London mayoral elections - what to do?

[kristymac1]

That's it really, I'm undecided (actually utterly unimpressed and unconvinced). Better informed forum I'd welcome your views!

Ta x

[????]

Last time on here there was a big debate on here - this time, nothing. Says it all - change in forum and how crap they all are. I'm not bothering to vote :)

[TheArtfulDogger]

My suggestion is the canabis is safer than alcohol party. May not have good policies but man what an after party that will be 🤐

[Pugwash]

Not going for the 2 front runners as too much hype.

[Blah Blah]

Even though I'm a Labour Party member I've never warmed to Sadiq and find that the only candidate I've heard anything from that I like, is Sian Berry! Both Zac and Sadiq appear to me to be making promises on things they have no power to deliver.

[Loz]

I've voting Sadiq for my second vote. Have yet to decide my first (which has, for me, always gone to a minor party) but it will probably be the Lib Dem. The rest from the minors seem like the usual bunch of nutters.

Six months ago, Goldsmith had a slight edge for me, but he's really done nothing to impress me since then.

[Otta]

I promise I am not saying this because he's a tory. I think Goldsmith has been absolutely useless. And Khan just marginally better. Don't really believe anything any of them are saying.

[Seabag]

What's Nick Clegg up to now?

A quick re-dunk into the vat of BBC Brown Hair Dye, and maybe he could stand, as I hated him

Or how about a pair of Mayor's together in the job

Zac and Sadiq

I'm grasping at straws here aren't I

[maxxi]

This time last year I said Khan was "an embarrassment of vacuous sloganing and fake sincerity that was truly sickening" and haven't changed my mind; Posho is so dim and so obviously being worked by others you can see the strings, I shall probs vote Sian Berry and the mad Polish Prince as a back-up (anyone who challenges Farage to a duel can't be all mbad).

[red devil]

Take one London Mayor Election leaflet...

http://creativewithkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Paper-Airplane-Instructions-printable.jpg

[Townleygreen]

Well you could consider our local candidate - Caroline Pidgeon. She lives in ED and was a Southwark councillor before she became a GLA member, which she's been for 8 years now.

Unlike Khan and Goldsmith, who've just been parachuted in to stand by the big parties, she knows what the GLA is about - and Southwark too, obv - and knows exactly how the system works.

Her manifesto is here (scroll down the page once you get there)

http://www.markpack.org.uk/138648/caroline-pidgeon-london-mayor-lib-dem-manifesto/

[Seabag]

Polish Prince gets my vote

If Caroline Pidgeon actually wears a 'Pidgeon' costume, I'll vote for her

Mind you Sian could out-do her and turn up as a 'berry' of some kind, probably a strawberry, then I'd say say 'The Pidge' is in trouble

Bloody hell, now I'm way more interested in the whole thing

[Earl Aelfheah]

I always thought Zac seemed quite principled / decent, but this latest attempt to insinuate that Sadiq is somehow 'dangerous' and 'extreme' is pretty awful.

[womanofdulwich]

My Labour leaflet actually made a big thing of Sadiq being a Muslim, whereas his number 2 did not mention her religion, and I had to google her to find out she was an active Christian. I hate that.

[Nigello]

Pidgeon seems a good choice, mainly because she has been in active opposition for a long time and her knowledge and commitment has been acknowledged by both the main candidates.

[womanofdulwich]

Caroline Pidgeon talks about 9-5 City workers, what planet is she from??

[maxxi]

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> Well you could consider our local candidate -

> Caroline Pidgeon. She lives in ED and was a

> Southwark councillor before she became a GLA

> member, which she's been for 8 years now.

> Unlike Khan and Goldsmith, who've just been

> parachuted in to stand by the big parties, she

> knows what the GLA is about - and Southwark too,

> obv - and knows exactly how the system works.

...and she's a LibDem. By her own admission she's a LibDem. I like a laugh in local politics but really.

Snappy ad at the bottom of your link -

"Now available to pre-order: Nick Clegg's Politics - The Art of the Possible in an Age of Unreason..."

Don't all rush at once... bless.

[Townleygreen]

WoD said: "Caroline Pidgeon talks about 9-5 City workers, what planet is she from??"

planet East Dulwich

[Blah Blah]

I find Caroline P and bit away with the fairies too. Today's polling puts Sadiq 10 points ahead of Zac. That's some margin.

[Otta]

Think Zac has shot himself in the foot completely with the extremism claims. Bad move. Bet they love him in East London, not.

[uncleglen]

Islam is extreme.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/why-sadiq-khan-cannot-escape-questions-about-extremists-a3230486.html

[Blah Blah]

So you didn't see the photo of Zac with the same extremist Cameron told us Sadiq was pals with yesterday? You see, community leaders (who may or may not be part of extreme versions of a religion) tend to be very good at getting the ear of people in public office, which is why both Sadiq (in his job as a civil rights lawyer) and Zac (in his role as a politician) have both crossed paths with people we now know to have extreme views. Not a story for me but we all know what side of the political fence you stand on Uncle. I have news for you though. Khan is 10 points ahead, helped massively by the Tory claims of 'terrorist sympathiser', because most people see through that for the nonsense it actually is.

['bout now]

Never thought I'd agree with Peter Oborne

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/london-mayor-race-conservatives-game-religious-and-racial-divisions-538083247

[edcam]

I'd love it to be someone other than Goldsmith or Khan but that's never going to happen, so rather than waste my first vote on someone who can never win, I'll be reluctantly voting for Khan with someone as yet undecided for my second choice.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Yeah, I'm not that impressed by Sadiq Khan, but Goldsmith's tactics have made pretty sure I'll vote for him. I think the attempts to imply that Sadiq Khan (who has campaigned against extremism, defied death threats to vote for same-sex marriage and stated publicly that he considers himself a feminist) is somehow allied with radical islamists is patently absurd and horribly cynical.