Londoners selling themselves down the river (Thames)

It's been a very destructive night for the Labour party and that sentiment might even take down Ken Livingstone, which is ironic given the lack of love lost between him and Gordon Brown. Charlie Brooker compared electing Boris Johnson to making Frank Spencer out of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, but it's not entirely accurate. It's more like the Simpsons episode Sideshow Bob Roberts, where Sideshow Bob ejects the likeable but incompetent incumbent Mayor Quimby from office by a landslide and threatens the Simpson family. Bart and Lisa expose Sideshow Bob as having cheated, who even took names from the pet cemetery to add to the electoral role, after a tip-off from Waylan Smithers whose, ahem, lifestyle choices, clashed with Sideshow Bob's ultra-conservative views. But Sideshow Bob was also quite popular and we can only hope that, given a Johnson victory is almost certain, he is revealed as letting the animals in his hair vote as well. I was thinking last night that Johnson was going to win, despite all the credible arguments against him. Now, I'm even more certain.