Explaining his decision not to seek the Tory nomination to last night's Evening Standard, Mr Bird admitted that he veers from the extreme Right-wing (the modern benefits system is a form of "social poisoning" that creates dependency and "sponsors failure") to its diametric opposite ("social housing should be the supreme priority of all regeneration schemes").
The Independent covers the news this morning:
"Londoners, he said, were brushing shoulders with crime, social dislocation and antisocial behaviour all the time. "The first thing I would do as mayor would be to look at the great oxygenators of social conflict in London. " But Mr Bird was equivocal on the principal issue which divides the opinion of Londoners in the Livingstone era - the congestion zone, recently extended westwards, where motorists pay to enter central London. Mr Bird said that while it was a "brave" and possibly necessary thing to do, it was badly run and had harmed Mr Livingstone's reputation."
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