The real criminal
The ugly fruits of Boris’ holiday from reality are becoming visible to all. The British Transport Police today announced that crime on the Tube went down 11% in the last year of Ken’s mayoralty.
So his fearmongering over crime on transport was just that - fearmongering. Let’s hear what he has to say on the matter, though - and this direct from his yacht in Turkey, you lucky, lucky public:
“The reported cut in crime on the Tube and Docklands Light Railway is very encouraging, and is a trend that I fully intend to build upon as Mayor.
‘Unfortunately many Londoners do not feel as safe as they should do when using the network, which is why we have made tackling transport crime one of our number one priorities.
‘The transport network plays an important role in the lives of millions of Londoners, and it is essential that the tubes and trains are places where we can all go without the fear of crime.“
So, Boris will legislate on the basis of public paranoia rather than reality. And, moreover, a paranoia he fuelled with a mayoral campaign which span and span and span that crime was up - when it was down.
Boris chokes himself on his own words here. Millions of Londoners have to use public transport, and they have the right to do so without cowering in abject terror of the hooded demons which, in BoJo’s eyes, constitute London’s youth.
And yet he, along with his Mail group media backers, plays a large part in creating that fear. His campaign was centred on convincing Londoners that their city had become a dystopian hell, and Ken didn’t care.
In short, Boris fuelled the fear of crime that Londoners now travel with to win votes. By his logic, isn’t he the criminal?
