Johnson appointee Kate Hoey said London did not deserve to win the Olympics
Ken Livingstone's campaign said:
‘For weeks, people have been asking who Boris Johnson will bring in to run his administration, given that everyone knows he's not competent to do it himself.
'The fact that Boris Johnson has decided to appoint someone, Kate Hoey, who said Paris and not London deserved to win Olympic Games to be in charge of sport in London, who is a leading member of the Countryside Alliance and who with Johnson is a fellow fox-hunting enthusiast shows how little Boris Johnson understands the needs of Londoners and their views - especially our young people.
‘Kate Hoey said of the 2012 Olympic Games that "we don't deserve it and Paris does" and said "the inevitability is that Paris will win". This shows her complete lack of support for the London and for the single biggest sporting event that the Mayor will have to deliver.
'Only Yesterday Boris Johnson hailed a new supporter who then proceeded to launch a savage attack on extension of Freedom Pass to 24 hours a day - a position so embarrassing the Boris Johnson campaign took it down off their own website after two hours.
'Ken Livingstone's administration has shown its ability to deliver for eight years whilst Boris Johnson is assembling a rag bag of people whose views are completely rejected by Londoners. But each announcement does show how profoundly right wing and narrow any Boris Johnson administration would be.'
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Notes:
Yesterday Boris Johnson issued a statement from one of his supporters attacking the 24 Hour Freedom Pass: http://www.kenlivingstone.com/page/-/Johnson%20Cooke%20statement.pdf
Kate Hoey's remarks on London not deserving to win the 2012 Games: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/dec/12/communities.comment