Outside Left is always pleased to hear from the London mayor's office. So when Boris Johnson's aides last week replied to a blog published in April about the dishevelled one's apparent U-turn on funding for rape crisis centres, the impression given was of another U-turn - a W-turn, no less.
The response, from Johnson's press office, trumpets the £1.4m over three years the mayor has kindly set aside to improve provision of the centres.
We knew he's do it with a little prompting and, of course, his much-publicised efficiency savings.
Only he hasn't. Another blog, Boris Watch, has done the sums and points out that the funding comes to less than £500,000 a year, some £250,000 less than Johnson pledged in his mayoral election manifesto.
Although the mayor's team has let us know how much Johnson is now now apportioning to the rape crisis centres - albeit dressing it up as the launch of a new policy rather than the paring down of an old one - we are still left pondering what should have been.
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