One of Boris Johnson's favourite jibes during the mayoral election campaign was that under Mayor Livingstone City Hall's lights were left on all night. So much for Green Ken, eh? Yet a leak just in from the sinister cell of muesli-munching, Che-fancying Ken-worshippers yet to be purged by the The Blond's regime alleges that some of the latter's members have been – whisper it – wasteful with London's energy supply in ways frowned on under its predecessor.
Apparently those members of Johnson's ill-fated transition team who remain in post after all this time have installed in their office a pair of plasma tellys tuned to rolling news. These were recently found switched on at 8.00 in the evening, some time after the "consultants" had gone home, meaning they'd have been left on all night.
Tut tut. And all a far cry, I'm told, from the distant day under Livingstone when some City Hall staffers arrived in the morning to find miniature Green and Blacks milk chocolates bars had been placed on their keyboards. Others didn't. Later, an email was circulated explaining this discrimination. The chocs had been awarded to those good boys and girls who'd switched off their computers before going home the previous evening. Those who'd failed to would know better next time. Sweet.
