What a prat
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Bouffant-topped bigwig Boris Johnson hopes to ingratiate himself with the capital's Chinese community by climbing aboard Twitter-clone Sina Weibo - although putting the same yattering on both is just silly. But that's not stopped the Mayor of London from copying randomly selected Twitter posts directly into his Sina Weibo …
It's not such an easy choice. If you actually were Red, you'd despise Ken "I'm the 1%" L... And if you were a reasonable person, you'd vote for Mad Boris nor Red Ken either.
So remind me, how's this easy? One represents London as a Gilbert & Sullivan-esque ship of fools, the other as living under a split-tongue principle-free demagogue.
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"400,000 UK Chinese speakers, a large proportion of which will be voting in the London election": what are the actual numbers? Yes, a large proportion is entitled to, but what fraction actually will?
Campus here is full of Chinese speakers, most of them doing a business degree, short-term visitors and often struggling with English. I wouldn't bet many campaign on them in the local elections.
That's like being going for the "more child-friendly than Myra Hindley" angle. You're up against the man who said "The Jews are all too rich to vote for me". Entering a who's-the-least-racist contest with this guy is like challenging the proverbial one-legged man to an arse-kicking competition.
At least I'm fairly sure it was him. I keep getting confused between him and Gorgeous George Galloway, the other one-man political minstrel show.
Boris reminds me of a clown. He's got the hair, he's got the general body language, he's even got the clothes half the time I see him! The only thing he is missing is the big red squidgy nose!
Ken just reminds me of a bad soap opera actor, you know the sort, I will say no more.
In the interests of impartiality you can see my insults for the all the other candidates on the BBC news website www.bbc.co.uk/londonidiotcontest2012