Will Boris eclipse Mike?

Et tu Walker
I get really fed up with all these London hacks who feel that anyone North of Watford dons a cloth cap and talks in some unintelligible manner and needs to be fed a constant line of London centric tripe. Well that may well be the case north of Stafford (who knows?) but not here in the sophisticated English Midlands and particularly not in Gods golden acres of Birmingham.

Now we find the Political correspondent of the Birmingham Post & Mail joining forces with those London Johnnies in putting the boot into dear old Brum and treating us to more London centric tit bits. It is of passing interest only who wins the London Mayoralty, it may be totemic, a scalp for Brown or Cameron to toss around, but that’s it. Not one vote in the Parliamentary Constituency of “Little Piddle on Tweed” or any of the UK’s great Metropolises will be affected by this London side show.

It time to bring Walker home and drop back into the Brummie dip, wash all that “lah di da” fashionable London nonsense off the poor fellow and re ground him. You know Birmingham papers used to have foreign correspondences in the good old days? Looks like the best we can manage nowadays is Walker doubling up as the Political and London Correspondent.

To be fair to Mr Walker, the Boris / Ken stuff was a reasonable pre-amble into the speculation that Mike Whitby is the most powerful Tory in Britain.

And he's right, too, now that Tony Blair has gone.