Boris’s secret weapon: driving the left crazy

The conventional wisdom is to regard Mayor Boris as a loose cannon and, ergo, a liability to Cameron. But he may help oust Brown by another skill that has only become apparent in recent weeks: he drives the left mad. By mad, I mean he drives them to inverted snobbery and making personal and ludicrous attacks which strike the onlooker as hysterical. His education and background just seem to flick a switch in a certain sort of Labour supporter – leading to behaviour that even that even their peers find distasteful. Just look at the comments to this Toynbee piece where she called Boris a “sociopath” or the language in this Labour attack video.
 
The problem the left face is a misreading of this country. Britain is not a bigoted country, therefore such bilious attacks repel voters. Most folk don’t care in the slightest where Boris was educated, but a section of the Labour party care very, very deeply.