You can’t elect Boris Johnson as mayor just because he hasn’t ‘gaffed’.

It seems to me, looking at the press converage on the campaign for London Mayor, a large amount of attention is paid to Johnson and whether or not he has commited any ‘gaffes’ yet. And the fact that he hasn’t on a massive scale - like offending all of Liverpool - seems to be a justifier for him becoming Mayor of London, as if ‘not making gaffes’ was the number one quality needed when running a team of 109,000 people, with an £11billion budget, presiding over a city of ten million people that is one of the most ethnically diverse in the world.