I was under the impression...

[bazwillrun]

that the odious slimeball Livingstone was only allowed to serve 2 terms as dictator, sorry i meant mayor, of london.

how comes hes going for a third ?

[helpmetoo]

the old boy is like a bogey, no matter how you try and get rid of it, it just sticks around

[jno]

your impression was wrong. He can stand for election as often as he likes, this being a democracy. If voters prefer someone else - someone who was sacked from Fleet St for dishonesty, say, or someone who thinks black people are pickaninnies, or someone who betrays friends to the underworld for pubnishment - then they can vote for him.

[bazwillrun]

the alternatives you suggest sound far better choices than the current one who has elevated cronyism form a science to an artform, and treats londoners money as his own personal honeypot

[Gromit]

I'm not sure how you have managed it, but you appear to think that Ken is President of the United States for it is they that cannot serve more than 2 terms.

[bazwillrun]

no , i havent mixed them up, i seem to recall some months back that, as usual he was going to use londoners money to take it to court so that the two terms rule could be done away with

[bazwillrun]

ok done some checking and i am sort of wrong.
MP's rejected a proposal to limit the position to two terms.
he said that if it did get limited to 2 terms he would take whoever to court to overturn the decision blah blah blah.

either way , the sooner we rid london of this person the better off we will be

[jake-the-peg]

I think you'll need a better candidate than Boris then!

Didn't we cover all of this ad naseum recently?

[bednobs]

lol at "sort of wrong"

[Gromit]

Was the GLA Act 2007 changed much during its progress through Parliament?
Two amendments were passed in the House of Lords but subsequently overturned by the House of Commons: One would have limited the Mayor to two terms in office � a proposal without precedent in the British democratic system. The Mayor believes that politicians should be accountable to the people via the ballot box, and that the people of London should have the right to choose their next Mayor through an unfettered democratic choice in the next Mayoral elections."

[flip_flop]

He did, if my memory serves me correctly, state either just before or just after he won his first term that he would only serve one term.

[sp1214]

Ken has many instincts like that of Margaret Thatcher. He can see the problems and gets them done. Unfortunately Thatcher was more able to profit from her decisions.

[Twenty20]

I thought Boris was ahead in the latest polls? Even the Labour Party poll put them neck and neck.

[brionon]

that the odious slimeball Livingstone ? Impartial then ?