In five years time people will be just as disappointed with Mr Boris as the Americas are disappointed with Mr Bush. He will be compared with Bush.

jayil, london, uk

What a childish, ill-mannered gesture when Lib-Lab-Con (as the BNP refers to them) shuffled out in a body before Richard Barnbrook spoke.

I suppose we are expected to see their behaviour as reflecting their 'disgust', etc at the BNP's unique policy of standing up for indigenous Brits.

L Stewart, Spalding, England

"Its ok to slag him call him names and say that minorities will suffer, I've not heard him say blacks,muslims and gays are going to be burned at the stake" -- Richard Dow

Sir, please go to the link below:

http://starturl.com/rywjn

jayil, london, uk

'Oh my god they've killed Kenny'
Nevermind lets get the free bendy bus home to Cricklewood

jon lee, london,

Anurag, Hornchurch, UK
The problem with ethnic minorities ( I can be one but I have integrated ) is that they want to remain so and Ken perpetuated this, cultivating and showering them with LDA funds. Hence leaflets in hundreds of languages instead of English By the way Eton offers scholarships.

Kiran, LONDON,

I felt a little sorry for Ken when he lost - but when I thought about the congestion charge - I cheered up!

You have to think what were they doing - £25 or $50 to drive into London - this guy has lost the plot

Blair was a welcomed change, but now its time for change again. Bye Ken. Go Boris!

JHill, london,

"ethnic monorities are going to feel the resentment..."

Do you think they're not resented already? The biggest killer of black males is.....black males. Do you think people care about Livingstone's boast that he's reduced racist attacks?

Chinese and Indians are too busy being successful.

John, London,

Ken who?

John, London,

It doesn't matter who you elect - when you're electing a dictator who doesn't need to worry about you until the next election comes around in four or five years time.

Elective dictatorship is not democracy. Democracy is the will and rule of the democratic majority - on all issues. Think on.

Terry, London, UK

I'm from Spain and have been living in London for ten years and today is a very bad day for this great city. What Ken Livingstone achieved for London will make history, he was a great major and he understood London. what this guy will do for London really scares the hell out of me.

Carmen, LONDON,

Above all, this a victory for the chelsea tractor drivers and the women in Hampstead who drive half a mile in a 4x4 with one child at the back. We will miss Ken, he was a great major. I thought it was an Italian thing to vote for Berlusconi.

Ana Torres, LONDON,

Its ok to slag him call him names and say that minorities will suffer, I've not heard him say blacks,muslims and gays are going to be burned at the stake (it seems some of the people writing here actually would like that to maintain the downtrodden struggle) Give him a chance

Richard Dow, Stenhousemuir,

wonderful! Good luck, Boris.

A Armitage, London, UK

This is it. London is going to be ruined by an Etonian public school boy.

Boris has only a hand full of people. The suburban tory lovers who voted for this idiot would soon realise their mistake.

London is doomed; ethnic monorities are going to feel the resentment and its going to get worse

Anurag, Hornchurch, UK

Well done Boris! Will you now please stick to your pledges prior to the elections. Do away with the 25 pound charge, put more bobbies on the streets (Proper ones please) and perhaps keep the bendy busses.

Hamad Lone, London, England

Personally I find it worrying that there appear to be 1,028,000 lunatics living in London. Granted some of the votes are probably fraudulent, however, it is worrying that anybody genuinely likes what Livingstone has done to London.

Bill Phillips, Huntingdon, England

Londoners will elect a comedy news quiz buffoon as mayor when Californians elect a foreign bodybuilding movie star as governor, Italians elect a criminal millionaire playboy as Prime Minister, and ... oh, hang on ... where was I going with this?

God help us all.

Mark, London , England

A lot of people will have voted for Boris because they hate Livingstone - for him to be offered a job would be a slap in the face for all of them.

Graham Rounce, London, England

Let's hope we will now see the end of the ridiculous "zone" system on the Underground, and go back to fares based on distance travelled!

Graham Rounce, London, England

Thank god and Mc Alpine for the M25

Helmut Keesling, Dublin, Ireland

Labour created the London Mayor, Ken had two successful terms and then the very thing that the post was created for happened, Londoners voted for their choice.
Patronising politicians and commentators say that we don't know why we voted, we have a range of reasons, please respect that.

james, london,

What a triumph for Boris and what great news for London - Out with the tired, corrupt and pc-riddled old and in with the new - fresh, honest and representing all of London instead of the Left's patronising obsession with minorities. A new dawn - hurrah!

Eddy - Southwark, London,

Londoners, you have got your just desserts for what you have become ,a Capital city that most people in our country do not recognise,now it is looked upon with disdain and political corruption.

Kenneth O'Boyle, Perth, United Kingdom

At last the people of London and Britain stood up and shouted 'ENOUGH!' The only remaining task is to rid Britain of the greatest scourge ever suffered - rule by a Labour government. Every year the core of what made Britain great has been eroded and destroyed. Let restoration commence.

elle henneman, Kingston upon Thames,

The Conservatives could have put up a chimpanzee for the mayoral election and still won. It just shows the state of the dumbed down and food blended London mind when sharp marketing men have to pick 'the bloke off Have I Got News For You' to offer them for mayor.

AL, LONDON, UK

How much redundancy does Ken and his cronies now pocket?

Susan, Barry, S Wales

I trusted Ken, much as I am amused by Boris, I don't trust him!

Cristobal, Neath,

Thank heavens that Livingstone is gone. A despicable man in every way. London is much better off without him.

simon, atlanta, usa

How would Londoners have reacted if the results had been withheld for 5 weeks, then Livingstone announce a run off because he was unable to manipulate enough votes the first time round. In the meantime London police go round beating up voters who didn't vote for Livingstone

andy , Lyon, France

Thank god, Boris! We have been waiting for this moment all year and know we don't have to pay £25 a day for congestion charge. We needed a change and we got one. I thank the other 1,000,000 voters who voted for Boris too!!

Max, London, UK

I see the left/liberals posting here are as graceless in defeat as always (Ms Trapido especially - stuck in the dreadful class war paradigm of last century). The people of London have spoken, please try to respect that. Congratulations Boris, commiserations to Ken and the other candidates.

Andy, London, UK

At leat a majority of Londoners have some common sense by turfing out that newt of a man, Ken Livingstone.

He destroyed London.Let him cry into his whisky.

James, London, U.K

Goodbye Ken it was was a political rollercoaster. You have done your time and have been let out on good behavior. I hope LDN has made the correct choice....Only time will tell, good luck Boris. Your going to need it.

Peter Dormor, Morden,

Well ... There goes the neighbourhood!

Steven, Cambridge, UK

Now that we've got our own Dubya / sorcerer's apprentice just like in Goethe's poem, how long till we get Blackwater and Guantanamo? Bad enough that Labour itself has undermined accountability and the rule of law by trying to privatise everything that moves, at taxpayer's expense. Boris is worse.

Julia Iskandar, London, England

The majority of Londoners voted for the Conservatives rather than Boris Johnson. It is just an 'unlucky coincidence' that Boris is the party's candidate. I pity Ken. He has done little wrong when he was the Mayor. It is national issues such as fuel, tax, and economy that lead to his defeat.

Esbi, Luton, UK

Hallelujah!

jj massie, bradford, w yorkshire

I weep for London, a great multi-ethnic capital city, now in the hands of a lazy, class-bound Bullingdon Club fop with unsuitable and dated racist attitudes.

barbara trapido, oxford, UK

"They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird."

Boris Johnson, Telegraph, 0/01/2002.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/01/10/do1002.xml

"Men in general judge by their eyes rather than by their hands; because everyone is in a position to watch, few are in a position to come in close touch with you. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are".

Niccolo Machiavelli.

Michael, London, Great Britain

Boris is now mayor.

Dear god, people of London - what have you done?

Ben, Gllaasgoww,

Good riddance Livingstone.......Its just a shame the congestion charge won't be going with him.

Sedgwick, London, UK

im really happy for Boris and for the city of London, This election just shows how a polition with Character can get people interested and maybe even enjoying politics.Good luck Boris and dont change!

jason, Reykjavik,