Re: London Mayor: The nothing to do with Langer and Fred thread

[Allan D]

Ken is very popular amongst poorer, multicultural, inner city folk.

To whom he gives (or gave) lots of public money.

[Lara Lara Laughs]

Yeah, too right! It's about time investment bankers were given more money!

[Guest]

Errr...actually, no. It is those who live outside the congestion charge area but who have to come into it who are most affected by it.

Quite. Motorists whose addresses are within the C-charge zone get a massive discount.

I live in the outer areas and commute into the centre. Personally, I would never drive into the C-charge Zone. But I don't need to because the train service is excellent, and the bus services in the centre are just outstanding at present (thanks to Ken).

[Allan D]

Ken is very popular amongst poorer, multicultural, inner city folk.

KL also seems to have been very popular amongst the richer, unicultural inner city folk:

"Livingstone’s admiration for the City has been growing for years. In 2006 he saluted Margaret Thatcher’s 1986 decision to deregulate the City of London which had become “a lazy, old boys’ network”. Thatcher’s policy enabled it to become “dynamic and world class”.

The support is mutual. Financial news service Bloomberg wrote that, “Growth in London’s financial district, has fuelled the capital’s biggest economic expansion since the Second World War, and the Labour Party’s Livingstone, has helped make it happen.”

Livingstone “has earned the admiration of many of London’s business people and bankers”.

According to Harvey McGrath, former chief executive officer of the hedge fund Man Group, Livingstone, “works quite hard to get closer” to the needs of financiers.

“He’s been a very pro-business mayor,” according to Nigel Bourne, director of the London office of the bosses’ CBI organisation.

If anything, Livingstone has proven himself even more attuned to the interests of big business than even his allies in the Labour leadership.

Last month in a rare criticism of the government he denounced the plan to tax extraordinarily wealthy “non-doms” claiming it would drive investment away from London."

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[Guest]

Livingstone “has earned the admiration of many of London’s business people and bankers”.

According to Harvey McGrath, former chief executive officer of the hedge fund Man Group, Livingstone, “works quite hard to get closer” to the needs of financiers.

“He’s been a very pro-business mayor,” according to Nigel Bourne, director of the London office of the bosses’ CBI organisation.

Bunch of bloody Commies. We all know he's Red Ken, the Mail said so in 1980.

[filosofee]

Bit of a strange one this, it seems those living in central areas of London most affected by the congestion charge voted to keep red Ken in?

Errr...actually, no. It is those who live outside the congestion charge area but who have to come into it who are most affected by it.

Can understand Brent, borough Livingstone lives in, voting for him but Harrow? Thought they were conservatives. Can't understand how Boris got it over Brian.

[PearlJ]

Londoners really are stupid. (Just the ones who voted for Boris of course)

[Guest]

For me, this election was all about transport in the centre of town, which is my reason for voting Ken.

Well, maybe the upper class buffoon has hidden depth and talent.

[Merlin]

For me, this election was all about transport in the centre of town, which is my reason for voting Ken.

Well, maybe the upper class buffoon has hidden depth and talent.

Just for transport Rob??
Are you not keen on wiping out the gun-toting gang shootings; 10 muggings per day; 5 knife casualties per week gradual
demise in London during the past 8 years?
Oh well ... Kenny clearly convinced you that crime was "under control" in his capital city and that did it for you!!
despite the fact his close pal seems to have shagged his way through City Hall whilst secreting a couple of £mill through
some fancy charity which, for some reason, Ken is loathe to have investigated!!

Anyway, FWIW, after 8 years of toying with pitting the lower class versus the upper class
(as if such things co-exist in London - apart from the Blairs pretending to be in Hampstead!!)...
I honestly think Londoners had had enough and voted for someone else to have a go at running the city.
Johnson, buffoon as he might appear, may just be that person.
Give the guy a chance.

[PearlJ]

For me, this election was all about transport in the centre of town, which is my reason for voting Ken.

Well, maybe the upper class buffoon has hidden depth and talent.

Just for transport Rob??
Are you not keen on wiping out the gun-toting gang shootings; 10 muggings per day; 5 knife casualties per week gradual
demise in London during the past 8 years?
Oh well ... Kenny clearly convinced you that crime was "under control" in his capital city and that did it for you!!
despite the fact his close pal seems to have shagged his way through City Hall whilst secreting a couple of £mill through
some fancy charity which, for some reason, Ken is loathe to have investigated!!

Anyway, FWIW, after 8 years of toying with pitting the lower class versus the upper class
(as if such things co-exist in London - apart from the Blairs pretending to be in Hampstead!!)...
I honestly think Londoners had had enough and voted for someone else to have a go at running the city.
Johnson, buffoon as he might appear, may just be that person.
Give the guy a chance.

He's had his chance and he shown himself to be an complete bigot.

[Merlin]

He's had his chance and he shown himself to be an complete bigot.

After five days in the job??

Okay - point taken!

[Guest]

For me, this election was all about transport in the centre of town, which is my reason for voting Ken.

Well, maybe the upper class buffoon has hidden depth and talent.

Just for transport Rob??
Are you not keen on wiping out the gun-toting gang shootings; 10 muggings per day; 5 knife casualties per week gradual
demise in London during the past 8 years?

I'm not sure that the Mayor has the power to reverse a social trend which has been developing for thirty years.

This gang nonsense is caused by absent fathers. They get their girls pregnant then run for it. The lads grow up with no sense of identity because they have no male role-models. They look to someone to fill that gap and find the dealers on their estate. Then they knock up the next generation of teenage girls, dodge their responsibilities and the cycle continues. The kids join gangs to protect themselves and have some kind of identity, and now persons unknown are getting guns to them.

I'm not being racist here either, because it has been happening over several generations in the working class white communities up in Glasgow.

[Merlin]

Yep, would agree with your comments in the main, however, a lack of visible street policing might have lent itself to the decline.

Will be interesting to see if Boris can lob another 2,000 policemen onto London's streets (as promised) as his first phase of action against crime.

[Allan D]

He's had his chance and he shown himself to be an complete bigot.

Johnson Appoints Black Deputy Mayor

Errr...quite.

[horace]

Exit polls published in Metro this morning suggest a narrow win for Ken.

A paper distributed free on the Tube. I don't even believe the weather forecast in that. What's the matter, doesn't your benefit stretch to the Standard?

And yet you believe everything your heroes Hannity and O'Reilly spew on Fox News.

I thought you'd love the metro anyway, it's owned by the Mail group.

...lol this alan d guy is a hoot...wonder if he wrote LJHoward speeches

[freddled gruntbuggly]

Exit polls published in Metro this morning suggest a narrow win for Ken.

A paper distributed free on the Tube. I don't even believe the weather forecast in that. What's the matter, doesn't your benefit stretch to the Standard?

And yet you believe everything your heroes Hannity and O'Reilly spew on Fox News.

I thought you'd love the metro anyway, it's owned by the Mail group.

...lol this alan d guy is a hoot...wonder if he wrote LJHoward speeches

For a while I was wondering if he WAS LJH . . .

[Allan D]

Exit polls published in Metro this morning suggest a narrow win for Ken.

A paper distributed free on the Tube. I don't even believe the weather forecast in that. What's the matter, doesn't your benefit stretch to the Standard?

And yet you believe everything your heroes Hannity and O'Reilly spew on Fox News.

I thought you'd love the metro anyway, it's owned by the Mail group.

...lol this alan d guy is a hoot...wonder if he wrote LJHoward speeches

Only when he ran for Mayor of London!

[lardbucket]

Seems to me that Howard is and always was way left of Allan D.

[Allan D]

As was Attila the Hun!

[Brass Monkey]

Allan, you should stop hating jews and 'blacks' so much. Race hate is sooooo old school.

[PearlJ]

He's had his chance and he shown himself to be an complete bigot.

After five days in the job??

Okay - point taken!

He has been around for a while you know.......

Check out some of his quotes.....

His use of the word 'piccaninnies' for one....

[PearlJ]

He's had his chance and he shown himself to be an complete bigot.

Johnson Appoints Black Deputy Mayor

Errr...quite.

My best friend is black so I can't be racist.

[Allan D]

He's had his chance and he shown himself to be an complete bigot.

Johnson Appoints Black Deputy Mayor

Errr...quite.

My best friend is black so I can't be racist.

That's the argument that Ken used to prove he was not anti-semitic by stating that he would not have appointed Nicky Gavron as his deputy in that case.

[Brass Monkey]

That's the argument that Ken used to prove he was not anti-semitic by stating that he would not have appointed Nicky Gavron as his deputy in that case.

Yeah, yeah.... it's a bit like you who doesn't like 'darkies' but has some token Uncle Tom as a part-time friend to keep up your facade.

[Allan D]

That's the argument that Ken used to prove he was not anti-semitic by stating that he would not have appointed Nicky Gavron as his deputy in that case.

Yeah, yeah.... it's a bit like you who doesn't like 'darkies' but has some token Uncle Tom as a part-time friend to keep up your facade.

I think you should take your head out of Zimmy's arse before you post next time.

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