London Mayor : LibDems No Hope, Tory Mayor Hopefuls
The LibDems have matched the Tories finally. Matched their inability to find a Mayoral candidate that is, Iain Dale reminds us that the LibDems were supposed to announce a shortlist of London Mayoral candidates yesterday. Silence.
So despite, in the words of Simon Hughes, "casting their net far and wide in our search for a candidate to represent our diverse capital" they struck out in their talent search. Mind you look at the motley crue that have now come forward for the Tories. Guido is not sure this is even the complete list:
| Richard Barnes | No web site as of yet. |
| Andrew Boff | www.easteight.com/ |
| Nick Boles | www.nickboles.com |
| Victoria Borwick | www.mayor-for-london.co.uk |
| Lurline Champaignie | www.lurline4london.com |
| Simon Fawthrop | www.fawthropformayor.co.uk |
| Peter Hobbins | No web site as of yet. |
| Warwick Lightfoot | www.lightfootforlondon.com |
| Winston McKenzie | www.myspace.com/winstonmckenzieuk |
| Mike Read | No web site as of yet. |
| Lee Rotherham | www.newstartforlondon.com |
Some of them are very strange indeed. God help London.
23 comments:
Absolutely.
All the Tories are total weirdos. If the Lib Dems want my vote, they should go with *nobody* as their candidate. It'd be better than Ken.
Mr Read will probably avoid the old web site trap because he may have to come clean about his age.
Can Baroness Thatcher be persuaded to stand?
Livingstone v Thatcher would be a sight for sore eyes!
Nick Boles said....
Last year I took a Routemaster bus to various locations, where I asked people what was needed to improve London and what was already working. The answers convinced me that Londoners deserve better and that what they want is achievable.
fucking hell he actually got on public transport on one ocassion last year and chatted to some proles.
What 22carat knob(jockey)
According to Ms Bore-wick's site.
Recruiting a top US police chief as London's crime tsar to advise the Mayor
Why? Is there no one in Britain who could do it?
I see from his e-mail address that Lee Rotherham bills himself as News Tart for London.
That's not Mike 'Frank Butcher' Reid is it?
The endless horrors if it indeed is...
Andrew Boff lives here, webwise.
His greatest claim to fame is that he managed to persuade voters ranging from Trotskyists to Conservatives to vote for him in the 2005 Council by-election on an "anyone but the Labour bastards" basis (not expressly his platform, but certainly the opinion on the street).
He is also famous for having been the victim of a stunning vote-rigging and defamation coup a year later in Queensbridge Ward Hackney, the like of which hasn't been seen since Simon Hughes defeated Peter Tatchell using not altogether dissimilar tactics.
He gave up his ambition to become Mayor of Hackney in order to stand for the rather less corruptible position of London Mayor. However, he could be persuaded to change his earlier decisions should circumstances change and something unexpected happen to Hackney's incumbent. Not, of course, that anything would. But just in case.
They all seem to have had one too many slices of fruitcake. Nick Boles appears to be relatively normal and electable, so if I was a Tory I'd probably support him. Some of the others do a good job of making Red Ken seem sane and sensible!
I think Lurline must be the lady I heard on the radio a couple of weeks back arguing about the slavery apology business with an ultra PC Church of England "black woman" . I thought she (Lurline)was impressive - as the descendant of both slaves and slave-owners she said she was no more an african than welsh and she rejected the other woman's obsession with being victimised.
Surely Simon "the straight choice" Hughes would never use defamation to undermine an opponent?
frightening that it will mean Ken is in again - I just can't stand it..
I haven't even heard of half of them. Rotherham has my sympathies though.
Guido for Mayor of London say I !
He`d soon drive out all the rats,including the biggest one of all, Livingstone!
Y'all have people called "Lurline" thaar? Whooee! Kin she do a mean Patsy Cline number?
Nick Ferrari for mayor!
Given the lack of obvious talent on that list, and a "anyone but Red Wan*er Ken" preference I would like the opportunity of voting for either Lurline Champaignie or Warwick Lightfoot because they are damn good names!!!
You forgot to mention Andrew Boff's gaydar profile...
Do any of these people actually exist?
I see that cheeter the chimp is 75 years old.He has been a star in 12 tarzan films.He has the dignaty of an elderly statsman.I Think he would make an exalent mare of London.He could represent all the low payed of London who need much more pea nuts for the work and long hours they have to endure. not to mention the travaling.
Nobody other that a Shakespearian character can possibly be called Warwick Lightfoot. Is this the real face of the new tories?
Lee Rotherham's photo wins the much coveted and hotley contested "most ludicrously self-aggrandising photo in front of Big Ben in a 'thinker' pose" for 2007
LOL
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