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Originally Posted by carpetbagger
if you know kens email address flecc,i think i will advise him that he should become mayor of blackburn.....i she he could improve things around here  |
If the Mayoral vote is anything to go by, almost half of us want to keep him and get him back into office in under four years time. In one sense we are lucky in that his replacement Boris is pro-cycling and a daily cyclist himself, but unfortunately he's "Mr Cutback", committed to economy and a drastic cutback of expenditure. There's a time and place when that's appropriate, but given the scale and range of London's metropolitan problems, here and now is not it, and we are likely just to revert to the "do nothing" agenda of the '80s and '90s since Ken was last in charge. That was the time of his hugely successful and popular "fares fair" policy, prompting Thatcher to shut down the GLC for succeeding where national government had always failed, prompted by nothing other than the most malicious of spite.
I'm not politically motivated and mainly vote conservative, but I've always supported Ken Livingstone despite his very left wing views because he is the only person who ever succeeds in improving London's immense transport problems through having the courage to enforce innovative solutions like the fair fares policies and the congestion charge.
After four years of Boris I think Ken will sail back in if he wants to stand again.
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