London Mayor

biggyonacid wrote: Polling points to narrow Johnson win

Ha ha you MUGS!

Well, according to one poll, others are saying to close to call. Incidentally, every opinion poll of this nature allows for a variance of 3% each way. So it could be 50/50, rather than 53/47, although it probably isnt. I'm sticking with its too close to call at this point...

It probably is a protest vote, but saying that, Ken has been mayor for eight years now and people are probably a bit fed up of him and fancy a change.

If Ken wins today, and stands in 2012, I would predict a landslide against him. Just the way these things work...

At best, cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I'm at a bit of a loss to see why anyone would want to protest against this government anyway. Doing alright, aren't they?

At least we have four years to see what a proper politician makes of the job.

Oh dear. I fear the worst.

Uncle Liam wrote:

change

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

You're right though, Liam.

Labour's long term this time is largely due to them losing one more election after they should (they would have won the Things Can Only Get Better election if they'd refrained celebrating until after they'd actually won).

The fact that they inherited utter utter crap, rather than just utter crap, shielded them through the bedding-in period.

biggyonacid wrote:

Uncle Liam wrote:

change

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

You're right though, Liam.

Labour's long term this time is largely due to them losing one more election after they should (they would have won the Things Can Only Get Better election if they'd refrained celebrating until after they'd actually won).

The fact that they inherited utter utter crap, rather than just utter crap, shielded them through the bedding-in period.

Well, if Labour had won the 92 election (which took place in April) they would have been held responsible for Black Wednesday in September (which at the point was pretty much inevitable, although maybe not on the same scale) and the consequences, which meant they would have lost in 97, and they might not have ever recovered from that...

They didnt inherit utter crap either. In fact, Major and Clarke did a remarkable job under the circumstances to repair the economy. So much so that Labour retained Conservative Spending Plans for the first two years in office. So its not like Blair and Brown came in and immediatley had to fix the economy...

Debatable, but what I should have said was that they took over from a very very unpopular party. This bought them a lot of love in the early days, in the eyes of the public.

biggyonacid wrote: Debatable, but what I should have said was that they took over from a very very unpopular party. This bought them a lot of love in the early days, in the eyes of the public.

Oh absolutely. When Labour won in 1997, they also won the 2001 Election at the same time. But you dont have sky high opinion poll ratings if you dont have a good economy (Look at how Brown has fallen away since the heady days of last June), and you cant change an economy overnight...

Anyway, back in London, turnout is up quite a lot on last time, so it probably is too close to call.

We. Know. You. Think. It's. Too. Close. To. Call.