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When Boris Johnson was Mayor of London he always manage to secure better poll ratings than just about any of his Tory colleagues. For almost his entire 8 years at City Hall his leadership ratings remained positive and so it has been so far with Sadiq Khan who was elected in May.
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I did tip him at 33/1 as next Labour leader, I feel content.
I wouldn't back him to be next Labour leader though. His not being in Parliament means that he has a very difficult route to that role.
Next but one, maybe.
He has charisma and looks the very model of a modern, multi-cultural mayor.
Unfortunately he's not very smart.
That needn't be a hindrance. He's definitely more impressive, in the round, than anyone on the Labour front bench save possibly Sir Keir who seems to have had a good 24 hours!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/my-child-left-join-cult-6286534
Trump won't win.
Yet more evidence that Corbyn is a hard left, Trotskyist stooge and unelectable.
And the government getting some much needed scrutiny from our parliament.
All is right(ish) with the world.
She won't find much support on the Tory backbenchers.
I still laugh that she was considering a leadership bid. HA!
He's one of those fearless leftist banker bashers now campaigning against....er.....loss of revenues from the City in the wake of Brexit.
But we voted on nothing else. I have no sympathy with the idea that we voted to leave the single market, or reduce immigration, or give £350m a week to the NHS. They were not on the ballot.
Nothing - apart from a formal withdrawal from the EU - necessarily follows from a LEAVE.
It is now the governments job to deliver that in line with the best possible outcome for our country's prosperity and freedoms.
And for the Opposition, or parliament, to hold the government to account.
That is all.
http://openeurope.org.uk/today/blog/conservative-manifesto-reaffirms-inout-eu-referendum-but-is-light-on-the-specifics-of-renegotiation/
for commentary.
Luckily, a good 60% of the regularly-voting electorate are up for grabs with the current One Nation Tory administration.
Overall, therefore, I'm not at all surprised that his ratings are good. We'll have to see what he does on transport and housing, but so far, so good.
As for the future, he'd certainly be a good choice for leader if Labour ever want to go back to being a serious political party again. That's a big 'if' at the moment, of course.
If anyone makes Fox look like a titan.....
It is straight out of the Remainiac's charter - we won't accept the vote, so will look for documents that undermine it - even if these preceded the vote.
What's he actually done other than oppose Brexit and renege on his promise to freeze Tube fares ?.
As far as I can see the main area of wiggle room between sovereignty over the borders and the present position is the payments to the EU budget. If they were increased, maybe substantially, in exchange for substantial real control, they could claim the UK's deal was "worse than before", ( true), and we could say "we've got control of immigration", ( also true ). Of course the downside is it's 21st Century Danegeld for us, and for them their "4 principles of the single market", could be circumvented for what amounts to a bung in a brown envelope, but hey ho we could both look the other way and both say with some veracity we got what we wanted whilst not bringing the whole house down on free trade ( which harms us both ). Customs union yes/no etc could be discussed if there was a free trade deal replicating current arrangements between UK/EU anyway. Sort of EEA extra loose with extra cash.
Thoughts???
Harry Cole @MrHarryCole
Emma Reynolds tells the Commons "I want a soft Brexit". Then adds she wants no tariffs but controls on free movements.
Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon
@MrHarryCole A lot of people object to hard Brexit but nobody really wants soft Brexit. It's like porn.
Khan will never win the Labour selectorate.
It's very Pro-Corbyn, and Khan has nailed his colours on the anti-Corbyn faction.
On Previous topic.
Leading Republicans rejoin Trump:
https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/786216079479537664
As I said yesterday, a lot of 360 degree turns will occur since Friday.
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/786199310522212352
Flaccid Brexit is the term I use, and I also talk about the economic equivalent of losing your erection, you're left with the options of an embarrassing withdrawal or do you keep on going on until you achieve the rise
Too bad he didn't do the same about high rises. The Walkie-Talkie is a real disaster.
Oh Boris did add several stations to the Oystercard network, like Hertford East, Gatwick, Swanley, etc.
Also, sometimes politicians who do not 'do' much, but run a steady (if boring) ship are much better than ones who try to do much and run from one hare-brained scheme to another.
Roun-der roun-der roun-der!
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I see Arizona is now blue on 538.
"Before Boris the Mayoralty was held by Keb who, certainly for the first few years, achieved good polling numbers"
Keb? Can't remember a Keb
One Hour Bus PassHopper ticketOwning the result and championing it is the only way to:
i) navigate the choppy parliamentary waters - allowing the Govt to brand those troublesome MPs and parties who are questioning the process or the actors as wanting to Leave in name only.
ii) convince our negotiating adversaries that we're willing to walk away
iii) which in turn might be the only way to secure a decent deal, if a deal is possible
iv) which is in turn the best way to go please the majority of the electorate
You're letting your distaste for the result cloud your judgement. You forget that not only are most people now not that bothered that we're leaving, but the majority of voters voted for it and thus want to see it done.
According to 538, Arizona and its 11 electoral college votes are now for Hillary (Polls only and Nowcast)
She is now on 341 EC votes to 197.
That's comfortable, but no landslide.
He could do a revoiced Noggin the Nog for the times of Brexit.....
I reckon electing a non white Muslim as Labour leader would appeal to those on the Corbynite left.
Not a fan of that. During the burkini ban fracas he was all in favour of women wearing what they want.
See here
https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/hopper-fare
* assuming the Labour Party is still in one piece. Big assumption.