Comments on: Row about cancellation of July Metropolitan Police Authority

By: Re-instated meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority - plenty to discuss but no - Lord Toby Harris

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:35:03 +0000

[...] Metropolitan Police Authority – reinstated after protests from the “Progressive Alliance” – is now in session. Mayor Boris Johnson is in the Chair and 20 of the 23 members are present. [...]

By: Toby

Toby — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:20:49 +0000

I wasn’t able to attend the relevant meeting.

By: Progressive Alliance 1; “I can’t be a***d” grouping 0 - Lord Toby Harris

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:33:30 +0000

[...] Metropolitan Police Authority meeting on 26th July has been reinstated - or at least it has now been conceded that there can be a short meeting that day (although it is [...]

By: MPA Follower

MPA Follower — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:20:05 +0000

Are you not a member of BMG Toby?

By: Brian Hughes

Brian Hughes — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:52:34 +0000

Perhaps the Mayor doesn’t want to be questioned about the “why didn’t the Met take any action about the alleged NoW instigated phone tapping” controversy.

By great misfortune I heard him claiming to know nothing about the case (even though it had been on the net for at least ten hours) on Radio 4 just before 7:30 and then again on Radio 5 just after.

(He also doesn’t seem to understand why hedge funds need regulating. He implied that because the present crisis wasn’t caused by hedge funds then no future one could possibly be. He can’t really be that dim can he?!).