BlackMan Time

It is a sign of the times when a bumbling, upper class Conservative party twit like Boris Johnson can topple someone like Ken Livingstone an outside Labour party member and really likeable bloke, in the race to become mayor of London.

I along with countless others no doubt, took it for granted that after already spending eight years in the position, Ken would have been given the mandate to continue the work he had been doing. I was spectacularly wrong!

As many critics have already observed, Ken’s loss is a damning indictment of the huge unpopularity of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The voters probably voted against Labour rather than against Ken because Brown is seen as an ineffective, characterless leader with the charm of a rattlesnake and the endearing features of a town. OK, those are just my observations!

Thus, voters want a change and voted against whatever was there already which meant that both Gordon and Ken would fare really badly. If this was a general election the Conservatives would be in power and this fact must now surely have the Labour party quaking in its boots.

But to call Boris a breath of fresh would be like stretching a joke beyond a point where the audience is comfortable. He was only elected because the voters saw him as the better alternative among the London mayor hopefuls.

Don’t expect any radical or innovative new fixes to old problems from Boris. He will surely need time to settle into his new position. But, he will no doubt provide hundreds of quotable quips, in his continuing role as loveable buffoon.

Imagine it: prior to winning Boris the buffoon was invariably portrayed in the media as an educated, bumbling, uptown idiot with a knack for saying the most inappropriate things at the wrong time. That

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