Ken vs. Boris: It's So On

He'll be capitalising on the current pro-Labour mood in the country that looks set to extent well into the honeymoon period of the next government.

should just stand as an independent again.

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/ro/royhawaocltc4975313617122050.jpg

i wouldn't vote for him again - 8 years is probably enough and it's a sad state if no-one can be found who could topple Boris next time (i'm sure he'll still get re-elected somehow tho)

I, of course, would vote for him again.

I agree with Blueski that BJ will win again, and find it hard to believe that D Hill really believes that BJ will be on a loser in 2012. Is D Hill kidding?

There was a crap Guardian article mentioning various other candidates to stand in 2012; it even mentioned Arsene Wenger.

I would vote for the Labour ticket of Jose Mourinho with deputy mayor Steady Mike to crunch numbers.

Mourinho more likely to be the BNP candidate surely?

I don't know that BJ is going to stand in the next one. Won't Cameron PM want him in the cabinet? Or more to the point won't BJ want to be in the cabinet? He's always talked about as ambitious. Future foreign secretary I should think.

Surely the point of the Mayor of London role is to shunt ambitious liabilities off to the side and keep them away from the cabinet?

Indeed, I imagine Cameron wants BJ as far away from the cabinet as possible

See also former Health Secretary Frank Dobson, who got selected as the Labour candidate in 2000, got beaten by Ken and was never let near the Cabinet again.

Surely the point of the Mayor of London role is to shunt ambitious liabilities off to the side and keep them away from the cabinet?

-- Matt DC, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 14:13 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

So Gordon Brown for mayoral candidate in 2012?

Does Kirkcaldy have a mayor?

Oh yes, I am sure you are right. But this is not what Boris wants (or so I have been imformed). He sees himself front and centre in the next election and also sees himself as part of the bandwagon that really got rolling after his election. He doesn;t see himself as a liability at all anymore (if he ever did).

Somehow I don't think David Cameron is planning on having someone more popular than David Cameron in his cabinet

Lee McQueen?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2376/2508700274_ccea02b58e_o.jpg

That picture is shocking.

That picture is not allowed to appear in any publication now, apparently. The photographer has mysteriously forbidden it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/why-kens-still-seeing-red-907647.html

“I told him to his face, ‘You’ve been responsible for one person’s death, stay away from my family. Get off my doorstep’.”

What a charmer, really miss him already.

hi nrq

holla

Maybe he should have told ping pong jokes, bruv??

fucking labour party hack rewriting history is what this is: it was ken's great mates campbell and blair wot killed the doctor, not gilligan.

livingstone can't compete with gilligan when it comes to mud-slinging i guess. he said some good stuff elsewhere in that article tho (dunno if anyone noticed).

Instead there are too many columnists. “There are people who never did anything and I’m not terribly interested in their opinions. I don’t want to pick out anybody but Catherine Bennett (of The Observer)would be a good start. Why is anyone interested in her opinions? Has she written great literature, produced great art work, run a major corporation, been elected to office, or is she just paid to produce bile?” he moans. “You might as well pop into the local pub and say ‘What’s your opinion?’ It’s equally valid.”

Reminds me of someone.

haws, way to pick one of the leftier hacks out there.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23915523-ken-livingstone-under-fire-over-his-iranian-tv-role.do

Staggering poor judgement on Ken's part, but that Evening Standard article conveniently fails to mention the prominent ES journalist and famous anti-Ken campaigner who is also in the pay of the exact same Iranian TV channel.

Oh yes. I lolled.

he should keep the fuck away from those arseholes.

yes i noticed his absence from the byline but then he's not running for mayor

book reviews must be a hoot

You don't think it's slightly hypocritical of the Standard to act like this is the worst thing in the world when one of their star journalists has been employed by the exact same Iranian propaganda network in an even more prominent capacity?

I get that there are skewed moral universes involved when you're owned by a former KGB agent but still...

I think it is the skewed moral universe of being a former Associated paper.

just because its hypocritical doesn't mean it alters ken's position

But yes, Ken is a fucking idiot but then again we knew that anyway.

what a choice we have

Think Boris will win comfortably anyway, he's distanced himself enough from the government in the popular consciousness.

am starting to think that "selfish buffoon" is kind of the default mayoral choice for metropolitan mayors

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http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullnode_image/articles_2012/80970112.jpg

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Will West
@Castmana1
Now I like Ken Livingstone, and I like Boris Johnson, but which is better? There's only one way to find out... #kenandboris #fight

i trust we all have our "sack boris" oyster card wallets?

http://www.tssa.org.uk/en/campaigns/index.cfm/campaign/sack-boris

oh good i need one to replace the horrible mastercard one.

got held up by the ancient, sputtering "not ken again" bus last week. p much decided my vote.

JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin added: “When I first moved to London, Ken was in charge and he opened this huge library near where I lived in Wood Green. It was my first taste of his extravagance and that’s always stuck with me. So I’m backing Boris — I hope he’ll spend money more wisely than Ken has done.”

They have books in Wetherspoons you know.

libraries are pretty much the dry, marxist version of wetherspoons

god this is TOMORROW

any particular feelings about jenny jones or siobhan benita? or brian paddick, indeed.