Mayor of London & London Assembly Elections

[»Lynx]

I'm not sure how many of you pay attention to British politics, especially when it's not a General Election - but I figured I'd just post this to see what you guys have to say on it anyway.

 

The people who are up for election are:

 

Richard Bambrook - British National Party

Lindsey German - Left List

Boris Johnson - Conservatives

Sian Berry - Green Party

Brian Pad!@#$%^&* - Liberal Democrats

Gerard Batten - United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)

Alan Craig - Christian Choice

Matt O'Connor - The English Democrats

Ken Livingstone - Labour

 

My own opinions on each candidate, and how I believe they will do in the elections:

 

Richard Bambrook:

Racist. Uses terms like "Because it's not racist to oppose m!@#$%^&* immigration and political correctness - it's common sense!" - even though undercover footage shot with members of the BNP show Neo-Nazism. I believe that this party will only gain votes from white people in the most diverse areas, where change has made them afrade, and the least diverse areas where they have not been able to accept any kind of diversity.

 

Lindsey German:

Is tackling problems which will be too hard to tackle, and will set herself up for failure. She is going to try and fix the housing problems, by building thousands of low-quality council houses which will inevitably cause more crime, and is then going to attempt to cut prices on things which are already underfunded, and currently in sloppy condition - which will just cause more problems later. (Transport, Education, Health, Olympics). From what I can see, she doesn't seem qualified to be the mayor of London, however, I believe she may get a lot of votes from people who can't see through her vague promises.

 

Boris Johnson:

Police, Police, Police, Transport, Police, Police, Police, Money-to-the-people-of-London, Police, Police... The only agenda on Boris's mind. However, I think that he is going to be a very strong candidate in the elections, could possibly win.

 

Sian Berry:

Stupid party, should only be in place to try and change environmental policies, not run the city. Won't get into power, but does already have influence on other runners.

 

Brian Pad!@#$%^&*:

Former police officer, so his main goal is to prevent all crime, but is also aiming at improving transport and housing. Can't say much about this guy, because I don't know much about him, but he's gay. Hah. Might do well though, he's on the TV a lot.

 

Gerard Batten:

I like the policies UKIP is trying to enforce, but I don't know how real they may be. They're attempting to lower the amount of paper work police have to do, while putting more police on the street with powers to prevent youth crime. A good idea, however, I don't know how it will play out. Also, "Scrap the congestion charge" - he'd get my vote if he did. Don't know how realistic that is neither, though. I quite like UKIP, and the way it's currently going, even after it's previous fiascos, however, they won't get anywhere.

 

Alan Craig:

Annoying.

Phail.

 

Matt O'Connor:

Is attempting to, as it seems, prevent the Scottish from getting any of London's money. Not too sure of his actual policies, but one of them is to make April 23rd a public holiday. Eh? Doubt he's going to get too far.

 

Ken Livingstone:

Current Mayor, and seems to have the most pragmatic policies, and has a very strong chance of re-election.

 

I'd talk more about each of these candidates, but I'm really bored, however, it should be interesting to see what other people think.

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Boris Johnson

Gerard Batten

Ken Livingstone

 

out of them 3 for me, not sure what one yet though.

[»Lynx]

I think I like Gerard most, then Boris because he makes me laugh. Ken sucks.

[Incomplete]

Yeah I don't like Ken, something suspicous about him, but he seems stable.

[»Lynx]

[Incomplete]

You forgot about the spy satallite he wanted to launch. Edited April 21, 2008 by Incomplete

[»Lynx]

Ken = Newb

[Aileron]

Admittingly I know nothing of London politics, but to me it seems (based entirely on your post, I have no other info.) that you haven't given Richard Bambrook a fair !@#$%^&*essment. I don't really trust underground videos that much, because while the video shows that there's a skunk somewhere, usually in such cases the skunk is behind the camera.

 

I'd say Boris Johnson.

[»doc flabby]

I'd like to see ken go as i think staying in power too long is always bad

[»Lynx]

I agree

 

I don't like Richard Bambrook because he is not bringing anything positive into Politics. All he is doing is reaching out to people who are blatant racists, and asking them to vote for him. I have no respect for him, and never will - a Mayor needs to be able too attend to all problems, not a single problem (also why I don't like the Green Party) - when you have single interests other problems quickly rise.

[Hoch]

Basically your choices are between a Trotskyite pol-

itician, aka Ken Livingston, or an affable, idosyncratic

conservative, aka Boris Johnson. Being a Tory the man

who I will be voting for should be quite obvious

 

-Hoch