Today's (5th May) elections

[wigginhall]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChxkWDbXEAALzTM.jpg

Quite an arresting image of London after the election of an extremist terrorist Mayor.   Only trouble is, I can't work out if it's satire by somebody, or for real, since the ES is such a ghastly right-wing rag. 

Ah, I've been told that it is satire.  If it was real, there would be sycophantic headlines saying how wonderful Boris is. 

[ProfessorDavey]

Wasn't the last Scottish (SNP) Government a minority one?

No

[Brownie]

Very funny Wigginhall.

[wigginhall]

Very funny Wigginhall.

You won't find it funny when we have sharia law, all men will have to wear the niqab, and dawn prayers will be in every street at 4am.   This is not a UKIP ad.

[Ricky Spanish]

"Sadiq Khan was officially declared the new Mayor of London this evening after an election battle which officially began in March, but stretched back to last year. With a decisive victory of nine percent over his rival he comfortably saw off Zac Goldsmith to clinch the position which will see him serve until 2020.

The road to victory has not been a smooth ride for the Labour candidate, whose policies include freezing London transport fares for four years, restoring London’s air quality to legal and safe levels and aiming to make fifty percent of new homes in the city affordable.

Although garnering a consistent lead in the polls from the outset, his campaign has been tarnished by what can only be described as an organised crusade by his Conservative counterpart to discredit the British-born Muslim MP."

READ MORE HERE:  http://tinyurl.com/hd3kcee

[Walt Zingmatilder]

A labour victory in London is as nothing to an extra Tory councillor in Tunbridge Wells.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Labour victory? Not unless their candidate got 400% of the vote.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

This is the BBC John Pienarse reporting.

After their appalling victory in London, we can now say that Labour are finally finished and will not get back into power until well into the next geological era with a finality even more final than the last finality.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

After her landslide victory over the SNP in which she triumphantly forced them into a humiliating first place.

.......Why not Ruth Davidson for our next PM?

[Hope]

Labour victory? Not unless their candidate got 400% of the vote.

Labour held the Blaenau Gwent constituency by 650 or so votes, having held it by 10K+ votes 5 years ago.

[Hope]

You won't find it funny when we have sharia law, all men will have to wear the niqab, and dawn prayers will be in every street at 4am.   This is not a UKIP ad.

When will this occur, wiggi?

[Shaker]

Whoosh ...

[jeremyp]

The road to victory has not been a smooth ride for the Labour candidate, whose policies include freezing London transport fares for four years, restoring London’s air quality to legal and safe levels and aiming to make fifty percent of new homes in the city affordable.

Very laudable, but does he know how he is going to do it?

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChxkWDbXEAALzTM.jpg

Quite an arresting image of London after the election of an extremist terrorist Mayor.   Only trouble is, I can't work out if it's satire by somebody, or for real, since the ES is such a ghastly right-wing rag. 

Ah, I've been told that it is satire.  If it was real, there would be sycophantic headlines saying how wonderful Boris is.

Haha!

Yes that angle did spectacularly backfire on Zac despite the one-sided coverage by the Evening Standard. 

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Watching BBC election coverage with Evan Davies and MP Matthew Hancockweirdly trying to make the London elections evaporate.

[jakswan]

Maajid Nawz
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/08/the-secret-life-of-sadiq-khan-london-s-first-muslim-mayor.html

Until then, discrimination will continue to feed the poisonous tribalism fueling modern identity politics. This applies whether that discrimination comes in the form of right-wing anti-Muslim bigotry, or in the form of the left-wing bigotry of low expectations that holds Muslims to lesser, illiberal standards. Until these twin bigotries are dealt with, Sadiq Khan’s religious affiliation will, sadly, remain a topic of debate.

Wiggs, take note.

[Shaker]

For heaven's sake, does nobody do sarcasm any more?

[jakswan]

For heaven's sake, does nobody do sarcasm any more?

Yes that and tribalism these days, its far easier you don't have make an actual argument or do any actual thinking. The play book is "demonise the opposition, the opposition are demons I must be right".

[L.A.]

Yes that and tribalism these days, its far easier you don't have make an actual argument or do any actual thinking. The play book is "demonise the opposition, the opposition are demons I must be right".

Though in the case of UKIP that's not a problem, they are entirely Self-Demonising.