i spent a few hours the other week googling the london assembly candidates in the little booklet. how did people work out who was running before the internet?
i guess the plethora of right-wing splitter parties should serve to split the vote so it's a good thing, but it's horrible flipping through the booklet and being like, oh look, there's the BNP, the 3nglish d3mocrats, UKIP and the National Front! plus some bullshit about traditional marriage.
― c sharp major, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:49 (eleven years ago) link
paddick has been comparing himself to galloway, apparently, based on a) their low polling numbers and b) their reality tv show pasts
:(
you can't even make punchlines about these people any more
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
can't say i'm not tempted by benita purely because she's a faceless dull civil servant and not a personality clown, but protest-voting is kinda lame isn't it
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
I passed Boris' bus this morning, outside the Hilton, Paddington. He was not in it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.”
so far beyond parody, these cunts
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
If Ken Loach had written that...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
It's only because he hopes Boris'll close it so that he can turn it into a pub called The Library.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
MJ hibbett is a prophet
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
I've been more aware of Paddock than any of the others as his "i'm a copper" billboards seem to be all over South London. Probably not the best way to go to attract Brixton votes, really.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:39 (4 hours ago)
yeah his are the only ads i've seen. in kingston, where i guess it could sell.
tho i haven't received my polling card, i imagine i'll turn up at the office tomorrow and my vote will have been nicked.
― danny houellebecq (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Don't think it's that cut-and-dried, he effectively decriminalized cannabis in Brixton. Of course he's also a LibDem and a nonentity as a politician.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
he has those posters in finsbury park and tottenham also, i can confirm
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
I got a Ken leaflet through my letterbox the other night at 10pm just after I'd shut off the TV and the whole house was quiet, it frightened the hell out of me.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
my french housemate who's not eligible to vote has received a voting card, maybe you could just use hers merdeyeux
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
xp, i got an election leaflet at eleven pm, a few years ago, while watching The Exorcist. I nearly died.
The election was probably there for the taking with a stronger candidate but i can't see Boris getting beaten by Ken. The Labour campaign has been half-hearted, at best. At worst, it's looked like they've actually wanted Boris to win - possibly with a view to him challenging Cameron for leadership somewhere down the line.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
this is the first i've seen the borisbus and its broken down just in the middle of the road #moneywellspenthttp://distilleryimage10.instagram.com/75722684b55c11e188131231381b5c25_7.jpg
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
it turns back to being a bendy bus afterallhttp://distilleryimage0.instagram.com/62a243c2b56611e1abb01231382049c1_7.jpg
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link