rolling 2008 list thread for shit to keep cameron from becoming prime minister

-omg he did drugkz

-omg he went to public school and oxford!

-will privatize much of the public sector!!!

i mean labour can fuck him up with just those three things right?

-omg he went to public school and oxford!

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 12:55 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^This is basically all we have at the moment.

Unless Brown can work a "Cameron actually wants to give every flamboyant gay slut in this country £15,000" angle. Which would be lulz.

- he is more of a cunt than the other cunt

David Miliband was educated at schools in London, Benton Park School in Leeds and Boston, Massachusetts before being educated at Haverstock Comprehensive School in North London, where he obtained a Grade 'D' in Physics A-level, and 3 Grade 'B's.[3] He was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he got a first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He then took a S.M. degree in Political Science in 1990 at MIT, where he was a Kennedy Scholar.

how the fuck do you get into oxford with three Bs and a D? lame.

I think its going to take something pretty big to stop him becoming next prime minister. He is also the first one from that lot in many years that appears to actually believe it himself

can i be the first to say that i'm emigrating if he gets in.

actually, I'm planning on emigrating anyway but i'll probably do it quicker.

A paedo scandal or something might help.

David Cameron is essentially the Child Catcher.

lolocaust

Oh wau, that is one of those moments where you think who the fuck is writing the speeches and have their PR team lost the plot altogether?

ha i was about to post that. ed balls claiming the schoolkids "see the horrors of auschwitz first-hand" is pretty o_O also.

That "see the horrors first hand" line...what a world we live in. Fuckin' idiots, the lot of them.

Balls talking balls

i wonder if auschwitz employs a load of out of work actors / drama students like the london dungeon

I just made a similar joke and deleted it on the grounds that I would never get a job speechwriting for the Conservative Party even I thougt it was over the line!

(It's not *that* stupid a quote, by all accounts even the empty Auschwitz as it exists now is pretty horrific, but yeah he should kind of watch his language in this debate)

i want to see the Tories full gimmicks list tho. Other "gimmicks" listed included deep-cleaning of hospitals and screening tests for cervical cancer. is much more wtf

Maybe Cameron has had a punt on Labour for the next General Election. We shd monitor this.

1. Deep cleaning of hospitals
2. Screening tests for cervical cancer
3. PROFIT
4. School trips to Auschwitz
5. Teaching children to read

Another two points shaved off the Tories' poll leads today. Apparently the people love them some nationalisation.

I just made a similar joke and deleted it on the grounds that I would never get a job speechwriting for the Conservative Party even I thougt it was over the line!

i didn't think i had any respect to lose

i did a-level history (badly) but the idea they would've taken us to auschwitz then is too surreal to contemplate properly. i don't know how i would've felt about it (but i shouldn't have studied it anyway).

Does contenderizer right Cameron's speeches now?

6. Install Harry Redknapp as Chancellor

7. Meals on Wheels

8. Under The Iron Sea

9. Make it a legal requirement for all MPs who like Morrissey and Radiohead to wear a badge saying 'I am gay'.

10. nationalise list threads

11. Liverpool 1 Barnsley 2

it's amazingly stupid to come out against it because it's not a big deal. the sums of money involved are paltry, ridiculously small, and it leave an open goal for "OMG HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST" bidness.

you probably don't need to visit auschwitz to "get it", harrowing though it may be, any more than you need to go to the west indies to get a handle on slavery. it's not a bad idea though, and if you're going to do a school trip, why not southern poland rather than wherever school trips go these days?

12. Liverpool 2 InterNAZIonale 0 SAY NO TO GODWIN STATE!

i hear the weather in srebrenica etc.

the sums of money involved are paltry, ridiculously small

altho Jim Knight's taking "hundreds" there so it must add up - i doubt they make them get up at 4am to take the cheaper earlier flights either.

i'm just jealous...

i doubt they make them get up at 4am to take the cheaper earlier flights either

Did you never go on a school trip abroad?

next to northern rock i spose everything's paltry. but y'know, if i were leader of the opposition right now, i'd probably focus on the big fuck-ups rather than the daily express talking points.

not one where we enjoyed the BLAIRITE LUXURY of getting on a plane. I am not including post GCSE's camping trip to the Dolomites as a school trip tho (afternoon flight anyway, thankfully). xp

The Tories have played Northern Rock so badly. Really they should be Blair-in-96 positions right now.

Maybe it's cos we were in the Midlands and only ever went by ferry but I remember getting up at 2 in the morning.

thing of it is, a school trip is a school trip. they'll be witnessing the horror first-hand in the day, and getting surreptitious vats of polish lager in the evening.

However, while vomiting in a Polish town centre in broad daylight, they'll be sure to appreciate the freedoms we take for granted..

"People died so I could try and fail to get this barmaid to toss me off"

You in a very private reverie here Matt?

Busted.

disgraceful what these modern moderators get up to

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/25/ncameron125.xml

what the shit?

Of course Cameron senses a vote-winner but the change must be made in Europe. Hilter's 'killings' now suddenly become insignificant in the face of the present day European slaughter.(Check the figures!!!)

Any species that systemmatically extreminated its own offspring cannot hope to survive.

Another 50yrs and we'll only have Moslem baies in this country - one gets what one deserves.
Posted by Tobbias88 on February 25, 2008 10:44 AM

oh no not moslem baies

Anyway...you have a choice of David Cameron or Jeremy Clarkson now. I don't envy your position.

Maybe they'll follow Simon Heffer's lead and make John redwood chancellor? That should do it for them.

Oh, meant to be a link there...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/02/20/do2001.xml

lol heffer is scarily otm for much of that article!

So is Cameron trying to strengthen a Republican-esque coalition of wingnuts and god-botherers here then?

it's definitely firm-up-the-base week.

Cameron can't count on the Mail voters, so he's got to play to a weird half-Telegraph/half-Express crowd.

He's increasingly looking like the British John Kerry though. "Yeah, everyone hates that guy in power, this should be a piece of piss"

Or the Tory Neil Kinnock?

I can actually see Cameron shouting "Alright!" after a particularly mediocre speech, so yeah.

Radiohead are one of my favourite bands. But it's more than their music that I've found inspiring. In October last year, Radiohead released their latest album, In Rainbows, online - but that wasn't the only innovation. They invited their fans to download the album for whatever price they wanted to pay. Many people thought they were mad. But Thom Yorke, the band's lead singer, has since revealed that the digital income from In Rainbows has surpassed that of all their previous albums put together.

A few months after the launch, he said: “It's not supposed to be a model for anything else... we're out of contract, we have our own studio, we have this new server - what the hell else would we do?” Well, he may not appreciate me for saying this, but I'm afraid that Radiohead's innovation has become a model for something else: for the Conservative Party's new effort, launched today, to reform the funding of political parties and engage more people - particularly young people - in politics.

The centrepiece is our new Friends programme. People hate being labelled: they love to create their own identity from different influences. So for many the idea of signing up to a party as a full “member” doesn't fit with what they want. You might support a party on some issues but not others. You may not have the time or inclination to stuff envelopes and knock on doors. Of course, that kind of grassroots activity, carried out by the loyal members of parties, is vital. But it's not for everyone.

That's why we've created our Friends programme. We want to reinvigorate politics by giving people new ways of supporting our party. And, vitally, I see this as a way of broadening our funding base. That's where Radiohead come in. Like them, we're not specifying how much people need to donate to become a Friend of the Conservatives: you can donate as much or little as you like.

My aim is to move away from the “big donor culture” that has helped to undermine people's trust in politics and raised questions about the integrity and independence of all parties. I understand why people are concerned that influence can be bought by big donations - whether from trade unions, businesses or individuals. That's why I want to see the system change radically.

My generation instinctively understands the need to change the way we do things. Frankly, I don't think Gordon Brown does. His response to my call yesterday for live TV debates at the next election was a missed opportunity that shows how deeply stuck he is in the old politics.

We badly need change in this country: change in politics as well as policy. I hope people will respond positively to this new campaign - but above all, I hope Thom Yorke will forgive me for ripping off his idea.

David Cameron is leader of the Conservative Party

How do you think the above will play out? In context of the Facebook Groups for Boris stuff seems he's seen an opening he's going to play for. How well do you think he's going to do?

The gall of the man is quite startling.

I expect a highly intelligent and educated man in his 40s to have stopped listening to pop and moved onto something more fitting for his age and station in life. I bet he doesn't comment on literature, classical music, works of philosophy etc. It's this tedious attempt by politicians to pretend that they are at the sharp edge of popular culture when they would be better to be honest about their interests. Either that or he is a juvenile philistine, in which there is no hope for him. Can you imagine a French or German politician saying something like this?

Will Duffay, London

something more fitting for his age
something more fitting for his age
something more fitting for his age
something more fitting for his age

my dad likes radiohead and he's even older than cameron! and a tory :(

Can you imagine a French or German politician saynailing something like this

Conservatives - In Friends: What Are You Paying?

I paid £1M for the peerage and change in tax policy
I donated NOTHING and will be a free Tory Friend and not buy a physical membership.
I donated NOTHING but may buy a normal membership...
I donated under £5/$10 for Friendship.
I donated NOTHING but will buy the membership IF I like the policies.
I donated Over £5/$10 for the Friendship.

Can't... see... haze of bile...

Are the kids meant to see a forty-something talking about "my generation understands the bla look I'm younger than Gordon Brown" and go "oh hey yes, that's us"? Well, if it worked for Fred Durst, I guess...

(oh shit, in two years I'll be as old as Durst was then)

I notice Cameron managed to mention "change" four times there. He must have noticed Obama's numbers.

Radiohead's innovation has become a model for something else: for the Conservative Party's new effort,

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This might be a good start: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7282308.stm

George Os was talking about "putting tax on Binge Drink" this morning.

What is binge drink? That article was all about oh no alcoPOP where lemon is added to DRINK to make it taste nice. Cans of Stella/Tennants/propercider/etc not affected. Still angling for the tramp/hobo vote there.

tbh, I'm all for charging £90 for a bottle of WKD.

Tax idiots at source.

But yeah, "we're going to tax you, and we're going to interfere in what you do in your private life" isn't really a classic Tory message.

See, what I don't get is whenever they talk about OH NO lads on street corners and/or OH NO girls having a night out, they always show them DANCING/Waving bottle of VODKA/ Smiling/ HAVING A GOOD TIME!!!

No they don't they show them vomiting in the gutter with their skirts hiked up and their faces blurred out.

Not on the news, they don't. (if yr being sarc there)

CON 37% (-3): LAB 34% (+3): LD 19%(+2)

Considering Labour aren't even doing anything remotely spectacular right now, can we just assume that the longer they go without another calamitous fuckup, the more the Tories' poll lead erodes?

Or alternatively, ha ha Tories you're gonna lose again.

Don't forget Captain Save-a-Tory-Shitbag is now in charge of the Lib Dems tho.

They can't go too all-out on that else the guilty metropolitan liberal small l vote will collapse.

The number of things Labour have done that made the Tories go "WE'D HAVE NEVER GOT AWAY WITH THAT!!" that made me laugh and then go "oh wait.."

Like, Charging for University ed / Freeing the exchange rate mechanism, and now "Pledge allegiance to the Queen in Schools" and also now "Forces Day! Public Holiday"

We'll all be waving flags on street parades as we welcome our forces home from Iraq and Afganistan on our way to vote while Cameron cries into his beer and sings "didn't we almost have it all"....

And the rest of us wonder what the difference is.

(Of course, there is a big difference)

Been seriously thinking about getting involved with the Labour party rather than bitching about it on here, but whenever I think of what that would involve I get overwhelmed with despair.

Pledge allegiance to the Queen in Schools

FTQ ya bass

Also John Hutton yesterday saying that Britain should celebrate large salaries.

We would if we actually got paid large salaries.

Dom Passantino: "Yeah, you are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth."
David Cameron: "I don't think it's got anything to do with class"
Dom Passantino: "And the plums have mutated and they've got beaks."

more!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/images/2007/02/23/hoodie_finger_203x300.jpg

Me and DC hanging out

# rolling 2008 list thread for shit to keep cameron from becoming prime minister [Started by Dom Passantino, last updated 2 minutes ago] 19 new answers
# Robert Downey Jr in Blackface?????? [Started by HI DERE, last updated 5 minutes ago] 27 new answers

unfortunately no party advocates nationalising independent schools, turning them into comprehensives and using their extensive swathes of land for much-needed social housing, so I think I will be spoiling my ballot paper at the next general election. Honestly, there is a place just three or four miles down the road here called Radley College where they could build loads of new houses if the land wasn't owned by a bunch of toffs.

I think the point at which I have been most angered by Brown, G. was when he condemned the public for attacking service personnel in uniform. Him condemn us? Look mate, you're supposed to be here for our benefit, not the other way around. And apparently the attacks only amounted to verbal abuse anyway, heaven help us if a few squaddies run crying home to mummy in the face of a bit of name calling, I hardly think they'd be much use on a battlefield.

^^^We really should have had a thread about the latter. If the British army can put up with less stick than a bunch of fucking emo kids, then someone may as well let this nation drop into the sea now.

I think that whole "squaddies being picked on" story overlooked the fact that people have always hurled abuse at squaddies.

^^^We really should have had a thread about the latter.

Good idea.

The armed forces - do they need protecting from the people of Peterborough?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/18/labour.conservatives

Here we go, kids.

The only tragedy about not currently having a Tory Government is the fact that we can't have people like Douglas Hurd or Norman Lamont coming on breakfast TV and attempting to enunciate the words "mid-term blues" in their best Etonian tones.

Honestly, there is a place just three or four miles down the road here called Radley College where they could build loads of new houses if the land wasn't owned by a bunch of toffs.

um, dude, i hate toffs as much as anyone else but this is pretty insane. you're proposing that the government take away privately owned land, yes? why use the grounds of radley instead of, say, some of the many other fields in the countryside that surround oxford?

who do you think owns most of the land in the country, if not toffs?

and you want this basically so that house prices go down, i'm guessing, too!

Perhaps the could demolish the university? Loads of land freed up that way.

now now

I'm down with taking land off toffs, providing we reimburse them suitably with an all expenses paid trip to Rockall.

Anyway, one sure way of keeping Cameron out is to hire Heather Mills as the star turn at his election rally.

Just throw in Ian Huntley and be done with it.

Not her type.

He is a celebrity.

That one guy that hit it and quit it (whom I wish had a shorter name) obv thinks that socialism is insane. That is OK; he has nailed his colours to the mast.

you're the lib dem guy right?

i'm trying to think how a non-socialist state that still has an unelected parliamentary body that represents the landowning class goes about arbitrary land appropriations in the name of socialism, too, but meantime that's a placeholder zing.

Perhaps they could fuck up the economy so badly that no one can afford to send their children to private school, and then 'nationalise' them to save them from bankruptcy?

no one can afford to send their children to private school

must admit I lose sleep over this.

And Johnson way ahead of Livingstone in London as well. Old Etonians back in power where they rightly belong.

i'm quite surprised by that. i really hate livingstone, but i read a thing about johnson in the sunday times of all places that brought home how deeply odious his lot are. still, glad i don't get such a terrible choice as a voter.

not so much odious as making ridiculous populist promises that can't possibly be kept through ignorance of their impracticalities - eg bringing back Routemaster buses with conductors. No-one builds buses like this anymore (this has been the case since 1968), to do so would be commercial suicide and be contrary to Disbaility Discrimination Act legislation. It would require a change of employment law at national level to force the individual operators that make up TFL to employ bus conductors.

Nope, they're odious. I couldn't care less about Routemasters.

well, that would certainly pose a greater challenge to our unwritten constitution than nationalizing private schools and/or appropriating their land.

xpost

feminist women love Eminem
chicka chicka chicka Slim Shady, "I'm sick of him, look it him
walkin around, grabbin his you know what flippin' to you know who"
"yeah, but he's so cute though"
yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
but no worse than what's goin on in your parents bedroom (eheheheh)
sometimes, I wanna get on TV and just let loose
but can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose

NRQ, despite your dislike of Livingstone, do you think his policies have generally improved London or not?

Oh fuck it - Little England has reverted to type - loving their masters, tugging their forelocks, impressed by wealth and breeding and not much else. Also Cameron and Johnson not Scottish, they've got it made. We might as well give up and stop worrying about it.

NRQ, despite your dislike of Livingstone, do you think his policies have generally improved London or not?

-- stevie, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:56 AM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

dunno, didn't live there pre-2000. still a capitalist paradise so far as i can tell.

If Johnson wins can the last person to leave London please turn out the light? Ta.

who the hell are these "49%" of Londoners that support Boris? I would be reluctant let him look after my cat for the weekend, let alone give him custody of a city.

It's kind of difficult to tell how Ken has visibly improved London. It certainly feels like a more fun place to be, especially in summer, it feels like there's more going on at street level. His housing policy seems pretty good, transport a massive cock-up, planning in general - meh but I like big fuckoff skyscrapers regardless of what goes on in them. Public persona and concept of 'PR' = massive dud.

who the hell are these "49%" of Londoners that support Boris? I would be reluctant let him look after my cat for the weekend, let alone give him custody of a city.

-- Upt0eleven, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

It's the people on the tube nodding their head sagely at articles in London Lite/London Paper

Or all those retards voting for him because he's "fit."

I suspect those poll results might be massively skewed. London still has a big (if slightly embarrassed) crush on Ken.

not sure what ken's housing policy is tbh!

People are REALLY REALLY pissed off about bendy buses.

xpost re Boris Johnson's popularity

My wife hates ken, but she can't vote, ahahaha.

not sure what ken's housing policy is tbh!

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:02 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

No houses for Jews, I think.

The buses issue is ridiculous. Routemasters are loved for purely sentimental reasons, they are in no way the best buses for London. I don't think bendy buses are either but really this 'I'm gonna bring back the routemaster' is facking bollox. Also I can't imagine the cunt ever had to get on one with a pushchair or a less than able old person. And as my dear old departed dad would have said "the silly git's probably thinking of RT's anyway, now they were proper buses..."

Nu-tory idea for transport in London...fun for all the family!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44333000/jpg/_44333233_nicholassoames203.jpg

Also, loath though I am to justify things in terms of "the market", there would be no interest in the global market for a new routemaster, so tfl would be responsible for commissioning someone to design and build a whole new bus just for the London market - hugely expensive and wasteful.

Ken strikes back with new shop-as-you-travel green transport initiative:

http://lookback.merseyblogs.co.uk/LOOKPICPAST.jpg

[under ken] transport a massive cock-up

hmm, buses better and cheaper, overground is a marginal improvement over Silverlink, tubes not much worse than they always have been and a lot of that can be ascribed to PPP, cycling facilities vastly improved, congestion charge a sucess even if it is only a smash and grab to fund the buses. I think it is the area where ken has done the most.

Buses cheaper?

xp I would generally agree - but I do have an issue with what seems to be a large increase in the number of traffic lights, and changes in the timings, both of which have slowed up road traffic including buses. (I know this was a pet conspiracy theory of anti c-charge fuckwits, don't know if it was proven either way but it does echo my experience.)

Buses cheaper?

For oyster, yep. Cash payers get shafted.

Ah ok, didn't realise that

Tube is vastly more expensive than it was when Ken was elected. I think even an Oyster fare is more expensive than a normal ticket was in 2000.

Even 'shafted' here is relative. Cheaper than the rest of Britain I think. No doubt someone has detailed graphs. I don't get this about public transport in London at all. It has ALWAYS been hard work, at least in the 35 years I've been travelling on it but now seems to be about the easiest it has been during that time. Does that make sense?

Livingstone has pretty much conceded that the traffic light bombardment was (a) planned and (b) hasn't worked, which to anyone with a brain would hardly have been a surprise, since London isn't York.

But more to the point the fucking fuck of a fuck Johnson hasn't the faintest clue about how to make things better.

I got a bus across Canterbury at the weekend and paid something like 60p. Equivalent journey in London now is at least twice that, if you pay cash.

i.e. it's not a quaint tourist pedestrian paradise that you can walk around in the space of a morning (self xxp).

Recommendations:
Stop listening to vested interest traffic planners and plan on basis of logic and need.
Abandon unworkable bus timetable policy which has buses in third gear on deserted roads because they have to be at Clapham Junction in no less than 23 minutes.
More buses for outlying parts of London where most Londoners are economically forced to live instead of concentrating them all in central London to get the tourist vote.
Sort out the roadworks.

Sort out the roadworks.

How?

I mean it seems like a fairly reasonable request but just think of how many different competing companies there are who want to dig up the road at any one time.

My local bus service, on the other hand, costs £1.20 for a 30 minute, 4 mile ride. What's the London equivalent?

Abandon unworkable bus timetable policy which has buses in third gear on deserted roads because they have to be at Clapham Junction in no less than 23 minutes.

this is very irritating, but it predates livingstone, london bus drivers have always faced penalties for being early, I suspect that off peak timetables do not reflect traffic realities. Should be sorted out though.

Also bus drivers should be strung up for refusing to turn of top deck heating in the summer.

My local bus service, on the other hand, costs £1.20 for a 30 minute, 4 mile ride. What's the London equivalent?

All bus journeys are 90p regardless of length.

Maybe they should just designate March as official roadworks month since that's when councils are spunking their budgets anyhoo.

london bus drivers have always faced penalties for being early

possibly as an attempt to avoid bus clumping aka "you wait ages then three turn up at once"

^Exactly.

But it's not just councils is the point. It's the gas/electricity/tv/telephone/cable PLUS those poor bastards who have to actually fix the roads especially when the befoer mentioned companies have screwed it up.

xp

This doesn't make it any less irritating when a driver waits 5 minutes at a deserted stop and won't move on.

In practice, though, three coming at once still happens, largely because three buses leave depot at same time.

SAY NO TO SPANISH PRACTICES STATE!!

REAL SOCIALIST KEN would have told them ALL where to get off.

Pass NEW LAWS requiring all companies to apply for a licence to dig up roads.

Use ADEQUATE ADMIN to stagger all roadworks so that they don't coincide or clash with each other.

CLOSE MONITORING with HEAVY FINANCIAL AND OTHER LEGAL PENALTIES if companies EXCEED allotted digging time without sound reason.

FOOT PATROLS on STREETS - if van/digger/foreman turns up without permit or by your leave - DIG NOT VALID - PERMISSION REFUSED. If they try it - POLICE AND TRANSPORT AUTHORITIES to SEIZE EQUIPMENT, TOW AWAY VAN, ARREST COWBOY NAVVIES for OBSTRUCTION of PUBLIC HIGHWAY.

ABANDON ABSURD COUNCIL BUDGET MALARKEY where if budget NOT SPENT by end of March LESS MONEY RECEIVED NEXT YEAR. Con exposed in top Hollywood film FALLING DOWN when will USELESS UK CATCH UP with AWARE PROACTIVE MICHAEL DOUGLAS?

As for traffic lights, a lot of the re timing has been done to add or improve pedestrian phases which is very welcome.

On the C-Charge issue there's a letter from Ken in the Independent today defending the new charges based on CO2 emissions and whatnot, where he says the main aim is still to reduce congestion, and also to persuade people to get cars that pollute less, which he'll do by giving a 100% discount to people with the least polluting cars. So presumably when everyone is filling London up with these less-polluting cars, he'll change the rules again. That'll probably annoy people.

Paddick is the only person (as far as I know - certainly out of the main 3 parties) who'd bring in transferable bus tickets, like they have in most (erm, I think) European cities, so you just pay once for an hour or so's travel, instead of paying again and again if you need to change buses to continue your journey. Like on the tube.

largely because three buses leave depot at same time.

largely because they arrived at the depot at the same time and sending one bus out to pick up three buses worth of passengers is not an option. Clumping is a natural phenomenon and perhaps impossible to eliminate.

It was quite a common occurrence for buses in Streatham to pick up three buses worth of passengers at a time.

And of course Kapitalist Ken allows London to turn into a tourist/protest/roadworks/Tubeworks theme park every weekend which makes getting into central London of a weekend practically impossible.

Paddick is the only person (as far as I know - certainly out of the main 3 parties) who'd bring in transferable bus tickets, like they have in most (erm, I think) European cities, so you just pay once for an hour or so's travel, instead of paying again and again if you need to change buses to continue your journey. Like on the tube.

This really would be good - I think most US cities do this too. Will he do the same for tube-bus transfers?

I haven't been following the election, btw - does Paddick have any hope at all?

Not really, I fear. I think he has the best ideas but there's going to be a lot of kneejerk "Stop Boris" voting for Ken for fear of something worse, etc. so he'll be lucky to get maybe 10-15% of the total vote.

And of course Kapitalist Ken allows London to turn into a tourist/protest/roadworks/Tubeworks theme park every weekend which makes getting into central London of a weekend practically impossible.

This is not a new development since Ken got in.

NO ARTY-FARTY ELEPHANTS BLOCKING UP THE STREETS IN THE DAYS OF RIGHT-ON GLC!!!

Paddick has got a special black cab manifesto so expect every taxi on April 30th to become something like those cars you'd have in the 80s with loudspeakers on the roof (was this banned? Never seems to happen anymore). Might grab him an extra 1%.

No but we did have fundays!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/484803785_9e38a22a75.jpg
(and more demos)

er..xp..

If these lefties like the past so much, why don't they, errrrrrr, go and, errrrrr, live there

Don't see any mention in that manifesto of black cabs having to go south of the river WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT so it's pretty pointless since if they won't, then pedicabs will.

Ha, south of the river is NOT London, as any fule kno...

The rule is to get inside the cab before you tell destination. Once in, the letter of the law applies.

I lived south of the river in SOUTH LONDON for SIX YEARS so DON'T TRY IT!!!!

(xpost, obv)

Cabs afraid to go south of the river 'cause they might get me as a passenger and I will proceed to drunkenly berate them for driving ridiculous out-of-the-way fare-increasing route when in fact they took a direct straight line as i later discovered when i looked at the a-z.

Since 95% of all cab drivers live in Streatham their argument is clearly NOT VALID.

This is not true; the loop in the central line is the eruv for cab drivers, only non-orthodox cab drivers live south of the river.

I have lived in South London for the best part of 30 years and not once have I ever had a cab driver refuse to go SotR. I don't believe it happens half as often as people say.

More elephants though, please.

70 posts about London buses isn't going to stop Cameron from becoming Prime Minister. Focus, people!

http://i29.tinypic.com/2144knc.jpg

How about we run over him with a bus instead?

tbh I don't think anything will stop him.

I suppose cycling through a red light isn't really going to be enough is it?

I forgot my Oystercard and paid £2 to go about half a mile on a bus today. This cheaper buses under Ken stuff is nonsense.

You can't blame Ken for your incompetence.