A Mayor of London who borrows to the hilt, signals his willingness to cut police numbers while funding gay Pride marches, wastes hundreds of millions on vanity projects and increases the burden on hard working commuters while employing an army of health & safety monitoring do-gooders.
The Redness of Boris Johnson burns bright.
And yet amidst all the speculation over his ambition to lead the Tories party from Downing Street, no-one ever seems to notice that Boris is busy building a legacy that mirrors the popular caricature of his predecessor.
For years I’ve been telling fans of both that there’s not much difference between them, the evidence in favour of my claim seems to grow ever greater.