Which, to the electorate of London, is what is know as a diabolical liberty. Boris doesn’t care about London. He is looking for a bit of a laugh, and this is his idea of one. He is the Tory party’s anti-Ken suicide bomber. Only he gets to write the book afterwards.

Apart from looking like a puppy in a paint advert, people like Johnson because they think he’s honest. His famous ’shambling’ reeks of perpetual apology for something. And people like it when someone seems to apologise to them. Just as Australian teenage girls seek to charm through perpetually asking permission with the rising inflectives of every sentence?

But in reality, what is it that Boris is being honest about and apologising for? As a tory politician, what else can it be but for the bankruptcy of the Tory ideas account? Whatever boarding school experiences pummelled those mannerisms into him, he comes across as the walking embodiment of Tory obsolescence, and his toff credentials are the sporran on the bridegroom, the deerstalker on the laird, the Range Rover in the forecourt, the top hat on the Piccadilly Johnnie. He is perfect for the part.

The trouble is, that throughout a lengthy election campaign he will therefore be a continual advert for tory uselessness- for the fact that it has no reason to exist other than to perpetuate itself. HIs inability to recognise a conflict of interest marks him as a walking disaster area froim day one. Has David Cameron lost his senses? Would anyone vote for someone with that much tactical savoir faire?

You have the right to say what you believe, thank god someone still has the bravery to do it.

!!!!Go Boris!!!!