Vote for a man with wine box problems and a filthy tongue?

It's so sad for democracy.
Ken Livingstone no longer seems to care for public opinion.
But then he probably never did.
Do you want to hear that the man tasked with running your city gets pissed on a fairly regular basis when he's supposed to be at work?
Take this extract from an interview with the Mayor: "I occasionally have gone there [the Irish Embassy in London] and overdone it on St Patrick's night. They [the Irish diplomats]once came to the Labour Party conference and everyone gets very drunk, and I was doing a speech afterwards and I went up on the platform and fell asleep, and my little pager went and it was my adviser saying, 'Wake up!' "
Maybe he was trying to impress his interviewer, Radiohead's Thom Yorke, about his street cred, but definitely he wasn't thinking about London's more responsible voters when he divulged this nugget through the Observer magazine (23/03/08).
If that wasn't enough evidence of a fairly cavalier attitude to the booze, he also appraised us of the problem he has with his wine boxes.
Obviously having so many of them he is embarrassed by the plethora and needs to dispose of them in an environmentally sustainable way, he told Thom: "I tried cutting them all up but now the council has introduced a collection scheme." You'd have thought he might have suggested such a far-sighted option - but then noone in government has ever seen their way to letting him rip on London's recycling - not after the mess he made of the GLC.
Do you want to hear your Mayor using the language of a costermonger to describe the ppeople he is supposed to try to to work with?
IN another chunk of his interview in the Observer he describes an opinion of one of his Labour politician colleagues, a cabinet minister, as "complete bollocks".
He goes on to refer to the Energy from Waste initiative as "a load of bollocks" too.
And in one of the most obviously unsupported by evidence outbursts Linvingstone says he considers that civil servants in the government's energy department are pro-nuclear because they "know there'll be a job for them on the board of British Nuclear Fuels when they retire. They know Greenpeace isn't going to pay them £40,000 for doing two days a week on the bloody board and so they're covering their arse for their future, basically, and advising the bloody ministers accordingly".
Thank you Ken. You make it so much easier to cast a vote for Mayor against another person's name.