I lived and worked in London during his GLC days and would have voted for him if I'd been there today, though I've always voted Labour (and did so in a safe Tory area yesterday). His public transport policies were very good and his other policies less loony than the rightwing press like to pretend. The fact that Londoners were happy to vote for him support this. When will the Blairites realise that portraying even Roy Hattersley, who used to be on the soft right of the party, as a left wing "Old Labourite", for daring to criticise some policies, shows they have alienated most of their traditional supporters? Mustn't rant on, I'm beginning to sound like my father!
RtS