Stephenson's delayed action rocket to power.

So it looks as though despite the tough talk about the 'Muscular Mayor's' shake up at The Yard, Smudger Smiff, our even more muscular Home Secretary, who sadly also hasn't yet lost her job in the great exodus of women from the workplace cited by Yazza, has prevailed and Sir Ian Blair's ex-Deputy, currently holding the fort, has landed the job. A little embarrassing for the Speccy mag., which yesterday publicised a leak of a conversation between Boris and Blair about the Stockwell nut job. It is worth reading through the post and commentary (click on caption). If today's Sky revelation is correct, it makes amusing reading. Not too late to influence events, Boris, if that mayoral muscle really exists. Otherwise business as usual at the Yard. Birds of a feather copper together at that level. I wonder if Roger Graef will do a fly-on-the-wall documentary of his selection board interview. Now that would be interesting.