Her article in the Times today doesn’t contain much more substance than fellow comedy columnist Charlie Brooker’s article from a couple of weeks ago, and indeed she uses a similar description of one segment of Boris’s fanbase, what she terms the “BorisROFLMAO vote”. One difference is that her article, unlike Brooker’s, doesn’t seem to be particularly amusing, but I suppose that’s subjective!

Anyway, I’m not knocking her, she’s On Our Side, and in a newspaper which desperately tried to pretend on Saturday that it wasn’t, so it’s all good.

I will NOT be voting for Boris. Quite aside from being a ditzy, posh, albino fanny-hound, he has a far greater impediment to running one of the greatest cities in the world: he is disabled by his own funniness. I understand Boris’s weakness. I understand it only too well. As someone who spends most of her life trying to be funny, I know just how much effort it takes. It’s like running a quiet heroin habit on the side. It’s a full-time commitment. It makes you fatally, fundamentally, unsuitable for a job with genuine responsibilities and consequences.

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