Boris Keep Your Promise campaign launches


by Sunny Hundal    
8:33 pm - May 29th 2009

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A new campaign has launched today, called Boris Keep Your Promise. They say:

There is only one remaining Rape Crisis centre for the whole of London.

That’s one small centre for 3.9 million women. The staff and volunteers who run the centre work with constant danger of closing over their heads and can never be sure that their core funding costs can be met from year to year. During the run-up to his election, Boris Johnson promised, with much PR fanfare, to pay for three new centres and fund the only remaining centre for at least 4 years. That he will fulfill that promise, or even part of it, is now seriously in doubt.

Of course Boris Johnson breaking campaign promises is nothing new but this one matters a lot. Spread the word please! Here’s their website, Facebook group and Twitter page (#boriskeepyourpromise). There is also a fundraising event on 4th June.

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Sunny Hundal is editor of LC. Also: on Twitter, at Pickled Politics and Guardian CIF.
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1. Rayyan

Great idea for a campaign! Boris is a twat

2. Mark M

Good thing Labour and Lib Dems don’t break campaign promises isn’t it?

What was that? A referendum? Oh yeah….

3. Shatterface

A promise is a promise and the fact that Labour breaks them doesn’t absolve Boris of his duty.

It’s an important cause I think we can all get behind.

4. Mark M

Shatterface

Quite, but to suggest Boris is the first politician ever to not deliver what he promised is completely false. He could easily have balanced this post up and made it not look like another Tory bashing post.

I do agree, politicians should be made to keep their promises.

5. Danar

How about his promise to end Tube strikes? Will you campaign to pressure Boris to keep that?


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