First half hattrick for Harland. Another 3 points for Man City. Can they close the gap on GD with Arsenal?

Andy_JS said:

Tory MP Andrew Mitchell on Sky News: "We know either that Andy Street has won or that he has nearly won".

Is nearly won the same as didn't win?

So do the plotters pick their pitchforks up again or?

Will not be disappointed by Street losing.

Wear your affiliation with pride. None of this pretending you’re an independent when you clearly aren’t.

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

"Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast
@OhGodWhatNowPod

On a day when the Conservatives got absolutely ploughed, Andrew Mitchell MP is now on TV claiming that if Andy Street wins, it poses “very serious” questions about Starmer’s electability.
It is the most pitiful, craven and undignified thing you could possibly imagine."

https://twitter.com/OhGodWhatNowPod/status/1786801599592948061

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

Back from the pub to do a recount?

That sounds like a recipe for trouble!!

ydoethur said:

wooliedyed said:

Andy_JS said:

Tory MP Andrew Mitchell on Sky News: "We know either that Andy Street has won or that he has nearly won".

Is nearly won the same as didn't win?

Gloucestershire nearly won against Sussex the other day.

Or as we also call it, 'lost by four wickets.'

I am sorry to say that Wolves are nearly beating Man City as well. As it stands, four quick goals and they are home and dry and Arsenal are back on track.

wooliedyed said:

rottenborough said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

Back from the pub to do a recount?

That sounds like a recipe for trouble!!

It's gonna end up in court, lol

Sunak's premiership saved by activist lawyers??

I will retire to Bedlam.

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

ydoethur said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

Well, that really inspires confidence in the integrity of any recount.

'Ish thish one vote or three?'

Well if you can't see 2 votes where there was one after being in the pub you were wasting your time there.

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

Is Khan mad enough to want to do a 4th term? I think not.

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

Name three.

algarkirk said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

Name three.

Eadric. LadyG. Me

algarkirk said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

Time for prayers to St Chad of Mercia.

Turns out the Labour candidate is actually a tiger. Also, "found some votes in Coventry" sounds dodgy as fuck.

algarkirk said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

Time for prayers to St Chad of Mercia.

AND to St. "Hanging" Chad of Tampa?

ToryJim said:

nico679 said:

The Tories needed to request the recount before the Birmingham results were officially declared .

One wonders why they were declared whilst a recount was underway elsewhere. One would have thought it prudent to hold off in case someone wants to check it out.

Probably because the Tories were a bit too confident they were going to win, so when they were asked "are you fine and happy to announce" they just said yeah sure and then discovered they'd fucked up an hour later.

ydoethur said:

Leon said:

algarkirk said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

Name three.

Eadric. LadyG. Me

I'm not sure that's wholly a trinity.

Possibly an unholy shitshow.

SeaShantyIrish2 said:

algarkirk said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

Time for prayers to St Chad of Mercia.

AND to St. "Hanging" Chad of Tampa?

More Tamperwoth than Tamworth.

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

People so often fight the previous election, and are so often wrong. I'm fairly doubtful Khan will even be the candidate next time, so why necessarily choose someone to contrast with him?

Also, you're talking about what you want, and that's fine. But is it at all appealing to voters in Bexley and Hillingdon? People move to those places specifically to get away from what you'd describe as "fun".

Yes, sounds like the Conservatives made a massive error - allowing Birmingham to be declared without realising how close it was going to be overall.

Now they have no hope if only Coventry is recounted,.

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

In a way it's similar to the EU referendum, where the Remain campaign was almost totally negative, instead of talking about all the positive things about Europe. All they did was say how awful it would be if Leave won. Voters don't like that type of campaign.

SirNorfolkPassmore said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

People so often fight the previous election, and are so often wrong. I'm fairly doubtful Khan will even be the candidate next time, so why necessarily choose someone to contrast with him?

Also, you're talking about what you want, and that's fine. But is it at all appealing to voters in Bexley and Hillingdon? People move to those places specifically to get away from what you'd describe as "fun".

The Tories need to win over cool young arty people in the inner city, like me, not boring middleaged suburban twonks like @OnlyLivingBoy, @Anabobazina and @TimS

They already have the Ulezzers

Was Mitchell's interview really as tragic as it was implied in the BBC live blog?

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

A few months back I went out for a pizza with some mates in Peckham and staggered home ten hours later after going to two clubs, crashing a 30th birthday party, drinking some woman's breast milk and generally having a bloody great time. Sadiq Khan haters please explain.
Perhaps you're just getting old?

Leon said:

SirNorfolkPassmore said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

People so often fight the previous election, and are so often wrong. I'm fairly doubtful Khan will even be the candidate next time, so why necessarily choose someone to contrast with him?

Also, you're talking about what you want, and that's fine. But is it at all appealing to voters in Bexley and Hillingdon? People move to those places specifically to get away from what you'd describe as "fun".

The Tories need to win over cool young arty people in the inner city, like me, not boring middleaged suburban twonks like @OnlyLivingBoy, @Anabobazina and @TimS

They already have the Ulezzers

Although if they won over the people you mention, that's three votes. Whereas if they win over you, that's one vote.

OnboardG1 said:

Heathener said:

ydoethur said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

Well, that really inspires confidence in the integrity of any recount.

'Ish thish one vote or three?'

The source for her tweet is as ludicrous as, erm, the Susan Hall one if you can be bothered to trace it.

I’m sorry TSE repeated it without pausing

Can you elaborate? I know she's a sun ed so not exactly unbiased but I'm part of the "fuck twitter" brigade so I can't see that chain back.

It started with someone with about 12 followers, without any basis in fact, then got retweeted … and you know how it goes from there.

Leon said:

rottenborough said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

Is Khan mad enough to want to do a 4th term? I think not.

He's a fucikng bed blocker, I wouldn't put it past him. Any other poltiical career is over, for him. He'd be 57 and looking for a constittuency to start out as an MP if he wants a Westminster job years afteer that? Not gonna happen. So, yeah, I can see him going for a 4th. Tragically. And winning, which is even more tragic

He'll win a 4th, 5th, and 6th term if he wants to. He calls the shots in London. Susan Hall is just a prelude to what is coming as far as the Tories are concerned. Popcorn time after the next GE as Badenoch, Braverman, Truss and other fruitloops in the Tory party slug it out.

London is a great city and we will continue to say "F*ck off" to the Tories.

Carnyx said:

Andy_JS said:

I think the fact there's been a full recount in Coventry but not in the other areas in the West Midlands could be the basis for a court challenge to the result. The same recount conditions should have been applied everywhere, since it's the overall result that matters, not how close it is in any particular area.

But the Tories *rewrote* the rules themselves. Too late to complain - in both senses.

Hoisted on one's own petard. Be careful what institution you blow up I suppose. Would be quite funny if their attempts at system rigging blew up in their faces again.

Heathener said:

Gallowgate said:

Andy_JS said:

I think the fact there's been a full recount in Coventry but not in the other areas in the West Midlands could be the basis for a court challenge to the result.

What a S show

It isn’t a s show

Andy Street didn’t win by c. 2500 votes and his team want to have some of the votes recounted, which Coventry accepted.

Let’s leave the conspiracies out of this and wait the final tally

Nah I'm on Andy's side on this one. If it's close enough for a recount, every part of the election should be recounted.

To be able to pick and choose areas to recount is worse than doing none.

TheScreamingEagles said:

Re Coventry, I hope that a Tory bundle hasn't been stuck in with a Labour (or other party) bundle.

That's what nightmares are made from counting staff.

If this all falls out with Street winning by like, 10k votes and it's all manufactured drama it's going to be deeply tedious.

Leon said:

rottenborough said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

Is Khan mad enough to want to do a 4th term? I think not.

He's a fucikng bed blocker, I wouldn't put it past him. Any other poltiical career is over, for him. He'd be 57 and looking for a constittuency to start out as an MP if he wants a Westminster job years afteer that? Not gonna happen. So, yeah, I can see him going for a 4th. Tragically. And winning, which is even more tragic

2028 will be in the fourth year of a Starmer administration, with all the headwinds that he's going to face. London's only voted for the nationally governing party twice, for Ken in 2004 and Boris in 2012 and as you've already mentioned, both of them were special politicians. Khan is as generic Labour as you can get, which is why the Hall smears haven't stuck (he's not that interesting).

If Labour aren't polling that well in 2027 then Khan looks vulnerable and then decent Tory politicians will fancy their chances, making Khan's chances of a 4th term even slimmer.

Just spotted that the newly minted London Assembly member for West Central is the son of Heather Small. I’ll let others suggest which of her back catalogue should apply to current circumstances…

OnlyLivingBoy said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

A few months back I went out for a pizza with some mates in Peckham and staggered home ten hours later after going to two clubs, crashing a 30th birthday party, drinking some woman's breast milk and generally having a bloody great time. Sadiq Khan haters please explain.
Perhaps you're just getting old?

Five WEEKS ago I spent three long wondrous days taking yopo, mambe (you don't even know what that is), and ayahuasca in the jungles of Colombia about ten minutes from Pablo Escobar's hippo themed drug and execution palace with the world's greatest scientific expert on DMT, a famous movie director, two billionaires, a US/German film crew, a beautiful and celebrated Swiss musician and the great NIECE of Virginia Woolf, and a famous ayahuesquero who recently escaped assassination in Medellin and we all did San Pedro after that

You went out in ++ checks notes ++ "Peckham"

ToryJim said:

Just spotted that the newly minted London Assembly member for West Central is the son of Heather Small. I’ll let others suggest which of her back catalogue should apply to current circumstances…

Moving On Up.

l

Ratters said:

Heathener said:

Gallowgate said:

Andy_JS said:

I think the fact there's been a full recount in Coventry but not in the other areas in the West Midlands could be the basis for a court challenge to the result.

What a S show

It isn’t a s show

Andy Street didn’t win by c. 2500 votes and his team want to have some of the votes recounted, which Coventry accepted.

Let’s leave the conspiracies out of this and wait the final tally

Nah I'm on Andy's side on this one. If it's close enough for a recount, every part of the election should be recounted.

To be able to pick and choose areas to recount is worse than doing none.

Labour can’t legally refuse a recount so it must be those in charge of the count who refused . Normally we see recounts before any official declaration .

OnlyLivingBoy said:

From the Grauniad:

9m ago
13.33 EDT
London mayoral hopeful Count Binface said “down with fascism, up with Ceefax” after discovering he had beaten Britain First’s candidate Nick Scanlon.

He told reporters at City Hall: “It looks like I have defeated Britain First in an election.

“Come on, you have to cheer about that…down with fascism, up with Ceefax, what can I say?”

Fascists don't usually see facts.

But I wish he'd come first. Surely everybody could get behind his policy of making Thames Water's execs go for a swim in London River?

Carnyx said:

murali_s said:

Leon said:

rottenborough said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

Is Khan mad enough to want to do a 4th term? I think not.

He's a fucikng bed blocker, I wouldn't put it past him. Any other poltiical career is over, for him. He'd be 57 and looking for a constittuency to start out as an MP if he wants a Westminster job years afteer that? Not gonna happen. So, yeah, I can see him going for a 4th. Tragically. And winning, which is even more tragic

He'll win a 4th, 5th, and 6th term if he wants to. He calls the shots in London. Susan Hall is just a prelude to what is coming as far as the Tories are concerned. Popcorn time after the next GE as Badenoch, Braverman, Truss and other fruitloops in the Tory slug it out.

London is a great city and we will continue to say "F*ck off" to the Tories.

WAtching from a distance, I'm genuinely astounded. For months, we had wall to wall ULEZzery on PB on how Mr Khan was doomed, ditto because of tent cities, unavailability of traditional eel pie on ever street corner, etc. etc.

Then you know as little of London as we do of Scotland, as you often point out

It was obvious that Hall was a profoundly mediocre candidate. As soon as they announced her as standing against Khan we all knew that was it, the mayoralty was lost again. Shaun Bailey was a fairly weak candidate, but he was better than that silly woman

Carnyx said:

murali_s said:

Leon said:

rottenborough said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

Is Khan mad enough to want to do a 4th term? I think not.

He's a fucikng bed blocker, I wouldn't put it past him. Any other poltiical career is over, for him. He'd be 57 and looking for a constittuency to start out as an MP if he wants a Westminster job years afteer that? Not gonna happen. So, yeah, I can see him going for a 4th. Tragically. And winning, which is even more tragic

He'll win a 4th, 5th, and 6th term if he wants to. He calls the shots in London. Susan Hall is just a prelude to what is coming as far as the Tories are concerned. Popcorn time after the next GE as Badenoch, Braverman, Truss and other fruitloops in the Tory slug it out.

London is a great city and we will continue to say "F*ck off" to the Tories.

WAtching from a distance, I'm genuinely astounded. For months, we had wall to wall ULEZzery on PB on how Mr Khan was doomed, ditto because of tent cities, unavailability of traditional eel pie on ever street corner, etc. etc.

The ULEZ thing tends to be brought up by Tories who’ve never lived in Central London. Ownership of cars, generally, is not the pressing issue in Zones 1 & 2 it is elsewhere. Maybe a bit different at the edges but not all of them.

So has Donald Trump yet congratulated Susan Hall on her stunning victory over the forces of Woke?

OnlyLivingBoy said:

Leon said:

OnlyLivingBoy said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

A few months back I went out for a pizza with some mates in Peckham and staggered home ten hours later after going to two clubs, crashing a 30th birthday party, drinking some woman's breast milk and generally having a bloody great time. Sadiq Khan haters please explain.
Perhaps you're just getting old?

Five WEEKS ago I spent three long wondrous days taking yopo, mambe (you don't even know what that is), and ayahuasca in the jungles of Colombia about ten minutes from Pablo Escobar's hippo themed drug and execution palace with the world's greatest scientific expert on DMT, a famous movie director, two billionaires, a US/German film crew, a beautiful and celebrated Swiss musician and the great NIECE of Virginia Woolf, and a famous ayahuesquero who recently escaped assassination in Medellin and we all did San Pedro after that

You went out in ++ checks notes ++ "Peckham"

Very nice but I bet you couldn't get the bus home.

I did. God was driving

Leon said:

SirNorfolkPassmore said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

People so often fight the previous election, and are so often wrong. I'm fairly doubtful Khan will even be the candidate next time, so why necessarily choose someone to contrast with him?

Also, you're talking about what you want, and that's fine. But is it at all appealing to voters in Bexley and Hillingdon? People move to those places specifically to get away from what you'd describe as "fun".

The Tories need to win over cool young arty people in the inner city, like me, not boring middleaged suburban twonks like @OnlyLivingBoy, @Anabobazina and @TimS

They already have the Ulezzers

Young? You? If you're young I'm claiming my teenage years back.

ToryJim said:

Just spotted that the newly minted London Assembly member for West Central is the son of Heather Small. I’ll let others suggest which of her back catalogue should apply to current circumstances…

Also the son of RL legend and RU coach, and my childhood mate and halfback partner, Shaun Edwards.

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

Hmm. Some TwiX users appear to be blaming this same Kate Ferguson for the Hall's won rumours.

TheScreamingEagles said:

Drama at the West Mids count !

🔥 Row as apparently Labour refusing to have recount of whole Birmingham
🔥 More Andy Street votes have been found in the Coventry ward
🔥 Sandwell having to recall staff back from the pub for recounts

https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1786797001922785447

That does not add up. Parties do not decide whether a recount happens . Only the Returning Officer can turn down a request - albeit at risk of legal challenge.

Casino_Royale said:

williamglenn said:

OnlyLivingBoy said:

Leon said:

williamglenn said:

A possible winning Tory slogan: "Make London Great Again"

Yes indeed. One of the major points against the awful Khan is that he is so bloody miserable and depressing. A little man, with little vision. Boris and Ken - in very different ways - managed to express the larger than life persona you need to boost a great world city like London

So the Tory message for next time, must be boosterism. Make London Dance Again. Make London Happy Again. Make London Go On A Bender And Wake Up With Strange Panties On Its Head Again, etc etc. I'm quite serious. This is what would beat that dreary grey teetotal dwarf Khan, who has probably never been to a party in his life. FUN

Make London FUN Again

Next time, the Tory needs to be extrovert, amusing and smartly charming. That will win

A few months back I went out for a pizza with some mates in Peckham and staggered home ten hours later after going to two clubs, crashing a 30th birthday party, drinking some woman's breast milk and generally having a bloody great time. Sadiq Khan haters please explain.
Perhaps you're just getting old?

Maaate.

Cringe.

Sorry you missed it.

Richard_Tyndall said:

HYUFD said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

HYUFD said:

BatteryCorrectHorse said:

HYUFD said:

BatteryCorrectHorse said:

Khan's support actually increased, so how do we interpret that as anything but an endorsement for ULEZ?

I've been saying this for months, the people opposed to ULEZ don't live in London. Londoners either don't care (as they don't drive) or they are supportive.

The Tories were entirely wrong to oppose it (of course they forced Khan to bring it in but that's a different story). They have got completely the wrong end of the stick and done the opposite of what they should have done.

In Outer London, where people drive, Khan's vote didn't increase (except in the wealthy pro green SW), in inner London it did.

His margin in inner London, where you can use a bus, taxi or tube and don't need the car, was enough to secure him victory in London overall

Did he receive more votes than last time or not? It's a yes or no question.

In inner London yes his margin was up, in Outer London there was no change and indeed in some areas like Bexley and Bromley Hall won comfortably

Khan's vote went up in B&B compared to 2021.

Hall's vote went up more, Bailey got 100630 first preference votes in 2021 while she got 111,216 votes this year.

Khan got 44350 in 2021 and 48,952 votes this year
https://www.londonelects.org.uk/bexley-bromley-results
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68609732/page/3

Doesn't matter. The question was whther Khan's vote went up. Which it did.

And Johnson rigged the voting system to help both of them.

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ToryJim said:

Just spotted that the newly minted London Assembly member for West Central is the son of Heather Small. I’ll let others suggest which of her back catalogue should apply to current circumstances…

And son of former Wales and the current French defence coach Shaun Edwards.