Why Guido Backed Boris
Guido's old friend Harry Phibbs can claim to be the first person to promote the idea of Mayor Boris Johnson. The Hammersmith councillor and Evening Standard diarist first posited Boris running in January 2007 on the Social Affairs Unit's blog.
Guido thought it an inspired idea and posted a comment in reply:
Guido thought it an inspired idea and posted a comment in reply:
Draft Boris, this is a tele-democracy, he is a performer. He will crucify Ken.
For what it was worth Guido then did everything in his power to encourage Boris to run. Guido made the succint case for Boris ten days before Tory nominations for Mayor closed. Here was the argument for Boris winning on psephological grounds. Guido's July 2007 poll that showed 83% of Guido's readers wanted Boris to run was unscientific but encouraging for him.
It was Guido who set up the "I'm Backing Boris" Facebook group which gained over a thousand supporters in the days before he announced he was running - and was actually taken over by the Boris campaign team when he formally announced he was running."How much influence do bloggers and the internet have in politics?" is a question Guido is often asked. My reply is that we only have influence over politicians, journalists and thus the climate of ideas. We don't have any influence over the voting general public except through that opinion leading influence. Guido set out last July to encourage one political journalist to seize the moment, if Guido succeeded in that objective, his mission was accomplished.
Some co-conspirators have suggested that Guido compromised his USP and libertarian principles in backing a politician's bid for power - the first time this blog has endorsed a politician. Well Guido has hated Ken Livingstone's brand of municipal socialism for decades, at one point it looked possible the Tories would again choose Steve Norris to lose to Ken again - that was not a prospect Guido welcomed. Boris has admirable libertarian-conservative instincts and is a refreshingly direct politician who speaks his mind. In a personal note to Guido after he won the Conservative nomination, Boris indicated that the admiration is mutual. So with an opportunity to encourage someone like-minded to lead London, it would have been churlish to remain aloof from the affray.Boris as mayor will also hopefully provide Guido with lots of fun material...
72 comments:
Boris Johnson - the Zaphod Beeblebrox of British Politics.
Get rid of Ken at all costs? I say again, the lunitic is running the asylum. I hope it was worth it for you Guido.
Was Guido wot won it
Boris for Prime Minister and Guido for Deputy Prime minister. With their admirable libertarian-conservative instincts we can have the joy of, oh.....just hang on. Scrap that idea, just remembered the blog from a few weeks past.
Apparently Tamsin Dunwoody ahs been chosen to contest Crewe. She was a disaster in the Assembly and was roundly beaten at the last elections. Apart from the nepotism charges, she is now leaving herself wide open to the scrutiny she and her party do not need, especially given the rumours over the reason that her marriage failed was because she was having ugandan relations with a prominent Labour Assembly Minister known for his prediliction for married women.
well done, Senor G
You did good Guido - already drunk to your good health, - and I'll reinforce that now with some more.
Bloody best weekend for ages.
Yeah, - and let's have a smoke as well!
Stuff the lot of 'em! - all the control freakies and the sneaky creepies.
Well done on your efforts, Guido.
I still haven't a clue what David Cameron stands for but am glad that Nu Lab are getting a drubbing.
Why is Brown (through the Beeb)getting away with claiming that this is about the 10p tax rate ?
Voter rebellion is about a plethora of issues. The main one is Nu Lab's persecution of the motorist: petrol tax, speed cameras, congestion charges, vehicle excise duty, punitive parking costs ... bogus green issues...
Readers, think about what is irking you most day-to-day and I bet for most it's the simple issue of trying to get from A to B in a modest, functional car.
Tory activists and politicos, keep the pressure on Nu Lab on this one issue and you can utterly destroy them.
Gordon Brown is a loser - he'll never be able to throw off that image. I don't even know the names of most of the cabinet - they're all pigmies. Nu Lab is history ... a bad dream.
(Mondeo Man speaks)
An open letter to Gordon
By now you must be fully aware that the electorate have had enough, you have a very short time left in power and if you wish to save face and go with some degree of honour may I suggest you listen to the following:-
1. Replace your sycophantic cabinet and advisors; get rid of the Millibands, Balls, Kellys et al, your new clothes they so admire are no more than rags that us the electorate can clearly see through. Replace them with MPs and advisors who have a point of view and who will argue back, point out your mistakes and provide good solid advice. You need a consensus of opinion not just your own vain echo.
2. Please don’t tell us inflation is running at 2%, our streets are safe, our hospitals are clean and a Tax hike on the poorest is anything but. You’re long ago predecessor Keir Hardie and his successors fought to bring education to the proletariat of this land, I think we are now clever enough to work out percentages without your help. As for the streets being safe and hospitals clean, just take a stroll alone one evening to your local hospital, and then tell me you don’t feel threatened by the youths that own our streets after dark and your surprise visit didn’t see a chaotic, overstretched and shambling health service.
3. Unchecked immigration must be addressed, there are supermarkets not far from where I live where English is not spoken by either the shopper or the workforce. I am not talking big cities; I am talking rural English towns that have been invaded by eastern Europeans to the detriment of all. Schools, health services and local amenities just cannot cope.
4. The inequities of the Law must be addressed, criminals it seems are untouchable unless they cross the establishment, young thugs ignore supervision orders and roam at will yet should an average tax paying working man overfill his wheelie bin, then he will feel the full force that our justice system allows.
5. Mine and many other small business struggle to survive. I do not make a profit, I pay my staff and my family share what little is left. I work on average 70 to 90 hours a week which keeps increasing as European and Whitehall led bureaucracy continually increase my work load. If I could I would up and leave, like so many bigger business leave these shores to avoid not only your pervasive tax regime, the burden of bureaucracy and also like their owners, I might even get a knighthood as well.
6. Your party have ruled for 11 years, during this time little has improved for Mr Joe Average yet the super rich have become even richer, you may call me a cynic but I see the whole infrastructure of our society collapsing, roads, rail, public services etc. Corporate business brought in to rectify these problems do little but make excuses whilst hiking the initial price and making obscene profits. Yet we are paying more than ever for these nonexistent services and seeing council leaders on £220,000+ salaries do little to assure me that we live in a balanced society.
You have a little less than two years left, please don’t make excuses, the international monetary fiasco will not wash with voters struggling to pay mortgages, eat and pay fuel bills.
Who knows if you listen to reason you just may turn things around and save the Labour Party from another twenty years of obscurity.
Not looking good for Gary in stoke, his own Socialist Labour MP says Gary was outclassed by the BNP!
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I've only really starting reading online blogs in the last few months, although mainly Guido's, it has to be admitted, for the exposures, scandals and unbridled comments about our Lords and Masters.
Nonetheless, I don't think the power of the bloggers to influence political action in the modern age should be underestimated. True, the average bloke in the street is still more likely to make up his mind from what he sees on telly and reads in the papers. But the parties, the activists, the self styled opinion formers (MSM),and the politicians themselves are increasingly reliant on the net for the exchange of ideas, opinions and information. On top of that, the net has proved lethal to bent bastards like Hain (thanks Guido :)) and Jasper whose mainstream media mates are increasingly unable to protect these sleazy scumbags from exposure.
In the case of the London Mayor, I'm convinced that the combination of the net and Sir Andrew Gilligan's pieces played a great part in generating the momentum that first derailed and then demoralised the 'Boris is an unelectable clown' strategy of Ken and his lieutenants. The Toynbees, Ashleys, Richards and Marrs of the incestual New Labour metropolitan bubble have emerged from the campaign with little credit, exposed as the shameless propogandists and apologists that they are. If you want to see just how much clowns like these are hurting after Boris' London win, just check out the comment sections of the Guardian and Independent. And feel free to give them a kicking while you're there too.
Boris is interesting. Today in politics, people want to know something of the personality of the political leaders they're asked to vote for - something Brown is desperately reluctant, but with good cause, to let us see.
Cameron recognises this, so as a politician he sets out to reveal his personality to the public. He understands that it's the personality that they primarily vote for. Cleggover tries to emulate this, but as we know needs a little more rehearsal.
Boris is different. Whereas the others are politicians who seek to reveal their personality in order to garner support, Boris was known first as a personality who then went into politics. The public recognised and liked the personality from the outset, and knew it was genuine and not a PR-person's construct.
The personality came first, the politics came second. That worked.
Boris will be a great success for London. Already the thunderstorms have cleared and the sun is shining. As mayor he will lift London's spirit - what can be better after 8 years of a miserable, coniving, scheming, class-hate politician at the top?
P.S. sorry for the lack of innuendo, swearing and sarcasm in this post - hope it will still be approved!
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Children:
Construct a sentence using the following words -
Brown
a
Flush
is
Gordon
Busted
Guido the Gordo-slayer, keep it up.
Don't be so modest, Guido: 'My reply is that we only have influence over politicians, journalists and thus the climate of ideas'. The superfluous word in that sentence seems to be 'only' but don't let it go to your head!
Can you hear that gentle, sighing breeze in the trees today? It's London, breathing a sigh of relief. Don't feel compromised, feel vindicated.
Will Johnson be libertarian enough to start sacking all the unneccessary public servants employed by City Hall? I'm sure he thinks very lowly of diversty co-ordinators, nappy changing specialists etc. But will he have the guts to start handing out P45s?
Keep the pressure on Guido, we need libertarian policies in London!
machiaveli:
"P.S. sorry for the lack of innuendo, swearing and sarcasm in this post - hope it will still be approved!"
Fuck off you sanctimonious cunt!
I voted Yes in the original "should Boris run?" question purely on the basis that people had at least heard of him and he wasn't Steve Norris, so might have a slim chance of beating Ken. Plus, although Boris might have been said to have "baggage" (whatever that may mean), we were talking about LONDON here, not the local Parish Council for Upper Nowhere-in-particular. London was electing a Mayor, not the Pope, they weren't looking for a Saint - what would they do with one of those?
Then, when Boris announced he would run I read his speech on the web. What a fantastic inspiring speech it was too - I thought then, he can do this, it can be done.
Hearing Yasmin whatsherface saying Boris "isn't one of us" made me even more certain!
I would agree with you Guido that you can't directly influence voters but you can and you most certainly have revealed facts the voters would never have found out by themselves, and definitely never been told by politicians. You're the champ Guido - and London has cause to feel grateful to you today.
Let's hope his no. 1 priority is to roll back the influence of the state in London. Power corrupts, but Absolute Power should only ever be a vodka/Irish Whiskey blend.
Boris is communist purpose as is Cameron, nothing will change in London. Both are slaves to PC and the EU.
Harry Phibbs? bloody hell wasnt he the guy who rose to infamy in 1986 when he was asked to leave the tory conference because he'd been filmed outside chanting 'smash the nhs'! Now that boris is in looks like i'll hav to dust down all my old files on the loonies in the disbanded fed of tory students. thanks guido!
Thank God Labour have been given a kicking.
Guido - not to detract from your own valuable efforts, but for the record:
(i) press-ganging Boris was being discussed in Shadow Cabinet circles as early as summer 2006, maybe even before that. I have checked this recollection and had it confirmed.
(ii) this even seeped into your own blog in July of that year!
A lot of utter crap has been written about the Dear leader, Ken Livingstone. And that's 'dear' as in "bloody costly" rather than well-loved.
"Ken is a true Socialist!"
"Ken is a Labour Party stalwart to the last!"
"Ken loves London!"
"Ken cares!"
I think none of the above points are true.
Ken Livingstone is, in truth, a Livingstoneite. His brand of Socialism is of the "what's in it for me?" school of Socialism. What used to be called 'Top hatted' Socialism, or more lately, 'Champagne Socialism.'
Ken loves London? Ken loves and cares about London much in the same way a crooked accountant loves and cares about the company he is defrauding, or in the same way a bank robber loves and cares about the bank he is about to rob.
The fact that Ken was able to abandon the Labour Party and then embrace it again with just as much glib facility disproves any real loyalty toward the Labour Party by Ken Livingstone. Ken Livingstone has one loyalty. To Ken Livingstone.
Ken cares. Does he? Really? People who either blindly follow Ken or who are happy to gloss over his mendacious ways and deep-rooted personality flaws like to pretend that Ken is a fine chap and just because he cosies up to genuine homophobes (the kind that don't snigger at the idea of gay sex but who want to MURDER all gay people, i.e., really dangerous homophobes) and because he may say things that are deeply offensively anti-Semitic or otherwise racist (as with his vile and idiotic attacks against Trevor Phillips, claiming he would soon be joining the BNP) does not mean that he is really racist!
And just because he dances attendance on dictators and other worthless scum of the world does not mean he supports these odious creatures!
To reasonable people that is exactly what it does mean. Expressing vile, racist remarks does mean that you are a racist.
Lie with a dog and you will get their fleas.
Boris should be very careful what position -if any- he gives Ken Livingstone.
There are -quite rightly- calls for forensic investigations into the reign of Ken Livingstone.
And whilst emails by people like Lee Jasper will be discovered and whilst it will be proved that officer X wrongly dismissed employee Z, none of this will easily be traced back to Ken "leave no trace" Livingstone.
Though I think Boris would do well to offer Andrew Gilligan a position, even in an advisory role. After all, without Andrew's exposures of City Hall, things might have been somewhat different.
Any chance that GuyTV will be able to show the Diane Abbott/Rachel Johnson bitching on Sky this morning?
I missed it but I gather the NULab message of "We shall be listening" didn't get through to Ms Abbott.
OT - but the selection of Tamsin Dunwoody as the Labour Party 'shoo-in' for her sadly departed Mother's vacant seat of Crewe and Nantwich doesn't appear to have been met with ecstatic approval by the local electorate - potential upset for Labour here?...
http://www.creweandnantwichguardian.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2246153.0.gwyneths_daughter_aims_to_be_next_crewe_and_nantwich_mp.php
Guido
As you are in contact with Boris I hope you have warned him of a few things. The internet may have helped him in some small way to gain his position, but it will increase in its power, and will fuck his arse if he tries any of Livingstone's corrupt tricks. If I have anything to do with it will anyway.
Get Boris to understand, if he does not already, that our patience out he is very thin indeed. If he screws up he is toast. If he plays his cards right he has every chance of becoming a future Prime Minister.
Advise him to be ruthless, especially in his first 6 months. Carry on being himself, it is his best asset whatever the media and especially the BBC says.
There is nothing wrong with being a baffoon as long as he is an honest highly intelligent, effective, and generally libertarian guided one. Freedom is cheap and popular a sense of humor even more so.
Good luck Guido if you have really helped in any way, you deserve a knighthood. Who knows one day you might even do a Geldorf.
Atlas
And over in Crewe & Nantwich, instead of finding a credible candidate, the Conservatives are fielding yet another under-employed barrister from a family that's been worth millions for generations.
That's really going to be the way to appeal to ordinary Labour voters, isn't it?
Yah?
There were over 453,000 rejected votes in the count for the Mayoral election.
Electorate 5,419,913
Papers counted/turnout 2,456,990
Turnout 45.33%
Good votes
1st choice 2,415,958
2nd choice 2,004,078
Rejected votes *
1st choice 41,032
2nd choice 412,054
Blank **(no votes cast) 13,034
No 2nd preference *** 407,840
* "Rejected votes" refers to ballot papers where the vote has not been counted because the ballot paper has not been filled out correctly. This may be because the voter has marked more than one preference in one column, because the voter identified themselves on the ballot paper, if the voter’s intention is unclear or if the voter has spoiled his or her paper in any way.
** "Blank votes" refers to ballot papers where no 1st choice and no 2nd choice have been marked, and no vote has been counted. (This data is only available for 2008.)
*** "No 2nd preference" refers to ballot papers where voters have only made 1st choice vote and no 2nd choice vote. The first choice vote has been counted. (This data is only available for 2008.)
Why is Brown saying on AlBBC that he's taking it to the conservatives why isn't he sorting out the mess he's got this country into,he's still spinning the shit then.
if Gordon wants to PROVE he is listening then he will give us a referendum on the european constitution, otherwise he can fuck off.
Go on Gordon prove you are listening!
nah didnt think so, shut the door on your way out, theres a good chap.
Johnson's biggest plan are for crime. What a lark, as crime has actually fallen in London, and basically all he's proposing is to limit congestion charge and get some knife detectors on the Tube.
Congratulations to Boris and to you Guido for helping.
Thanks for the link to " Case for Boris " which made for very interesting reading though it does not do to mock the nay-sayers in retropect.
Now that so many Local Councils have returned to the Conservative fold, might we expect them to resume their proper function of providing local services to residents by Park Attendants and Clerks Of Works ?
Will we see the end of Directors Of Directorites corruptly using their positions to 'engage' in social engineering by bullying, cajoling, hectoring, fining people and otherwise breaching Magna Carta ?
I would like to think that these are Labour traits but now our Conservatives rule; will we see a change?
If Boris is as true to London as he is to his readers, then London is in safe hands.
Some bloggers have the power to influance the dead tree press, but doesn't that imply that the MSM is still top dog?
Claiming that Boris is mayor because of Guido is a little excessive - we are still not sure if it was Ken who lost rather than Boris that won - that is one for the statisticians!
Next job is to get a proper libertarian as the leader of the Tories!
"Johnson's biggest plan are for crime. What a lark, as crime has actually fallen in London, and basically all he's proposing is to limit congestion charge and get some knife detectors on the Tube."
Unlike the Left we actually prefer to have politicians who do very little and leave people to get on with their lives.
A nice little poem for the occasion, (sent to me by a female friend)
The Stepford wives are out in force
Defending Gordon - who's missing, of course
These biddies with their rictus grins
With measured tones and multi chins
These harpies with their frozen faces
Slapped-arse features and no social graces
All telling us in nannying voices
They understand our voting choices
It's not our fault - they pat our head
That we choose Boris, not Ken instead
"They're listening" they say, like we've no brain
Do they think they're fucking Fraiser Crane ...
Cxx
Dear Guido youi pissed up fuckwit,
I told you live chat was a good idea, get with the programme. you could do an hour a day plus special events. It's the way forward.
PS am available for employ having benn sacked by a cunting bank,
I see the usual Guido arse kissers are out in force again.
Well done Guido.
I would speculate that the internet, bloggers and the like will play ever increasing roles in the political debate, like in the US which as usual being ahead of the pack, and it is fair to say that this was a dry run for the next general election.
A good example of the internet effect lies in the Polly Toynbee bitchslapping affair, in that unlike previously, someone like Toynbee who could expect to say her bit without the risk of direct response from the public out side the television studio, suddenly finds that her online column is swapped with hostile comment, as well as her actual comment being available indefinately for scrutiny and comment on Youtube.
Guido, the next scalp must be Yasmin "Bollywood Fuckwit" Brown.
And remember people...every little bit helps ;-))
Abdul, HAS crime really fallen?
In one area -nowhere near London, it has to be admitted- the police report a fall in crime.
Yet the figures showed an increase in burglaries of 91%.
If you trust Ian Blair to give accurate reports, well, you'll wait a long time...
Had the pleasure of voting for BJ and watching Livingslime get a long overdue kicking.
Boris better watch those cunts at the BBC and Guardian though. You can see their new line of attack on the Tories already starting to develop. They are giving it the "Tories will be under more scrutiny" bullshit. What they are really saying is that they will make every effort to undermine Boris Johnson for the next two years and try and make it look like the Conservatives cannot govern. The Ivory Tower socialists are grieving and they can see that their grip on power is slippping.
boris needs to give a job to andrew gilligan - he did sterling work on exposing the cronyism and corruption of the Red Ken regime.
and well done guido - whilst your blog is certainly not the primary factor in boris's victory, it definitely played it's part in helping him to victory. well done mate.
(still giddy at the thought of BORIS as mayor... its all so unreal.)
I see TFL is sitting on £1bn cash pile - commissioning that new Routemaster should be a cinch.
Actually Guido, remember the 'back boris' bus proposal you posted up here just before Christmas?
Well, the first prototype will cost £5m, according to the designer. Peanuts.
BTW, anybody see the superb picture in today's Mail, showing Livingstone unloading his removal van? I felt sorry for the wizzened old Trot.
For 0.5 of a second.
agree with geezer above 100 per cent - boris had better get in the right-wing equivalent of Alaistair Campbell to manage his media image. the BBC has certainly gone into "attack Boris" mode this weekend. and the left can be vicious bastards... he's going to have to have nerves of steel and a superb counter-attack media team.
i'm open to offers with helping him. seriously. i'll be doing my bit on the blogosphere to help him.
Gordon prove you're listening.....
Where is our referemdum?
Of course you're right. And he may have to as a court this week agreed that there should be a judical review into the matter owing to the challenge made by the bloke who made millions out of spread betting whose name I've forgotten.
The House of Lords are now having to drop the subject as it has become a matter of subjudice.
More problems for the gorgon.
Thatsnews said...
"Abdul, HAS crime really fallen?
In one area -nowhere near London, it has to be admitted- the police report a fall in crime.
Yet the figures showed an increase in burglaries of 91%."
Simpleton. Don't you understand what 'overall average' means.
In most categories crime has fallen but in some it has risen. Don't you understand that can happen?
Do you have more accurate figures than the Metropolitan Police Commissioner?
Thatsnews said...
"A lot of utter crap has been written about the Dear leader, Ken Livingstone."
Are you a Londoner?
If not then belt up.
Harry Phibbs described Harold Macmillan as a war criminal and got the FCS shut down by Norman Tebbit.
Charming friends you have Guido.
Tuscan Tonail said...
"Let's hope his no. 1 priority is to roll back the influence of the state in London."
It really matters to us herte in Italy.
Just left a family lunch (they're all wealthy socialists) where everyone present said how they had voted for Ken and feared for the future. My wife and I were the only ones who had chosen Boris.
Big arguments etc.
Don't let us down Boris
well done for your part in delivering us from these fascists.
Addicted. Now.
strange that for a blog supposedly concerned with political sleaze you haven't seen fit to mention the 400,000 ruined ballot papers.
this represents about 15% of the total votes cast and you appear to be going along with the MSM news blackout.
Blowing one's trumpet can be a fine thing Mr Fawkes. Well done on both counts.
Neglected thought here: Ken Livingston to re-enter Parliament. How many old Socialists are there in the London area about to push up the daisies?
Les Rosbifs you 'ave elected a True Frenchman to be your Roi du Londres. 'Oo else is an homme of belle lettres, wiz le wife et le oh-la-la et dreams of le Tour de France and invading Normandy? Monsieur BoJo is no stranger to vinyards et Les Follies but when 'ee was meeting mon Mamman beaucoupe des anni ago, il s'appelle 'Ali Oop'. Les Rifles Eton were visiting pour cultural exchange et naturellement, there was much eductionel.
Mamman was un danceur sur le stage avec les feathers et precious little else, but elle could put her legs behind her head, pour le yoga she learned from l'Maharishi. Mamman taught petit Ali all he knows et voila, now 'ee is Roi du Londres. All thanks to La Belle France. 'is fag was aussi there, but Mamman cannot recall what 'appened to petit Davide. Mamman is old et her memory is not what it was. Davide carried Ali Oop's sac et was sent to le cafe avec 50 centimes - et 50 centimes was money in those days. She never saw 'im again. Ali wore your famous Anglais frock-coat of bleu et jaune avec les gold buttons; always you Rosbifs are dressing as ladies, even your Mick Jaggers, yes. "Mind le whistle et flute me old china" ee would shout in the thoes of passionelle, but Mamman's Anglais was not enough: "Wotcher do is yer taker swig of fizz an' then you play 'unt the gherkin, stone the crows Mary Poppins" but Mamman, she 'ad led a sheltered life of poverty et virtue and did not understand.
Tres bon. One more jour then it is back to work. We at Defarge Industries are feeling the economic squeeze. Our most populaire models are therefore on BOGOF to solve your civic problems at a stroke, but 'urry 'urry 'urry, offer ends when stocks run out. Bon Soir, remember Mamman to your Ali Oop.
May 4, 2008 8:31 PM
Thatsnews said...
"A lot of utter crap has been written about the Dear leader, Ken Livingstone."
Are you a Londoner?
If not then belt up
I have followed the career of Ken Livingstone since the 1980s. I propose to continue doing this without the advice of anyone. Not even you, anonymous 8:31.
If that causes you anxiety, I am sorry. But you are beyond my help.
is guido judt a tool of the establishment? said...
"strange that for a blog supposedly concerned with political sleaze you haven't seen fit to mention the 400,000 ruined ballot papers.
this represents about 15% of the total votes cast and you appear to be going along with the MSM news blackout."
from http://results.londonelects.org.uk/Results/AssemblyResults.aspx
Turnout and Technical Information
Areas counted Votes
Electorate 5,419,913
Papers counted / turnout 2,454,088
Turnout 45.28%
Change in turnout from 2004 8.31%
Good votes
Constituency Assembly Member votes
London wide votes 2,406,289
2,412,607
Rejected votes *
Constituency Assembly Member votes
London wide votes 47,799
41,489
Blank (no votes cast) ** 39,894
* * "Rejected votes" refers to ballot papers where the vote has not been counted because the ballot paper has not been filled out correctly. This may be because the voter has marked more than one preference in one column, because the voter identified themselves on the ballot paper, if the voter’s intention is unclear or if the voter has spoiled his or her paper in any way.
* ** "Blank votes" refers to ballot papers where no choice has been marked, and no vote has been counted. (This data is only available for 2008.)
Perhaps Guido can turn up a source of the 400,000 figure.... you don't quote one.
New Routemasters: "Well, the first prototype will cost £5m, according to the designer. Peanuts."
But the generally agreed estimate for putting the new Routemasters into service is £110,000,000. Not the £8,000,000 Boris was claiming.
"Harry Phibbs described Harold Macmillan as a war criminal and got the FCS shut down by Norman Tebbit."
Didn't Macmillan have something to do with the disgusting betrayal of anti-communist Russians after WWII?
40,000 votes u numpty!bloody londoners cant even put an X in a box no wonder ken got in twice must be the water.
tony blair said...
Children:
Construct a sentence using the following words -
Brown
a
Flush
is
Gordon
Busted
is it.. A Flush Gordon Is Busted ?
That snews said ... "I have followed the career of Ken Livingstone since the 1980s. I propose to continue doing this without the advice of anyone."
I hope you realise that your opinions are of no interest to anyone.
1984 1/2:
Almost, but you missed out "Brown", however - still, you win the one way ticket out of Britain for you and your family to the destination of your choice before "Brown" fucks the place up any further.
Anon 11.0opm
You've fallen for the Kenite spin.
£8m figure was the estimate for putting conductors on bendies. That was a mistake because it was calculated as 450 conductors, instead of three times that because the buses are on for 20 hours (absolute max..) with three people working seven hour shifts. So that was a mistake. It should have £24m.
The £100m is the bill for about 450 bespoke London-friendly new Routemasters with a 20 year design life. That figure, once Boris uttered it, was actually correct.
is guido judt a tool of the establishment? said...
"you haven't seen fit to mention the 400,000 ruined ballot papers".
Someone already pointed out that it includes 400,000+ papers which left the 2nd choice blank. That protest/refusal to indicate a 2nd choice is regarded as a spoilt vote, though the 1st choice vote stands.
Not an issue really.
So pray tell, what is the secret that is on everyone in Westminsters keep stum list that we are NOT allowed to know about...is the psychologically flawed one hiding a series of events from his taxi paasenger past? Guido we must be told! it cant be wearing orange make up or can it?
Anon said - "That figure, once Boris uttered it, was actually correct."
So you are now claiming the equivalent of papal infallibility for Boris.
Does he also walk on water?
Boris's Routemaster figures, even after he admitted an error of 200% in his back-of-envelope calculations, are still completely wrong.
For an independent assessment of the cost of replacing Bendy buses with a new generation of Routemasters see BORIS'S BUSES>
we only have influence over politicians, journalists and thus the climate of ideas. We don't have any influence over the voting general public
This is it, exactly.
They dont like it up 'em, at least not very often. Quod erat demonstrandum, nolites te bastardes carborundum Boris!
Sorry Guido, you sound like a politician who is trying to justify a policy. Same thing happened recently but the politician ended up apologising for their mistake and the "unforseen" consequences of said policy. However, in both cases, the consequences were/are bleedin obvious and should never have been implimented in the first place.
Fuck London. Its a multi culti shithole like most parts of England. Boris will fuck up,thus fucking up any chance camerons shit conservatives had of ever getting in power and carrying on the bollocks of Shit Labour. lovely. Hopefully change wont be in seven years has someone predicted before, but only two. Roll on the fucking revolution!
unfortunately boris, being a bit of a snob, isn't interested in what either guido or harry says. he does however care very much about the opinions of mary wakefield and charles moore. look that way...
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