Greater London Authority Elections

I shouldn't be surprised but if you rely on media or even twitter headlines you would get the wrong impression about how votes were cast (apart from the top two).

So big splash for Count Binface but in fact he was only 9th.

And in fact Niko Omilana was 5th (after the 4 main parties) but ... only 2,000 more than Laurence Fox!! The media made he seem was the worst performing candidate.

And the SDP - only party to support women's sex based right - was 4th last.

These figures from wikipedia as i cant find details in any newspaper nor on the London.gov web site.

Table is quite a long was down this page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_London_mayoral_election

Still think the Tories shot themselves in the foot by not doing a better job of suppporting their candidate. Anyone would think they didn't even do press conferences for him because why? they are inherently racist, or because Boris wants to keep the title of only Tory Mayor of London.

As if their plans to change the voting method from supplementary to FPTP would make any difference.

I voted communist for the first time in my life as they know what a woman is and want to protect our rights. Strange times.

Animal Equality Party and Count Binface for me I think!

Greater London Mayoral Hustings - What will you do to end violence against women and girls? EVAW, Imkaan and WRC.

There aren't any named speakers and wonder who they will get to take part.

Hosted by Samira Ahmed

Register via eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-mayoral-hustings-tickets-150918793173?aff

Count Binface and Animal Welfare for me too.

TUSC seems to be union led so suspect not very gender critical - see www.tusc.org.uk/17516/01-04-2021/candidates-update-now-its-over-330-standing-for-tusc-on-may-6

Cwenthryth not sure if you have read all of this thread but dont think anyone is thinking of WEP as being something to vote for!

WEP Hackney are hosting a hustings on Friday, moderated by Sistah Space, for GLA North East constituency candidates on ending violence against black women and girls

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hackney-hustings-series-on-ending-violence-against-black-women-and-girls-tickets-147049351569

If you put your postcode in here www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/elections-and-referendums/upcoming-elections

Then you will get a list of all the mayor candidates, all the individual GLA candidates for your area, and then the parties you can vote for the additional
GLA list candidates.

WEP’s top list candidate is Harini Iyengar. She’s really interesting, a barrister with expertise in equal pay amongst other things (she wrote law book on gender pay gap stuff) www.11kbw.com/barristers/harini-iyengar/ - this is who WEP seriously think they have a good chance of getting elected to the GLA. I chatted with Harini a bit at WEP conference in 2018. She had no clue at all about gender ideology, she made fun of it along the lines of (paraphrasing!) ‘well I must be a man then!’ and seemed to have a naturally gender critical slant, as you would expect of an intelligent professional woman with a good understanding of equality law, but at the same time presented a slightly ditsy, I-don’t-know-enough-about-this-to-comment approach, which was slightly surprising even then given her professional work. I don’t know if she’s made any other public comment but it’s 2.5 years later now, post-JKR, she’s had enough time to learn about the issues and form a position.

Does anyone know much about TUSC? I’ve done a little reading this morning but wasn’t very familiar with them before, they’re standing candidates for the GLA regional seats. I understand they are the left-of-Labour choice, and have been re-activated by Labour moving centrally under Keir Starmer. They are mainly anti-austerity, a section of their ‘core policy platform’ reads “They [TUSC councillors] would link up with those taking action against climate change, the Black Lives Matter movement, and campaigns against attacks on women's rights and services.” A bit confusing, from that sentence I can’t make out if they are for or against BLM!

It seems like it's a close call between the Animal Welfare Party and Count Binface, when it comes to best choice.

Have just found out a bit more about Brian Rose (2nd in polls to Khan) is an American now resident here and has a corporate back ground. He looked like something out of Wall Street.

His solution is that big business will create enough money to build extra housing (by christmas!) and that TfL can be made to run at a profit.

Most of the candidates give short summary of aims for east London to a local paper

www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/london-mayor-candidates-2021-7889394

Trouble is, if you quote someone you have to quote their whole post, so it gets confusing. I didn't mean to be; sorry.

[quote HermioneMakepeace]@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime Sorry, where?[/quote]
Liberty as it ceased to be the NCCL.

Binface is a definite first choice. His focus on hand driers in pub toilets is not a trivial point, but actually addresses a serious issue of style over substance. I would like to see other candidates with such a handle on the practicalities of life. Total shoo in, I feel. But I am completely stuck for a second.

[quote HermioneMakepeace]@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime I’m not so sure. He’s quite a conservative Muslim. I can’t imagine him saying,

“Yes, it’s absolutely fine for TW [men] to use the women’s ablution rooms in mosques!”

In fact, I think someone should ask him that very question.[/quote]
I know people who were there.

I'd definitely rather vote for a potato than anyone in the Green party. I do wonder why they bothered having the Verita report done, seeing as they have continued in exactly the same vein.

I think on reflection the inclusion on George Galloway and other names was showing that most actual candidates have very little chance, and in fact these others who aren't even standing have more chance of being elected.

And I cant remember a thing about Brian Rose!

Is George Galloway standing for Mayor?

Well, he's certainly not on the official list I just checked!

Bit embarrassing for the other candidates actually standing, who've been given the same odds.

The odds suggest that Sadiq Khan is comfortably in pole position to win a second term as London Mayor and Betfair make him a very strong 1/50 favourite to retain his position in office.

"Former banker and London Real Party candidate Brian Rose is Khan's closest competitor at 7/1, ahead of Conservative hopeful Shaun Bailey (12/1)."

The latest odds also put George Galloway, Sian Berry, George Osborne, David Kurten, Luisa Porritt at 100/1.

While Piers Corbyn and Peter Gammons are on at 250/1 to take the London Mayor job.

Is George Galloway standing for Mayor?

Green Party announce 'zero murders in London' plan

Well this sounds a really admirable objective, but then when you read the article it is only about young people and street violence.

Meaning Green Party thinks murder of young people is bad (of course) but murder of women in their own homes by DV perpetrators isn't worth doing anything about!!

And this is a woman saying it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56652222