"whoβd a thunk it"
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London mayor
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Count Binface (Count Binface Party) - 1%
Nick Scanlon (Britain First) - 0.8%
Brian Rose (London Real Party) - 0.3%
How mad would you get if you thought your political attempts were serious, only to be bested by "Count Binface" π
Down with racist Britain first!
Did you see them heckling Khan before his victory speech? what a bunch of graceless MAGA-entitled babies.
Just noise from the loonies Fuck em and fuck off Susan hall!
Maybe this can inspire Morrissey to write a sad song
Yep, smashed it. I voted for him and I'm pleased for the guy. Not many people have had to put up with the level of shit he's had. I hope the Tories will recognise there's no electoral mileage in banging on about cars and dogwhistling about Muslims, but if they were capable of that, they most likely wouldn't be Tories.
The polls were still way off, though. A 10% lead is great, but it's not a 20% lead!
It was closer than I care to admit last time. I've been extremely stressed this week as I was worried about the ulez expansion vote.
I don't have any favoured party tbh but I'm extremely relieved
Yeah, I was worried their misinformation, combined with understandable frustration with some of Labour's actual policies, would swing it to the Tories.
and Labour were already rehearsing their βwe never needed London anyway, itβs too full of wokeness and antisemitism, anyway we have the REAL England nowβ soundbites, anticipating that Hall would get it because of progressive voters staying home or blowing their votes on the Green Party.
A salutary reminder that humans can hallucinate things better than any bot.
Were they?
They tried to rig it, and it didn't work. Let's hope Labour restores STV when/if they get on power.
Why would they? Theyβre expecting to be the dominant party of power with the Tories having shat the bed for a generation (see also: 1997), and damned if theyβre going to share any of it with any lefty troublemakers.
Op means the Tories
Tried to rig it in what way?
by abolishing STV and putting it back to first past the post, they hoped the outer boroughs' vote would be enough to swing it in the Tories' favour. Fortunately, Susan Hall was so bad a candidate even large chunks of outer London went "nah, mate, not having that."
Back to? I don't think London mayoral elections were ever FPTP?
You're right. I should have said something like "changing it to FPTP like other elections."
Obviously a better result than the Tories, but I'm not a fan of the same person holding the position for a long time. I'd rather Labour had put a new candidate up or one of the other non Tory candidates had won.