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McRant on Boris

10th August 2014

McRant on Boris

So bumbling blond buffoon Boris Johnson is going to go for an MP’s position, an essential pre requisite to his inevitable challenge for the Tory party leadership.

As the ‘Morning Star’ correctly pointed out with his mayoral position and his newspaper column the MP’s position will make him three jobs Johnson. There is the mayors job itself, which he promised Londoners was the sole job that he would be concentrating on, which pays £143, 911 per year; his job as a columnist for the Telegraph which pays £250.000 a year. The MP job would just top that up by £66,396 a year. It really is dreadful in this day and age how people have to do two or three jobs just to make ends meet.

London hotel workers were protesting outside of city hall in August in relation to the fact that they do not get the London living wage, which stands at £8.80 an hour. This despite the mayor’s populist and hypocritical support for it.

Over in the states the President of Kentucky state university, Raymond Burse, has given uo $90,000 of his salary to ensure that low paid workers at the university get a $3 an hour rise in their hourly rate.

What an example for BoJo to follow. Our prospective leader of the Tory party and future prime minister could pick up a few brownie points here, or is three jobs Johnson really big job Johnson - and we are not referring to the Prime Minister’s job here

Steve Mckenzie

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