No proposals for fun and games in Hounslow, Kingston and Richmond though, but we will still have to pay our share for policing the high jinks. There will be lots of mileage in that. Pity it means killing the pigeons but that generates controversy and debate. London is too important to be dominated by a policy of stunts. But so far that's the way it's been.
Stunts have, however, a long tradition in government.
Roman emperors gave the plebeians bread and circuses to make them think that life wasn't really so bad after all. Nothing raised morale more than feeding a few Christians to the lions, high taxes were irrelevant compared to that. Caesar was fond of statues too.