Monday, May 5, 2008

Boris and The Tories Trounce Labour by Susan Easton

The ballots were still being counted on Friday May 2 -- and it was far from a landslide - (53 to 46 %) albeit a record turnout of voters. But by noon, the bookies had already declared Boris Johnson the new Mayor of London. Appropriately enough, May 2 is the day on the Orthodox Church calendar that honors Saint Boris of Bulgaria. Post-election comments -- penned in the daily newspapers from assorted left leaning grumblers, snidely suggested that it would take at least one saint (or a collection of them, plus a bevy of guardian angels) to keep Boris from dragging London down to a new level of hell.

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