Next London Mayor

[Winot]

 

[Orang Utan]

Housing is so expensive these days that there must be loads of us who live, work and pay taxes in London, yet can't help choose the mayor.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Very good article here on Boris Johnson's legacy here at BDonline.

Although London is building thousands of homes under the mayor, the type of homes being built are causing widespread disenchantment. Johnson’s mayoralty has been marked by massive residential developments, often under the dubious auspices of “regeneration”, at locations such as Elephant & Castle, Vauxhall, Battersea, Docklands and South Bank to name but a few. But with astronomical prices conspicuously aimed at the foreign investor market, they have merely served to push prices higher, thus further economically and socially disenfranchising a generation of Londoners desperate for accommodation of their own and leading to the proliferation of luxury “ghettos”.

So that is the next mayor's challenge.

 

[andysays]

Yes, I can't be on it. I have to register in my parental home, so am disenfranchised in London.
No I didn't miss the deadline and i do want to be on the roll, but I cannot register as I am not on my landlord's contract with their tenants.

Housing is so expensive these days that there must be loads of us who live, work and pay taxes in London, yet can't help choose the mayor.

It's a bit late for this time round, but are you absolutely sure you can't register where you're living? Have you actually tried to do so?

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a bit late for this time round, but are you absolutely sure you can't register where you're living? Have you actually tried to do so?

I've been told not to.
I'm not on the tenancy agreement. I think the landlord knows there are subtenants, but registering would change the council tax, so no vote for me.

 

[andysays]

I've been told not to.
I'm not on the tenancy agreement. I think the landlord knows there are subtenants, but registering would change the council tax, so no vote for me.

Told by who?

The only way I can see that you registering would change the CT is if someone is currently claiming single occupant reduction and there's actually more than one person there.

 

[andysays]

Anyway, I actually came to this thread to comment on the leaflet which just came through my letterbox.

It proposes

• a scheme which aims to cut fares, particularly for those travelling from outer to central London, and part-time workers by matching the existing savings on monthly cards
• 200,000 affordable new homes, built by not-for-profit company in collaboration with councils and communities
• an end to estate demolitions in the name of property developer-driven "regeneration"
• fight for the London Living Wage for the one in five working Londoners paid less
• bring Londoners into City Hall decision making, and kick out big business lobbyists
• Involve communities in addressing extremism, rethinking the flawed and discriminatory Prevent strategy

This is the sort of thing we might hope the new Corbyn-led Labour party would be proposing, but they haven't got round to delivering any leaflets here. Guess which party it is?

 

[Orang Utan]

Told by who?

The only way I can see that you registering would change the CT is if someone is currently claiming single occupant reduction and there's actually more than one person there.

I don't want to go into the specifics but I can't register to vote where I live.

 

[Orang Utan]

Anyway, I actually came to this thread to comment on the leaflet which just came through my letterbox.

It proposes

• a scheme which aims to cut fares, particularly for those travelling from outer to central London, and part-time workers by matching the existing savings on monthly cards
• 200,000 affordable new homes, built by not-for-profit company in collaboration with councils and communities
• an end to estate demolitions in the name of property developer-driven "regeneration"
• fight for the London Living Wage for the one in five working Londoners paid less
• bring Londoners into City Hall decision making, and kick out big business lobbyists
• Involve communities in addressing extremism, rethinking the flawed and discriminatory Prevent strategy

This is the sort of thing we might hope the new Corbyn-led Labour party would be proposing, but they haven't got round to delivering any leaflets here. Guess which party it is?

Sounds like Caroline Pidgeon. She's been making righteous noises about housing.

 

[andysays]

I don't want to go into the specifics but I can't register to vote where I live.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to get into specifics if you don't want to, I was trying to clarify if you are really disenfranchised or if you actually could register, and you'd been given incorrect info.

 

[Orang Utan]

Sorry, I wasn't trying to get into specifics if you don't want to, I was trying to clarify if you are really disenfranchised or if you actually could register, and you'd been given incorrect info.

Well I'm already registered elsewhere now anyway, so it's all academic.

 

[andysays]

Sounds like Caroline Pidgeon. She's been making righteous noises about housing.

No, not her

 

[Orang Utan]

No, not her

Furniss then?

 

[andysays]

Furniss then?

...Guess which party it is?

(you don't expect me to know the names of all the bloody candidates, do you?)

 

[Orang Utan]

(you don't expect me to know the names of all the bloody candidates, do you?)

Furness is BNP.
Though that list could be Green, but if it is I don't know why you're playing the quiz game.

 

[andysays]

Furness is BNP.
Though that list could be Green, but if it is I don't know why you're playing the quiz game.

No, it's not the BNP, who unsurprisingly tend not to campaign heavily in Tottenham

 

[Orang Utan]

Well maybe you should tell us instead of needlessly dragging it out

 

[Winot]

UKIP?

 

[red & green]

It's a case of meet the new boss - same as the old boss

 

[Sue]

Well that's me decided who to vote for..

'Ankit Love is feeling “neglected”. He’s got himself £10,000 in debt putting up the money to register to run for London Mayor, which he will only recover if he picks up five per cent of the vote.

A former pop star, Ankit Love jacked in his job as director of Brick magazine and vacated his luxury flat in Belgravia to move into the Dictionary Hostel in Kingsland Road to follow his political vision.

With both parents Supreme Court lawyers in the US, he’s done his research and believes it could be legal to ban polluting cars from the city.

But despite Holland passing a law to ban all petrol and diesel cars by 2025, he feels no one is taking him seriously.

“They say ‘this guy wants to ban cars and he’s calling on the army to do a coup’, you’ve got to understand that’s not the sophisticated angle,” he said.'

Mayoral candidate drew up manifesto while homeless and living in Hackney hostel

 

[friendofdorothy]

Anyway, I actually came to this thread to comment on the leaflet which just came through my letterbox.

It proposes

• a scheme which aims to cut fares, particularly for those travelling from outer to central London, and part-time workers by matching the existing savings on monthly cards
• 200,000 affordable new homes, built by not-for-profit company in collaboration with councils and communities
• an end to estate demolitions in the name of property developer-driven "regeneration"
• fight for the London Living Wage for the one in five working Londoners paid less
• bring Londoners into City Hall decision making, and kick out big business lobbyists
• Involve communities in addressing extremism, rethinking the flawed and discriminatory Prevent strategy

This is the sort of thing we might hope the new Corbyn-led Labour party would be proposing, but they haven't got round to delivering any leaflets here. Guess which party it is?

As I am mostly guessing at the policies of any of the candidates - will you tell us ffs, this isn't a pub quiz.

 

[andysays]

As I am mostly guessing at the policies of any of the candidates - will you tell us ffs, this isn't a pub quiz.

Certainly, it's the Green candidate, Sian Berry.

I'm not claiming there's anything amazing or especially radical about these suggestions, they're nothing more than mild social democracy, but it's encouraging to me that the Greens are pushing this, and I would guess that some Labour supporters might wonder why their candidate isn't pushing these sort of policies through people's letter boxes in areas like Tottenham.

I guess they feel they can rely on enough people to vote for them unprompted, which may be an attitude that comes back to haunt them.

 

[Teaboy]

Normally I wouldn't bother voting but I'm so disgusted by the Goldsmith campaign that I'm tempted to vote for Khan just to make some sort of stand. I've never voted Labour in my life but who knows now.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Housing is so expensive these days that there must be loads of us who live, work and pay taxes in London, yet can't help choose the mayor.

Last estimate of disenfranchisement (2011, I think) was nearly half a million - sofa-surfers and people in your situation) in Greater London. Think that was GLA figures from surveying each borough for differences between infrastructure use calculations - stuff like bus and station use, hospital and walk-in clinic use etc - and Electoral Roll numbers.
Half a fucking million. Nearly five percent of the population, FFS!

 

[Greebo]

A letter ostensibly from Polly Toynbee (sent by the Labour Party) in support of Labour and Sadiq Kahn arrived today. If she's aware of what happening in Lambeth, she's got a fucking nerve allowing her name to be used like this.

 

[hash tag]

I heard on the transistor this morning that Sadiq has picked a Lily Allen song for his campaign song. They said he can't have listened to the lyrics as she sings about lies, lies, lies. Anyone got any clues what it might be.

VOTING IS TOMORROW, Thursday. Be there!

 

[friendofdorothy]

I still haven't decided how to vote yet.

some observations -

Neither Zac or Sadiq have said anything that isn't 'meh' yet - are these candidates really the best London has to offer?

UKIP, Britain First and BNP - I was sad to see there was so many right wing parties on the list (and no left wing ones) - but hey hopefully that will split the anti immigration/racist vote

Greens seem to have the most socialist policies.

Anyway looking forward to our usual voting afternoon drinks and debate in our local pub.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

from tweeter

 

[DotCommunist]

Normally I wouldn't bother voting but I'm so disgusted by the Goldsmith campaign that I'm tempted to vote for Khan just to make some sort of stand. I've never voted Labour in my life but who knows now.

Thats how they get you! by not being the other cunt.

Vote spunking cock m-l

 

[nino_savatte]

Problems in Barnet already reported.
Chaos in London as voters turned away from the polls due to 'problems with lists'