Are you going to vote for Boris Johnson? If so, WHY???????

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Because I know voting for Ken yet again is tantamount to inviting a benign dictatorship (wish Labour would field a different, viable candidate) but Boris Johnson ??? He is a buffoon with no relevant experience. At least Paddick has run a police force. (& no, editing the Spectator does NOT count).

But I am really really worried that he'll get in. Bye bye Oyster & cheap bus fares...

Why don't the tories parties put up proper candidates?

God, yes, I remember him from those days. Quite vile.

No waaaaaaay!!!! He's a total idiot and is apparently in secret talks with top execs to help him run London, because the Tory powers-that-be have realised that he can't do it.

www.stopboris.org/blog/2008/03/25/cameron-starts-the-damage-limitation/

pmsl @ bojo!!

Ah yes the 'he's a toffee-nosed toff, ergo I will never ever vote for him, no matter how shite the incumbent mayor' raises its head, again. Because we all know that Boris is so out of touch with how ordinary Londoners get to work that he swans around everywhere in a chauffeur-driven car, isn't that right? Bicycles are for commoners aren't they; you'd never see that toff Boris on one of those, would you? He's so utterly out-of-touch with everybody except Etonians...

oh dear ffj have people upset you ? are you married to BoJo or at least shagging him?

is his nickname Blojo?

just teasing.....

That's right, Flo. he is completely out of touch. Riding bicycles doesn't equal competent Mayor of major city. How fantastic that we agree with each other!

Hang on.....you weren't being sarcastic were you...?

sprogger, I think the story you're referring to is what Ken said a business-leader said. And I also think that if Boris did say this, he's backtracked and the existence of these offices would be 'reviewed' rather than closed forthwith. I think they're probably a good idea. Though why Ken decided he needed Myleene Klass with him (presumably handsomely paid) on his last trip to India to drum up London business is anyone's guess.

I don't think he got a first at Oxford. Neither did I, mind.

No, no-one's upset me in the slightest, apart from the Mayor! Get the feeling that's what you want, eh ? Having gone to state-school doesn't equal competent Mayor either. The 'he's a toff' is such a crap reason to cite for not to voting for someone, yet that's all I've bloody heard for the last few months. It's as daft & intellectually redundant as the old 80's Tory-mantra of 'that's just the politics of envy' whenever anyone vaguely left-of-centre criticised those arses.

"cosying up to hardline Islamists"

Oh dear. been reading the evening standard again methinks, renowned for its vitrioloc anit KL stance. Or the red tops.

No way. I don't particularly want to vote for Ken either, but I might end up having to to try and stop BoJo.

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THe thing is, that with Ken I find him credible as an advocate of London and Londoners.
Whereas with boris, I just cannot get past the fact that I don't believe that he will make London better, nor that he actually wants to.

I'm with Pooka.

I am with FFJ.
I have lived in London all my life and Ken is killing London.

He and his cronies are so corrupt - the number of forced resignations of people very close to him. He bangs on about cutting CO2 emissions in London but does not take into account the hundred of thousands of miles his cronies have flown in the past few years. Hypocritical is not the word. Bendy buses - told they would be a disaster - are a disaster and guess what, finally, he has agreed not to bring in any more. The "free" newspaper which is pure propoganda.

Labour at its absolute worst.

And now the green candidate has agreed to give her votes to Ken...what does it leave us with? At least Boris will be entertaning...

Ah, so Al-Qaradawi is just a fluffy icckle bunny-wabbit and Ken didn't really give him a big hug and an effusive welcome when he came to London? Was that just a figment of the Evening Standard's and the red tops' imagination and as such not reported anywhere else? Yeah right . So you just read the Socialist Worker then?

LOL at BoJo. I had a "newsletter" from his local election campaign through my letterbox.
It proudly tells me how BoJo is planning to introduce a low-cost bike hire scheme "all over London" and then lists the priority areas...Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, the City, Wandsworth...curiously omitting the drecky burbs that BoJo has probably never even heard of.
I had to laugh at the thought of all six of our local Tory faithfuls assembling this blue-rinse soaked newsletter, secure in the knowledge that BoJo doesn't know where Zone Four is.
I'm not happy about the corruption at City Hall either, but I think Boris would be a devastatingly bad choice for Mayor. His capacity to put his foot in it and offend is far greater than Ken's, and that's saying something.

Am I the only one who finds BoJo's stupendous appallingness a kind of secret, shameful relief as it means that Ken's awfulness is kind of overshadowed?

Frankly I'd much rather see the post of Mayor done away with and a very, very streamlined version of the GLA. Then we wouldn't need to argue over who's worse for London, Ken or Boris. It's not much of a choice, really, is it?

I'll categorically state to anyone who cares to listen that my vote for Boris is purely tactical and because I despise Ken. It does not make me a fan of Boris, or shagging him, or married to him, or even so much as fancying him, "shakes head in bemusement". I have seen him cycling to work and when you've seen that, believe me, shagging him would be the last thing on your mind.