London has just officially become the world's largest fairtrade city and Mayor Johnson is officially glad. In his latest compromise with the kind of trendy wendy metropolitan political-correctness-gone-mad that is destroying our once proud nation - well that's presumably the way his policy director Anthony Browne sees it - The Blond has described the news as "super" and sending "a clear message that Londoners want their products to be Fairtrade and to make a significant difference to the lives of farmers and workers in the developing world."
He also noted with satisfaction that 20 of the capital's boroughs have become fairtrade institutions. He did not, however, mention that Tory flagship Wandsworth, whose leader Edward Lister was a member of his Tory Audit Panel, is not among that virtuous municipal score. Far from it. Guardian diarist Hugh Muir can tell us more.
