Greater London Authority Elections

I've just ages compiling this list of the twitter acounts of candidates, only to see that we wont know until 30 March. Will post anyway but not waste time with all the . Just paste link into browser if interested.

In no particular order:

twitter.com/davidkurten

twitter.com/Drilly4Mayor

twitter.com/ManduReid

twitter.com/CountBinface

twitter.com/LozzaFox

twitter.com/LuisaPorritt

twitter.com/sianberry

twitter.com/ShaunBaileyUK

twitter.com/SadiqKhan

twitter.com/MsFarahLondon

twitter.com/brianrose4mayor

twitter.com/Privatecarfree

twitter.com/nimsobungeuk

twitter.com/Valerie4London

twitter.com/WinstonMcK

www.renewparty.org.uk/kam4london

Piers Corbyn (only a fake twitter account or he is a total nutcase!)

Charlie Mullins (Pimlico Plumbers? )

re a women's hustings, I think certain candidates wouldn't turn out for one hosted by WPUK but if someone like the Women's Resource Centre did it, you can bet only well vetted questions would get through.

I wonder if a group like Southall Black Sisters would do it?

[quote stumbledin]If Environmental Groups can get together and hold an online hustings for candidates to answer questions, shouldn't women / women's groups be doing the same?

www.wcl.org.uk/mayoral-environment-debate.asp[/quote]
It just takes an organisation to invite the candidates and the candidates to accept.

I’d love WPUK to offer to host perhaps. I think we can predict how some candidates may react to that, but that in itself would be sunlight.

So I suspect a drop in the Labour vote, but no one place that disaffected former Labour voters will go to to make a big impact.
Agree. I think the Lib Dems and especially the Greens will pick up a little, from people who are ABT but disillusioned with Labour/Kahn, and either haven’t been paying attention to how batshit they’ve become or for whom women’s rights just aren’t a concern. Some may even vote Fox. None of these are a feminist option, IMO. I’ve no idea right now. If the elections were today I’d probably vote Count Binface no 1 and just draw a pair of tits in the no 2 box.

The candidates for the AM seats haven’t been announced yet I don’t think. I think I’ll see about asking questions at any virtual hustings or writing to them once they are maybe. Which party to give my list vote to - I don’t know, there may need to be some nose-holding tactical voting there.

If Environmental Groups can get together and hold an online hustings for candidates to answer questions, shouldn't women / women's groups be doing the same?

www.wcl.org.uk/mayoral-environment-debate.asp

I thought Laurence Fox was the only "gender critical" candidate?

I think Binface will be my first choice. Here's his manifesto. More sense than most of the others. I always vote, usually for whoever seems to be the least worst option, but I'm really struggling this time.

So much of London is about being totally loyal to one or other of the two main parties that I doubt any independent has a chance. But feel so let down that a protest vote or spoilt ballot is the only option.

For many parts of London there is a clear class divide, which suprisingly has been aggravated by the LTNs. Even staunch Labour supporters are angry at the undemocratic way these have happened (and apprently implemented without any consultation with those of the relevant knowledge as to actually achieve something).

This has led to a strange alliance of women, member of the BME communities, people with disabilites and white working class. But many of these in wanting to vote Labour would never, ever vote Tory.

So I suspect a drop in the Labour vote, but no one place that disaffected former Labour voters will go to to make a big impact.

womansplaceuk.org/2019/11/05/5-questions-for-your-prospective-parliamentary-candidates/

I am tempted to vote for Binface at least as first preference.

It would be Binface for me. Khan, Berry and Reid can absolutely fuck off.

Screw it, vote for the Count. Usher in a renaissance of government by the aristocracy.

Although, if you were going to vote for Fox as a GC protest vote, Kurten is actually a current politician and London Assembly member.

There's always the risk one's protest vote might win, so I do think you have to consider whether they've got any idea of what the job involves.

No, exactly.

Well, that's not the goer I was hoping for.

I suppose the right-wing candidates are quite used to being jeered at in the Guardian et al, so adding "the empress has no clothes and has a penis! That's an emperor" to the portfolio isn't the same sacrifice it would be for the Labour, Lib-Dem and Green Party candidates.

I don't feel sorry for Sadiq Khan at all he's an adult who is choosing to spout lies because it's better for his career. Not a thought for the children being damaged by this ideology or the women who are expected to just put up with it

And when he says (very patronisingly) that the interviewer is in danger of conflating sex and gender - yes that's because the ideology he espouses insists that having a female gender identity makes you the female biological sex and gives you access to spaces and things which are only for the female sex.

So he can fuck right off

Anti TTIP, ECHR and Paris Climate Agreement.

Pro Green Belt.

Anti COVID passports.

Seems more centrist and less crackers than some of the other candidates from what I can tell.

I'm not sure where she stands on women's rights or the twaw/GC debate.

What is the Heritage Party when it's at home?