Boris Johnson jokes about 'light-fingered Parisians'

[stockhausen]

The London bike hire scheme is a great idea; hopefully it will be replicated all over the country. Calling them Boris Bikes does seem a wee bit unfair on Ken Livingstone given that he was the one who put all the work into getting a bike hire scheme for London.


As to BJ's slight on the Parisians, he is right up there with Phil the Greek and the late unlamented Denis (mine's a G&T) Thatcher in habitually failing to engage his brain cell before opening his gob

 

[sanaxe1]

boris is a legend!

 

[Narj]

Haha I love the guy, always takes things in good humour too (eg: the river incident)

 

[stockhausen]

Good program about BJ & Dave HERE.

 

[csmager]

The London bike hire scheme is a great idea; hopefully it will be replicated all over the country. Calling them Boris Bikes does seem a wee bit unfair on Ken Livingstone given that he was the one who put all the work into getting a bike hire scheme for London

What, by doing a feasibility study? It was Boris who actually did all the work to get it off the ground.

 

[ringo747]

Boris is a legend.

 

[scorza]

Boris LOL!!!! what a legernd!!

 

[Westyfield2]

I love Boris .

Want Ken to get absolutely stuffed this time round .

 

[Cosimo]

 

[Vonhelmet]

Sounds like fair play to me. The numbers bear it out...

 

[Participant]

Boris LOL!!!! what a legernd!!

Haha . Charlie Brooker:

"They might as well. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and there's no more desperate sign of the times than the current wave of LOL OMFG!!!! BORIS DONE A GUFF!!!! ROFL!!!!!!! THE MAN IS A LEGERND I TELL YOU LOL!!!!! I CARNT WAIT 2 SEE HIM RUNNING THE INTIRE CITTY!!! BORRIS 4 KING!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

He's funny but he's wrong.

 

[Narj]

Haha . Charlie Brooker:

"They might as well. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and there's no more desperate sign of the times than the current wave of LOL OMFG!!!! BORIS DONE A GUFF!!!! ROFL!!!!!!! THE MAN IS A LEGERND I TELL YOU LOL!!!!! I CARNT WAIT 2 SEE HIM RUNNING THE INTIRE CITTY!!! BORRIS 4 KING!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! LOLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

He's funny but he's wrong.

Bitter, blinkered leftie in being patronising shocker!

 

[KNiVES]

I'm far left and I still think Boris is a legend.

 

[Meridian]

Well it's good for winding up the French if nothing else. Losing 500 bikes in a couple of months does seem to be horrendously careless though.

Cambridge managed it a few years ago: look up the Green Bike Scheme.


M

 

[stockhausen]

On a more serious note, I believe that the reason that so many French bikes have gone missing is that they disappear to Eastern Europe - would probably be a bit difficult to ship many of the London bikes out of the UK but I expect that it will happen eventually

There are also far more of the bikes in Paris than in London, their scheme has been going for longer and I suspect that the UK user identification model has been refined based on the experience gained in Paris.

I still think that the scheme is great and should be rolled out in all major cities. The French even allow their bikes to travel the wrong way up one-way streets.

 

[deuse]

What, by doing a feasibility study? It was Boris who actually did all the work to get it off the ground.

Pity he never kept his manifesto pledge to introduce it "at no cost to the taxpayer".

 

[semi-pro waster]

Cambridge managed it a few years ago: look up the Green Bike Scheme.


M

Cambridge in "as criminal as Paris" shocker, none of your noble esteemed seats of learning in evidence here... although I know a fair few people who are moving to Cambridge soon, not sure whether that'll improve or decline the level of criminality. It is pretty careless though to lose such a large number of your bikes so quickly.

I suspect the lesson here is in how the London scheme has been organised when compared to either the Paris or Cambridge schemes.