Half a million for the transition team


by Sunny Hundal    
June 4, 2008 at 11:11 am

Cost cutting Boris’ “transition team” alone costs half a million. Also now at: BorisWatch, Bob Piper and Dave Hill. Where art thou, Andrew Gilligan?

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at 11:28 am on June 4, 2008
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1.  comment by
     Leon

Gilligan the Evading Standards crusader is awfully silent…so much for his claim to subject Bojo to the same level of scrutiny he did Ken…

at 11:33 am on June 4, 2008
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     BenSix

In fairness to the Standard, it was Kate Hoey who reported it on her blog.

I’d be very interested to know if the story made it to today’s issue, however.

at 12:41 pm on June 4, 2008
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     ukliberty

In fairness to the Standard, I’m sure I read about this in the evening edition.

at 1:15 pm on June 4, 2008
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     Adam Bienkov

Suffice to say, Gilligan wasn’t at the press conference today.

However, to be fair to the Standard, Pippa Crerar and others did ask Boris questions related to this, although characteristically Boris didn’t seem to know anything about them (or at least appeared not to.)

at 2:54 pm on June 4, 2008
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5.  comment by
     Ben G

Stop all this fairness to the Standard!

at 4:07 pm on June 4, 2008
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6.  comment by
     BenSix

“Stop all this fairness to the Standard!”

Heh, we can’t have double standards. We should be duly grateful and shower the standard with fairness.

at 4:07 pm on June 4, 2008
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7.  comment by
     BenSix

*Standard (I’m petty).

at 4:09 pm on June 4, 2008
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8.  comment by
     BenSix

* Why did I say Kate Hoey above? I meant Pippa Crerar.

(Triple post and I’m going for a record).

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at 2:04 pm on June 5, 2008
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[...] wish, but it turns out the man replacing him has decided he’d quite like a bit of that. Via LC, The Tory Troll uncovers the £465,000 Mayor Johnson has spent on a ‘transition team’ [...]

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