ON the spot, even though his term of office at London TravelWatch was
up in September...his support for Boris, his undoing. What a pillock.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7431766.stm

On 2 Jun, 17:48, Chris btinternet.com> wrote:

Fantastic, that's great news. I was waiting for the latest on this -
the London Assembly Transport Committee held an extraordinary meeting
this morning on this issue. Mr Cooke's completely inexcusable partisan
behaviour during the election campaign was a total disgrace.

The background to this can be found on the Committee's agenda papers
for today's meeting - in particular the the statement he released
offering support for Mr Johnson can be read in Appendix B here (PDF):
http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/transport/2008/jun02/item06.pdf

His fig leaf of issuing said statement in a 'personal capacity' was
just that - he is supposed to be an independent impartial ombudsman,
and his actions completely invalidated that.

This will be a salutary lesson in how not to do things. What an
utterly stupid way to get the sack.

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On 2 Jun, 18:15, "Paul Scott" btinternet.com> wrote:

Yes:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23480878-details/TfL+watchdog...

It'll be interesting what Boris says about this.

U

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Serves the fat drunken grovelling bastard right he will have to get a proper
job now,I hear that there's a job going up at Transport for London as a
shit shovellers assistant there's also a job as a pox doctors clerk but you
have to be able to read & write to qualify

"Mr Thant" googlemail.com> wrote in message
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Takes up a lot of room doesn't he - I hope he pays for three tickets when he
uses 3+2 seating as pictured!

Paul S

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:48:16 -0700 (PDT), Chris
btinternet.com> wrote:

Muppet. Exactly what he deserved.

Mr Thant wrote:

'Brian Who', one suspects. It was always possible that this was a
long-term play for a position higher up in the Boris team, but I can't
see that happening now, regardless of the fact that the three Tory
members who turned up (if the fourth Tory member had appeared the
decision would have been split 4-4 with one abstention) gave Mr. Cooke
an extremely benevolent reading of the situation ('a technical breach',
one called it, and another talked about a 'witch hunt').

On 2 Jun, 18:35, Mr Thant googlemail.com>
wrote:

Indeed - especially as Brian Cooke's pre-election statement was
actually released *through* Boris Johnson's campaign.

See this MayorWatch piece:
http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/article_id-1583.html

It would appear that BoJo's campaign team realised this might not be
right, as they apparently removed it from the official backboris.com
website later that day according to a blog entry on the Livingstone
campaign website which (for the record) said this:

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:07:50 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T gmail.com>
wrote:

I agree that it's the right decision. His comments were completely
inappropriate for someone in his position and given the well understood
and publicised rules governing the Mayoral elections and "purdah".