Excuses, Excuses

If the opinion polls are correct, Boris Johnson will win the fight to be come the Mayor of London later today - which will take the shine off an otherwise good set of election results for Labour - in England and Wales at least.

Labour leader - Ed Miliband - appears to have accepted defeat in London even at this early hour - with the rather pathetic excuse that Boris Johnson ran an independent campaign and kept his Conservative credentials 'under the radar'.

Well I have to say that seems more than a bit bonkers to me - because Boris Johnson has one of the highest profile of any politician in the land - and the voters in London like him because he's a bit of a maverick instead of just another party hack.

In fact they liked that quality in Ken Livingstone, albeit some years ago, when he ran as an independent to be London Mayor - defeating the official Labour candidate in the process - the rather hapless Frank Dobson, MP.

So we shall see what happens, but if Labour lose as predicted - they need to face up to the fact that they picked the wrong candidate - plain and simple. 

Ken Livingstone is part of the establishment these days - someone who rails against 'rich bastards' while quietly organising his own considerable earnings in such a way - as to pay the least possible amount of tax.

No wonder London voters smell a rat.