A query for Boris

Apologies for the lack of blog entries for ages. I've been simply excessively busy so I made a conscious decision to suspend just about all of my hobbies until I'd cleared my backlog. This included blogging.

Having moved to London recently for work, I have become reacquainted with all the city's good things (eg theatre) and its many bad things (principally everything to do with transport).
One of the things I have long despised about London is the sheer lack of taxis. London cabbies seem to be held in a public affection that I find wholly impossible to understand. There are too few taxis in London, especially at night. We all tolerate it and we shouldn't.
Boris Johnson is slightly mad but he's running to become mayor of London. Despite Boris's free market enthusiasms, I saw nothing on his website about specifics of exactly how he was going to improve London's pitiful transport system, should he become mayor. I therefore sent this query via his website:

"Hi

Could you please tell me what Boris’s position is with respect to taxi deregulation, or at least doing something that means it’s possible to get a taxi in London late at night? I’ve travelled to a lot of cities around the world and without doubt London has the most expensive, most hard-to-get taxis of any city I’ve visited. Many people don’t go into central London at the weekend because of the pain of getting home. This must be extremely bad for London’s economy and robs us of the facility to enjoy our city to its full potential.

If Boris were clearly to support a policy of loosening the grip that licensed taxi drivers have over cabs in London, he’d get my vote instead of Ken. I just can’t bear the idea of vast numbers of foreign visitors coming to London for the Olympics and finding that we have about eight taxis that work after 11pm and they cost a king’s ransom. In an age of GPS, there is simply no need for “the knowledge” and the restrictive practices that go with it. More, cheaper taxis would improve people’s lives much more than they might initially imagine.

Regards"

I shall let you know what reply I get.