Boris ahead 9 v 5 boroughs

[tommers]

it looks like we might get the bizarre result of a labour assembly but johnson in charge. echoes of 1992 i guess.

johnson "in charge"?


that made me laugh. he couldn't be in charge of a fucking scout group.

 

[oryx]

I worked 'under' Lady Porter's regime and while she was the cuntiest cunt in cuntland, at least she had some actual policies which appears to be more than one can say about Johnson.

Sad, sad night if he wins.

 

[joevsimp]

L + S in, sky now says, 804,000 for boris and 709,000 for ken. i think it was that but theyve gone to ads, beeb are doing the sport

 

[bluestreak]

johnson "in charge"?


that made me laugh. he couldn't be in charge of a fucking scout group.

sorry, poor choice of words.

and, as someone who has led a scout group, i can assure you that it's probably trickier than running london.

 

[ethel]

43% vs 37% now. 2 more to declare.

 

[bluestreak]

if ken gets above 40 i reckon he's got it on 2nd pref.

 

[scifisam]

I didn't realise Barnet and Camden had had a recent epidemic of lobotomies.

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

OK folks, stand by your beds- result expected shortly

 

[joevsimp]

43% vs 37% now. 2 more to declare.

given what those 2 are, 2nd pref is very much a last chance

 

[Brixton Hatter]

bbc now reporting boris 60,000 votes ahead with not many more to count....fuck

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

don't you read in the press...

 

[Brixton Hatter]

don't you read in the press...

looks like we've got 4 years to kick out the tories now

 

[joevsimp]

all the bourour's are up on the website, but not the 2nd prefs

 

[Brixton Hatter]

L + S in

what was the result in lambeth & southwark?

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

what was the result in lambeth & southwark?

http://results.londonelects.org.uk/Results/MayoralResultConstituency.aspx?id=10

 

[joevsimp]

what was the result in lambeth & southwark?

ken won but the site just borked, assembly results not in yet as are all but the 4 from earlier
edit, got it now

Ken Livingstone The Labour Party 80,172 48.10% 0 0
Boris Johnson Conservative Party 47,754 28.65% 0 0
Brian Paddick Liberal Democrats 20,530 12.32% 0 0
Siân Berry Green Party 7,190 4.31% 0 0

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

Candidates on the stage

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

Greens beat BNP

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

Left list do badly 16,000 votes

1,043,761 boris

 

[joevsimp]

greens beat the fash for the record

66odd thousand for the fash
77 k for greens

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

893,877 Ken

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

236,685 paddick

 

[joevsimp]

893,889 for ken

 

[joevsimp]

cock

Candidate name Party 1st choice votes 2nd choice votes * Total Votes
1 Boris Johnson Conservative Party 1,043,761 124,977 1,168,738
2 Ken Livingstone The Labour Party 893,877 135,089 1,028,966

so 40 thou in it out of over 2 mil, but arent there supposed to be 8 million odd in london, wher'd they get 45% from

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

So there you have it.....

 

[magneze]

So ... errr ... what did Ken do wrong again?

 

[maximilian ping]

"lets get cracking tomorrow, lets have a drink tonight"

 

[bluestreak]

when will people learn, democracy doesn't work.

 

[maximilian ping]

when will people learn, democracy doesn't work.

it's outdated

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

So ... errr ... what did Ken do wrong again?

Thats something we could debate forever. I don't think his arrogance helped, but I think the Tories won this by dragging out the vote in the suburbs. They had thousands of helpers getting people to the polls in places like Bromley and Chingford, and that was IMHO how they won it.