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Rating Boris Johnson
Mayor of London, UK
City Mayors invites its readers to assess the performance in office of Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. Please rate his overall performance by awarding him marks out of ten. '1' signifies an extremely poor performance, while '10' would rate his performance as outstanding. Please also provide details of what in your opinion are the mayor’s best and worst decisions.
Please assess Mayor Johnson not more than once a month. In order to eliminate multiple submissions and/or fraudulent as well as organised rating by political friends and foes of the mayor, all submissions are processed manually and, if deemed questionable, cross-checked. Thank you for participating. Verdict to date
RESULTS FOR BORIS JOHNSON:
Performance index for August 2008: 4.06 out of 10
Based on 328 evaluations received between 1 August and 31 August 2008
Performance index for July 2008: 3.91 out of 10
Based on 401 evaluations received between 1 July and 31 July 2008
Best decisions during time in office:
• Vinud Kumar S (from outside UK): He has handled every thing coolly and with grace. His patience is superb in making crucial dicisions.
• Amanda B (London): Prohibiting alcohol on public transport.
• Nicky W: Getting rid of bendy buses and his side kick the deputy mayor.
• Brian: Reviewing the costly decisions of the previous mayor.
• LH: Retaining the Low Emmissions Zone.
• I thought his idea for bringing some of London's hidden rivers to the surface was interesting, but I doubt it will happen.
• None so far. Possibly too early to tell but should have seen more happening than we have done. I get the feeling he's working on the principle that no news is good news and keeping his head down but thats not working.
• Banning alcohol on public transport.
• Has he made any other than the stagey banning of alcohol on public transport?
• To investigate the LDA and its funding decisions.
• Introducing an alcohol ban on the underground transport network. It was a good idea but one that was looked at by the previous mayor Ken Livingston who would have implemented the ban over a period of time.
Worst decisions during time in office:
• Nick D (London): Reversing congestion charge increase for 4x4s. Poorly executed public transport alcohol ban. Several resignations after only 2 months. Wastefully reintroducing outdated routemasters.
• Amanda B (London): The London Transport service,help for single parents also transport and help for children with disabilities. My daughter started secondary school friday and has not once been able to get a bus to school due to none running at that time of the morning yet we are supposed to leave the car at home? I am in training to get a better job as a lone parent, my discount bu pass was stopped how am i supposed to afford to travel to and from my training course and voluntary placement? My son is autistic got forced out of a school with additional help into mainstream school then got bullied 3 times and broke his arm all in the space of 6mths, I had to go to the Autistic Society and legal aid for help to fight to get him the help he needs with regards to speech and language therapy and occupational therapy, with the help of a tribunal i won he received help for a year it's now stopped again. Why is there not enough support in schools for our children with special needs to try to lead a normal life?
• Mike L (London): Rejecting the parliament square pedestrianisation plan
• Patricia NW3: Mayor Johnson, how many deputy mayors does it take to run London?
• Nicky W: We were extremely disappointed when Mayor Johnson decided to keep congestion charges for all. My husband works within the congestion charge area and has bad arthritis in his knees, so finds it difficult to walk distances. We were delighted when Ken Livinstone said congestion charges for low emission cars would be zero from (originally February 2008) then October 2008 only to find the person we voted for scrapped the plans. My husband can't claim 'invalidity pension' because he's bad, but not that bad; he wants to continue working - he has a parking place at work - but we are still forced to pay the £8.00 a day congestion charge - and for what???? It hasn't cut down the number of cars going into the capital; it hasn't increased the numbers using the unreliable public transport systems; it hasn't been used to improve the state of the road - so where does our money go too?
• Velo: Why did he give £400,000 to Porsche?
• LH: Reducing bus capacity by phasing out bendy buses.
• Aaron: The 'half-baked' alcohol ban on tube, bus and DLR... it doesn't work, unless promoting more violence is making the public's journey more pleasent.
• Calling the press conference for Ray Lewis to deny the sex and financial misconduct allegations. Appointing the guy without doing deep background checks on him was naive. Announcing the press conference without finding out what the full allegations were and most importantly who was making them was pure incompetence.
• His plan to reintroduce the Routemaster double decker bus with open platform at the rear. The is regressive thinking, the buses were phased out because they were unsafe. People fell off them regularly, I personally know two people who fell onto the road from the rear platforms of this bus. Iconic
• So many to choose from! Slashing cheap travel for those on income support, removing the anti-racism messge from the RISE festival.
• To appoint paid advisors without any openness or transparency and to mis-use the term Deputy Mayor to further confuse their roles, legitimacy and accountability.but a health hazard!
• Reversing decision on Thames Water desalination plant. Delegating decision making to unelected individuals. Failing to engage with journalists and councillors.
• Where to start! I guess taking the anti-racism aspect away from the RISE festival. You're either against racism or you're part of the problem.
It will be a decision that will come back to haunt him every time there is any kind of race issue in the future.
• Not taking an interest in political and policy details.
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