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Poll
Question: Who would you vote for Mayor?
Option 1: votes: 2
Option 2: votes: 0
Option 3: votes: 6
Option 4: votes: 1
Option 5: votes: 1
Option 6: votes: 3
Option 7: votes: 0
Title: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Sheilbh on April 11, 2012, 04:30:01 PM
Also a Votematch thing:
http://votematch.org.uk/londonmayoral/confusedvotematch/index.php
My results:
QuoteJenny Jones - Green Party: 72%
Brian Paddick - London Liberal Democrats: 66%
Ken Livingstone - The Labour Party Candidate: 58%
Siobhan Benita - Independent: 57%
Boris Johnson - The Conservative Party Candidate: 48%
Carlos Cortiglia - British National Party:  32%
Lawrence Webb - Fresh Choice for London (UKIP): 22%
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Neil on April 11, 2012, 04:52:59 PM
Oswald Mosley.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Martinus on April 11, 2012, 04:56:21 PM
Duh. The only hot, gay dude on the ballot.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Razgovory on April 11, 2012, 04:57:05 PM
I ended up with old haystack head.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Martinus on April 11, 2012, 05:03:26 PM
I'm always perplexed by the fact that extreme right wing people look so lame and ugly. It's like they would be first to be sterilized if we were to breed the master race. OTOH, gays are usually most fit and hot. It must be a serious cognitive dissonance.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Martinus on April 11, 2012, 05:05:12 PM
Likewise, mainstream left guys look like crooked drunks and extreme left people look like crazy cat ladies. These things seem to be true whether it's the UK or Poland.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Neil on April 11, 2012, 05:10:31 PM
That's because gays are mentally weak.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: mongers on April 11, 2012, 05:34:53 PM
Shelf, please edit the poll so people know who is who.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Sheilbh on April 11, 2012, 05:54:20 PM
Quote from: Martinus on April 11, 2012, 05:03:26 PM
I'm always perplexed by the fact that extreme right wing people look so lame and ugly.
Poor Carlos ain't that bad.  It is odd that the BNP have decided to run a Uruguayan candidate.  Apparently the party's collapsing because a lot of their normal activists and supporters aren't donating or helping because of the party's 'moderate' stance in the last few years :lol:
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 11, 2012, 06:34:27 PM
The chick at the top looks like they photoshopped a middle aged woman's head on a teenager's body.  :hmm:
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: garbon on April 11, 2012, 06:51:24 PM
Quote from: mongers on April 11, 2012, 05:34:53 PM
Shelf, please edit the poll so people know who is who.

I remembered the gay guy from the last go around.

Anyway, half the fun of these picture threads was to vote on the looks and only later did we reveal the candidates names/parties. <_<
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: mongers on April 11, 2012, 08:36:32 PM
Note the utter fail of the Occupy movement in not running a candidate in the city that was the epicentre of their UK campaign. 

I think they're just scared that a very low showing would blow a whole in their claim to represent the 99%. 
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Neil on April 11, 2012, 09:25:55 PM
Quote from: mongers on April 11, 2012, 08:36:32 PM
Note the utter fail of the Occupy movement in not running a candidate in the city that was the epicentre of their UK campaign. 

I think they're just scared that a very low showing would blow a whole in their claim to represent the 99%.
That and how could they possibly unite behind a candidate?  The people who form the Occupy movements core are the same people who split any hard-left party in the UK into a million different factions and tendencies.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: garbon on April 11, 2012, 09:30:22 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 11, 2012, 09:25:55 PM
Quote from: mongers on April 11, 2012, 08:36:32 PM
Note the utter fail of the Occupy movement in not running a candidate in the city that was the epicentre of their UK campaign. 

I think they're just scared that a very low showing would blow a whole in their claim to represent the 99%.
That and how could they possibly unite behind a candidate?  The people who form the Occupy movements core are the same people who split any hard-left party in the UK into a million different factions and tendencies.

I'm also not really sure how it could jive for many of their members. Obviously the government is complicit in letting big business run roughshoud over the 99%.  How could someone get elected without becoming the enemy?
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: CountDeMoney on April 11, 2012, 09:31:38 PM
lol Red Ken; I'm having flashbacks to EUOT 2003.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 09:52:31 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 11, 2012, 05:54:20 PM
Quote from: Martinus on April 11, 2012, 05:03:26 PM
I'm always perplexed by the fact that extreme right wing people look so lame and ugly.
Poor Carlos ain't that bad.  It is odd that the BNP have decided to run a Uruguayan candidate.

:lol:

Falklands/Malvinas governed from Montevideo wouldn't be a bad compromise, come to think of it.   :hmm:
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Valmy on April 11, 2012, 10:45:48 PM
I am shocked Marty looked at this election and saw evidence of gay superiority.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: 11B4V on April 11, 2012, 10:47:47 PM
The first broad. :perv:
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on April 12, 2012, 01:49:59 AM
Quote from: mongers on April 11, 2012, 08:36:32 PM
Note the utter fail of the Occupy movement in not running a candidate in the city that was the epicentre of their UK campaign. 

I think they're just scared that a very low showing would blow a whole in their claim to represent the 99%.

I think they would probably get about 1% of the vote  :D
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on April 12, 2012, 02:38:22 AM
There is a rather good map over at the Guardian, showing the 2008 results :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/interactive/2012/apr/12/london-mayoral-election-2008-votes-map

Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: The Larch on April 12, 2012, 02:51:45 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on April 12, 2012, 02:38:22 AM
There is a rather good map over at the Guardian, showing the 2008 results :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/interactive/2012/apr/12/london-mayoral-election-2008-votes-map

Wow, if they gave a prize for best 2nd position, the Lib Dems would knock it out of the park.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Brazen on April 12, 2012, 03:49:29 AM
Bo Jo all the way.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Brazen on April 12, 2012, 03:55:04 AM
Quote from: Brazen on April 12, 2012, 03:49:29 AM
Bo Jo all the way.
And yet the survey gives my Brian, which isn't all that surprising as I'm all behind their politics if not their half-assed contribution to our government.
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Sheilbh on April 12, 2012, 04:17:43 AM
Quote from: Brazen on April 12, 2012, 03:55:04 AM
Quote from: Brazen on April 12, 2012, 03:49:29 AM
Bo Jo all the way.
And yet the survey gives my Brian, which isn't all that surprising as I'm all behind their politics if not their half-assed contribution to our government.
I'm not sure with Boris.  He's not actually done much and this time still seems to have very few ideas.

I think I may 1st pref Jenny and then 2nd pref Brian though.  Ken's bringing nothing this election :(
Title: Re: London Mayoral Election 2012
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on April 12, 2012, 04:39:14 AM
I had a look at Ken's calculator :

http://www.betteroffcalculator.com/

Very nice. Maybe he will give me a luxury dream holiday as well  :cool: