Guest blog: Unfit for Carphone Warehouse, but OK for the Olympics?

Posted by Progressive London Tuesday, 09 December 2008 12:13

By Darren Johnson AM
 
Twenty-four hours after Carphone Warehouse boss, David Ross, was forced to resign after breaking Financial Services Authority regulations, I was almost certain I would be writing of his departure from the Olympics board, too.
 
But incredibly, he is still hanging on in there and we have had no word at all from the man who appointed him, Boris Johnson. 
 

The Mayor appointed David Ross as his representative on LOCOG, the body organising the Games with special responsibility for overseeing the budget and legacy issues.
 
It doesn't take a genius to work out that if someone is deemed unfit to sit on the board of Carphone Warehouse, they are hardly the right person to keep the Olympics budget under control.
 
Those who assumed the chaos surrounding the early days of the Boris administration would settle down into something more competent may have an awful long wait.

NOON UPDATE : Pippa Crerar of the Evening Standard has breaking news that David Ross has gone. More here. 

* Darren Johnson is a Green Party member of the London Assembly