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Labour and their apologists have only got themselves to blame for all this. For months, they treated Johnson's candidacy as a joke. When his campaign started gathering momentum, their strategy of writing him off backfired spectacularly. Ken Livingstone was now the dead man walking, and Boris Johnson was now the almost certain winner.
He is to the tory party what ken was to labour, except the tories kept ahold of boris!
Good on him! He won fair and square, I'm not saying he didn't
Still, it evokes the same reaction initially as finding out the students of York had voted a pirate for SU president. It seems under the guise of some kind of weird 'buffoonery' as it was put so eloquent in both circumstances they're actually very intelligent and capable people.
Still, he is still seen as a joke by many and there's no harm in my having a laugh at Londoners' expense
Prepare for the worst Olympics in quite a long time.
look on the bright side - even if Tessa Jowell fucks up the Olympics at least we've got a mayor who won't cosy up to far-right Islamists
Fuck.
In some areas they're getting really popular. It's scary. I think they'll win more seats in the next few years unless Labour start doing something for the people who actually voted for them instead of people who support the conservatives.
Congratulations to the London's Evening Standard and Daily Mail Group. Their long orchestrated campaign has finally achieved its goal.
And the Guardian failed in its...
Word.
After a year or two they may decide they want somebody else in charge, but they still won't miss Livingstone greatly.
i agree, the number of votes they are gaining is quite frightening.
they came second in my ward (to the tories) and i was shocked that they'd managed to be nominated at all.
i just don't understand how people can think of them as one.
Do you live in London, out of curiosity?
I agree. Completely.
However, people are reluctant to vote Labour, people still remember the Tories of yesteryear and how they screwed up.
:chin:
Chime on about what he has achieved all you want; the fact is that people were given an option, and they chose the 'clown' over him. What does that say about him?
I agree with this statement. I never thought I'd hope Boris Johnson would win anything.
This is the worrying thing - not that he'd set up a Minstry of Silly Walks, which would be great, but that I wonder how many of the people who voted for this nasty man understand what he's about and that he's NOT in any way a comedian, a buffoon, a loveable fool... Have I Got News For You have been promoting this idea about Boris for years now; and Ian Hislop even said "Vote Boris!" (ho ho). The papers report his constant blunders as if he just deserves a hearty pat on the back - he says bigoted things all the time because he's like a far-right teddy bear and a genius and have you seen his hair, etc. etc. blah blah no. It's not true in the slightest. It's like voting David Brent into office because "he's a LEGEND". Bewildering, irresponsible, disastrous.
Yesss.
Labour really are up shit creek, soon enough it'll be the Tories running the UK and the SNP running Scotland. Nightmare scenario.
You make it sound like Ken Livingstone isn't a 'nasty man'. After Boris doesn't cosy up to homophobes, crooks and terrorists