Boris the "Bungling Builder" fails to provide homes for Londoners.

London Tory Mayor Boris “Bungle” Johnson was attacked yesterday for failing to build all the new homes he had promised while also trying to claim credit for new homes that had been started under Labour. He visited a new development in Labour run Council Greenwich and had the cheek to issue a press release claiming the credit for being responsible for this development and 20,000 new homes!

Labour's housing spokesperson on the London Assembly, Nicky Gavron first biff "You almost have to admire Boris’s chutzpah in taking credit for homes he has had nothing to do with. These were started long before he was in City Hall and if he had been in charge with the policies he has you can guarantee they wouldn’t have happened."

While Housing and Planning Minister John Healey goes bash “At a time when London’s need for new affordable homes has never been higher, the truth is the Mayor wants to cut back. He has powers that no other elected politician has, but he is not using his influence to the full. London needs an ambitious Mayor with ambitious plans for affordable housing if is to be a successful global city and a fair place to live.”

... and Leader of Greenwich Council Chris Roberts goes bosh “ We are delighted that Mayor Johnson should visit a housing development in Greenwich. Planning for the development began in 2006 when Greenwich Council agreed to sell the land to a housing association. Funding was then identified from central Government and Greenwich Council granted planning permission on 18 May 2008, within days of Mayor Johnson’s election.

“It is completely disingenuous for the Mayor to now claim this development is part of his own housing strategy for London which has in fact seen the axing of the 50% affordable housing target for new homes. He has also shown clear support for Conservative councils in west and central London to reduce or eliminate social housing from developments in their boroughs.”

Boris has been heavily criticised for breaking his key election pledge of building 50,000 new homes by 2011. Even the Evening Toryard here reported that 6,500 affordable homes have been started since Boris’s election and that at the current rate he would only deliver between 13,000 and 21,000 by May 2011 – between 30 and 37,000 short of what was promised.

Check out BBC report, Tory troll and the Rainbow fansite's remarkably accurate rundown about Boris... Often described as an annoying six-foot, cross dressing bear, Bungle was always so self righteous, it's amazing that Zippy didn't slap him. However, judging by the ever changing appearance of the bear, it could be assumed that successive ursine do-gooders were dragged in as replacements when things got a little too hot for their predecessors. The perpetual school sneak, Bungle was always first in the queue to blame someone else (normally the Zipmeister) when things went wrong. The Jar-Jar Binks of the Rainbow household, Bungle is probably most famous for wandering around naked by day, only to pull on a pair of blue and white striped jimjams when it was time to climb the wooden ladder to Bedfordshire.

Character Most Likely To: End up amongst the foundations of Heathrow-on-Sea (if Darius Guppy has anything to do with it)