Mizter T wrote:

I think John B is on the record as saying he'll eat a hat factory if
there hasn't been an announcement by the end of the year. That said,
perhaps he's calculated that there won't be any hat factories left!


That's probably the most useful thing John Band has ever said on here. I
sincerely hope he gets to keep his promise.


Of course an announcement in the next year doesn't mean that what gets
announced will actually happen - the government's going to change next
May, and the Tories are talking about making lots of "hard
choices"


NuLabour has been littered with announcements and re-announcements (and
re-re-announcements) of things they are going to do, but don't. This
will be no different.


(see the other thread about the purported Tory threat to
Crossrail... though I do wonder if this is a pre-emptive strike by
Boris & co or some other interested pro-Crossrail protagonist(s)... )


Boris is as much a thorn in the Tories' side as Ken was in Labour's. ;-)