public transport either, by the way.)

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]]> By: PaulD http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19600 PaulD Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:40:18 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19600 Your point being..? Your point being..?

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]]> By: metro http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19599 metro Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:47:08 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19599 Mr Crow (rmt) also demanded an apology from Mayor Boris Johnson and criticised his absence from the city. [violence on tube] Mr Crow (rmt) also demanded an apology from Mayor Boris Johnson and criticised his absence from the city. [violence on tube]

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]]> By: PaulD http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19594 PaulD Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:44:21 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19594 Never even looked at the Daily Mail comments, metro. Too predictable. But in the Times, Telegraph and Independent (oddly, couldn't see one on the Guardian's Comment is Free) readers were massively in favour. Evening Standard poll - probably the best representation of commuterland - 87% support the ban. Sorry. The "man who represents the people who will have to implement the law" is at permanent loggerheads with his employer and will find 101 reasons for not co-operating. I would listen to him no more than to a child protesting why he shouldn't go to school. Never even looked at the Daily Mail comments, metro. Too predictable. But in the Times, Telegraph and Independent (oddly, couldn’t see one on the Guardian’s Comment is Free) readers were massively in favour.

Evening Standard poll – probably the best representation of commuterland – 87% support the ban.

Sorry.

The “man who represents the people who will have to implement the law” is at permanent loggerheads with his employer and will find 101 reasons for not co-operating. I would listen to him no more than to a child protesting why he shouldn’t go to school.

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]]> By: metro http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19592 metro Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:30:44 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19592 That'll be the Daily Mail Vox Pop you're talking about PaulD. I'm afraid I don't really trust it. I'd rather listen to a man who represents the people who will have to implement the law and probably has a deeper understanding of the problem. That’ll be the Daily Mail Vox Pop you’re talking about PaulD. I’m afraid I don’t really trust it. I’d rather listen to a man who represents the people who will have to implement the law and probably has a deeper understanding of the problem.

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]]> By: PaulD http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19591 PaulD Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:15:55 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19591 Hankb, look at the reader comments on any national newspaper website - there are hundreds of them - and you'll find the overwhelming majority believe it is the boozed-up troublemakers and Bob Crow who should apologise for trying to undermine a perfectly sensible measure. Karly - it would be easier to answer you more accurately if you didn't speak in riddles. What is your point? Hankb, look at the reader comments on any national newspaper website – there are hundreds of them – and you’ll find the overwhelming majority believe it is the boozed-up troublemakers and Bob Crow who should apologise for trying to undermine a perfectly sensible measure.

Karly – it would be easier to answer you more accurately if you didn’t speak in riddles. What is your point?

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]]> By: hankb http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19590 hankb Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:16:49 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19590 Today's Metro: Boris Johnson was urged to apologise after drunken party-goers marking the start of an alcohol ban caused chaos on ­London's Underground. The new mayor was accused of putting staff at risk with his 'half-baked gimmick' to outlaw open bottles and cans on the network. I agree, he should apologise. Today’s Metro:

Boris Johnson was urged to apologise after drunken party-goers marking the start of an alcohol ban caused chaos on ­London’s Underground.

The new mayor was accused of putting staff at risk with his ‘half-baked gimmick’ to outlaw open bottles and cans on the network.

I agree, he should apologise.

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]]> By: karly http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19589 karly Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:15:35 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19589 If you read my original post, "I’m completely indifferent to the “plight” of rural motorists. Most of them created the problem anyway by voting for a party in the 1980s that got rid of all the local jobs." I never mentioned rural jobs. I mentioned local jobs, such as working in the pit near your village. I'm not interested in rural jobs looking after beagles. Modern farming methods would have got rid of most of those anyway. It was under the conservatives in the 80s and 90s that it became normal to work far from your home. If you read my original post,

“I’m completely indifferent to the “plight” of rural motorists. Most of them created the problem anyway by voting for a party in the 1980s that got rid of all the local jobs.”

I never mentioned rural jobs. I mentioned local jobs, such as working in the pit near your village. I’m not interested in rural jobs looking after beagles. Modern farming methods would have got rid of most of those anyway.

It was under the conservatives in the 80s and 90s that it became normal to work far from your home.

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]]> By: PaulD http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/05/14/open-letter-to-henley-constituents/comment-page-1/#comment-19588 PaulD Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:49:44 +0000 http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=416#comment-19588 Karly, in case you were still wondering, see this in today's <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2062951/Labour-crisis-Gordon-Brown-diverts-rural-aid-to-bribe-voters%2C-say-Tories.html" rel="nofollow">Daily Telegraph</A> <i>Official figures show that vast sums have been shifted from Tory-leaning country shires and transferred to Labour-supporting towns and cities over the past decade.</i> <i>Councils in London are now receiving twice as much per head of population from central government as their rural counterparts, according to statistics from the independent House of Commons Library.</i> Karly, in case you were still wondering, see this in today’s Daily Telegraph

Official figures show that vast sums have been shifted from Tory-leaning country shires and transferred to Labour-supporting towns and cities over the past decade.

Councils in London are now receiving twice as much per head of population from central government as their rural counterparts, according to statistics from the independent House of Commons Library.

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