- 76% of London Daily News readers say "yes" to Boris over the Prime Minister
Editorial
Mayor of London Boris Johnson is turning his fire on the lacklustre coalition Government with more and more of the Conservative grassroots expressing their frustrations at the handling of the economy by the coalition. In a new poll today in The London Daily News 76% of readers of the online newspaper for London said Boris Johnson would make a better Prime Minister than David Cameron.
With Mayor Johnson recent salvo designed to directly appeal to the right wing of the Conservative party "you’ve got to look at ways of stimulating growth now, and certainly I think you should look at National Insurance,” and continued and said “you should look at ways of stimulating consumption confidence in the market.”
The game is "on" for Mayor Johnson who is facing re-election in 2012 to try to mobilise his support in London, and win a second term in office, and at the same time turn his fire on the Prime Minister who is loosing the support of the grassroots right wing in the Conservative.
On the abolition of the 50p tax rate Mayor Johnson said this would “signal that London is open for business”, and that London was struggling to complete with much lower tax rates in places like Dubai.
London is facing one of its most challenging economic conditions with the likes of UBS, the BBC, local authorities; retail stores all making job cuts in operations in London. What we need now above all is strong leadership and a clear path to economic growth, not damaging measures that have the likes of Greece and other economies in the EU utterly decimated. Mayor Johnson has been adept at certain aspects during his "mayoralty" but when it comes to "high politics" he still remains untested, how would international leaders react to Boris in Brussels? Time may tell, with the 2012 Olympic Games a year away Mayor Johnson is being coveted by the international media as never before and is growing his media profile abroad.
