Humiliating Performance By U K I P In The London Mayoral Race

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2016/london

With 13 out of 14 results now in, UKIP can only manage 3.7% of the vote.

[retrocop]

Bad day for Londoners. Good time to become a London Underground Tube driver. Now we have a Labour Mayor the unions will spin Khan round their fingers, hold London to ransom and no doubt he will indulge their already inflated wages.
If he promises social housing on brown field sites in London I can guess who will get first dibs. Didn't we learn anything from the last mayor of Tower Hamlet's practices ?

[Svejk]

First scandal? I'll give it less than 6 months. They just can't help themselves.

[Jackdaw33]

I think the problem is that they DO help themselves!

[jno]

thanks, jim.

It's been suggested that the turnout for the London mayoralty poll is the biggest yet (though not exactly threatening the 50% mark).

[youngmafbog]

First Muslim mayor.

First step to Sharia Britain.

Women should be very fearful, the country is on its way out.

Mark my words.

[jim360]

Zac Goldsmith tried that tactic. It didn't work. It won't work now either.

[jourdain2]

Why, oh why has this been allowed to happen? It's an uphill battle now just to keep the status quo.

[youngmafbog]

Hardly a tactid jim. Just mark my words

Sorry, but you of all people should be very afraid. I hate to think of your fate at the hands of these intolerant scum. Why do you defend them they hate people like you, whereas I have no deference but you slate me?

I simply dont get you.

[Jackdaw33]

I'm not in the slightest bit concerned; but then I live nowhere near London!

[naomi24]

Jackdaw, //I voted Labour yesterday, which normally I would have to be forced at gunpoint to do, because my local councillor is very hard-working …. My vote was in no way an endorsement of Labour policies or Corbyn but purely for a councillor who has done a good job.//

But one who will continue to work for and support the Labour policies that you do not endorse. Mmmm ….. still trying to find the logic in that.

Sadiq Khan ... poor London. :o(

[tonyav]

Say's a lot about London at the moment, jourdain. I'm glad I don't live there.
Although it could happen in a town near you ( or me ) in the future though.

[jim360]

I have no reason to fear Sadiq Khan in any way.

[youngmafbog]

Really jim? he is not a moderate mate.

[jourdain2]

Then you live in a blissful cloud of ignorance, Jim, IMO. I hope I am proved wrong - but I doubt it.

[naomi24]

Jim, where do you think Sadiq Khan's loyalties lie?

[Jackdaw33]

@naomi. I take your point but for me it was a choice between an honest hard-working councillor and a crook.

I don't get some of these comments, why should jim in particular be afraid of Khan?

[jim360]

And you two it seems in a state of rampant paranoia? And on someone else's behalf, at that, in part.

I guess it's probably true that in a brutal ISIS-like regime I'd be among the first to go. But I don't see how a Muslim getting elected democratically even remotely brings us closer to that. If Khan were genuinely a threat, or more to the point, genuinely tried to impose some sort of totalitarian Muslim regime... well, good luck with that if he cared to try. It's not really an office that lends itself to imposing unchecked religious dogma.

[naomi24]

Jackdaw, //naomi. I take your point but for me it was a choice between an honest hard-working councillor and a crook.//

In that case, rather than vote against my political principles, I would have abstained - but it was, of course, your decision.

[naomi24]

Jim, I'll ask you again. Where do you think Sadiq Khan's loyalties lie?

[Jackdaw33]

Still don't understand why Jim has been singled out as a potentional victim.