KHOODEELAAR! updating the evidence of the callousness of Crossrail touting role being played by Boris Johnson [320.b]

1630 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 25 November 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
CRASS role playing NY USA-manufactured fabricator Brian LIESAID [Oops!] of Btoomberg, peddling Crossrail peddler BORIS Johnson peddling against Crossrail peddler Gordon Brown! How comprehensively crass!!!

"London Mayor Says Prime Minister Spends Money ‘Like a Drunk’
By Brian Lysaght

Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- London Mayor Boris Johnson, who depends on U.K. government grants to generate two-thirds of the City Hall budget, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spending money “like a drunk.”

Writing in his weekly column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper today, Johnson said the country is broke and that Brown “squandered” money when the economy was growing. His column is critical of the government’s pre-budget report yesterday.

Brown “is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well,” Johnson wrote. “He is like a drunk who has woken to the most appalling hangover, and who reaches for the whisky bottle to help him dull the pain.”

Johnson, a Conservative former member of Parliament, was elected in May, defeating two-term incumbent Ken Livingstone, a member of Brown’s Labour Party. Johnson leads a capital hit by a recession, falling property prices and job cuts in the financial- services industry.

Brown’s budget proposals yesterday, aimed at guiding Britain through the global economic slump, will cost 25.6 billion pounds ($38.7 billion) and represent the U.K.’s biggest round of stimulus since 1988.

“There is nothing wrong in principle with a fiscal stimulus,” the mayor wrote. “What makes the remedy so desperate is that Gordon Brown managed to squander such eye-watering sums when times were good.”

Johnson last week pledged to “kick-start” the city’s housing industry by using 5 billion pounds provided by Brown’s government over three years to increase the provision of low- income homes.

To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Lysaght in London at blysaght@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: November 25, 2008 07:23 EST