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Parodying was exactly what I was going for, being tired of attacks on OneDulwich left, right and centre. I don't agree with the statement that both groups use the same tactics. -
By Earl Aelfheah · Posted
When you consider that Susan Hall fought almost her entire campaign on making the air dirtier, fighting a 'pay per mile' scheme that exists only in her head, and talking about how much she hates the city she wanted to lead, it does seem surprising that she didn't win. -
"Put aside your dislike of the man and look at the positives." I had a look back at the other Tory mayoral candidates. Aside from Susan Hall, there was the unknown Moz Hussein who lost the the Tory internal vote. Mostly i assume because CCHQ couldn't dog whistle racism as a campaign technique whilst also having their own candidate named Mohammed. -
If he achieves half of these then that will be some legacy. Put aside your dislike of the man and look at the positives. All politicians fail to deliver all of their pledges - a fact of life, doesn't make it right but things get in the way or priorities change. You can look at Livingstone, ignoring his later demise, and see him as a force of change and supporting the ordinary Londoner. He said he was going to bring back bus conductors. How silly. 70p fixed bus fair in outer London. Just wouldn't work - instead a pound to travel wherever you were going on the bus. Sounded daft, but we've had the single fair for, well, must be 20 years now. Interesting review of Johnson's 2019 pledges. He fully met his target for a bad Brexit. So lots of ticks there, but after that, pretty poor. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/annex-conservative-manifesto-half-time-analysis.pdf Sunak almost an abject failure, but when we get some clarity on Labour we will be having discussions on some of their failures in years to come.
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