Boris Johnson refuses to answer a question 12 times

The early indications from the election are not good. Bookies are reportedly paying out if you bet on Boris. I'm going to buy a dinghy as I fully expect London to sink into the sea the minute this racist homophobic windbag takes office.

In this clip he's asked twelve times to price his commitment to put new buses on London's streets. It's embarrassing to note that he has no price plan at all. He's literally making this all up as he goes along.

The incompetence of Boris is as legendary as his penchant for making racist remarks and homophobic jibes.

At a time when David Cameron was singing the praises of Jamie Oliver, a British chef who made it his mission to improve school meals, Johnson was having none of it:

"If I was in charge I would get rid of Jamie Oliver and tell people to eat what they like." He said: "Mothers have been driven to pushing pies through fences. The solution is not to provide healthy stuff."

And the man, who may now be the Mayor of the most multicultural city in the world, has been known to say this:

"I may be in trouble for saying this", he told the audience that while he was broadly in favour of localism, there was a complication in "the issue of people's failure to feel British, especially large chunks of the Muslim population."

He added: "Supposing Tower Hamlets or parts of Bradford were to become governed by religious zealots believing in that system. Are we ready for complete autonomy if it means sharia law? I believe we should make people feel more British first, before encouraging more balkanisation and multiculturalism."

But even that gaffe pales into insignificance when this Billy Bunter "I wish it was still the fifties when the working class knew their place" old Etonian toff wrote of Papua New Guinea:

For 10 years, we in the Tory Party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing, and so it is with happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour Party."

The government of Papua New Guinea, which has a population of five million and a burgeoning tourism industry, insisted that while cannibalism was once practised on the island, it was stamped out 200 years ago with the arrival of European settlers.

Jean L Kekedo, the country's high commissioner in London, said: "I consider the comments, coming from a senior British MP, very damaging to the image of Papua New Guinea and an insult to the integrity and intelligence of all Papua New Guineans.

"How far removed and ill-informed can Mr Johnson be from the reality of the situation in modern-day Papua New Guinea?"

Explaining her shock that such remarks could come from a "seemingly well-educated person of very high standing", Ms Kekedo added: "I strongly urge that the Hon Johnson apologise or retract his reference to Papua New Guinea.

There is every chance that this man might be named Mayor within two hours. Heaven help us all...

UPDATE:

It's been confirmed. London is to be run by a racist homophobic who gets away with it because he has an explosion of blond hair and a bicycle. Never in the history of PR has so little achieved so much.

Boris Johnson has won the race to become the next mayor of London - ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall.

The Conservative candidate won with 1,168,738 first and second preference votes, compared with Mr Livingstone's 1,028,966 on a record turnout of 45%.

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