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Nov. 4 2009 - 4:21 am | 182 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Cycling Mayor of London saves woman from street attack

Boris Johnson saves woman from street attack… Green filmmaker Franny Armstrong pays tribute to ‘my knight on a shining bicycle’. Boris Johnson rescued a woman from three “feral kids” who were wielding an iron bar, chasing them away on his bicycle, it emerged tonight.

via Boris Johnson saves woman from street attack | UK news | guardian.co.uk.

The three feral kids were apparently not much older than twelve, though one of them was carrying an iron bar as big as she was. The activist filmmaker in question confessed that she was traditionally a labour supporter, but that when it came to fending off nasty minded little guttersnipes, she’d opt for Boris the Tory every time over his opponent ‘red Ken’ Livingstone. Quite right too.

This on a day when I received mail from my brother, who works for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in London. Father to a handsome one year old, Craig worries about his son growing up in ‘broken Britain’, as the tabloids, quite correctly for a change, insist on calling it. He despairs of his young lad one day becoming a ‘CHAV’ (said to stand for Council House & Violence) or joining some knife wielding street gang.

It’s going to take more than chivalrous cycling civil servants to put his mind at rest, and quite understandably.


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