London Mayoral Elections … The (lunatic) fringe candidates

“How can we afford to survive in London?” THAT is the question many Londoners are asking themselves…… says the scraggy leftist Ms German in her opening sentence.

Having posed this soul searching question … she promptly avoids providing us with an answer, but instead launches into a Marxist diatribe the like of which became unfashionable in the late 1960’s.

She will DEMAND that New Labour stop the ‘failed’ war in Iraq immediately and instead spend all the billions of pounds saved “for the benefit of ALL Britain’s working people.” – THAT will help Londoners then won’t it?

But then she is a leading figure in the anti-war movement (a sort of dance???) so she would say this wouldn’t she?

The rich use London as their playground so her solution is to impose a tax on all City ‘fat cat’ bonuses and re-distribute the money to the poor and needy. (Translation: Tax the rich and give enhanced hand-outs to all her mates).

She’s also going to “stop big business putting profit before the planet” …. but quite how this will be achieved remains something of a mystery – even to her.

Lindsey German (who is NOT related to Dave Spart or to Karl Marx either) has been central to the mass demonstration (only one then???) against the war in Iraq and is a leading Left wing agitator. She can always be counted on to throw the first brick ….. in any new house building programme of course!!!

She is a socialist (with a small “s” you note) and has a lifelong committment to women’s liberation – she probably burnt her bra in the early 1960’s and hasn’t worn one since.

Yes Brian the bender is lots of Pad and even more Dick – but who’s counting when there’s a handsome poofter in uniform eh? He’s guaranteed to get the pink vote if nothing else.

His major policies???

“Brian is fighting (who??? he doesn’t tell us) to stop the closure of smaller police stations across the capital.” (But hang on a moment …. isn’t this the same ex-Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick – Metropolitan Police who when he was a very senior serving police officer was involved with and supported this same decision???? Surely it couldn’t possibly be ….. could it???)

“Brian is passionate (so he says !!!) about protecting London’s precious environment for future generations of Londoners.” (Fine flown words … but what the heck do they actually mean??? The usual hot air and empty meaningless phrases that are incapable of being translated into …. well anything really).

“Londoners are paying some of the highest transport fares in the world, often for poor service. Brian will bring forward a costed plan to bring London’s transport into ther 21st Century.”
(So he’s not actually going to do anything substantial or specific then – simply “bring forward a costed plan”. That WILL make a difference eh? Oh I nearly forgot – yoo hoo Liberals – we’re in the 21st Century already – bit late to think about just planning to bring our transport into it now isn’t it? You should have done this 20 years ago).

Al the rest of his so-called ”policies” are a wish list of aspirations, characterised by vague and undefined phrases such as – “New technolody will be introduced…” … yes but WHAT??? WHEN??? HOW MUCH ???? WHERE ???? and so on.

Brian’s claim to fame?

He was the most senior openly Gay police officer in London – and he didn’t mention public lavatories once in his manifesto – amazingly.

Matt O’Connor – a fine ”English” name eh??? Nothing Irish about him then is there???

This is a candidate for the Mayor of LONDON who’s main aim is to establish an “English Parliament” and wants to put “England first”. This is all very well ….. but what’s that got to do with the Mayor of London ffs???

His manifesto is one long whinge about the unfairness of the national taxation system and how the Scots benefit from it out of all proportion. (“£13.5 billion of YOUR money bank-rolls Scotland every single year”) Fine ….. but what about LONDON then Matt??? I presume tbat you do know where it is eh???

Here’s a little gem: “England has been abandoned by her ruling classes, and so too, has her legacy. I believe that at least one candidate standing for Mayor should be standing for you, not Scotland”.

Well Matt, us Londoners aren’t going to stand for it; and we’re not standing for you either.

His strapline:

“We are not left or right, just English”

Oh and just spotted in the small print – another money grabbing wannabe politico.

You can call Matt on 09070-****** – call cost £1.50 per minute.

There is one thing about the Mayoral election that is quite fascinating. Both the front runners (Bonkers Boris and Red Ken) will undoubtedly not gain sufficient first preference votes so as to enable one of them to win outright.

The winner will in all probability be decided by the second preference votes cast by those whose first preference is somebody other than Bonkers or Red Ken.