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Quote: sootyj @ October 3 2012, 5:07 PM BST

nb it's not a lefty response at all. An interesting thing about Mitt Romeny is he introduced a European style health service to Minesotta as a governor that could be seen as superior to the NHS.

Not because he's a nice guy (he isn't).

But because it made sound fiscal sense. Same with a lot of Thatcher's reforms to social services.

There's a diference between bad politics, factional politics or in the case of Johnson no politics.

Thatcher had some screwy ideas and really went nuts in the end with the poll tax.
But before that point made some surprisingly smart and well thought through policy decisions.

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Actually a lot of her best policies were straight lifts from Callaghan's Labour administration, buying council houses, tough spending policy and tackling inflation etc But at least she had a clear idea of who she was and what she wanted to do.

Her right to buy transformed the economic lives of millions, it was later Labor and Conservative governments who utterly failed to do anything to replace them.

In Labor's case out of a deranged experiment in social manipulation. That turned council housing into social housing.

Or you can have an affordable home if you've f**ked your life up.

Quote: sootyj @ October 3 2012, 5:02 PM BST

That frankly is the problem. This is the guy who when the riots kicked off was nowhere to be seen.

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He was three thousand miles away promoting London tourism and business - talk about bad timing. But that's all it was. As for taxing the populace, have you forgotten how much Red Ken was slapping onto everything with the word London on it - the roads, the transport, council tax, etc. whilst cosying up to third world dictators? And let's not even get into the politicising of the Metropolitan Police or his panel of fraudsters or the PPI deals or the bendy bus.

I'm praising Boris because he's actually made a lot of good and sensible decisions, he kept a lot of the positive things that Red Ken started - like Crossrail - going even though there was 'party pressure' to ditch everything touched by Labour.

You can't be both a bumbling fool and a megalomanical genius at the same time. Come on you pinkos, work it out.

Quote: sootyj @ October 3 2012, 5:13 PM BST

Her right to buy transformed the economic lives of millions, it was later Labor and Conservative governments who utterly failed to do anything to replace them.

In Labor's case out of a deranged experiment in social manipulation. That turned council housing into social housing.

Or you can have an affordable home if you've f**ked your life up.

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Her right to buy policy was originally put forward by Roy Hattersley and would have been actively considered if they had regained power. Callaghan made a famous speech where he candidly admitted Keynesian economics had failed and that some form of monetarism was essential.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 3 2012, 5:13 PM BST

He was three thousand miles away promoting London tourism and business - talk about bad timing. But that's all it was. As for taxing the populace, have you forgotten how much Red Ken was slapping onto everything with the word London on it - the roads, the transport, council tax, etc. whilst cosying up to third world dictators? And let's not even get into the politicising of the Metropolitan Police or his panel of fraudsters or the PPI deals or the bendy bus.

I'm praising Boris because he's actually made a lot of good and sensible decisions, he kept a lot of the positive things that Red Ken started - like Crossrail - going even though there was 'party pressure' to ditch everything touched by Labour.

You can't be both a bumbling fool and a megalomanical genius at the same time. Come on you pinkos, work it out.

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you can if your pretending to be bumbling

If you bothered to read (a skill I still have doubts about), you'll find we've all been saying the same thing. Namely Bozzer pretends to be a blithering idiot and comedy buffoon to advance his ambitions and infact has quite a big brain.

Of course as ever this is the RCP wind up machine; toot! toot! But never mind.

Ken hardly increased tax, unless you mean the congestion charge. Which was more of a tax on being an inconsiderate arsehole.(and is grudingly acknowledge by even Tories as having helped gain the Olympics, increase tourism and generally improve the city. If you don't like it you might want to persuade Jeremy Clarkson to run for something).

And as for sucking up too dictators. He got some cheap diesel from Hugo Chavez (democratically elected even if he is an idiot). Which meant that London Transport was able to keep subsidising early starting for freedom passes.

Ken had his faults. But this will be a sorry city when Bozzer runs out of Kens ideas to pinch.

That said I believe the cable car was his ambit. I went on it and where as it is entirely pointless it was fun. Bit like the man himself.

Quote: sootyj @ October 3 2012, 5:20 PM BST

If you bothered to read (a skill I still have doubts about), you'll find we've all been saying the same thing. Namely Bozzer pretends to be a blithering idiot and comedy buffoon to advance his ambitions and infact has quite a big brain.

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Or it could be...shock, horror...that he's human like the rest of us. I am interested to know which specific Boris Johnson policies that you disagree strongly with.

Was it when he froze council tax increases? The dirty bastard, etc.

Well when it came at the cost of closing shelters and firing lollypop ladies amongst other things.

Yes, I don't mind paying fair taxes for fair services. It's actually his policies that he doesn't follow through on that disapoint.

Like campaigning for a London minimun wage and losing interest when a few billionares agree to it. Or talking about housing and then well doing nothing. Or putting his hands up his bum whilst all the Olympic sites are sold off at a huge loss to private property developers.

Infact the problem is I can't really object to what he does. Because well he doesn't really do anything.

Quote: sootyj @ October 3 2012, 5:28 PM BST

Infact the problem is I can't really object to what he does. Because well he doesn't really do anything.

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Personally, I think he's spent a great amount of time unf**king all the useless PPI contracts and expensive schemes that were put in by Labour. There's not much to criticise as there hasn't been the same amount of cluster buggery going on, like it did under Red Ken.

Let's put Livingstone up a zip line and see if he still emerges triumphant.

Did he really?

Sort out the PPI contracts?

You just pulled that out of your arse like a maloderous rabbit.

Because last time I checked it's the same twats running London Underground and closing it randomly so it's coke addled workers can pretend to work.

But I don't blame him. That loony Brown was mad for PPI or PFI like most Scots are for Buckfast and fried foods. And you couldn't shift those God awful contracts without torpedoing the economy.

ever considered voting Liberal

What's the diference between voting for Clegg and taking a shit in the ballot box?

Quote: sootyj @ October 3 2012, 5:39 PM BST

What's the diference between voting for Clegg and taking a shit in the ballot box?

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either way its a waste of paper

I was going to say I have no idea.

Problem is I want to vote labor. But my local candidate is MP Jeremy Corbyn who is about the most odious, antisemitic, liberal quisling this country has ever produced.

Quote: sootyj @ October 3 2012, 5:43 PM BST

I was going to say I have no idea.

Problem is I want to vote labor. But my local candidate is MP Jeremy Corbyn who is about the most odious, antisemitic, liberal quisling this country has ever produced.

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I voted Liberal because of Blair and the war etc, regret it now, let all these tits in. For me its better the devil I know

I'm from the North, not the bit that's in touch with its feelings, and we voted against having a Mayor thank God. Up here we don't much care what happens down there,but I will never vote anything but Labour again.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 3 2012, 5:24 PM BST

Or it could be...shock, horror...that he's human like the rest of us. I am interested to know which specific Boris Johnson policies that you disagree strongly with.

Was it when he froze council tax increases? The dirty bastard, etc.

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Boris like the rest of us. Are we all super rich oxbridge t***s now then