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[Darth Arya]

mormont, on 11 April 2012 - 01:18 PM, said:

Oh, personality-wise I don't think Ken and Boris are all that different, really.

Hm, actually you're right, I think I phrased what I meant completly wrongly there.
More 2 similar personalities with different ideals shouting over each other on TV and Radio.

[paddington]

Isn't there a reasonably sane lib dem running for mayor?

I belive the difference between Ken and Boris is one is pretending to be a little bit of a nutter

[Pebbles]

The difference between Ken and Boris,  one of them doesn't try to activly try to put the industry I work for out of bussiness while pretending otherwise.   And the other gets credit for being elected when imporvements to my local area where made which where claimed to have something to do with the london assembly.

so yeah I know which of the 2 is getting my secon vote.   I don't yet know who is getting the first.

[Lummel]

The same lib dem is running as last time.

Not sure if either he or a lib dem running for mayor is reasonably sane though.  Seeing as one of Boris' campaign pledges last time round was doing way with bendy buses I'm not sure if being reasonably sane is helpful in the quest to become London's next super-mayor.

[Darth Arya]

paddington, on 11 April 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

Isn't there a reasonably sane lib dem running for mayor?

I belive the difference between Ken and Boris is one is pretending to be a little bit of a nutter

Yes there is, he is the candidate I would most like to see win but unfortunately it will come down to Boris and Ken.

[Talleyrand]

I wonder would manage to out batshit-insane the other with we put Gorgeous George and Boris in a room together

[Mr Merdle]

Now for two completely and utterly unrelated stories:

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A Libyan military commander is taking legal action against Jack Straw, to find out if the ex-foreign secretary signed papers allowing his rendition.

Abdel Hakim Belhadj claims CIA agents took him from Thailand to Gaddafi-led Libya, via UK-controlled Diego Garcia.

His lawyers have served papers on Mr Straw after the Sunday Times reported claims that he allowed this to happen.

UK ministers have denied any complicity in rendition or torture and Mr Straw did not comment further.

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The BBC is better protected than the government under Freedom of Information laws due to a "quirk of the drafting of the act", Jack Straw has told MPs.

Mr Straw, who helped write the Act, argued there were "ridiculous" drafting errors and it should be tightened up.

A Supreme Court case showed the BBC had "far clearer" exemptions in some areas than the government, he said.

The information commissioner has said fears about FOI's effect on policy-making are "greatly overdone".

[Lummel]

So the Hulture secretary has resigned.  Surely no future job can provide such an opportunity for Freudian slips for those who would address poor Jeremy.

ETA but not yet.

Edited by Lummel, 25 April 2012 - 07:25 AM.

[A wilding]

He has? The BBC has him still trying to bluster it out.

Edited by A wilding, 25 April 2012 - 07:24 AM.

[Lummel]

Whoops, premature on my part.

[Horza]

SpAds are always the first line of defence.

But they're getting closer to Hunt, and closer to Cameron.

[Slick Mongoose]

And we're back in recession.

[Roose Bolton's Pet Leech]

Slick Mongoose, on 25 April 2012 - 09:26 AM, said:

And we're back in recession.

A self-inflicted one at that. Can we officially declare economic austerity a miserable failure?

[mormont]

I find the obsession with the technical boundary - ie whether growth was 0.1% or -0.2% - to be a bit daft: the point is that whether we're technically in recession or not, the economy is still tanking and substantial economic growth does not appear to be round the corner.

[Horza]

mormont, on 26 April 2012 - 04:00 AM, said:

I find the obsession with the technical boundary - ie whether growth was 0.1% or -0.2% - to be a bit daft: the point is that whether we're technically in recession or not, the economy is still tanking and substantial economic growth does not appear to be round the corner.

Got drilled into commentators everywhere back in the 80s, it's a nonsense. One quarter of -4% is as much a recession as two of 0.1

[Pebbles]

Well I just voted.  I am not sure if its a good thing for British politics that there where so many different racist parties I could have voted for.   I mean its got to be almost a bad sign they exist and have enough popularity that they can put canditates up in so many different areas.   on the other hand I guess with such a choice between different racist parties this means there is less change the racists will obtain a seat?

[Lummel]

Yes?  How many racist parties did you get on your ballot paper then?  I'm not sure what that says about the area that you live in though

[Pebbles]

National Front
BNP
English Dem
Fresh choice for Londen (UKIP)
and the guy from the residents assosisiation which judging from the leaflet he put though my door his campingn is.  "I live locally, and I won't let London law become Sharia Law"

[ljkeane]

I don't get to vote today apparently which is a little disappointing. Looking at the results from when the local elections were held though the most right wing party available was UKIP, although disappointingly 246 people actually voted for them. Even more worrying apparently marginally more people in my ward voted Conservative than Labour, I'll have to be on the look out for closet Tories.

[MinDonner]

My ward is solid Tory, and none of the other parties even bother to campaign. I'm just hoping there's a decent joke candidate on the ballot, though a Labour vote would probably have about the same effect.