Galloway to stand for London mayor...

[number 6]

Yeah an opportunistic cunt who managed to make it a damned sight cheaper to get around on public transport. And Boris is nothing like an opportunistic cunt is he...LOL.

[number 6]

Lets not forget EL,Johnson beat Livingstone by a whisker,yet have a look at the daily character assassination the evening standard gave Ken day in day out for months leading up to the vote.

[Essex Lad]

number 6 wrote:

> Yeah an opportunistic cunt who managed to make it a damned
> sight cheaper to get around on public transport.

Yes as leader of the GLC (a position he wasn't elected to, staging a coup against the moderate Andrew Mackintosh that Londoners did elect) but when he became mayor did he reintroduce Fare's Fair? No, he put the fares up and up, above the rate of inflation.

He cosied up to the IRA and as mayor invited various imams who believed that gays and Jews should be put to death. Just the sort of chap you want running a city with a good percentage of gays and Jews...

[number 6]

He also introduced the oyster card,try travelling on the tube without one and see how much it costs you.

[Essex Lad]

number 6 wrote:

> He also introduced the oyster card,try travelling on the tube
> without one and see how much it costs you.

Bit of a non-sequitur. The Oyster card was not Livingstone's idea ? a similar scheme was in use in Hong Kong in 1997 ? and it's a way of getting a cash sum for London Transport (or whatever it calls itself these days) in advance and stopping fraud among its workforce, not to mention keeping an eye on who goes where, which is not possible for paper tickets or cash.

[Gentleman]

Thanks.

[max_tranmere]

I think he would stand for the people to a certain extent, but his inevitable loony-left policies would be worrying if they were implemented. I remember Ken Livingstone wanted to commission the building of Europe's biggest mosque in east London. Luckily this never went ahead. To have a Mayor even more left-wing than Livingstone would mean things like that probably going ahead.

[max_tranmere]

That is a good point you raise, I hadn't thought of that. With the supplementary vote system it might mean we end up with the person we want rather than the other person by default. I did read the other day though something a Labour party person, someone from a Labour think-thank I think, said in the Evening Standard newspaper that Galloway standing could split the Labour vote.

[max_tranmere]

In the article I read it was someone from behind the scenes in the Labour party, I think someone from one of their think-tanks, who said that Galloway standing could split the Labour vote. As for Boris, he became very well known because of his whacky personality and became popular amongst Londoners. It was actually Bromley, the leafy middle-class neighbourhood on the south-east London/Kent border that swung it for Boris last time. If I remember rightly he got 100,000 more votes than Livingstone across the whole of London and vast numbers voted for Boris in that area and they basically got him the Mayoralty.

[max_tranmere]

I voted for Boris, I can't think of anything he has done that has really stood out though. Ken Livingstone did one thing of real note: he hugely improved public transport in London, especially the buses which were awful before. That is one thing I remember about Livingstone when he was Mayor, and that is a good legacy as public transport in London is still much better than it used to be years ago. Boris has been caretaker, overseeing the affairs of London, since becoming Mayor but there is nothing he will really be remembered for - except possibly the bike hire scheme.