Ken vs. Boris: It's So On

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Uncomfortable expression or what?

Today's voting music was 'Old Teenagers' by Atilla the Stockbroker in honour of LOL BORIS LEGEREND AND HIS FACEBOOK MORONS.

Judging by the level of coverage this is getting on the BBC website, I think the visibility of the London Mayor outside London isn't exactly great, unless there's a terrorist attack or we win another major sporting tournament or something. Is that right? So an almighty cock-up by Boris may not make much of a difference to the Tories unless he starts a war with Manchester or something.

Yup. No one outside London gives a shit about any of this, which is both good and bad, should Boris win.

*waves cheerily from glasgow*

(not that i'm particularly representative of anything, of course!)

My non-London friends without doubt give more of a shit about this than my London ones. My sister was just about to not vote at all because "well we'd have to take the kids". (Don't worry, gf, she felt my boot.)

heheheheheh. good work. (and a fine status update, too, incidentally.)

I voted for Ken again, same as in 2004, and same as I would have done in 2000 if I hadn't been disenfranchised by moving house too often to be able to register.

Back upthread:
Waltham Forest - Con
-- Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 12:16 (2 days ago)

I'd be surprised if it isn't Labour. I'm pretty sure Walthamstow and Leyton and probably Leytonstone would be Labour and only Chingford would be Tory.

Perhaps, I get a bit hazy out there.

I voted, in the end. On of the strangest things about the voting proces, for me, is that I'm still registered at my parents' house, and I end up voting in the hall at my old primary school. In the infants' school, where I was from age 5-7 or something. The fact that I still go in there every couple of years to do my democratic duty as an adult nearing 30 means the act of voting resonates with me in ways it probably doesn't with many others.

Also, there was music playing at low volume on a stereo when we came in. I didn't know what it was until the chorus kicked in, as I was in the voting booth. Then I realised it was Never Gonna Give You Up, and felt cheated, like I'd been rickrolled at the ballot box.

Judging by the level of coverage this is getting on the BBC website, I think the visibility of the London Mayor outside London isn't exactly great, unless there's a terrorist attack or we win another major sporting tournament or something. Is that right? So an almighty cock-up by Boris may not make much of a difference to the Tories unless he starts a war with Manchester or something.

You could be right, but it's worth noting "WE ARE NOT LONDON-CENTRIC" is a huge huge drummed into your brain mantra in the BBC at the moment.

There was a q at my polling station and weirdly the two people in front of me both work in my office. Fancy.

Also, there was music playing at low volume on a stereo when we came in. I didn't know what it was until the chorus kicked in, as I was in the voting booth. Then I realised it was Never Gonna Give You Up, and felt cheated, like I'd been rickrolled at the ballot box.

-- Matt DC, Thursday, 1 May 2008 21:22

Yeah as if Boris bloody Johnson would run for mayor. lol London, you got punk'd!!

Says Livingstone as the Rick Astley classic played at "ballot stations" around the capital: "Haha... just a bit of a laugh there guys, we're not actually having any elections. Brezhnev didn't need 'em, neither do I."

Jol out.

Back upthread:
Waltham Forest - Con
-- Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 12:16 (2 days ago)

I'd be surprised if it isn't Labour. I'm pretty sure Walthamstow and Leyton and probably Leytonstone would be Labour and only Chingford would be Tory.

I have to combat Chingford I guess.

lol @ election rickrolling!

No results at all so far then.

Fuckwit Radio 2 DJ in jeans describing Rochdale as a classic Lib Dem/Conservative swing council then swiftly moving on to pretty much invisible visual gags about Bean/Stalin.

Jesus, this is awkward. If this had an audience it would be like a really bad Brit Awards.

They've nicked the Boris caricature out of Private Eye, then?

'Boris's dad, Dave from Blur and Michael Portillo'

COMING UP

BBC North appears to be leading with Barnsley possibly slipping from Labour control...

Big turnouts in inner London too according to Nick thingy.

I love this polling guy.

He has such a beautiful accent.

Seriously. Fucking jeans. What a tosser.

Erm... is the BBC in Not-Leeds running ahead of the BBC in Leeds, then? I am currently looking at Jeremy Vine wafting near a map.

someone (nick thingie?) just called ken livingstone "ken loving"?

the map guy is like.. STANDING IN THE ZODIAC

Re: jeans - I could probably take an acoustic session from British Sea Power over Tessa Jowell talking about anything at all.

so is there no mayoral news? if this was the united states they would have called it for somebody hours ago

jowell out

Yeah, hardly anything on the BBC site.

xpost

i have no interest in Tessa Jowell's point of view: i want to hear what Dave from Blur has to say.

Mayoral not counted til tomorrow, apparently.

george osborne sometimes has this implied "...you ass" tacked onto the end of what he says

i love watching charles kennedy talk about anything

Oh, Rhyming Slang Crick...

Osborne kinda looks like Mr Bean fused with Piers Morgan. As drawn by the artists from The Dandy circa 1951-ish.

is anything interesting happening or can i safely watch law & order till 1?

Graun sez: this election is not just about the exotic Ken v Boris contest which will not be declared until Friday afternoon or evening - unless the count goes into extra time.

There's a Welsh woman insisting that Wales exists. Tories apparently quietly confident in Barry. She's basically speculating like heck, but Plaid Cymru are apparently feeling bullish.

xpost But maybe everyone knew that.

(side note before I leave the thread...I didn't figure out that I was allowed to vote until the other day, already too late to register. So if Boris wins, it'll be my fault.)

BLOGGERS!

city hall is clearly where the sexiness is happening.

Live Blogging. This is some serious fucking bullshit right here.

i thought adrian edmonson was on itv these days?

No results for London mayor till tomorrow, I think we don't start counting in London till the morning, a curious distinction we share with Northern Ireland,

Blogging on TV: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xVaZwJn-ZcM

for documentary purposes, what's happening on the rolling news channel is a recorded segment (while everyone else takes a pee):

"the bloggers have been at it," the reporter says, standing in high heels next to a stool in what looks like a futuristic bar / internet cafe, "well, like bloggers"

"we'll look into all the little eccentricities of the bloggers" she promises

"twitter"

that girl john culshaw was talking to = whoa. get her on.

hahahaha oh yeah "we'll be listening to all the... twitter"

she just repeated it, oh god i can't believe this isn't a send-up, jessica hynes would kill this