Mayor Johnson identifies with the hapless mayor of Amity Beach from Jaws
- Mayor Boris Johnson in response to the question, Who is your favourite hero of fiction in the May 2012 edition of Vanity Fair. In the novel and in the film, Amity Beach mayor Larry Vaughan refuses to close the beach after a woman is eaten by a shark to placate a business community worried about the tourist trade. This results in several more deaths.
Mayor Johnson wants "a Tory" as next Director General of the BBC
Mayor Johnson’s latest column for the Telegraph calls for the overt politicisation of the role of Director General of the BBC, to go with the former Conservative minister now chairing the BBC Trust. He also says:
“I speak as one who has just fought a campaign in which I sometimes felt that my chief opponent was the local BBC news”.
Which reflects very well on Tim Donovan, his fucking bollocks, and the rest of the BBC London newsroom. It’s not the press’s job to make the Mayor’s life easy. The Standard’s perfectly able to do that on its own.
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