They thought it couldn't be done without an awful lot of pomp, ceremony, protocol-observing and going on bended knee. But as I found out at the time, they were wrong: there's no diplomatic or legal impediment to the Johnson mayoralty demonstrating its delight at Barack Obama becoming US president, not to mention the Mayor's conversion to all that multiculturalist, civil rights, political correctness piffle, by flying the Star Spangled Banner from City Hall tomorrow.
There will be no ceremony, just The Blond climbing a humble municipal step ladder at around 9am with Old Glory tucked under his arm. You may think you can detect a bit of poetic licence in that last sentence, and you'd be right. It is, though, I'm assured, a matter of unvarnished fact that the person from the US Embassy the mayor bumped into in the Marr Show green room yesterday was "delighted" to hear of the gesture. Ah, that special relationship.
