Last but not least: PR consultant polishes up image

 
The elections for the mayoralty in London are over. The winner is the Conservative challenger Boris Johnson, and "Red" Ken Livingstone from the Labour Party has to step down. The result is not surprising, as perhaps nothing really is in connection with this rather decorative office, which after eight years of existence seems to have no other purpose than to amuse the people of Greater London. For in place of Livingstone, who has become increasingly verbally abusive in recent times, Johnson is now an at least equally burlesque political clown. And although this seems to be a prerequisite for a successful election, Tory party leader Cameron has appointed a PR consultant to Johnson because he felt his image was a little too tarnished. The PR consultant Lynton Crosby, who had already helped the conservative Australian politician John Howard to several election victories, had his hands full with the man with the extramarital affairs and the somewhat outdated knowledge of nations (he associated New Guinea with cannibalism and the killing of chiefs). He had to make a calm and serious statesman out of him, who was never punctual in a slightly aristocratic way, unerringly stepped into every politically incorrect blunder and sometimes seemed almost foolishly absent-minded. This in addition to a smear campaign against Livingstone, of course.
In any case, Johnson has now been elected. Whether because of or despite the image consultant is impossible to say. Perhaps London only elected him because he had added this ridiculous attempt to improve his image, which in his case was completely hopeless, to his previous performances. The city of Shakespeare still appreciates good theater.