So where to next? Have to say that I thought Boris' victory speech was rather good and, despite our misgivings, I hope that we are proved wrong over the next four years. Reading the some of the blogs over on LabourHome there seems to be mood of "lets hope he screws it all up so that we can win in 2010". So, not for the first time, I am going against my colleagues - I hope he does a cracking job for all Londoners and continues the good work that Ken started. This is too important a city for it to be seen as a political football and with a full four years before the next GLA elections I hope that both Labour, Conservatives, Greens and LD's can work together to make London an even better place, while hopefully changing the ignorant viewpoints that caused the BNP to win their first seat in the assembly.
I also want the government and Gordon Brown to be compared with a successful London administration that makes a positive difference to the lives of all people in this city, not one the delivers failure providing a smokescreen for inadequate government at national level. If, and I hope when, the Labour government wins a fourth term that must be done on the basis of good governance and Gordon Brown should expect and welcome the scrutiny that the higher profile of the Conservative Party will now deliver.
So I, as a Labour supporter since the age of 15, raise my glass to Boris and hope that this election serves to raise the standards that voters expect from government at all levels.
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