Thanks to James at London SE1 for bringing to my attention his video and report on Mayor Johnson's speech to 2000 of London's Latin-Americans at the Elephant and Castle on Sunday. Listen carefully and you will hear a continuation of his low-profile alternative to Ken Livingstone's community relations approach.
There's flattery and foolishness, but it's part of a package in which he presents himself as a man of cultural curiosity, who understands migrants' entrepreneurialism and makes a point of recognising that safety on buses concerns them too. Note too the stress on helping the "poor and needy", his support for earned amnesties and his sparing owners of large "family" cars the £25 gas-guzzler charge. The Blond knows his Catholics.
James also manged to buttonhole him about that his plans for that roundabout he seems eager to retain. Read, watch and listen to it all.
