The Rye

Cripes!*#!!

It looks as though Boris has done it, leaving Ken to a future of after dinner speaking and advisory posts.  Now we'll just have to see if the Labour Party listen to what the electorate has told them through the ballot box or if they just descend towards infighting.  My chief worry here is actually not for the party but for the country as a whole.  Don't get me wrong, I throughly enjoyed the 1997 election but the voters were cheated by the fact that we had an ineffective opposition while the Tories tore themselves apart.  Sadly, history tells us that we are probably headed for the same thing unless Mr Brown resigns and Labour unites behind a unity candidate....who? i don't know and the discussion is probably academic anyway.

And now, the end is near, the final curtain...

Election day has arrived and judging by the canvassers outside New Cross Gate this morning its a three horse race between Ken, Brian Paddick and the Socialist Workers party.  Sadly my sources tell me that this isn't the case over the rest of our fair city.  There are strong rumours that lunch bookings across the SW postcodes are at an all year low, as the ladies who lunch slap on their shoulder pads and grab hold of their clipboards to indulge in a bit of Boris Bothering.  The pavements are going to be a dangerous place today, I advise all sensible thinking people to try and slip into the polling station unnoticed and if addressed by one of these strange type to simply reply in whatever smattering of a foreign tongue that you can muster - they tend to leave you alone in these instances.