Boris says awesome things...

Here are some interesting Boris-related links found in the last few days:

• Lost rivers of London to resurface in Boris plan – Ooooh, good idea…
• I had to get on my bike to put light-jumping Boris in the frame – The journalist who caught boris light-jumping gives his account. Presumably, in order to achieve the journalistic masterpiece, he didn;t jump any lights himself?
• Boris Johnson pledges crackdown on London's illegal taxi touts – Boriswatch has NEVER hailed an illegal taxi. NEVER. Ahem.
• Cycling Mayor Boris 'at risk of terror attack' – Terrible news that Boris may be a sitting target on his bike.
• Wembley and Kingsbury Times – Mayor Boris exclusive interview – Boris gives his first local audio interview since winning as Mayor.
• Boris Johnson: All tanked up and ready to go | Mail Online – GQ's Dylan Jones on Boris's tenure as Motoring Correspondent, and visions of Boris in tank. In London.
• Dave Hill: Can Boris Johnson actually deliver for London? – Dave is not Boris's greatest fan. This article does nothing to dispel that view…
• Lost rivers of London to resurface in Boris plan – Ooooh, good idea…
• I had to get on my bike to put light-jumping Boris in the frame – The journalist who caught boris light-jumping gives his account. Presumably, in order to achieve the journalistic masterpiece, he didn;t jump any lights himself?

Hazel Blears hasn’t half come out fighting over the resignation of Ray Lewis.
“People across the country,” she says, tremulous with excitement at the first non-Labour political downer for months, “will note that after just two months, the new Tory administration in London is in complete disarray. David Cameron has known Ray Lewis since his first day as Tory leader and Boris Johnson appointed him as deputy mayor days into the job.
People will ask themselves: how have they allowed themselves to be embroiled in a mess like this?”
Bless her, and her whiter-than-white cotton socks. People across the country, you say? I doubt many outside London give the foggiest. Disarray, you say? She’s spent months saying that Labour aren’t in disarray despite their myriad problems, and now proclaims the entire Boris administration is in tatters.
The truth is that Labour are plainly happy for the spotlight to be on someone else for the first time in months. They also seems to have forgotten that their defeated candidate, Ken Livingstone, rates Ray Lewis as “imaginative” and regrets not poaching him…

My good friend (and Ken supporter) Mark K was the first to gleefully break it to me this evening by text – Ray Lewis, the originally lauded Deputy Mayor and the man due to spearhead Boris’s campaign against youth crime, has resigned amid allegations of financial irregularities.
If this had happened to Ken then Boriswatch would, frankly, be all over it with bells on. The allegations are serious, no doubt. Ray Lewis, to his credit, has flatly denied the whole thing in the strongest terms.
However, there’s something strange about this whole affair.
Firstly, it seems that mere allegations can warrant you fully guilty before you’ve even managed to form a defence. What if he is found entirely innocent? Will the media move on, Boris’s opposers rubbing their hands in glee while a reputation is ruined?
Secondly, there’s something very fishy about the coordination of these attacks. The BBC report that 3 allegations of financial impropriety have been handed in to them. This first started Boriswatch’s hairs twitching. Who handed them in? How come all these people have collectively remembered these things now, even though the allegations stretch back to the mid-90s?
There’s no doubt that this is some serious bother for our favourite London Mayor. Let’s hope the regrouping is swift, and the team can get back to helping London improve – something those political dark forces don’t currently seem too concerned with…