London's mayoralty explained

I thought I was the only one to use the worl bufoon associated with BJ. Disappointed with the Londoners who did not vote. Im not giving anyone who didnt vote my time if they start complaining!

Boris has a tough gig. It will be the best of times and the worst of times. Austerity is clearly biting. The opening ceremony of the Olympic Stadium shows how tough times are. They had only about 50 balloons that they let go...and that was it for the opening ceremony. Like that's all they could afford. I had more than that on my last birthday. One has to feel sorry for those poor wretched people of that blighted nation. Oh well. Stiff upper lip and all that.

So King Boris of Buffoonland has made it back in by the skin of his teeth. This probably owes a lot more to the British weakness for cards than his massive executive ability and there's no doubt he has a larger entertainment value than the erstwhile newt fancier although Boris is not without his Wodehousian overtones. I see some are already touting him as the next leader of the conservative party. Not an impossibility when one remembers that Disraeli was the leader of the party of the gentlemen of England, but I don't find it very persuasive. Congratulations to King Boris, Jack Welch you're probably not, but like cards have always done you do add to the general level of merriment and that's no small achievement.