Of course, Livingstone has, as before, the honour of not being elected when his count was almost a million votes.

When you consider most politicians have a few thousand at best....

One interesting aspect is how political parties think all votes are based on their policies and performance. London Mayor election bucked the national trend to the effect that this truly had to be a personality vote.

It is bemusing to think that both Mayors have treated their domain in exactly the same way as GLC was run under Livingstone many years ago. So Cameron was congratulating Johnson on his interventionist almost socialist policies.

And they said irony is dead....