Yes, that's interesting: I think Khan could have been beatable but the Tories chose a dribbling halfwit who I wouldn't trust to run a school raffle. Why didn't they pick a credible candidate?
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clapham_gull
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My bad I made the mistake of reading the sun
The anti-Khan, London is the worst city in the world thing has been built up by grassroots Tories on social media to try and persuade people NOT to vote Labour in the election. If you look on Twitter the vast majority of anti Khan (and often racist) dirge comes from people outside London who got sucked in.
They don't care about the mayoral elections.
If they did Sunak would be doing numerous public walkabouts with Hall.
Part of strategy was to put an unhinged attack dog on the case in London.
Strategically, alongside the enforced electoral changes I suspect they thought they could damage Khan but he would get over the line.
My money will be on the strategy massively backfiring.
Stato
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I think their problem was having to choose someone who wasn't a dribbling half wit, but was also a member of today's Conservative Party.
I guarantee there’ll be some Gammony Thickets out there who don’t know that the mayoral elections are different from the general election.
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I think their problem was having to choose someone who wasn't a dribbling half wit, but was also a member of today's Conservative Party.
It’s dribbling halfwits all the way down.
clapham_gull
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Because they don't want a successful high profile Mayor to challenge the PM at a future election.
They don't want another Boris.
That has changed somewhat this time, where they have ramped up the rhetoric to damage Starmer.
One of the attacks has been to criticise Khan over the rebranding of the Overland. It was in his manifesto last time.
That said Khan is a pretty mundane speaker and debater. Numerous Tory MPs with cabinet experience could have taken him on. One even applied but wasn't selected.
The one chosen had to go because of personal allegations and Hall was selected by the members. I can't believe my local MPs are associating themselves with her, they were quite happy to throw Johnson under a bus when campaigning.
But to honest they have nothing and are obsessed with what they perceive to be anti car measures....
In London with the lowest car ownership in the country.
They may as well be campaigning for the Birmingham fishing industry.
Susan Hall selected as Conservative London mayoral candidate
The London assembly member faced only one opponent after Daniel Korski dropped out.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Well, that should boost inflation and put an early interest rate cut in the balance…
clapham_gull
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The day Susan was mugged.
clapham_gull
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Make your own mind up.
Various posts on this thread have nailed it.
The Tories want Khan in charge of London when they call the General Election. Their strategy will be “look at no go area Londonstan with its oppressive ULEZ and knife crime and it’s all Labour’s fault. Do you want that everywhere?”. It’s a lot harder to pull off if they’re in charge.
It’ll be lapped up by a few Sun reading racists who don’t get to vote in the London mayor’s poll but do in a GE. But nowhere near enough to save Sunak’s incompetent, slippery, achievement free, backside nationally.
As usual, working class Tories are being used like a blow up doll on an Amsterdam stag do,
The Tories want Khan in charge of London when they call the General Election. Their strategy will be “look at no go area Londonstan with its oppressive ULEZ and knife crime and it’s all Labour’s fault. Do you want that everywhere?”. It’s a lot harder to pull off if they’re in charge.
It’ll be lapped up by a few Sun reading racists who don’t get to vote in the London mayor’s poll but do in a GE. But nowhere near enough to save Sunak’s incompetent, slippery, achievement free, backside nationally.
As usual, working class Tories are being used like a blow up doll on an Amsterdam stag do,
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clapham_gull
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Got home safe again.
clapham_gull
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Just to reiterate how obsessed they are with anti-car measures. Couple of nasty mini roundabouts near me (on residential) and a right turn where I know someone who got run over.
The Labour lead council are going to get rid of them and if they hadn't lost the council the Tories would probably done so too.
But no, the local Tories went on the offensive but in a really strange way. Knocking on my door telling that the anti-democratic measures (never voted on a roundabout) would lead to increased traffic on my road.
Silly idiots. I used to live round the corner (opposite the roundabout) and was happy to see it gone. In Tory-land you only care about YOUR street, not the others who have to walk on.
The very short road outside my house is one way and single lane. No not a Khan enforced pavement narrowing measure, it's been like for years because there is a nursery opposite.
If you use it to avoid the changes you are either going in the opposite direction or lost.
They just come up with any old bullshit because they are so desperate. The last peep I had from them was Christmas because they were complaining about the Xmas trees not being collected on time.
The Labour lead council are going to get rid of them and if they hadn't lost the council the Tories would probably done so too.
But no, the local Tories went on the offensive but in a really strange way. Knocking on my door telling that the anti-democratic measures (never voted on a roundabout) would lead to increased traffic on my road.
Silly idiots. I used to live round the corner (opposite the roundabout) and was happy to see it gone. In Tory-land you only care about YOUR street, not the others who have to walk on.
The very short road outside my house is one way and single lane. No not a Khan enforced pavement narrowing measure, it's been like for years because there is a nursery opposite.
If you use it to avoid the changes you are either going in the opposite direction or lost.
They just come up with any old bullshit because they are so desperate. The last peep I had from them was Christmas because they were complaining about the Xmas trees not being collected on time.
Thunder Bolt
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Just for extra balance, the volunteer deportee was given £3000 and 6 Rwandans came back.
Bob!
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As well as the £3k, he also gets free board and lodgings for 5 years
Nobby Cybergoat
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It's quite lucky the tories got him to agree to this in the week before an election.
And great to see that the massive deterrent of receiving a bribe will prevent many others from making that perilous journey
Where do I sign up?
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Doesn't that kinda backfire when people point out that he beat the Conservative candidate so, by that token, he can't be *that* bad, based on the opinion of, y'know, ACTUAL Londoners?
Or am I overestimating the intelligence of the people you are talking about?
"Woke Londoners", "full of immigrants", "liberal elite" etc is how they'll play those voters in the rest of the country.
Men and women of the people, The Tories, as can be seen from their hugely successful levelling up programme.