London blogger Tory Troll has this piece about Andrew Gilligan, frequent critic of former London Mayor Ken Livingstone.
Gilligan used a rather unusual turn of phrase in his Evening Standard column on Monday, on London’s bendy buses. The same phrase had cropped up earlier in anonymous comments on the same subject in other London political blogs, leading to accusations that the journalist is sockpuppeting.
Just a coincidence?
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Helen will forgive me going off-topic by asking the following questions:
If articulated buses in London are congestion-causing, cyclist-killing menaces in London, why don’t they create a similar reaction in Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Bolton etc etc and – indeed – all over mainland Europe ???
The simple truth is that Gilligan has been peddling myths and half-truths, and then backing himself up under pseudonyms. We’d rather like this to be the end of any credibility he has on the subject.
Boris Johnson has now accepted they don’t squash cyclists, which doesn’t answer the question of who told him that they *did*.
He’s still a hero for squashing the 45 minute claim, though.
Hero? Kelly squashed 45 minutes and Gilligan hung him out to dry to the extent that he killed himself!
I’ve been getting the same “Gilligan” treatment. I find it all rather sad and amusing. There will be more to follow.