The framing of the election as Ken V Boris alone shows how much we have descended to the level of Celebrity Big Brother in our news coverage when at its heart this election should be about real issues and the prize at stake is the position with the third greatest direct electoral mandate in Europe. This is a problem in the main because ‘Boris’ is funny but on policy Livingstone wins hands down.

On the environment, Livingstone has real policies encouraging use of public transport and dissuading people from using high polluting cars, Johnson opposes these policies while his own figures don’t add up.

On social housing something that matters to young low waged Londoners Livingstone has set the 50% target while Johnson hopes the market will sort it out.

On the issue of youth crime Livingstone favours an approach of increasing opportunity and investment in places for young people to go alongside more police while Johnson as far as I can understand favours a return to racist stop and search policing of old which was so unsuccessful before (or at least that is how I read his criticism of “politically correct policing” in a recent campaign leaflet).

 Finally and most of all in this election we need to ask who should lead this city in a crisis. if we are to compare the Islamophobia demonstrated by Johnson in his magazine and Livingstone’s unrivalled record on uniting all London communities and put our self in a situation in where the worst happens and we faced another terrorist attack who you would like leading this city?