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For the second straight election, London mayoral candidate Paul Cheng is coming under fire by a city council veteran who says Cheng’s not up to the job and its workload would “drive him bonkers.”

Cheng has done little to earn the city’s top political job since he ran for mayor four years ago, and unlike other high-profile candidates has no policies or platform, Coun. Paul Hubert, the deputy mayor who isn’t seeking re-election, charged Monday.

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“He had four years to dig in,tobe involved,tosit on boardsandengage in the city.No one has heard from him, no one has seen him,” Hubertsaidof Cheng.

“He has a disrespect of city hall in general, and he doesn’t understand how the city works.”

Caught off guard by the home-stretch attack, Cheng shot back that a sitting politician shouldn’t comment on the mayoral race.

“It’s in poor taste. He said the same thing four years ago. It was also a week before the election,” said Cheng, who ran second to Matt Brown in the 2014 mayoral race.