Jiminy Cricket, the gloves are off now.

Pinocchio is more honest than Rob Ford, Mayor John Tory said Wednesday.

Tory’s trash talk comes a day after Councillor Ford slammed his mayoral successor for failing to deliver on his campaign promise to contract out trash collection east of Yonge St. The ex-mayor accused Tory of lying to voters and vowed to give him a “drumming” in the next election.

Tory fired right back with a comparison to the puppet-turned-boy whose nose grew every time he told a lie.

“If it came to my having a chat with somebody about honesty and I had a choice between Pinocchio and Mr. Ford, I’d pick Pinocchio,” Tory said.

“With respect to the election to come, I don’t transfix myself — unlike others — with elections to come. I’m here to actually try and administer the affairs of the city in the best way that I know how, to make decisions carefully based on facts and evidence.

“When the election comes, people will have to decide whether they want to see a re-run of a horror movie that they’ve been through or not. I don’t think they will.”

Ford’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.