How do you know Boris will let me down? He may turn out to be an excellent mayor. He may turn out to be awful. What he wont do is turn the Mayor's office into a platform for self aggrandizement and his whinging and whining loony mates; but I think we have had this argument before elsewhere, haven't we, lox.

To give Ken his credit, he is brilliant and resourseful; but his shortfalls far outweighed all of this. The freinds he kept were dangerous and he gave them either platforms or jobs in his office. I think Boris was so kind to him was becasue Ken, from what I hear, was close to tears at losing his job. Me too: Mind you, they were tears of joy. Unless you are a victim of the IRA, doesn't Ken cry easily.Remember when he started blubbing when he apologised to black people for London's part in the slave trade and there werent even any cringe sheilds for his audiance to hide behind.