Spanked
Dave Hill gives a rousing account of the first (and one of the toughest) hustings meeting of the 2012 campaign. Run by AgeUK, a hall of pensioners grilled the candidates this afternoon, and the verdict of the Guardian's City Hall specialist was that Boris got 'a spanking', and this in front of his supposedly strongest age group too:
In fact, it was a rout at times. Boris started well, charming a packed house with tales of his excellent house-keeping skills and appalling it with mention of a legendary Livingstonian trip to Cuba. But soon after that he was wearing an ambushed look.
He concludes...
It really was quite extraordinary to see Boris so out-quipped, out-witted and out-laughed. He produced all his now standard negative lines about the Tube unions, the council tax and old Fidel, but precious little for people to stand up and cheer.
Also worth checking out is Helene Mulholland's extensive live blog of the event, where she gives high marks to Brian Paddick's development since 2008 as a campaigner:
Today he exuded more confidence. Paddick's team are happy with how things went today, and in my view they have reason to be.
The headline has to be the spanking though. Boris got a spanking. Google, note these words.
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