Go BoJo

Good result. I like having a philandering, shaggy-haired, blonde, bumbling but not really, street-crime fighting, cycling tory twat for mayor.
I don't want someone who'll actually do anything - I want a personality as mayor cos I AM that shallow.

Do folk give a shit? The main runners, Ken who is a fucking weirdo or Boris who is a bit nuts but likable. I vote Boris.

call me naieve but people in power should be voted for what they stand for and not the spinners' spun personality..

I didn't vote.

Read Amusing Ourselves To Death. oldie but goody.

Originally Posted by Alex Dangerfield

call me naieve but people in power should be voted for what they stand for and not the spinners' spun personality..

I didn't vote.

Read Amusing Ourselves To Death. oldie but goody.

I will call you Neve - Alex - because it's pretty.

So what have the romans, sorry Boris given London

From memory (and you'll forgive me I don't live in London but often listen to the metropolitan views hoisted on here)
force out the Met police commisar Ian Blair and often loudly says there isn't enough officers on the beat.
bendy bus's gone or phased out with the new routemasters
Booze on the tubes - was that Boris?
Boris bikes?

A quick google found:



Speaking of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, the writer of this website said "Melliflous phrases tumble effortlessly from his lordly, hardly moving lips."

CYBERBORISjohnson | All about Boris Johnson

At least now Livingstone can keep his tax dodging to himself. What price privacy, eh?

Thank heavens for that. The fact that Ken is a tax dodging slimeball while acrimoniously attacking other tax dodging slime balls is one thing, but he also caused a great deal of division in the city and played groups off against each other. His "leaving" speech was the epitome of that, little daggers diving and sliding in the backs of opponents, smiling and glancing at the pool of blood that slowing gathers around his feet. Why do you think he was called Red Ken...? Socialist/Communist lover, deep throating the Iranian government, Venezuela oil thievery, crony benefitting, tax raising, project loving politician....

At least Boris has done a couple of things, bendy buses gone, they were a congestion creating, fare dodging delight of Ken's creation. Ken's mouthpiece newspaper shredded. West London Congestion charge banished. Taxes frozen (against the wrath of the Labour members), and yet more besides. He keeps his promises and has delivered a better London. Hopefully things pick up enough that the charge is not diminished by an every dwindly economy and that Boris can build the London he endevours to promote. A Great City of commerce and opportunity, fairness and low crime rates.

Careful there mate, you're in danger of taking this seriously.

Originally Posted by Ed Safado

cos I AM that shallow.

Shallowness is an asset if not yet a virtue. All you have to do is remember to earn money so you can spend it on the latest shiny must have things.

If the assembly were predominently one party but the mayor another how would that work I wonder?

Labour now with 12 of 25 seats apparently having taken from the Tories and Lib Dems and whats this the BNP are ousted. Can it really be a proper recession if people havent started balming immigrants yet or perhaps we have moved on from that old classic knee jerk.

So Powers of the assembly?

Wiki says:

"The London Assembly is an elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds majority, to amend the mayor's annual budget. The assembly was established in 2000 and is headquartered at City Hall on the south bank of the River Thames, close to Tower Bridge. The assembly is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners (transport, environmental matters, etc.), publish its findings and recommendations, and make proposals to the mayor."

In practice to get a two thirds majority would need Tories to vote against Boris or presumably abstain so Boris is well in.

Originally Posted by 1888

Do folk give a shit? The main runners, Ken who is a fucking weirdo or Boris who is a bit nuts but likable. I vote Boris.

Yeah, that seems a reasonable assessment. Who cares about the policy and what these wankers actually do that will affect the way Londoners and everyone who visits lead their lives, right?

On that basis, I voted Ken, as he made me coffee when I was a wet DR, and he keeps newts.

Shock fact of life.

There are more U.K. citizens living outside of London than there are people living in London and we really couldn't give a flying fuck about your political personality contest.

Originally Posted by KorkyKat

Shock fact of life.

There are more inbred, big-eared simpletons who have never seen an airplane or had a bath inside a house living outside of London than there are people living in London and we really couldn't give a flying fuck about your political personality contest.

corrected

Originally Posted by KorkyKat

Shock fact of life.

There are more U.K. citizens living outside of London than there are people living in London and we really couldn't give a flying fuck about your political personality contest.

but you still felt the need to post this, methinks the lady doth protest a little too much

Not a need rather a reminder to all the London centric fuckers that there are lots of wonderful places and people outside that shit hole known as da Capital innit.