The votes are in, the counting over. At five minutes to midnight on Friday 2nd May 2008, after a day of the sort of drama that only the process of counting crosses pencilled in on sheets of coloured paper can bring, returning officer Anthony Meyer (‘Meyer’, how unbearably apt) pronounced that London has a new leader.
The people of the financial capital of the world, a centre of arts and culture, learning and science, the home of time itself, have come together and voted in record numbers, for a man with a single purpose; a politician with a particular plan; a mayor with a mission. That man is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, his plan:
To create a new bus for London, with a rear corner open to the outside air carrying on-board a man or woman able to collect tickets and known as a ‘conductor’.
In his own words, when describing a Johnson mayoralty, he said:
“We should on day one, act one, scene one, hold a competition to get rid of the bendy bus.
“It’s not beyond the wit of man to design a new Routemaster which will stand as an icon of this city.”
A plan so bold that it requires a written record of its progress. Welcome then to the Wonderbus, a journal of London’s fantastical voyage to build a new large road vehicle capable of carrying numerous persons. The road we’ll travel will have both hills and valleys for sure, but along the way with luck and a good wind, we might just learn a little more about Boris and perhaps London too. So fish out some change from your pockets and prepare for the cry.
All aboard!
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