As someone with a big mouth you may say, I actually admire Boris Johnson for his brazen ability to put his proverbial foot in it.
Quirky characters in politics can be a good thing; they can make elections more exciting, engaging and energetic.
Boris Johnson however - gaffe prone that he is - presents a clear and present danger to Medway.
Thus far local Conservatives, many of whom slavishly serve the party machine in Westminster, have dutifully followed the line on Boris Johnson.
Many who actually stood apart from him in December and January are now effectively boosom buddies to him now. Endorsing his every move and whim.
I have expressed my major concern that local Conservatives need to make it clear that if they are now backing Boris, which many on the Peninsula appear to be doing, they are effectively backing the Estuary Airport. Boris is the lead, indeed the arch, proponent for the destruction of the Peninsula and with an electoral mandate for a Conservative in London we will see an elected individual with the full force of millions behind him. It makes the prospect of a full-blown fight, an expensive fight at that from your council tax, all but inevitable locally.
And what slipped out today should send shivers down the spine of anyone living on the Peninsula.
All the debate thus far has been about Heathrow v Estuary Airport and whether one woud need to close to open another. What if, the estuary airport was in addition to Heathrow; a smaller airport in the Thames Estuary.
That prospect today came very much closer when Boris spoke to the Evening Standard:
So there we have it. It is not either / or anymore. It is Heathrow AND Hoo. A very very different position indeed.
Cameron should come clean now; and tell us whether the government is considering the maintenance of Heathrow with additional capacity in the North Kent area.
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