*Mayor’s attitude to Women and Equalities.

From the Mayor’s Questiontime at the GLA, last week:

Women and equalities
Question: You have not yet appointed an advisor on women’s issues. Can you confirm when you will do this?

Mayor: I do not wish to trivialise women’s issues by confining them to one appointee- I expect these issues to be dealt with, and taken into account by, all senior members of my administration.
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What a total cop-out!

Another question, this time from Green Assembly Member, Darren Johnson is even more illustrative:

Functional body appointments
Question No: 998 / 2008
Darren Johnson
Are you concerned that, following your appointment of Tim Parker to the Chair of Transport for London; Brian Coleman to the Chair of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority; Harvey McGrath as interim head of the London Development Agency; and eventually yourself to the Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, no women or black and minority ethnic Londoners will be heading any arm of London Government?

MAYOR: I was elected to represent all Londoners, and that is what I intend to do.
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From that answer you could conclude that the Boris idea of ‘all Londoners’ is confined to white males.