Bojo to fly cattle class to China...

"The Olympic Games are important to London, as is our presence during the Beijing Games, but I want to ensure every aspect is kept under tight financial control. There were some pretty unrealistic things planned, which would have cost a lot of taxpayer money, but which would have had marginal value to Londoners."

Another exuberant plan that Bojo has scrapped is the idea of flying eight of Gordon Ramsay's chefs over to Beijing to provide expensive food to the London team and their guests, suggesting that where Livingstone was planning to promote the virtues of London through a display of flair, entourage, and materialism, Boris has gone for the more spartan version of management that was promised during his election campaign.

It's hard to imagine any other politicians flying economy class on a long haul flight to China, but, whether you like him or not, it's easy to envisage Johnson shooting the shit over the complimentary peanuts with whoever finds themselves sitting next to him. Though a lot of politicians may talk of being men or women of the people, we can see through their actions that this simply isn't true. Boris continually proves himself to be what he's always said he is, which on the current political scene is incredibly rare indeed.

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