Boris the Buffoon - an insult to London

So Boris the Buffoon Johnson is the Tory candidate for Mayor of London. Heaven help us if his very personal brand of tomfoolery actually makes it into City Hall. A Conservative Party spokesman said the contest had "captured the interest of the public and helped challenge voter apathy". That's a joke. Boris won 75% of the votes cast in the open Tory primary, but only 20,000 people bothered to take part.

The Tories must be wondering what new skeletons are about to come tumbling out of Boris's cupboards and what embarrassing inanities are going to slip from his mouth. He is, as the Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell said in his conference speech, the "blondest suicide note in history" and proof positive that the Tories are still not fit to govern.