Not quite maybe - but Charlie Brooker hits most of the main ones on the head in his Guardian column today:

‘If butterfingers Johnson gets in, it’ll clearly be a laugh riot from beginning to end, like a series of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em in which Frank Spencer becomes mayor by mistake. Just picture him on live TV, appealing for calm after a terrorist bombing - the scope for chuckles is almost limitless.

‘Assisting Boris in his run, the London Evening Standard is running an openly hostile anti-Livingstone campaign, which means every other page carries a muckraking down-with-Ken piece from crusading journalist Andrew Gilligan, played by Blinky, the three-eyed fish from The Simpsons, in his byline photo.’

The full article is available at www.guardian.co.uk

See Guardian cartoonist, Steve Bell’s, take on the Mayoral election, featuring Boris Johnson touring London in a bull-bar enhanced Routemaster.

Bell has been covering the Mayoral race in his ‘If..’ strip all this week in the Guardian.

Ken’s latest article on Comment is Free sets out the terms of debate in the real election, rather than the phoney Celebrity Big Brother contest Johnson’s supporters in the media are trying to create.

Here’s a taster:

“This week’s ICM poll announced that the real election about London has begun at last. The one about the future of one of the world’s greatest cities, seven million people living in the most multicultural place on the planet, in one of its two greatest international financial centres, facing the 21st century challenges of the environment, the Iraq war, the economic rise of India and China, how to defeat crime, of what it means to have liberal values in a globalised world. »

Following fast on the heels of his decision to duck a grilling on ‘Any Questions’, Boris Johnson has now pulled out of Time Out’s mayoral hustings.

In a message emailed to Time Out readers, editor Gordon Thompson said:

“We were excited and proud to be able to offer you direct access to all four main candidates on one platform, which would give you an opportunity to quiz them in person on their plans for our city. Disappointingly, Boris Johnson, who had initially confirmed his place at this hustings, has withdrawn from the event and so will NOT be attending. I’ll leave you to surmise what this says about the Tory mayoral candidate and his commitment to London.

Ken Livingstone, Brian Paddick and Sian Berry will all be there in person to answer your questions.”

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Jonathon Porritt, a leading environmentalist, has backed Ken Livingstone for Mayor of London and urged green activists in London to campaign for his election. Porritt described the possibility of Boris Johnson becoming London Mayor as a ‘scary’ prospect.

Writing on his personal blog-site, Jonathon Porritt says that Ken:

“London is widely recognised as one of a handful of cities showing real leadership on climate change..and Ken Livingstone has driven that personally… just as he has driven a host of other environmental and sustainability priorities… So I just hope all the environmental NGOs can rally the troops in London in a pro-Ken campaign, even if they can’t come out and explicitly endorse him… »

Ken has a new article on the question of the Tube over at the Guardian’s Comment is Free.

Boris Johnson supported rail privatisation and used an interview on BBC London on Thursday to denounce Ken for his legal action to try to stop the Tube PPP. Brian Paddick has turned Liberal Democrat policy on its head by advocating the privatisation of the running of the Tube. On this, as with other policies, Paddick is out of step with his own party’s longstanding positions.

Read Ken’s full article, as well as comments by Brian Paddick, Sian Berry the Green’s  mayoral candidate and George Galloway MP here

Below are two letters from today’s Guardian, one jointly from Ken and Siân Berry and another from George Galloway MP, on why progressives must ensure Boris Johnson is defeated on May 1.

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Check out the random Boris Johnson speech generator - it’s almost as scary as the real thing. As the site says:

“The Johnson generator is just like Boris’ own speeches, a pastiche of humourous nonsense that occasionally reveals a pearl of wisdom or vicious prejudice. Perfectly acceptable, even laudable, in an MP but not really up to the mark for the mayor of the greatest city on earth. So have a laugh with Boris but don’t vote for him because, as comedian Rob Deb said, you can’t run a city with pie on your face.”

The London Green Party today called on on its supporters to cast their second preference votes for Ken in the London Mayor election on 1 May.

Ken also confirmed that he will be casting his own second preference vote for Sian Berry.

Siân Berry and Ken Livingstone have issued the following joint statement:

“Tackling climate change and creating a fairer London must be at the top of any serious Mayor’s agenda. Boris Johnson, who supported George W. Bush in opposing the Kyoto Treaty and would scrap the CO2 charge on gas guzzlers, cannot be trusted with London’s environment. Nor can a man who opposed the minimum wage be expected to promote fairness or tackle poverty. London - with a committed Mayor and Green Party representation on its Assembly - has taken a global lead on environmental and social justice over the last eight years. Let’s keep it that way.”
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The website Stopboris.org has produced a number of posters highlighting the threat that Boris Johnson poses to London if elected as mayor.

Below is Boris♥Bush. More can be found here: