Yesterday Boris Johnson was in Victoria Park taking the first ride on a new zip wire. This is what happened, courtesy of ITV:
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So that’s ‘Zippy’. Does that make DCam ‘Bungle’? 🙂
Where is that huge pair of scissors when you need them?
I doubt this will hurt BoJo much. He’s made a career out of being ridiculous.
Why would it hurt Boris at all? It wasn’t his fault. He’s a mayor, not a zip-wire designer. Looks like the designer didn’t design the thing properly.
I thought we’d long ago stopped hanging politicians. Or perhaps it was cleverly arranged to dramatise Boris’ tendency to leave sentences hanging in mid-air.