RSSFor Goodplaya readers in London
WITH apologies to readers further afield.
I try to keep to football on this blog, but there is a brief politics point I think worth making today because quite a few people may not have picked up on it when deciding whether to bother voting in today’s elections.
I’m not going to tell you who to vote for.
But you may not realise that in the London Assembly elections, some of the seats are allocated according to the proportion of the vote each party gets from voters London wide.
To get a seat, you need a minimum of 5 per cent of the vote. At the last election in 2004, the BNP got 4.8 per cent.
If you like the BNP, fair enough. But if you don’t, did you realise you can actively dent their chances of getting a seat by voting for anyone but them in the Assembly elections?
Every vote for any other candidate would dilute the BNP’s overall share of the vote.
This applies to all voters in London, not just those in particular areas where the BNP is strong.
And yes, you can vote in the Assembly elections without plumping for Boris or Ken as mayor…
1 May 2008 at 9:26 am
Credit to you Goodplaya for having the moral conscience to post this!
Voter apathy plays a massive part in letting scum like the BNP into power. People die for the right to vote in other countries, so I urger anyone with the power to vote to use that vote wisely.
Voting is a privilege, please treat it as so.
1 May 2008 at 9:32 am
Good post. Anyone who votes BNP is a fool say I and so I do.
1 May 2008 at 9:34 am
I have to say, i don’t care about anything else apart from getting that cunt Ken out of London, remember how Boris tackled that German in that charity match? Well, that alone deserves our votes!
1 May 2008 at 9:50 am
Ambrose,
Yeah he was on the pitch for about two minutes before put in a career ending tackle. It was great.
Livingstone is a snake
1 May 2008 at 9:54 am
Fcuk Ken! He’s ruining London by the day. We have to give Boris a chance, just to see what he can do and how he goes about things. I genuinely think he cares what people want; where as Livingstones a money hungry egotistical rat!
1 May 2008 at 10:03 am
rohit, you love posting links dont you
1 May 2008 at 10:18 am
Great post Goodplaya, well said.
AS for voting to Boris, you have got to be joking. anyone who votes for Boris is a total fool just like him. he does not have the skills to do the job. He cannot debate or defend his decisions, he is a poor excuse for a politician. Boris will only get in because of a huge Anti-ken vote which I find incredibly sad - that our Mayor will be there for 4 years controlling billions of pounds of budget because of a protest vote.
Be careful what you wish for - in 4 years time, you will realise that voting for Boris was the worst thing you have ever done.
1 May 2008 at 10:28 am
I was at that game and the tackle was hilarious.
But London mayor?
1 May 2008 at 10:32 am
Thanks Goodplaya, I was not that keen on the candidate I voted for, but at least now I feel much better about having voted!
1 May 2008 at 10:40 am
Boris deserves a chance, Livingstone has drained the middle class of there will to live.
Boris has a sense of humour, whats so bad about that
1 May 2008 at 10:51 am
Blog Head - I think Paul Merton’s quite funny, shall I vote for him?
1 May 2008 at 10:53 am
Nothing wrong with having a sense of humour. It’s just not in itself something that makes someone a good candidate for public office. BJ would make us an international laughing stock. Let him to stick to what he’s good at: being a buffoon on TV quiz shows.
Anyway, well said Goodplaya. Keeping the BNP out is even more important than keeping the BJ out.
1 May 2008 at 10:57 am
Lewis T,
I didnt say it was a positive point, just that it shouldn’t be looked on as a negative point
1 May 2008 at 11:05 am
I spent an hour with Boris recently showing him round where I work. A nice chap, very popular in the streets (although many said they still wouldn’t vote for him), and seemed to take a genuine interest in the day-to-day lives of the people he was visiting (more so than Nicky Gavron, the deputy Mayor’s visit).
But, I’m not sure he really understands what makes great cities work. His outlook for me is too provincial. But at the same time, Ken’s had his time, and London needs a new face.
It’s a massive shame that the quality of candidates going for the job is not higher.
But Goodplaya’s quite right…anyone but the BNP pricks!
1 May 2008 at 11:54 am
I didn’t realise Simpson was doing so consistently well for Milwall. Professional Football Association’s League One player of the year. Well done dude!
1 May 2008 at 3:06 pm
I met a whole bunch of Ken’s campaign people at a drink after the Liverpool Champions League match: they were all Gooners, and good lads too.
Boris has said he would appoint Kate Hoey, MP as his adviser on sport. When she became an MP in London, she claimed she was an Arsenal fan. But Arseweb revealed that she’d written in 1994 that she’d grown up a Man United fan, and had carried on supporting them even while living in London.
On that basis, the choice for all Gooners is simple. Up the Reds!
1 May 2008 at 5:21 pm
Goodplaya, a similar thing happened in France a few years back, with an equivalent party.
Where I live in SE London is very near to BNP-land and I received a load of their ‘literature’ through the door. I particularly loved the quote they had from an Irish person who claimed the BNP were the only party to care about the Irish.
My dad is Irish and thought it particularly hilarious.
To be honest as much as I dislike the BNP I am still not sure whom to vote for as I don’t buy into the whole voting thing. I hate the BNP and dislike Ken, so I guess that means I should vote Boris, but is he fit for a mayor?
1 May 2008 at 6:12 pm
Big ups to you, Goodplaya. Honourable shout out to Gazzap, too. BJ is a buffoon and a stooge; he has no idea of how to run a multicultural city like London and for f***’s sake, he’s not a Londoner, he’s the Tory MP for Henley, that shining beacon of diversity in Berkshire. He’s made comments about the very people he claims to want to represent that sound like they were lifted out of the Prince Philip Guide to Foreign Diplomacy (edited by Norman Tebbit). What pisses me off is that a lot of people will be swayed in to voting for this clown in all but costume, because they think ‘he’s a bit of a laugh, so he must be alright,’ bollocks.
It would be the biggest mistake Londoners would ever make if they voted for this Etonian jackanapes. BJ and his ilk shit on the working and the middle classes and make no mistake, his aim is going to be to see how he can look out for his mates whilst paying lip-service to looking after London. Where’s he going to find the income to pay for capital projects if he gets rid of the CC? Council tax, that’s where. The joke’s on us if he gets in.
1 May 2008 at 9:00 pm
also letting Boris get in with all these important projects like Crossrail and the Olympics half way through is a bit like getting rid of Fitzman, Edelmen and Friar halfway through the emirates project and getting a whole load of new managers in to try and take over to finish it on budget and on time. it would be hard for anyone to take on some of these massive London projects halfway through let alone someone with the intelligence of BJ.
1 May 2008 at 9:41 pm
It was a long long journey back from the first FA Cup Final in Cardiff in May 2001. Having managed to squeeze on to a packed train back to Paddington no thanks to the awful service South-West trains provided that Saturday, I saw a woman standing in the corridor between carriages. It was Kate Hoey. Being a gent I offered her my seat.
She declined and stood all the way. She’s definitely a gooner and a woman of principle who B-liar sacked from his cabinet for being so. She’s a good and decent politician.
So Boris could do with her if he wins. What the heck has Livingstone done as Mayor other that rip us all off?
1 May 2008 at 11:57 pm
Great post, as a minority its great to see that people do care, and arent scared into believing that immigrants or immigration are the cause of every problem, the BNP is not the way fwd, as delusioned as you r, it is not, hitler once appealed to the masses but was he right? apologies for the stark difference, but i think you all get the point, asking ppl to vote for u by excluding ppl is not right, and if they were a genuine party, i wud b aloud to join them!!
2 May 2008 at 4:21 am
You mean other things happen in the world other than football?
My god…
2 May 2008 at 10:23 am
White Ox,
Yes there is Snooker and Golf
3 May 2008 at 6:42 pm
Fuck the BNP