[Closed] Boris vs Piers

In a speech this morning, Boris Johnson stole the show by arguing that London offers a better quality of life. Here's the best bits:

We have a crime rate that has been consistently falling, a murder rate one fifth of New York, we have more green space than any other European city, a fantastic banker-funded bike hire scheme, the cleanest greenest new bus in the whole of Europe which we are shortly to export around the world.

We are planting tens of thousands of trees.

We have more museums than Paris, and free museums at that. We have twice as many book stores in London than New York - no wonder we have a fifth of the murder rate.

We have less rainfall than Rome -- I can't believe that statistic. We certainly have more theatres than either New York or Paris, and in a statistic I'm prepared personally to verify I'm told we have more Michelin-starred restaurants than Paris.

We have the right timezone, the right language

We are so faithful to the rule of law in this city that we lock up our MPs for trying to pass their speeding points to their wives. That is why people have faith in London.

Boris's broad point is that London is a global cross roads of export:

We export tea from the London borough of Sutton to China, we export bicycles made in Chiswick to Holland, cake to France, sand to Saudi Arabia.

We've exported the British museum to Abu Dhabi. Gordon Ramsey to Doha. We've exported David Beckham - we don't just import footballers, we export them - to Paris Saint-Germain where I understand he's doing very well, and we have sent Piers Morgan to America.

That last 'export' got the biggest chortle.