Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and holy crap, it looks like London’s flaming leftie mayor is going down to defeat!
With over 35% of the votes counted our sources tell us that Conservative Boris Johnson has a considerable lead over Ken Livingstone. We reported that Johnson was leading in the polls before the election and given his comfortable margin, we now predict he will win.
This is good news for people around the world. Livingstone has publicly embraced the likes of Fidel Castro, Venezuela’s Chavez, and radical Islamists. In line with these preferences, Livingstone’s campaign is employing an advocate of suicide bombings, and he is co-chair of “Muslims4Ken”.
More here and here: “With Labour facing its worst set of council election results in four decades, Mr Brown admitted that it had been a “bad night” for the party.”
BBC election results.
First France.
Then Italy.
Now London.
The ‘progressive’ utopian nightmare is being defeated by ballots, not bullets, one jurisdiction at a time.
As one of my buddies said: ‘England has been in decline since Cromwell.’
Not sure whether I agree, but … good on ya, London.
Maybe the chickens are coming home to roost?
In Scots bonehead Brown’s Britain
“As dawn breaks today, Gordon Brown finds himself in perhaps the last position he would ever want to find himself: depending on Ken Livingstone to spare him from personal political humiliation”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/localelections2008/1919537/Gordon-Brown-now-needs-Ken-Livingstone.html
Labour under Blair disowned Red Ken.
Also in the boneheaded Scots Browns Britain
“What was Gordon Brown thinking, introducing tax changes which hit five million low paid people on the eve of the local election campaign?
Labour MPs in the House of Commons’ tea rooms have seen the trouble it has caused for themselves, with their net pay going up and the pay of the ladies serving the coffee and cake falling”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/christopherhope/may2008/taxiforgordonbrown.htm#comments
This of course goes along with Brown’s dictotorial of no referendum on the EU constitution unlike Blair.
set you free
The only time Britain as ever been in decline is when the had a Labour goverment, just like Canada with the Liberals.
If my previous comment gets through you will see it is not just Lodon but the whole of the UK that has turned against the boneheaded Scot.
While in theory it is comforting to see the likes of Sarkozy and Johnson (and even Harper) elected to public office by (what appeared to be) a cowed, socialistic populace, I sometimes wonder if it means anything. If any of the so called conservatives have accomplished anything to drive back the leftist whack jobs, I haven’t noticed. George Dubya is the perfect example. What’s he done about Roe v. Wade? The Hispanification of the USA? A massive (inner city) welfare state?
So take whetever comfort you can from this little victory. In three years you’ll be looking at a Britain that is no less Islamified and no less politically correct.
“In three years you’ll be looking at a Britain that is no less Islamified and no less politically correct.”
I believe INP is right on this. Once PC sets in, I don’t think anyone will reverse it.
Good riddance all the same.
Agreed. It doesn’t matter who is elected to public office; the Bureaucracy remains the same and wields the real power.
I spoke to my brother in London earlier today – the bookies are paying out on bets that Boris would win. It’s not official, but when Ladbrokes is paying out it’s a good sign that it’s farewell to Red Ken.
Right. The Conservatives here are fighting the Liberal Bureaucracies.
Nice to see a wee bit of light go on in London Town.
For those of you playing the home game, watch the detailed results in London in the City &East section.
Watch the BNP and Respect party numbers and percentages….BNP is the ultra nationalist/quasi nazi party and the other is George galloway’s muslim party (funded by Saddams Oil for Food bribes)
Anyway, they are polar opposities and if they get more than 5% of the vote they end up in the London Assembly. I believe it would be a first for either of them.
Just an indication of the brewing polarization happening in London and the UK in general.
England is the closest model to where Canada might end up one of these days.
They have more problems than us, and are further down the slope, but Canada is more alike to England than to any other country in the world.
I think England is too far gone – the Conservatives are not much better than Labour. They have no serious plans for change. They will not seriously reconsider the EU. They will not change immigration and welfare policies. They will not try to fix the education system.
It is to weep. I only hope our proximity to the United States, and learning some lessons from the English disaster, will save this country.
Toronto next !
Kathy is right the real enemy is the bureaucracies
around the world. Entrenched and accountable to no one.
those sobs you hear are Hugo Chazez losing a friend
Woo Hoo
I’d like to pass on a good link from Shawn in Readers Tips today:
It will be the same old same old. Nothin much will change. Peter Hitchens describes here:
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2008/04/here-we-go-ag-1.html
Posted by: Shawn at May 2, 2008 1:13 PM
Kathy Shaidle: It’s not just the bureaucracy. That’s just an excuse for weak, cowardly, power-is-all politicans. A cover. Let’s not over-do the Yes Prime Minister thing.
I run into so many loony-left Brits, I don’t see how the ship can be turned about.
The lack of good election choices plagues all of us that care and want to roll back socialist rot in all western countries. Trust me, past national defense as an issue, McCain is no conservative prize either. He’s capable of compromising with the Dems on immigration and a whole host of issues. A gas tax holiday which would drive up consumption when we are trying to lower oil use, where’s his mind? I don’t trust him to stick to conservative values.
They best you can do until another Reagan or Thatcher enters center stage is to pick the lesser to two evils. There is nothing else the Brtis can do at this time. Stephen is right, if the BNP picks up a sizeable number now that’s a message and very much directed at the Conservatives to get off their duffs.
I hesitate to open anything that says “Election Results” for fear of EC showing up to take my computer. Are the polls closed ’cause I’ve got a cousin in London who might change the outcome if I forward the info?
sacrcasm /
People in England have had enough. The first to realize this will be the Scots when Brown is ousted from power. The West Lothian question will finally get an answer and once that issue is settled the sense of nationhood so long missing in England will start the reversal of the current decline.
heh! imagine my surprise! I somehow got on an email list and received this wonderful plea from Ken the Red:
Vote For Ken Livingstone May 1st
Dear Brothers, Sisters, Friends & Colleagues,
May the Peace and Blessings of God be Upon You.
London is one of the largest cities in the World with a Muslim population in excess of 800,000 people.
The stakes for Muslims in London could not be higher. Polls show Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson almost neck and neck, it’s going to be a very close race. Every vote matters. Ken Livingstone, the current Mayor, has been a longstanding friend and champion of ethnic communities, diversity, dialogue and religious freedom. The contesting conservative candidate Mr Johnson, who was recently endorsed by the British National Party (BNP), has persistently expressed views undermining community cohesion and harmony by insulting minority communities and attacking Islam in the press and print media.
On May 1st some 300,000 eligible Muslim Londoners can exercise their democratic choice, this will undoubtedly be a historic and unique demonstration of our unity and representation, Insha’Allah.
The choice is clear. Make your voice heard.
The British Muslim Initiative and the Muslim Directory urges all Londoners not to split their vote and choose Ken Livingstone as their 1st Option on the ballot paper for Mayor on May 1st.(…)
It went on and on and on in your typical political diatribe with the added bonus of ‘enjoining’ socialism ‘and forbidding’ islamophobia.
Sounds like Livingstone should be moving to Pakistan or even better, Saudi, where he … can can exercise his democratic choice, and will undoubtedly be a historic and unique demonstration of unity and representation, Insha’Allah.
Machiavelli at May 2, 2008 4:59 PM – a very disturbing communication to say the least.
I expect we will be hearing the same type of rhetoric in Canada soon enough.
Ironic how the right is accused of the politics of race and division, when it is the left that has made it their road.
Almost sounds like taliban jack wrote the communication for that livingstone asshat. Poor muslims this, poor muslims that. Yeah right.
Bring on the revolution. Put me in coach, I’m ready to play.
Who knows if the old stalinist Ken even believes in a God….so this is nothing other than pandering ethnic poitics.
As I said I am more interested to see what the vote % is for respect in the City and East section. There is a BNP person running there as well.
So the left encourage the community to act as a collective, the far right wants to treat them as others. And where do you find those who promote “Britishness” and loyalty to civic as opposed to ethnic ideals?
In Canada, similar questions, who promotes Canada as the vehicle of integration and who encourages, for their own purposes, that ethnc communities form political ideas based only on looking in the mirror?
Yes, now that’s what I call real progress.
I suspect punk boy is slobbering with grief.
Next: USA (and they said it couldn’t be done)
Its astounding how many people are used like tools by these haters of humanity, whatever there politics or stripe. No matter where you live in the world you find appeasers to tyranny. Those willing to sell out there own Countrymen for silver or applause. Most ignorant, some all to aware like the Quislings of old.
I wish Londonstan the best of luck & a God Bless. You will need both. Getting rid of a Chamberlinesque leader, helps no doubt.
What you really have to watch out for is the usurpation of the judicial system or a parallel one. Here in the Canada’s they use HRC’s to bring sharia law threw the backdoor. This is Jihad as well .
I expect we will be hearing the same type of rhetoric in Canada soon enough.
Well, as maz2 points out in Readers Tips, via Ezra we are already there:
Today is the final day in the Canadian Race Relations Foundation conference, with the title “What is Canadian Racism? Engaging in a Critical Analysis of this Distinct Manifestation of Racism and How to Tackle it.” Here’s a shocker: it’s a government agency, with its board appointed by the federal cabinet.
AND HERE’S THE BIGGER SHOCKER:
CRRF’s executive director is Ayman Al-Yassini, whose biography includes:
visiting professor at the University of Riyadh (King Saud University) in Saudi Arabia. He published extensively on the relationship between religion and state in Islam, religion and development and religion and foreign policy.”
http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/just-a-normal-friday-for-me.html
The Conservatives here are fighting the Liberal Bureaucracies. The People need to get right Decision.
Wonder what the pillow talk is between HRH Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on the state of London Town and all of Great Britain? Methinks they are not amused.
The great Winston Churchill must be doing a few rolls in his grave.
Wow, the imminent defeat of Red Ken! Well done!
I watched the results on BBC news today.
Much hand wringing going on ….. The Boobs at the Beeb kept trying to say it was the economy that got the loons turfed.
Wouldn’t occur to them that it’s the LOONS that are the problem and enough Brits are tired of em….
Up the Jack
We’ll have to see about this fellow Johnson, I read that he may have offered Livingstone a position in his administration. Despite the brand name attached to Mr. Johnson I’m not convinced there is such a thing as a British conservative, but I suppose his actions will prove or disprove that.
Red Ken has gone Boris is in and the calls for Brown to resign have started.
If Harper and Nicholson don’t get their brains in gear re these kangaroo courts that will start here hopefully.
He sounds like an improvement, but I’m wary of anyone who has hair like David Miller’s. 😉