Blimey! It is only bally Boris!

So we've got it: Mayor Boris. And I dare say that, with this latest electoral kick in the teeth, some people in the Labour party will be looking for Prime Minister Straw. Or maybe Prime Minister Miliband. Perhaps Prime Minister Benn. As an extreme - a return of Prime Minister Blair. But I'd imagine most in the Labour Party would go for Prime Minister Anyone-But-That-Twat-Brown as they look at the election results this morning.

They'll be lots of celebrations and autopsies, focused on why - and how on earth - Boris Johnson, a man more famous for being ripped to shreds on TV panel shows and being sacked for lying about being able to keep his love tackle in his pants - has become Mayor of one of the greatest cities on earth. For me the reason is simple - he is less odious than Livingstone. Others might see different reasons - perhaps the hate campaign of The Evening Standard against the former mayor played a part, of the egregious corruption of the Livingstone's cohorts helped to oust him from office. You could argue that his Mayoral election had bugger all to do with those running against it, and was more about national politics. About using the bland, I-Can't-Believe-They're-The-Tory-Party Cameron Tory party to kick Gordon Brown in his knackers. But hey ho, there will be hundreds of different theories; it is all irrelevant now. Boris is the mayor, and Ken will be shuffling away from the political limelight for a while.

But let's look to the future. Boris has a real opportunity here to shine. To take the role he's won, make it his own, and really do a lot for the City of London. If I were to send a message to him this morning it would be simple - do something, but don't fuck it up. Unfortunately, Boris failed to show in the campaign exactly what he would do in power if he won, other than not be Ken Livingstone. Well, Boris, it worked, and you won. But don't fall into the trap of thinking that if you do nothing, you are doing OK. That would be to follow the Blairite example through and through, and I think (I certainly fucking hope) that people have had enough of Blairism by now.

Half the city thinks Boris is a great hope for London, the other thinks he is a bumbling, posh tit. The jury's out on this one, and it is down to Boris to show which of those two options he is. I hope he rises to the challenge; I've yet to be convinced that he will.