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Back into the fray

机译：重返战场

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At times, it can seem as though London is stuck in 2008. The property market is still buoyant and, at the top end, still hotly contested by the global rich. Costly projects, such as the city-traversing Crossrail and the Olympic games, have not fallen victim to austerity. And, in May, voters will be asked to choose between the same two mayoral candidates who. were on the ballot four years ago: Boris Johnson, the Conservative incumbent, and Ken Livingstone, his Labour predecessor. Mr Johnson (pictured above) is the current favourite. An opinion poll last November gave him a lead of 48% to 40% (Brian Paddick, the Liberal Democrat candidate and another 2008 retread, registered just 7%). The incumbent, who is known for his chaotic charisma, has run the city competently enough. Crime has continued to fall and minor improvements have been made to public transport, including a cycle-hire scheme and the end of the hated "bendy" bus. Mr Johnson has also frozen City Hall's take from local taxes and lobbied for more infrastructure spending and a looser immigration policy. Although he has many fewer powers than an American big-city mayor-the central government and the capital's 32 boroughs collectively have more sway-Mr Johnson has asserted some new ones. He has turned himself into a spokesman for the City, as the financial district is known. In 2008 he sacked London's police chief.
机译：有时，伦敦似乎陷入了2008年。房地产市场仍然活跃，在高端市场，全球富人仍在激烈竞争。昂贵的项目，例如穿越城市的Crossrail和奥运会，并未成为紧缩政策的牺牲品。并且，在五月，将要求选民在两位相同的市长候选人之间进行选择。在四年前进行了投票：保守党现任总统鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）和他的工党前任肯·利文斯通（Ken Livingstone）。约翰逊先生（如上图）是当前的最爱。去年11月的一次民意测验使他领先48％到40％（自由民主党候选人布赖恩·帕迪克（Brian Paddick）和2008年的另一次翻新，仅占7％。现任者以其混乱的魅力而闻名，他已经足够熟练地管理着这座城市。犯罪率持续下降，对公共交通的改善不大，包括单车出租计划和讨厌的“笨拙”公共汽车的终止。约翰逊先生还冻结了市政厅的地方税，并游说增加基础设施支出和宽松的移民政策。尽管他的权力比美国大城市市长少得多，但中央政府和首都的32个行政区合起来拥有更大的影响力。约翰逊先生断言一些新权力。他已成为金融区众所周知的纽约市发言人。 2008年，他解雇了伦敦的警察局长。

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    《The economist》 |2012年第8766期|p.45|共1页
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