A man with hair like that can't be taken seriously.
The guy is just not a serious candidate for a position of power. I'm quite ashamed of my fellow Londoners for being so thoughtless. Ok, so he has some good heads in his lot but there's no way Boris Johnson adds more to the stock of London as Mayor.
It almost feels like, with his blundering, it might be a vote for excommunicating Europe and the rest of the world. I have no doubt htat we will learn to regret this appointment.
The guy is just not a serious candidate for a position of power. I'm quite ashamed of my fellow Londoners for being so thoughtless. Ok, so he has some good heads in his lot but there's no way Boris Johnson adds more to the stock of London as Mayor.
It almost feels like, with his blundering, it might be a vote for excommunicating Europe and the rest of the world. I have no doubt that we will learn to regret this appointment.
I am not advocating for Johnson or Livingstone one way or another, but feel that under our current democratic process Boris Johnson has won and deserves the chance to see what he can do. If he makes a complete Horlicks of it then he can be voted out in 4 years time.
Livingstone came close to bucking a national trend of protest against this government & Prime Minister, which is a credit to him.
This is a massive kick in the bolleaux for Brown & his cohorts, and it means now that they will stumble on from c*ck up to c*ck up, until they can go no further and call an election at the last possible moment in two years time.
Exactly, give the bloke a chance. One of the first things I'd like to see him do is bring in something preventing mayors from standing for a third term. My main motivation in the election was to get Ken out. I might have voted Labour had he not been standing - eight years is long enough.
Boris is an amazing bloke.....Do not underestimate him. He has been voted in because of his personality and I for one think this is a great result for Londoners
That is quite poisonous and I'm quite pleased now that Boris won, if only to wipe the smug grins of the mugs of the likes of Brooker and that patronising witch Polly Toynbee.
Fair enough for calling them out as smug, they evidently are. I still don't think finding someone amusing is a good reason to elect them mayor of a major city, and it from a lot of Boris voters I've spoken to it seems like that is precisely what has happened. If he does a good job, I will be pleasantly surprised and will give him credit where it's due.
It amuses me that Livingstone is surrounded by his corrupt cronies, and can't keep his pr*ck in his pants, yet he is lauded by the likes of Brooker & Toynbee. It would appear to them that New Labour sleaze is fine yet Tory sleaze is not.
Ken got what he deserved I feel and this comes from somebody who has been a Labour voter all my life.
He became arrogant and paid the price. He has done away with all the old London landmarks, red busses, pigeons in Trafalgar Square, brought in astronomical congestion charges while not sorting out the problem that people really care about - street crime and London's violent streets.
Time for a change - whether Boris will be the man to sort things out time will tell but I think that Ken's time had come and obviously London's voters thought that too by dumping him yesterday.