It has always been the habit of those in power, and their supporters, to decry and call for the closure of people and organisations who disagree with them.
I think Boris has a good chance of getting in, on the same basis as this government got elected on an 'anybody but the Tories' landslide, he is likely to get in on an 'anybody but Ken' one.
Ken got a sympathy vote in the first place, but he has wiped out most of the charitable feelings in his erstwhile supporters with his doctrinaire socialism.
Ken is Labour's Maggie Thatcher, he was a good and a needed thing at first, but his inability to moderate his lunacy has lost him his credibility.
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