Ken is vile - and the additional money that we have to fork out in London to keep his London fiefdom rolling is just absurd - £200+ a year, when it was promised that it would never cost Londoners more than £30 a year - and for what? Livingstone isn't responsible for getting my bins cleared.
ALso I don't think it can ever be right that the London mayor spends our money on posters on the tube against nuclear power or spending our money on promoting the views of fundamentalists. That is just his own views being perpetuated rather than encouraging any engagement with debate over the issues.
What happened to "zero tolerance" policing or coordinating London's PCTs - two policies which would actually benefit Londoners, and is more about deploying existing resources effectively than wasting a whole lot more of taxpayers cash? A co-ordinating role is really what the London Mayor ought to be doing, rather than just having another tier of government.
The only problem with Boris is that he is fundamentally lazy - witness that when he was editing the Spectator, a lot of the weekly columns in the Telegraph were just a rehash of his editorials. However, I'd rather have someone that little bit lazy who stopped interfering in the lives of Londoners than this power-crazed baboon we currently have.