AS HE ambled onto stage for his two-hour evening performance, Boris was greeted to whoops, shrieks and applause. The Mayor of London had arrived.

It was People’s Question Time in Bromley and the blond bonnet of Boris Johnson was flanked on either side by London Assembly Members, trying in vain to put the reigns around London’s new leader.

Things got off to an unusual start when a nervous man clutching a guitar wandered down the aisle asking whether the bemused, 600-strong crowd in the Civic Offices wanted to hear a song.

Police and security swiftly escorted the man from the building but, setting the tone for the evening, Boris said: "If you would rather hear the song than me, I'm game on for it. I'm not going to interrupt,” adding: "You will have to forgive the quality of my opening serenade.”

The public meeting on November 6 then ended with a rather agitated woman shouting abuse at Mr Johnson.

Exhausted by hours of trying to keep the rambling mayor on timetable, assembly member for Bromley and Bexley James Cleverly tried his hardest to calm the heckler’s noisy protest, to no avail.

The bit in between the guitarist and the heckler, while lightly dusted with affordable homes, PCSOs and alcohol bans, was just as bizarre.

Mr Johnson said he would “dodge, duck, dip, dive” questions about the next Met police chief. The answer signalled another round of sniggers.

He was then asked to open a charity event, pose for a picture with an olympic torch and chase a foreign diplomat for unpaid fines.

During one question he even appeared to have dozed off, prompting the crowd to laugh even harder.

Boris’ opening address summed up the evening when he bellowed: "What a testimonial to the robustness of our democracy and the curious fascination that the mayoralty of London obviously holds here in Bromley.”

As I shuffled through the crowds of autograph-hunters swirling around Mr Johnson at the end of the show, I heard a young girl whisper to her friend that after shaking hands with Boris she would never be able to wash her extremity again.

Who said politics was boring?