The fluffy white hair, the slightly over-sized head, the grey suits; thank goodness these are the only things that Toronto's David Miller and London's new Mayor have in common. Dear Lord, it's taken more than a week for the news of shamblingly idiotic Tory Boris Johnson's London mayoral election win to sink in, and me to commit anything to paper.
As a northerner, I have resisted jumping aboard the anti-Cockney 'all Londoners are self-serving prats' wagon in the past. But perhaps I was wrong. After all they just voted in a self-serving, possibly racist, definitely homophobic Etonian into office. Yes, the man who took the post from Ken Livingstone's only managerial experience is as editor of The Spectator (robustly conservative UK politico mag).
So, am I glad that I am now living in a progressive Canadian city where people at least appear to give a damn about each other? Of course. I will never complain about Toronto's under-funded arts scene again. Probably.
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