Second "Intellectual Giant" And Gay Porn Film Director Elected

Last July I published an incisive article about a couple I described at the time as "two intellectual giants of the [London Mayoral] election contest - Boffmeister of the Fourth Estate and Boris "Buffoon" Johnson, or "Pride" and "Prejudice" as they are popularly known."

I went on to say: "As far as the latter is concerned, I only need to emphasise the extent to which the Old Etonian MP for leafy Henley and former member of the Bullingdon Club ("The Bullies") will really understand the problems facing Hackney and other inner city boroughs. Boffmeister, editor-in-chief of Dalston's rag mag [EastEight], tree-planter (carbon offsets for his magazine waste paper!) and constant harpie attacker of Hackney Council from the left (eh? - is that right, Linda?) may know a bit more about Hackney, but he's just as easy to ridicule. Boffie is a man whose personal vote is such that he lost Hornsey and Wood Green to Labour in the 1992 General Election with a stunning 3.8% drop in the Tory vote, at a time when Labour nationally increased its vote by only 3.6%. And, of course, we gave him a good stuffing last May." Obviously two total morons, but ones whom Labour could easily deal with and neutralise politically. So yesterday one became London Mayor and the other was elected to the Greater London Assembly, at the head of the Conservative top-up list.

Boffmeister of the GLA

Boffmeister joins an interesting group of no fewer than 11 openly gay, lesbian and bisexual GLA members, none of whom will appeal greatly to the BNP, whose leader Nick Griffin recently wrote: "The word gay means happy, we have no problem with being happy. Some unfortunate people suffer from homosexuality so we will just have to tolerate them. If I was one I would be ashamed and would remain celibate." Speaking of the the summer gay pride parades he said: "I call it gay shame, a freak show, revolting. I know it's politically incorrect, but that's what we are." Which must have sounded very comforting to the former homoerotic film director and newly-elected BNP representative on the GLA, Richard Barnbrook, one of the 11 openly GLB members of the assembly. La-di-dah.