Hanging around

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Hanging around

By Mary Reid | Thu 2nd August 2012 - 3:52 pm

Yesterday Boris Johnson was in Victoria Park taking the first ride on a new zip wire. This is what happened, courtesy of ITV:

* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.

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5 Comments

Tony Dawson 2nd Aug '12 - 5:59pm

So that’s ‘Zippy’. Does that make DCam ‘Bungle’? 🙂
alistair 3rd Aug '12 - 8:56am

Where is that huge pair of scissors when you need them?
Christian De Feo 3rd Aug '12 - 10:52am

I doubt this will hurt BoJo much. He’s made a career out of being ridiculous.
Richard Dean 3rd Aug '12 - 11:13am

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.
Simon Banks 5th Aug '12 - 4:36pm

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.

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