The bosses are over the moon. “Boris Johnson’s London will be a Tory laboratory” trumpets the Daily Telegraph (May 4th).  That makes David Cameron their Doctor Frankenstein.

Don’t let anybody fall for the line that it can’t get worse after Blair and Brown.

Already one of Johnson’s top aide’s has had to resign for saying about immigrants who don’t like Tory policies "Well, let them go (back) if they don't like it here."

This nice gentleman is not some inexperienced junior. He’s been a senior advisor to leading Tories including shadow chancellor George Osborne for the last seven years. Then Boris Johnson banned the Rise festival from being a campaign against racism.

He has started as he intends to go on.

More or less Johnson’s first act was to cancel a deal that enabled a quarter of a million Londoners on income support to travel on London Transport for half price.

Ken Livingstone had arranged with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela for London to have cheap oil in return in return for help of various kinds to Caracas. This was a good deal for London and cancellation is a piece of gratuitous nastiness from Johnson.

It’s all part of the reactionary right wing politics also shown in banning the Cuba Solidarity Campaign from the Rise festival.

Next Johnson tried to grandstand by introducing an alcohol ban on London Transport. But he didn’t bother putting in place enforcement facilities in the form of LT Police - or consulting with the unions. As a result there was a drunken protest that had to be dealt with and cleared up by tube staff.

Those of us who’ve been travelling on the underground for forty years (unlike Johnson – there’s no tube system in his old constituency of leafy Henley) know there’s never been a problem, until now.

Of course if you want to see vile drunken misbehaviour visit the Hooray Henrys and Henriettas at regatta week in... Henley. But there’ll be no big Mayoral initiative there. Like all Tories Boris looks after his own.

More importantly in the long run, Johnson has made it clear that he is not going to bother with plans for affordable social housing. Already more than 40% of young workers in London are priced out of the housing market, and it’s getting worse. Thanks a lot.

London tube cleaners have gone on strike for the London living wage of £7.20 an hour. Some are paid little more than £5.50. Try living in London on that! They are also fighting the practice of ‘third party sackings’, which is just a way of victimising trade union activists. Johnson has made it clear he is their enemy.

He has appointed Tim Parker, a dodgy asset stripper whose spell of running the AA led to a third of the workforce being sacked. His role is the square up to the rail unions. Johnson wants a no-strike deal.  As Bob Crow comments, “The world’s finest metro system does not need an asset stripper or a Prince of Darkness.”

Looks like trouble ahead. He’s already waving his arms around after suddenly discovering a shortfall for the £1bn a year needed to modernising the tube system. That means he wants to put the burden on passengers, transport workers or both.

Gordon Brown imposed the disastrous so-called Public Private Partnership financing arrangement on Livingstone. When Metronet went belly up, £2bn of our money went up in smoke. Is the ultimate madness of privatising the tube at the back of Boris Johnston’s mind?

Millions of people have little direct experience of Tory rule.  The danger is they buy into Cameron’s Tory relaunch. But it’s all lies. Cameron worked for the monstrous Thatcher government, and as Boris Johnson shows, nothing’s really changed. Let’s make sure they don’t end up running the country again.

At the moment New Labour are tobogganing towards total disaster. Activists must pressure the trade union leaders to halt that now. The unions hold the purse-strings and have the power to turn the Tory tide. Defeat the Tories. Socialist policies for Labour now!