Oh dear I was wondering how long it would be before some sub-adolescent yob pitched in with mindless personal abuse.For the benefit of your good self and others who missed the point, my prime concern was not actually about Johnson's moonlighting in itself but about Councillor Taylor's attitude to the democratic process and the electorate. I won't try to explain, it would only confuse you further.As regards Johnson's moonlighting, he had many years' experience (or perhaps one year's experience many times, to coin a phrase) of political journalism before becoming a politician, so I fail to see why he should need more now, even if he can really spare the time from the demanding full-time job of elected dictator running one of the world's largest city regions (larger in population and GDP than many countries including some European ones).A few solid spells in such occupations as miner, abbatoir worker, sewing machinist in a backstreet sweatshop, hospital nurse, deep sea trawler deckhand, office cleaner, security guard, supermarket checkout worker etc etc would surely be far more appropriate and give him the real life experience he and most other current politicians so evidently lack. Work as a media hack hardly counts as real life experience.In fact why not let's follow your logic further and decree that no politician is fitted to address crime prevention without they have solid prior and ongoing life experience as armed robbers, fraudsters, paedophiles etc?Many workers in other and often much less demanding occupations have conditions of employment imposed on them that they are expected to devote the whole of their time and energies to that employment and may not take other paid work. So why one rule for them and another for politicians in top political administration posts?And if you really can't see the difference between the job of political dictator heading and running a major city region of several million people (which is or should be a full-time job-and-a-half, and is certainly a highly-paid one), leader of a borough council covering a few square miles and a few hundred thousand people (which may be a full-time job) and a local ward councillor (which is unlikely to be a full time job), then all I can say is: stop bunking off school, get some education and learn to think before it's too late.
Chris Veasey ● 5063d