Will Emperor Ken prove the London Assembly has no clothes?

We have already written about the farce of the London Assembly attempting to hold Hizonner the Mayor to account in any way that can be called meaningful. Well, here is the latest instalment of the saga:

For the first time in its five-year life, the London Assembly today (Wednesday) bared its teeth and rejected Hizonner the Mayor's budget. The Tory, Lib-Dem, Green and UK Independence Parties combined in a two-thirds majority to call on the Mayor to cut the proposed council tax precept increase, scrap his propaganda sheet The Londoner and cut other unnecessary expenditure.

However, council tax payers should not crack open the champagne just yet. Under GLA rules, Ken has until St. Valentine's Day to force his spending plans through by picking off off two Assembly members from this unusual coalition of diverse interests.

Will Hizonner support Green plans to cover London in parks, or reveal his secret ambition to get Britain out of the European Union in order to tempt the two UKIP members to back his budget?

There may well be a massacre on St Valentine's Day, but Ken will pull out all the stops to make sure that it is the Assembly that is looking down the barrrels of the tommy guns.