Ken vs. Boris: It's So On

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

Lib Dems: "Gordon Brown is the best canvasser for the Lib Dems"

Not just blogs, but zings too.

this is some next level badly done television

yeah the poor map guy with his jeans.... won't somebody get this man some pants?? i mean trousers

Man if Ken v Boris is exotic I hate to think what the rest of Britain must be like these days. You poor lambs!

Any idea who that one "other" in Tamworth is? BBC doesn't seem to have it down.

Having charlie kennedy as a pundit = look folks he's dried out give him his party back

jowell is a disaster on tv shocker

Tessa Jowell digging one hell of a hole for herself right now.

Tony King is surprised that the Tories haven't taken Worcester - apparently they just needed one seat to get total control and they didn't manage it, so it's No Overall Control.

Vine has a coat. HAPPY NOW, INTERNET?

The thing that annoys me, endlessly, about New Labour, is how they endlessly bang on about Middle England and how they must win it but rarely any specifics about what it is they are improving when they're in power.

Tessa Jowell encapsulates that awful vacuousness perfectly, like they became experts at winning elections but awful at communication after that, beyond "blah blah stable economy etc". Possibly out of sheer blind fear that anything they said would see the population of Britain throwing them out for these evil sinful things.

Sorry, I know this is nothing new.

This Ascension of Man graphic describing the Tories' election progress is astonishing.