Must Be Good To Be The Mayor

While senators, governors, and the like usually try to maintain some level of diplomacy, I've noticed that mayors get away with saying what's on their minds much more readily. Case in point: Bojo recently discovered that baggage-handling at major london airports sucks, calling the Gatwick handlers "chimpanzee-like" [Gatwick motto: We're not as bad as heathrow!] and continuing with,

To call this service 'Third World' is an insult to the many gleaming and efficient airports of developing nations.