Brian Paddick for Mayor
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London_Calling
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What's your rationale for this conclusion?Bob said:
London_Calling said:
I've seen him talk on crime - he's got really intelligent views on what works and doesn't from his experience at both the front line and at high levels in the police.
He's been the public face of the police during 7/7, he stood up to the idiots running the police over the Stockwell Shootings, he was one of the first popular senior policeman that Brixton has ever had.
Loads more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Paddick
Unfortunately he is unlikely to win.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Okay, so you believe Paddick would be good for London on the Crime issue. What do you think of this information?Bob said:
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Bob - are you a lib-dem by any chance?
Lock&Light said:
Indeed, because even if he makes the final two he is unlikely to take Tory 2nd preference votes
Interesting to see how much support he takes off Ken though (even though most of it is likely to flow back to KL on 2nd preference)
We could see a situation where Boris wins the first round, then loses on 2nd preference votes.
London_calling, Butchersapron, just who *do* you want as mayor?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I like him, but he's a Lib Dem
I 'like' Boris too, but he's a Tory.
I don't like Ken, he's a Labour cunt and he's a weasel, but he's good for London.
I 'like' Boris too, but he's a Tory.
I don't like Ken, he's a Labour cunt and he's a weasel, but he's good for London.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
keicar said:
Ian Bone.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
UhuhCrispy said:
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
This "we", who are you speaking on behalf of?JHE said:
How would you transport so many people in the rush hour on central routes which have bridges too low for double-deckers. Perhaps employ two drivers, with two engines, with two maintenaince schedules, with two insurance policies, etc, etc, etc?
'But it doesn't go under a low bridge when I'm on it . . . '
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
London_Calling said:
Where are these "central routes which have bridges too low for double-deckers" of which you speak?
AFAIK every bendy-bus route replaced either a double decker route (many Routemaster operated) or one of the "standing room" single decker 500 routes from the mainline termini.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Hang on, I'll just pop out to see.lang rabbie said:Where are these "central routes which have bridges too low for double-deckers" of which you speak?
I dunno, central south, London Bridge station and area to general Waterloo area maybe. North; bottom of Kingsland Road.
If you're seriously saying double-decker's haven't limited the route options in central London, then . . . good luck with it.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
London_Calling said:
I'm not saying there were no such routes, but there weren't many, and they were alreay operated by long wheelbase single-deck buses. If that is your best argument for the introduction of bendy-buses as compared to Ken's shameless reversal of a campaign promise to keep Routemasters ...
Crispy said:
I agree (those were both Lib Dem policies that Labour either opposed or couldn't afford) that those were good, but remember:
Livingstone is the only one of the contenders to tell a Londoner that they should 'go back to where they come from'
Also:
1. Abolishing the Routemaster when he said he'd keep it.
2. Raising fares when he said he'd freeze them.
3. Supporting the police uncritically over the De Menezes killing.
4. Supporting the government's anti terror laws that allow you to be detained for months without trial.
5. Taking cheap petrol for London from poor Venezuelans
6. Accepting the Evening Standards' money for years, then suddenly pretending he has a principled opposition to them.
7. Bendy buses - which are seriously dangerous for cyclists.
8. While on jolly with Chinese communists comparing the Tiananmen massacre to the poll tax riots. The poll tax riots are in no way comparable to the murder of up to 2,600 people (Chinese Red Cross estimate) by a brutal tyranny.
Yes I am a Lib Dem but all of the above are factual.
Paddick's a man of principle - that why I'll vote for him.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
smokedout said:
Spam!
Tbh he hasn't a hope of winning but if he can contribute to making the campaign about policy rather than how 'funny' Boris Johnson's is then it's a good thing.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
What will Brian do then?Bob said:
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Bob - you seemed to have overlooked the crime issue you raised to begin with, please have a look at posts #1 to #5.
smokedout said:
Indeed-well sort of
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=4509768#post4509768
"4 years ago ...........the then Commissioner, Sir John Stevens called me to tell me there was a piece in the Evening Standard Diary Column that I was going to quit the police and run against Livingstone for Mayor of London.
As I say, recycling very old rubbish"
Stobart Stopper
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2-page article in today's Mail On Sunday, Brian telling his story about the Stockwell incident.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Good, is a map included so the readers of the Mail on Sunday know where Stockwell is ?
It's a good article in so much as it fleshes out the timeline as Paddick contemporaneously* recorded it. Not sure many of the Mail's readers will be interested enough to finish the piece:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages...ews.html?in_article_id=473226&in_page_id=1770
* to borrow from a familiar courtroom phrase
It's a good article in so much as it fleshes out the timeline as Paddick contemporaneously* recorded it. Not sure many of the Mail's readers will be interested enough to finish the piece:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages...ews.html?in_article_id=473226&in_page_id=1770
* to borrow from a familiar courtroom phrase
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