My Advice To London’s Mayor Boris Johnson: Pull The Plug On 2012 Olympics

October 23, 2009

Now that everyone in Britain apart from Lord Coe accepts that it would not be a great idea to host the summer Olympic Games in 2012 in London, considering that there is no money available, StirringTroubleInternationally once again calls on London’s Mayor Boris Johnson to make that crucial decision and simply pull the plug on the Games. Yes, after the Government itself accepted last year that had it known that a crisis was coming it would have rejected the idea of staging the Games in London, Mr Johnson should tell the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that the British capital simply does not have the money to provide the same level of organisation as the Chinese did in 2008. Because, so that you know, that is what the President of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, has demanded. He wants London...

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Category: Point Of View
Tags: London, Olympics

Angry Rants Of A Londoner: The Mayor Is Hopeless

August 27, 2009

Adam Lovejoy writes: Pardon me for asking, but what the hell has the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, actually done for our once great city, since he was elected last year? What is it exactly that he has changed in the British capital that made it a better place to live in? Words, words, words, said the Bard once, and this is what exactly we got, and are still getting, from Mr Johnson: plenty of words, and sometimes hints but not much action. I will do this and I will do that. And may be I will not even stand for the second term – wink, wink – because I might be tempted to do something different, like becoming Prime Minister. That man, Johnson, had the nerve to tell us that he could use his position as a Mayor of London to stage a bid for the leadership of the Conservative party....

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Category: Life In The UK
Tags: Boris Johnson, London, mess

An Open Letter To London Mayor Boris Johnson. Well, Sort Of An Open Letter

August 16, 2009

R.F.Wilson writes: I would like to tell London’s Mayor, Boris Johnson – in the style of open letter – that I have had enough of his gimmicks and stunts. He has really lost the plot by deciding to suffocate the city with his 40,000 bicycles that would be available for rent at some stupid renting points. The man is delirious. There are already too many cars and people in London, and way too many cyclists who clog up the streets and behave like savages by cycling down the pavements, jumping red lights and deliberately getting in the ways of cars. So I say to Mr Johnson: Hey, Mr Mayor! What are you, Chinese? Aren’t you taking you silly green games a bit too far? Haven’t you got anything else better to do? You cycle yourself for political reasons. You want to...

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Category: Angry Rants
Tags: bicycles, London, Mayor Boris Johnson

Problems With Driving In London. Notes From A Diary Of A Mad Former Politician

August 15, 2009

Ramps, ramps everywhere in London. Just because several dozen idiots drive around like kamikazes the rest of us, sensible motorists, have to suffer. We now have to slow down every couple of yards on practically every bloody road in London and crawl over each ramp to avoid damaging our car’s suspension or exhaust pipe. Who decides to build these ramps and why? They cannot be motorists themselves. They are probably illegal immigrants or foreign spies who hate us, motorists, and want to make our lives hell. These ramps don’t save anyone or help control traffic. They are a nuisance on the roads, a hazard. They should be all removed. It is time for us, motorists, to unite. We should form a political movement and call ourselves Campaign Against Ramps, or CAR for short. And later we...

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Category: Life In The UK
Tags: London, traffic

Driving In London: Rants Of A Madman

August 12, 2009

I can’t stand people who cross the street: they come up to a pedestrian crossing and have that look in their eyes as if we, drivers, owe them something. And so we stop, cursing them for wasting our time and crossing the road for no reason. What is there on the other side of the road that they so desperately need all of a sudden? The way I see it, there’s not much difference between the two sides. But no, theese people still have to cross roads. And we have to let them do it. Hurry up, people, cross the bloody street, if you have nothing else better to do! And before they step on the road they give us that suspicious look, as checking if we are planning to run them over. And only when they satisfy themselves that we, the drivers, are not some nutters, do they start walking. There...

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Category: Angry Rants
Tags: London, pedestrians, women drivers

A Diamond Heist In London. My Thoughts About It

August 12, 2009

A big diamond heist has taken place in London last week: in the middle of the day robbers had hit the famous Mayfair jewellers, Graff Diamonds, on Bond Street and got away with a cool £40 million in merchandise. Two men, dressed in expensive suits, walked into the store, without even trying to hide their faces from the security cameras, and then produced handguns, forced staff to open one of the safes and got away with the loot. Unique pieces of jewellery were stolen, including yellow a diamond necklace and a platinum diamond ring. Before any of you people start despairing about poor old Graffs, let me tell you something: jewellers always insure their merchandise so they do not exactly go under after each robbery. But, of course, the uniqueness of some items is irreplaceable, so it would be...

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Category: Word From The Editor
Tags: armed robbery, diamonds, London

London Has Become Hostile To Drivers. The ‘Asphalt War’ Is Raging And Fines Are Rising

July 8, 2009

London has joined Moscow to become one of the worst cities in the world to drive in. You might even say that the British capital has turned on its drivers. In fact, there is a war being waged by the local councils and Transport for London (TFL) against car owners – every day, every hour, every minute. Most of central London has been dug up and left unattended for weeks and even months, creating massive problems for traffic flow. Contractors, who receive millions from local councils, do not even bother to pretend that they are trying to complete the work at crucial routes running through the city as quickly as possible. The workers simply dig up the roads and then disappear. This perverse practice, which is used extensively in London against motorists, has been dubbed by Moscow drivers...

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Category: Life In The UK
Tags: conjestion, London, Moscow, traffic

Some Cab Drivers In London Are Thugs. But Most Are Good. Here’s My Advice To Them

June 18, 2009

Let me tell you what happened to me recently: I was out with two of my friends, T.M. and R.P., and we caught a Black Cab to drop off T.M. at his house off King’s Road and then for the two of us to get to another watering hole. I must confess that I did not like the face of the cab driver the moment I saw him, but I decided to proceed anyway, as it was not a long journey and it did not really matter who drove us. As T.M. disembarked outside his home, we drove on and about two hundred yards later the cab jumped on a ramp because the driver did not slow down and we were thrown up from our seats.‘Hey,’ I said to the cabbie, ‘watch it, mate.’ ‘Watch what?’ he said, in a rude voice. ‘What’s your problem?’ ‘You’re my problem,’ I said. ‘You...

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Category: Life In The UK
Tags: Black Cabs, confrontation, London

Next Week In London Promises To Be An Eventful One. In More Ways Than You Can Imagine

March 28, 2009

R.F.Wilson writes: Where do I start, ladies and gentlemen? How can I best describe to you the importance of the gathering next week in London of people from afar to discuss matters of great relevance? It was while I was sitting in pub in West London yesterday, waiting for a friend of mine to join me, that I first found out about the exciting things that were going to happen in the next few days on the banks of the Thames.There it was, in black and white, in a newspaper that somebody had left behind: the first ever ‘open university’ skill classes for prostitutes, both male and female, from all over Europe, would be held next week in London. For a moment I was struck by the apparent connection: the G20 summit taking place next week in the British capital and the first hooker’s seminar,...

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Category: Let's Be Cynical
Tags: G20 summit, London, prostitutes, sex workers

The Bid For The London 2012 Olympics Was A Con. The Games Should Be Scrapped

December 7, 2008

Thomas Mathew writes: We, at StirringTrouble, have long been promoting the idea of scrapping the London 2012 summer Olympic Games, simply because Britain can’t afford to stage a competition equal in its razzmatazz and level of organisation to the Chinese 2008 Games. It was total madness right from the start to decide to host this disaster and even spend a huge amount of money on winning the right to stage the Olympics. According to some people we spoke to, the British National Olympic Committee (NOC) had blown £100 million on the campaign to persuade the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to choose London as the stage for the 2012 Games. Just because some developers wanted to make money on the construction of the Olympic sites and some politicians, including the then Prime Minister,...

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Category: Life In The UK
Tags: London, Olympics