Ken vs. Boris: It's So On

yeah i have a londoner staying over tonight and as soon as ken opened his mouth she was like "now that's a london accent"

but you know what, it's not a kingship, being mayor, and eight years is a good long while

people will always find things to moan about in london and this time it'll be boris who takes the heat

/ capn obv

he really is such a massive twat it's unreal

What is galling is that Ken has done a good job as mayor and he has lost because of what are essentially national issues and lost to an imbecile.

FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT.

This afternoon at work I apologised to my colleague for not paying attention cos I was looking at the election news, he was like "yeah Boris! If he doesn't win maybe he can come and be mayor of Milton Keynes!" (where he lives). This is someone who is otherwise totally sound and a great bloke. WTF is wrong with people.

BNP get an Assembly Member.

Greens gets two seats.

Respect George Galloway and UKIP both miss out.

FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT.

I knew it was all going wrong when my night out drinking started with a (fit) banker saying to me "you voted Boris then!"

FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT.

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who left the lights on in here?

*click*

Can everyone stop underestimating Boris please? It's going to backfire nastily.

BNP get an Assembly Member.

-- James Mitchell, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:56 (Yesterday)

FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY FUCK FUCK FUCK REPEEAT AD INFINITUM.

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I suppose it's to be hoped that this will somehow energise Labour supporters to win this coming election, like Bush's second win did the democrats, but that's a big ask with this lot.

Brown has to quit now right? I'm sure it's been mentioned already umpteen times but if this proves anything it's that you can't win without a superficial air of bullshit charisma. Brown don't got none o' that.

I managed to kid myself Brown would make everything alright again, lol naive optimism, but yeah really fuck off now. Who they would replace him with I have no idea.

HIS NAME IS MILLIBAND. LOL.

I guess it's a better name than Balls

Colonel Poo is a better name for a Prime Minister than Ed Balls.

Radio 4 talking heads have been clutching at Straw for the job

inconceivable brown will quit.

Colonel Poo would get this country back on its feet.

Yeah I'm under no illusion Brown will quit. He just should, really.

Radio 4 talking heads have been clutching at Straw for the job

This actually made me laugh. At least they weren't clutching at Balls.

so are Labour just gonna accept the inevitability of an election defeat in two years time, and let Brown take the fall for it, and start again in 2010 with some fresh young charismatic twattish upstart?

I know that's not the kind of question one wants to be asking at 2.35am but i still have at least an inch and a half of beer left so i might as well eh?

lol I'm heading back to the fridge now. I expect you're spot on though.

one possible bright side is that the next incumbent might lose the GE after next, regardless of which party it is, because of the economy.

That City and East result tells you a lot about NuLab - white working class fuck off to the BNP, ethnic working class fuck off to Respect, when for 60 years they'd been the bedrock of Labour's support.

Jeez, glad I don't live in London no more.

Dear London,

This is a joke, right?

Love,
A Concerned Friend

we know you're enjoying this.

Oh, I've only just now heard Conceding Ken speech. How was there a dry eye in the house?

This SUCKS.

I'm gutted. Just...completely gutted.

40,000 votes in the end.

I can hear the tube trains speeding along through Hounslow. It makes me feel a bit ill knowing that they're now powered by the forces of evil (<- dramatic but true).

Welcome to 1979.

This is waht happens when idiots like Tatchell campaign against Ken. You don't get Greens, you don't get Lib Dems, you get fucking Johnson. I expect he'll be make financing the History of gay life museum one of his priorities.

oh hey guys i had this really bad dream last night oh wait

I have never felt better abt my decision to move from London to Glasgow than on this awful morning - let the mass exodus begin!

so are Labour just gonna accept the inevitability of an election defeat in two years time, and let Brown take the fall for it, and start again in 2010 with some fresh young charismatic twattish upstart?

-- Upt0eleven, Saturday, 3 May 2008 01:34 (7 hours ago) Link

Basically, yeah. On current status the next election won't be a hung parliament or a tiny Tory majority, but rather a 1997 in reverse. A Tory majority of 150 seats is now not just obtainable, but also likely. Why ruin another leader, just let Brown sit this out, take the blame in 2010, and then hit restart with Straw/Johnson/someone who isn't a Milliband.

"This is waht happens when idiots like Tatchell campaign against Ken. You don't get Greens, you don't get Lib Dems, you get fucking Johnson. I expect he'll be make financing the History of gay life museum one of his priorities"

THIS :-(

I have never felt better abt my decision to move from London to Glasgow than on this awful morning - let the mass exodus begin!

Mass exodus starts with "failed asylum seekers"...

http://www.express.co.uk/img/covers/257x330front/2008-05-03

Mr Brown’s catastrophic premiership has brought Britain so low that even failed asylum seekers are now trying to flee the country, immigration officers revealed last night.

I don't really understand where they're going with this - are they saying this is a good thing or a bad thing?

I was really annoyed that they cut off the pretty Green lady's speech. She sauntered up with her red handbag, and they went back to the studio...on BBC and Sky! Damn them!

That City and East result tells you a lot about NuLab - white working class fuck off to the BNP... when for 60 years they'd been the bedrock of Labour's support.

It's a myth that this is confined to New Labour, it happened towards the end of previous Labour administrations as well, except for BNP read National Front. The parties of the extreme right did badly in the 80s because their supporters, or people who might be tempted to vote for them, swung behind Thatcher, not Labour.

I've removed the bit about Respect because, well, it just didn't exist before.

Also the notion that "the white working class" (not exactly an amorphous mass) has been an unassailable bedrock of Labour support for 40 years is highly questionable, especially across London and the South of England. One of the reasons Thatcher was so good at winning elections was because she separated working class voters from 'traditional' party loyalties (then only 40 odd years old). The flow of working class votes to Thatcher can't be ignored.

This is also why I am maybe not that surprised to see former Labour strongholds falling to the Tories. If Thatcherism was such a successful electoral machine because it separated voters from traditional loyalties (only to be destroyed once they realised the voters they created then had loyalty to no one), the success of the Blairite electoral machine lay in neutralising upfront party-political ideology.

The Tories lost repeated elections because they were too "tax, Europe, immigration", Cameron has wiped that from public Tory discourse. If Blair and Brown have helped create an ideologically neutral mainstream political landscpae, where we are sold politicians as effective managers, and Labour are no longer percieved to be effectively managing the country. This is why you get a flaky, indecisive electorate, opinion polls that fluctuate wildly over the course of the year, this is why Boris has won a mayoral election in the UK's most ethnically diverse city.

Over the course of a year, I mean.