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MAY 12, 2008 05:12 PM
livertarian said:
SockPuppet said:
RudieCantFail said:
Mark_plus_Beer said:
christ and 69,000 people voted for the BNP 
Wikiresults
The BNP are the ones that are pretty much racist Nazis, right?
Yes.
69,000 does sound alarming. But it's less than 1% of the city's population. I bet the turnout for BNP is high too - I tend to think of sociopaths as being highly motivated, anyway.
Well, no matter how you slice the numbers, that's a lot of confirmed bigots.
69,000 got them a seat on the London Assembly (out of 25 seats).
MAY 12, 2008 05:26 PM
Hunkpapa said:
livertarian said:
SockPuppet said:
RudieCantFail said:
Mark_plus_Beer said:
christ and 69,000 people voted for the BNP
Wikiresults
The BNP are the ones that are pretty much racist Nazis, right?
Yes.
69,000 does sound alarming. But it's less than 1% of the city's population. I bet the turnout for BNP is high too - I tend to think of sociopaths as being highly motivated, anyway.
Well, no matter how you slice the numbers, that's a lot of confirmed bigots.
69,000 got them a seat on the London Assembly (out of 25 seats).
WOW.
Think the rest of the boys will ask him out to their Regular?
MAY 13, 2008 12:57 AM
Hunkpapa said:
QueenieX said:
aaahhh, I see...
Ithink Boris' election proves the overwhelming majority in favour of comedy voting in England. I mean, Boris is funny, right?
How does it prove that? For a start, England didn't vote for him.
It wasn't meant to be a serious observation. You're suggesting 1,168,738 Londoners reckoned Boris to be the best political option as opposed to a bit of entertainment?!
MAY 13, 2008 12:58 AM
Hunkpapa said:
livertarian said:
SockPuppet said:
RudieCantFail said:
Mark_plus_Beer said:
christ and 69,000 people voted for the BNP
Wikiresults
The BNP are the ones that are pretty much racist Nazis, right?
Yes.
69,000 does sound alarming. But it's less than 1% of the city's population. I bet the turnout for BNP is high too - I tend to think of sociopaths as being highly motivated, anyway.
Well, no matter how you slice the numbers, that's a lot of confirmed bigots.
69,000 got them a seat on the London Assembly (out of 25 seats).
Yep, the gains made by the BNP in the local elections are also scary, though not as scary as they could've been. It does reflect what seems to be a general and unpleasant rise in xenophobia that is sweeping the UK at moment.
I don't like it one bit.
MAY 13, 2008 02:36 AM
QueenieX said:
Hunkpapa said:
QueenieX said:
aaahhh, I see...
Ithink Boris' election proves the overwhelming majority in favour of comedy voting in England. I mean, Boris is funny, right?
How does it prove that? For a start, England didn't vote for him.
It wasn't meant to be a serious observation. You're suggesting 1,168,738 Londoners reckoned Boris to be the best political option as opposed to a bit of entertainment?!
I'd hope not. But I'd also hope they took it more seriously than voting for someone because he's "funny".
MAY 13, 2008 03:08 AM
Hunkpapa said:
QueenieX said:
Hunkpapa said:
QueenieX said:
aaahhh, I see...
Ithink Boris' election proves the overwhelming majority in favour of comedy voting in England. I mean, Boris is funny, right?
How does it prove that? For a start, England didn't vote for him.
It wasn't meant to be a serious observation. You're suggesting 1,168,738 Londoners reckoned Boris to be the best political option as opposed to a bit of entertainment?!
I'd hope not. But I'd also hope they took it more seriously than voting for someone because he's "funny".
Ditto but I find it hard to believe that all those people genuinely voted because they truly felt 'Bonking Boris' was a competent candidate, and I think the fact he did win (and with only a 2 million turn out) demonstrates a more flippant approach to voting, which I was alluding to sarcastically when I said he's 'funny, right?'. Sheesh, flag waving piccaninnies and bus wars!
MAY 13, 2008 03:54 AM
QueenieX said:
Ditto but I find it hard to believe that all those people genuinely voted because they truly felt 'Bonking Boris' was a competent candidate, and I think the fact he did win (and with only a 2 million turn out) demonstrates a more flippant approach to voting, which I was alluding to sarcastically when I said he's 'funny, right?'. Sheesh, flag waving piccaninnies and bus wars!
No, I doubt all those people thought he was the right person for the job (although some of them must have; he's won two elections as an MP, so presumably some people think he's doing something right)... I'd guess that a lot of people who voted him voted for the guy (as they saw it) with the best chance of beating Livingstone.
Apparently, he was born in New York... if he'd stayed, I believe he could have run for President. Imagine that.
MAY 13, 2008 05:03 PM
Hunkpapa said:
QueenieX said:
Ditto but I find it hard to believe that all those people genuinely voted because they truly felt 'Bonking Boris' was a competent candidate, and I think the fact he did win (and with only a 2 million turn out) demonstrates a more flippant approach to voting, which I was alluding to sarcastically when I said he's 'funny, right?'. Sheesh, flag waving piccaninnies and bus wars!
No, I doubt all those people thought he was the right person for the job (although some of them must have; he's won two elections as an MP, so presumably some people think he's doing something right)... I'd guess that a lot of people who voted him voted for the guy (as they saw it) with the best chance of beating Livingstone.
It's the usual bullshit from the press: Vote for anything, so long as it's Tory. That's their underlying logic, and has been for my entire voting life.
Apparently, he was born in New York... if he'd stayed, I believe he could have run for President. Imagine that.
Gosh, America could have wound up with a blond comedy President. That would have been a Bad Thing, to be sure. But Boris is probably actually less right-wing than W, so it might have worked out OK.
livertarian
Fairfax, VA
March 2008
MAY 12, 2008 04:58 PM