London Mayor Elections

Zooropa · 6th April 2008, 10:38pm

Boris or Ken?

Boris is terrifyingly in the lead in all polls.
Won't affect the vast vast majority of people on the forum directly, but it is a fairly important election.

Maybe if Boris gets in he will only fuck up so bad it'll hurt the Tories.

katinacooker · 6th April 2008, 10:39pm

what about that anti scottish guy i was reading about in the paper today?

Zero · 6th April 2008, 10:43pm

For those few in London, I just discovered that you have to register separately for this, even if you're on the electoral role:

http://www.londonelects.org.uk/regis...ion_forms.aspx

Deadline is April 16th.

Syxx · 6th April 2008, 10:45pm

YouTube - Boris Johnson vs Germany

kimzor · 6th April 2008, 11:04pm

Boris all the way.

Dario · 6th April 2008, 11:06pm

Boris, solely for comedy value. Which is, of course, what really matters in politics.

XMachina · 7th April 2008, 4:26am

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...ing_boris.html

boris has it in the bag what with Mike Read and all the young 'crews' supporting him.

Semprini · 7th April 2008, 6:45am

As someone wrote in yesterday's Observer: Boris can't just screw this up and then say "Oh cripes!" like he normally does. This is serious business.

But I think Londoners might be fed up and looking for a change after 8 years of being in Keningrad.

poprock · 7th April 2008, 7:28am

I think Red Ken’s done a really good job, but is for the chop this time … regardless of who his opponent is.

m0nkeymafia · 7th April 2008, 8:30am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zero

For those few in London, I just discovered that you have to register separately for this, even if you're on the electoral role:

http://www.londonelects.org.uk/regis...ion_forms.aspx

Deadline is April 16th.

I didn't register separately and received a polling card on Friday. The link you provided is to register if you aren't on the electoral role.

Zero · 9th April 2008, 2:49pm

Sounds like I was misinformed then... but I haven't got a card through yet.

XMachina · 9th April 2008, 2:53pm

I understand that corruption at City Hall and Cronyism have rocked Ken Livingstone's campaign. I need some convincing that a prime example of the OBN is the individual to tackle these problems.

Draven · 9th April 2008, 3:01pm

I don't like the Tories, but I love Boris.

I mind he was running for Uni of Edinburgh's chancellor or something a couple of years ago, did he get it?

Neil. · 9th April 2008, 3:10pm

Boris is hilarious, his have I got news for you appearances were brilliant.

However, if he gets voted in it'll be a bad day for london. Hopefully whacky (sorry) students won't acctually vote for the comedy value, as its acctually quite important.

This could be the equivilant of voting for the monster raving looney party (for the LOLZ) then acctually having to live with a right wing mayor, who will reverse all of kens progressive enviromental policy.

**djtoast** · 9th April 2008, 3:16pm

Ken did fantastic work with the GLC when I lived in London, and i was delighted to see him back in office.

Having seen thatcher systematically dismantle all that good work, it'll be a real kick in the teeth to see a tory beat Ken in this election, but i expect he will.

Boris is funny and charming, not what I'd put at the top of the list of important qualities for a mayoral candidate, but taht combined with a general dis-satisfaction with labour will make it pretty hard for Ken to win I think. Seperating the work from the man - and Ken has never been personally popular - seems to be too much for electorates.