Despite the smears by the left, Boris prevailed and the best candidate won. Thelondondailynews.com provided hourly coverage on the mayoral campaign, from the get go we predicted Boris would win because of the anti-Ken feeling in the capital.

The Ken campaign never got off the ground, tired and stale and even arrogant in places. We did not receive a single press release, or the type of media collateral that other campaigns provided us from the other candidates, from Ken.

Maybe it was an acceptance that his time had come and the natural cycle in politics had run its course?

Spending time with the other hacks covering the campaign what was clear in the political analysis and commentary was the political landscape had changed, and that the media were moving, slowly with it. The amount of blogs being posted on the campaign on a daily basis from the likes of Ian Dail and Adam Boulton's and our website thelondondailynews.com and the Evening Standard trying to keep up with the internet revolution, is the sign of things to come.

The big losers in this campaign are not the candidates who all worked as hard and as effectively with the resources they had at their disposal. The big losers were the conventional media like the BBC, who did not gauge the real feeling of London despite having huge resources lots of staff, television, radio and internet at their disposal. Thelondondailynews with a limited budget, had its ear to the ground and actually spoke with Londoner's. The BBC seemed to be in the misty haze that the Ken and Boris contest would be close, wrong.

Moreover the London media did not provide the type of responsive journalism that is required in todays society. The show piece hustings meetings are not an accurate barometer of the feeling of the capital, apart from providing sound bites. The losers in the battle of London are the London conventional press who all got it wrong.

The London Daily News, London news by London people.

(photo caption of John Kaponi the editor-in-chief of thelondondailynews.com with Mayor of London Boris Johnson)