Make them drink mineral water

Perhaps the only thing odder than the enthusiasm — found only in some small part of the Tory party — for Prime Minister Osborne is the Conservative belief in Prime Minister Boris. Where this odd faith comes from, no man can quite say. But it exists and I suppose, like other quackery, is good fun until someone gets hurt.

The London Mayor has been in New York and likes what he sees there. Mike Bloomberg, he suggests, should run for President! If nothing else this should remind you that Boris’s political judgment is, well, eccentric.

Boris, you see, is much impressed by Bloomberg’s determination to outlaw the selling and purchasing of super-sized buckets of fizzy pop. He appears to think this will make a useful contribution to reducing the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ and that it is something London should consider too as, Lord help us, the city authorities prepare their latest anti-obesity ‘strategy’.