Boris 4 London
Voting in the London Mayoral elections is now well under way. Those ever fickle polls (that usually influence rather than convey public opinion) are showing a reasonable lead for Boris Johnson.
Whether or not he wins is another matter entirely of course, though I expect he will. Just. The tide is now noticeably turning against Labour and against Ken.
Whether a Boris win is a good thing for either London or this country is debatable though. As Peregrine Worsthorne said in the First Post today of Boris Johnson, ‘take away the gags and jokes and nothing much is left’. Much the same could be said of the elitist metropolitan classes that now infect the majority of political institutions and parties in this country.
Still, at the end of the day, sum zero Boris is more positive than Ken Livingstone who languishes in complete negativity on almost all fronts; whether he is vocally supporting brutal communist regimes in Cuba or Venezuela or comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
Thankfully since I do not live in London and will not be voting in these elections, I will not be affected by its result (directly anyway) and can rest with a clear conscious tonight.
