Labour choose 'Red Ken' as candidate for London mayor.

[Leekbrookgull]

Get on well with Bob Crow & TFL

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I thought Oona was running for it ?

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Well beaten.

 

[Rookie]

Joke, the bloke is a bitter crone who couldn't face the fact he was well beaten by Boris. Hope he gets beaten back into third place and takes his union friends with him

 

[Gwylan]

Good choice I reckon. Ken's vote was higher than the rest of the Labour party's in 2008, so he has some personal popularity to fall back on. Oona King, on the other hand, had lost a rock-solid Labour seat during a Labour GE victory - never the strongest candidate to stack against Ken.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

London voters are wonderfully unreliable. Despite huge campaigns from all sorts of establishment bastions, they consistently elect mavericks like Ken (twice) and Boris.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Joke, the bloke is a bitter crone who couldn't face the fact he was well beaten by Boris. Hope he gets beaten back into third place and takes his union friends with him

He was never going to win that election though. There was a protest vote against the Labour Government. A completely clueless dick could have won it. Oh hang on...

 

[BLOCK F]

Joke, the bloke is a bitter crone who couldn't face the fact he was well beaten by Boris. Hope he gets beaten back into third place and takes his union friends with him

Tend to agree.

 

[ROSM]

London voters are wonderfully unreliable. Despite huge campaigns from all sorts of establishment bastions, they consistently elect mavericks like Ken (twice) and Boris.

and it has to be said both have done (in their own way) a good thing for their electorate.

I am a firm believer in national party politics being excluded from local authorities and for local alliances to be formed that are based on policies and issues rather than central guidance or interference.

 

[bhaexpress]

A lot of people like him, I think he's a tosser but as Lembit Opik is also running it'll be a bit of a joke anyway.

 

[Biscuit]

Top man and good news.

Actually bumped into Red Ken a few months ago and had a chat with him. Top man and an excellent Mayor of London.

No doubt everyone will vote for Boris though because he's 'bumbling' and they've seen him on HIGNFY.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

No doubt everyone will vote for Boris though because he's 'bumbling' and they've seen him on HIGNFY.

Fantastic patronisation of the entire electorate there. Sterling work.

 

[Don Quixote]

Boris will be well beaten.

 

[glasfryn]

Boris will be well beaten.

with a baseball or cricket bat?

 

[HackneyMan]

"Good Old" Ken-"Harmless"--NOT!!

Had the misfortune to visit, on many work occassions, the Holiday Camp that was The Greater London Council that he ran in the 1980's until Maggie realised what he was up to and closed that shambles of an organisation down.

Enemy of the indigenous working class but a great lover of any Ethnic Minorrity cause.

Even back then all the propaganda posters were Anti-White Working Class Guys and Anti-Police which is hilarious given that he campaiged last week for the 99.9% indigenous Billinsgate Fish Porters and recruited many Police during his previous tenure.

Made a point of commissioning the proposed Muslim building to be one foot hifgher than St.Pauls ( there's a message there somewhere ).

Comes across as an affable, lovable cheeky chappie but is an odious toad, in truth.

btw: I'm not a fan having lived in London since the Mid-1950's...lol

 

[beorhthelm]

Boris will be well beaten.

really? recent poll by the Standard had Boris supported by 45% of Londoners and Livingston by 27%. obviously i'd expect the labour vote to swing in behind Livingstone, but King only got 9% so thats not really enough.

 

[bhaexpress]

"Good Old" Ken-"Harmless"--NOT!!

Had the misfortune to visit, on many work occassions, the Holiday Camp that was The Greater London Council that he ran in the 1980's until Maggie realised what he was up to and closed that shambles of an organisation down.

Enemy of the indigenous working class but a great lover of any Ethnic Minorrity cause.

Even back then all the propaganda posters were Anti-White Working Class Guys and Anti-Police which is hilarious given that he campaiged last week for the 99.9% indigenous Billinsgate Fish Porters and recruited many Police during his previous tenure.

Made a point of commissioning the proposed Muslim building to be one foot hifgher than St.Pauls ( there's a message there somewhere ).

Comes across as an affable, lovable cheeky chappie but is an odious toad, in truth.

btw: I'm not a fan having lived in London since the Mid-1950's...lol

This is the side of the man I've seen, crooked little turd.

 

[Gwylan]

really? recent poll by the Standard had Boris supported by 45% of Londoners and Livingston by 27%. obviously i'd expect the labour vote to swing in behind Livingstone, but King only got 9% so thats not really enough.

Looking at it now. politicalbetting.com Boris leads in first London mayoral poll

A pretty meaningless poll. It's not a representative sample for one thing and no Lib Dem option. The Standard is very anti-Ken so you do have to take this with a pinch of salt.

But I do agree that it will be close vote, certainly can't see Boris being well beaten.

 

[Dandyman]

"Good Old" Ken-"Harmless"--NOT!!

Had the misfortune to visit, on many work occassions, the Holiday Camp that was The Greater London Council that he ran in the 1980's until Maggie realised what he was up to and closed that shambles of an organisation down.

Enemy of the indigenous working class but a great lover of any Ethnic Minorrity cause.

Even back then all the propaganda posters were Anti-White Working Class Guys and Anti-Police which is hilarious given that he campaiged last week for the 99.9% indigenous Billinsgate Fish Porters and recruited many Police during his previous tenure.

Made a point of commissioning the proposed Muslim building to be one foot hifgher than St.Pauls ( there's a message there somewhere ).

Comes across as an affable, lovable cheeky chappie but is an odious toad, in truth.

btw: I'm not a fan having lived in London since the Mid-1950's...lol

Care to provide one example of an "Anti white working class" propaganda poster or that Livingstone has commissioned any religous building?

 

[Biscuit]

"Good Old" Ken-"Harmless"--NOT!!

Had the misfortune to visit, on many work occassions, the Holiday Camp that was The Greater London Council that he ran in the 1980's until Maggie realised what he was up to and closed that shambles of an organisation down.

Enemy of the indigenous working class but a great lover of any Ethnic Minorrity cause.

Even back then all the propaganda posters were Anti-White Working Class Guys and Anti-Police which is hilarious given that he campaiged last week for the 99.9% indigenous Billinsgate Fish Porters and recruited many Police during his previous tenure.

Made a point of commissioning the proposed Muslim building to be one foot hifgher than St.Pauls ( there's a message there somewhere ).

Comes across as an affable, lovable cheeky chappie but is an odious toad, in truth.

btw: I'm not a fan having lived in London since the Mid-1950's...lol

Yes and Boris really relates to the working classes, ''indigenous' or not...