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At this rate Livingstone will be looking to LBC for his pension top-up, and not to you and me. So much the better. As far as I'm concerned, he makes a far better radio presenter than he ever did mayor of London.

Boris Johnson gets it right

"And if you want one decisive example of the terminal lunacy that afflicts this government, I give you the case the other day when a pair of female police officers discovered they were not allowed to babysit for each other, unless they both secured OFSTED credentials in baby-sitting.

Who is sitting there in OFSTED handing out degrees in baby-sitting to female police officers?

I don’t know – but I know that whoever it is no doubt draws a handsome salary and benefits and bomb-proof public sector pension and that is where the axe should fall.

Get rid of the nonsense, but don’t chop the investments essential to the UK economy. Cut the baby-sitting monitors, but don’t cut Crossrail. Cut the baby-sitting monitor human resources department, but don’t cut the tube upgrades. Cut the baby-sitting monitor equal opportunities action day but don’t cut the great projects and investments that will deliver jobs and growth now, and make London more attractive for generations to come."

Amen.

How refreshing.