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I haven't made any snide comments, BonnieDundee.

Still on the subject of last week's London Mayoral Election (and interesting political event whoever one supported in that poll): Livingstone broke promises and people are rightly annoyed.

For instance he once said that he would not get rid of Routemasters (traditional London buses with the platform at the back of the lower deck). Two years' later - he got rid of them. He also promised not to raise bus fares. And then he increased them.

If he were really a popular Mayor he would have got the votes of many of the 3 million people who were entitled to vote in last Thursday's Mayoral Election here in London but who chose not to do so. Those 3 million people have had eight years to judge his performance as Mayor and they did not turn out to vote for him last week.

He was not popular.

Many lefties are bitter, angry, resentful, overly-sensitive and touchy about the subject of europhile Livingstone's defeat.