Boris Johnson’s enemies are hoping for a final snow-down
London woke to snow and people wondered whether this time Boris Johnson would show true grit. His enemies reckon there’s no business like snow business for catching him out. They trust he will be found wanting, as he was by the unexpected snowfall in February 2009, when the city ground to a halt. Many people treasure the belief that the Mayor of London is fundamentally incompetent, and are disconcerted to find that sometimes whole months go by without any real evidence that the Tories have, in the words of the immortal Polly Toynbee, ‘put up a clown to run a great global city’.
The snow reached Scotland and the north of England first. On Monday, when it had already been freezing in London for several days but snow was not yet falling, I contacted City Hall to ask: ‘Is London ready for the snow?’ Back came the gung-ho reply: ‘You bet,’ together with a reassuring picture of the 27,000-tonne London Strategic Salt Reserve, at Cortina Drive, Thames Avenue, Dagenham.
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