My enemy's enemy is my friend, unless...

The Labour MP Kate Hoey is in trouble because she has agreed to work with Tory mayoral candidate Boris Johnson as a ‘non partisan adviser’ on sport if he is elected to office on Thursday. She is supposed to be swearing undying loyalty instead to Labour’s candidate Ken Livingstone, whom she has conspicuously failed to endorse. Yet the East London Advertiser reports that Ken himself is backing…er, George Galloway, the Respect party MP who is standing for election to the London Assembly.

Livingstone, who is himself running for a third term next Thursday, said Galloway would compare well to some of the ‘nonentities’ currently sitting on the London Assembly. ‘I would like to think we could work together and he'd form part of a broad coalition with the Greens and us against the Tories and Islamophobes,’ he said…He has taken a very correct line around the consequences for London if Boris Johnson is elected.’

Another Labour politician, Labour's London Assembly Member for City & East John Biggs, who is described as a

sworn enemy of Galloway

nevertheless also takes a very correct line around the consequences for London if any Tories are elected:

‘I'd much rather people vote for Galloway than the Tories. I didn't think I'd ever say that.’

Well, you just did, John. Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn takes a very dim view inded of Kate Hoey because

Labour Party rules say that you are not supposed to do anything to support a candidate who is standing against an official Labour candidate.

But if Kate had supported Gorgeous George rather than B***s she’d have been quids in, it seems.

There’s been nothing like it since the Molotov Ribbentrop pact.