London’s Working Class Prefer Boris to Ken
The latest YouGov polling [pdf] on the London mayoral voting intentions shows Boris leads Ken 44% to 41% amongst the “C2DE” working class voters, even though Labour has a 12% lead nationally amongst the same group of voters in a general election. Ken is clearly the Islington Guardianista candidate…
Downing Street should be worried – the failure to attract working class voters stopped Dave from winning last year. On these numbers Boris could have done it…
I’m in charge
Are you sure?
We love you Ed!
Clegg comes home after another holiday- we should rejoice. But he only does half days and a couple of hours on a Friday. He will be gone again at Easter, the kids need to be looked after.
Dave did not have an election plan, everyone was waiting to know what he stood for, no answer. The Tories had more votes because people despised Gordon not because they liked what Cameron said.
Clegg might have became popular after the first TV dual, but when he announced his views on defence, immigration and the EU he lost his party more votes than they anticipated and the Lie Dems came a poor third.
Red Ken should remain out of office for good, we do not need rubbish like him holding public office. Go on Boris. I wish you were the Tory leader at least we would get a view.
Vote for my vulture like party for a future of shivering in a shoddy cottage and babbling over a tin of stew in Gaelic.
The more Dave talked, the less people liked what he had to say. You don’t lose a 17% lead for no reason, Dave’s advisors were and still are, shit. Trouble is, he is not bright enough or ruthless enough, to realise that and bin them.
If Dave had said anything worthwhile on immigration then the Tories would of won the election on a landslide.
He also looks a prat for laying into that Dick Sniffin who like him or loathe him the white working class can identify with his arguements and now that he was proven right on Muslim Sex Gangs and the massive youth unemployment problem due to untold immigration.
Thatcher may have got away with it decades ago, Major just got away with it still as the country had a lily white majority illusion but no other Consverative administation will get away with lax stances on immigration.
Not now that old whitey taxpayer and voter is bunkering down into seige mentality from the baying hordes of freeloaders that keeps increasing.
Guido, my dear fellow. What the fuck is all this “Log in to comment”/Wordpress bollocks? M’learned friends rearing their ugly heads?
Is you know who in Venezuela yet?
Not me.
I’m here and like any good socialist in office aiming to stay in power as long as possible without the inconvenience of re-election whilst looting the country to the maximum extent possible.
No! I tell you what to do!
Yeah butta you wouldna tell me whatta to do or I slappa your arsa bambino
Boris 4 Tory Leader
You blew it Nick. There was a crisis to take charge of while Dave was off selling guns. But what did you do? You pissed off to your family Chalet in Davos for a few days on the Piste. Keaving Hague to run around like a headless chicken.
You had your moment and you did not take it.
You do not understand, politics is very stressful and I needed a break. Isn’t doing a twenty hour week enough for anyone? I feel exhausted, I am going for a lie down.
Clegg is a disappointing lightweight.
My son and his mates at uni used to rate Clegg but he’s now a total joke among students.
Atheist, EVERYTHING is a total joke to students. Sorry to tar them all with the same brush, but now, I can’t take anything they say seriously.
Of a bunch of hoons
You haven’t posted a youtube vid of H*gue yet. Come on. I’m sure this time it will definitely bring down the coalition.
He had his moment and he did not take it.
He is verily a prize Dickhead, our Mr Wuv.
Yap! Yap!
Oi ! I was here first !
Bloomin’ trolls. They nick your monicker, they nick your catchphrases – whatever next ?
Nice to see you, to see you…..
Whats the matter with these people Im not a toff! I can hold civic receptions for murderous Islamic scholars one day and attend Gay Pride the day after. What more do they want?
I want my Walnut Whip and not the Olympic Games!
Kinky!!
KRAWW-SQUARRRRKK!!! (flap) BORISBORISBORIS!!! (tweetle) (ping)
Seen Mrs Slater recently? You know what Boris is like!
That’s newt funny!
…
Hi proles. I’m afraid I’ve never heard of this Mr Gaddafi that you speak of. Anyway, must dash. Got some things to shred. I mean, thing to file away.
What a coincidence that the whole Middle East erupts in revolution when Blair is Middle East envoy…
It’s a good job it’s not a certain G. Brown MP.
I’m very good with oiks.
My kinda chap!
Who said no one likes me? I’ve got an invitation from a Mr Damien Fowkes who says he’d like to see me for a private meeting. I’m off.
It is within the margin of error…… But Boris at least apears human unlike Ken….
I iz working class and me like da Labour well good. Dey give me nuff benefits and ting.
Err, umm, I mean, err, the whole point is, I mean, err, socialism is err, I mean, really, umm, the way forward.
You are really Prince Charles and I claim my 5 pounds
I think Bojo will geta second term, Labour have no alternitive but to choose some who been rejected by Londoners voters before, Must be the lack of talent in the party….
I agree with Billy.
just how in 2011 can Livingstone still be in the position to become mayor again? What does this say about Londoners???
We love the Mr Livingstones!
Ken Livingstone once explained why no-one should be allowed to run for a second term – and then proceeded to prove what he said was true by running for a second time and totally fucking up our capital city. Perhaps someone can dig up the quote.
Oh dear. The Guardian / BBC axis will not be pleased about this.
Let’s see if they even mention it…..
Yep, the Guardianista’s won’t be pleased…merely confirms the charge that champagne socialists are the new toffs. The publicly funded oligarchs of the Labour party both despise and have little in common with ordinary folks.
Boris, the workers’ favourite…Ken, the toffs choice!
Call Me Dave, believed the Labour Party when it said it had abolished boom and bust; believes it still when they say the Conservatives are only for the rich. Not only has he no plan for reconnecting with the working class but actively antagonises them with airy-fairy BS and PC nonsense (positive discrimination, windmills, “hello, clouds; hello, trees!” etc) and attacks on the ‘right wing’; he claims he is against ideology but attacking the right, or attempting to triangulate against them, IS Cameron’s ideology.
I am not gay , nor am I naturaly bald, I just had 14 pints got pissed and asked for the full Venezuelan
‘appen
Those wretched lower classes!
They just won’t think how the Guardianistas tell them to.
I like BJ.
But not BoJo.
I’ve never met Mad Dog Qadafy but I am a great admire of Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon.
Dangerous Dan Mc Grew:
The music almost died away. . .then it burst like a pent-up flood;
And it seemed to say, “Repay, repay”, and my eyes were blind with blood.
The thought came back of an ancient wrong, and it stung like a frozen lash,
And the lust awoke to kill, to kill. . . then the music stopped with a crash,
And the stranger turned, and his eyes they burned in a most peculiar way;
In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway;
Then his lips went in in a kind of grin, and he spoke, and his voice was calm,
And “Boys,” says he, “you don’t know me, and none of you care a damn;
But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I’ll bet my poke they’re true,
That one of you is a hound of hell. . .and that one is Dan McGrew.”
That sounds familiar
Eskimo Nell is better, with immortal lines like;
“With a mighty flick of his muscular prick
The tart flew over his head”
Bojo is a cretinous performing albino gorilla and an embarrassment to London.
I wonder if the working classes surveyed knew of his ‘thoughts’ (such as they are) on immigration?
He might be wrong on the imigration cap but Johnson is still a light year ahead of that chisling little marxist shit Livingstone and his gang of theives.
You really ought to up your medication dear. All this ranting is no good for your health.
Well it has to be better than Labours non-policy on immigration (AKA: Operation open the floodgates to masses of foreign Liebore voters).
Up the meds.
That Bozza’s well out of order on that immigration an’ ‘at, but he’s a diamond geezer compared with that bleedin, newt fancier! String ‘im up I say, ‘angin’s too good for ‘im! I ‘ad that Saif al-Islam al-Ghaddaffi in the back of the cab once.
You should take to wearing your arse as a hat mate.
??? Who was that aimed at? You should have gone to ‘Specsavers’ plonker.
Only a few months ago I wished the people of New Zealand all the best. And I rang Col Gaddafi to give him my best.
Don’t forget to wish Ken Livingstone good luck and shake his hand to show bygones are bygones.
National polling is bollocks! The pollsters are hand-in-glove with the anti-coalition/Tory media narrative. C2s outside of Labour heartlands, detest Labour.
Not surprisingly the gurdian reading mummies boys are hitting hard on this piece, they just can’t get with the fact that many of the working class perfer someone like Boris Johnson to that snidey frog man; (who, I seem to remember, was caught hitting his bird).
Just like they can never get their head round how a woman was PM for the party of inequlity.
I didn’t know Liebour had a women MP, being a party of equality I would have thought that would have happened during the last 13 years of the regime of course the next time your in, will you have a women PM, are you going to dress red Eddy him up in womens clothes, after all you are the party of equality ask mad hattie. .
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2011/02/there-are-lots-of-conservatives-in-barnsley-but-they-wont-be-voting-conservative-next-week.html
Ken courts minority groups and is seen my regular people as a bit weird. Like Gordon, he wants the job TOO MUCH to be safe.
Socialism only works when desire is removed from the equation, Red Ken isn’t a socialist because he desires the Mayoral job and all the trappings it brings including power and money.
Humans will always have desire it was the gift of the serpent in Eden and the one which the Almighty trusted them with.
Of course the overpaid London spivs vote for Ken. They recognise one of their own.
Of course they do.
Is the sky green too Guido?
Me so horny! Me give you sucky sucky only ten dollah!
Boris should be leader, he’d be fucking brilliant
“Wiff waff is coming home” .. and something about sticks of rhubarb being rubbed on Victoria Pendletons body or something (I might have made the victoria Pendleton thing up)
“Your fantasies may vary”
Rubbing Victoria Pendleton’s body?
Where’s the queue?
Core voters, ABC1 prefer. Go figure.
Just don’t understand that one at all. The whole class stucture must have gawn orff since I was brought up.
At least Boris has sex with the opposite sex.
Boris would shag anything with a pulse.
Sadly, that leaves Billy out of the running.
he prefers them married though
and prefers to get them pregnant too.
You just cannot appreciate how much he has put in on our behalf.
He’s certainly full of beans.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man –
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began –
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire –
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Is this really Kipling, and if so what does it mean, ‘The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.’ ????
Must say it sounds like he envisioned the ‘blessings’ of the Benefits Society 100 years in the future.
Well, what do you expect? Boris is a geyser, whilst I’m a c u n t.
No Ken, you’re not. C u n t s are useful.
No surprise, Bankers, Lawyers, IT workers and other professional working in London with families tend to live outside Greater London and commute into work.
Young lefties, Guardianistas, BBC workers and over-paid public sector executives still live in Greater London and are propping up Labour in our capital city.
The IT workers I know can’t afford to live in London,besides they are too busy trying to make money just live in the outlands, the days of an IT chappy and chapess making a lorra lorra money has long gone , with all the Liebour cutbacks in 2007/8 and the 19,000 Indian lads imported to do goverment work.
“19,000 Indian lads imported to do goverment [sic] work.”
And public-sector work.
But is it per year, or per month?
Private! Damnit. Damnit Damnit.
Edit button, please.
hey hey you boys, I just find this on the tele netty thing
enjoy x
My wife has a bigger dick than me.
Shhhhh!!! Don’t publicise this ffs!!!!!!!
Hmm, that sounds familiar……
Yep! I thought the exact same thing. I googled and saw that virtually the whole planet is saying it’s the same song!
Channel 4 are hoping to emulate the success of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding with a series about seven dwarves starring in a Snow White panto.
The documentary will show dwarves playing Doc, Sleepy, Bashful and pals, performing together while living in the same house.
A source told The Sun: “They were a great bunch of people, with a real sense of fun – but there are lots of tears, tantrums and breakdowns.”
Channel 4 are said to be keen to make more dramatic documentaries after their My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding series, which delved into the lives of the UK’s travelling community, caught a peak audience of 8.2 million.
Red meat lovers have been warned to cut down their intake by the government’s health advisers. So just how much red and processed meat should we consume?
Do you regularly tuck in to a couple of sizzling rashers of bacon for breakfast, a ham sandwich for lunch and a juicy rump steak for dinner? If so, then you’re probably eating more than the new recommended allowance of red and processed meat.
The Scientific Advisory Commission on Nutrition, which advises the government, has issued new guidelines.
One Big Mac a day is within the guidelines
A typical Sunday roast is twice the daily limit
And a cooked breakfast or a doner kebab is nearly twice the recommended daily portion
They say that adults are advised to consume on average no more than 70g (2.5oz) of such meat a day – about 500g (17oz) a week – in order to cut the risk of developing bowel cancer. This is the equivalent of three slices of ham, one lamb chop or two slices of roast beef a day.
How much red meat is there on the average government adviser ?
Dunno, lad, but there’s plenty on me!
…or on the average daily menu at the HoC?
OK lets eat more Chickens, but I bet we don’t breed enough chickens and the price will be astranomical.
Modded why?
Thanks for sharing DERM. When I wish to be preached to, I’ll go to church.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/23/article-1215632-068F38B0000005DC-355_233x452.jpg
Never knew Sarah is so busty
http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/360398-uk_prime_minister_s_wife_sarah_brown_wore_low_cut_dress_cosmopolitan_women_year_awards.jpg
Thank fuck we don’t have to endure this one anymore.
http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/cherie-blair-tm.jpg?w=400&h=305
Thanks a lot Miriam. I’ve just dropped sauce all down me ganzi.
She should have gone to Rigby and Peller.
Yummy!
http://www.arrse.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=31828&stc=1&d=1268470407
Rant rant I love Boris I hate Labour I love Guido he is my God I want to rim him rant rant socialists! socialists everywhere! get rid of the NHS it’s a luxury banish unions fair wages fuck off benefit scroungers hang ‘em David Cameron and George Osborne are benefit scroungers too? That’s alright, they’re Tories rant rant splutter immigration? makes my blood boil bloody foreigners apart from Paddies like Guido he is my God Iraq, 700,000 dead civilians who gives a fuck Palestinians? bloody wasters who cares if they are murdered by the fascist Israelis we love Israeli because Guido loves Israel and we have no minds of our own rant cough splutter rage women? fucking whores etc etc etc
Yawn.
Yep, it’s mentalist Mr Wuv. Has the irony of your post escaped your notice? You call the readers here idiots, wasters etc, and yet by posting multiple times a day, you are yourself a “Reader of Order Order”.
I like Boris, even after what he said about Portsmouth. Why? Because he is, to quote the Sunday Times, an ‘Ocean Going Shagger’ just like me.
You’re not handy, you’re just a cock.
As are all of Guido’s moronic readership.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-hampshire/my_personal_life_is_my_own_it_s_never_impeded_my_ability_to_be_an_mp_1_2452252
There is no way Handycock will sue anyone. If he does. it will be in front
of a jury. His sexual behaviour and liaisons with criminals, whether they have been convicted or not, will be examined in detail and they will all end up in jail.
It is most interesting that these criminals, all multi millionaire ‘legitimate’ businessmen, who made their money through drug dealing, and laundered it through property development, and some of them still do, all use the same Lawyer as Handycock.
It is also no coincidence that some of them are Freemasons, as is Hancock. Who are they? Grant, Froggie, Colin, Mark, David and Tommy. The police know all about this. Why has nothing ever been done about it?
Boris shags powerful British women Mike, not vulnerable girls mainly from Eastern Europe.
Has dear old Boris acrually done anything useful for London?
Hold on! Its population was in decline beforehand.
He’s not been Livingstone.
Yes he chased a mugger on his bike
where as Ken Would have give him some money for a taxi
so the poor underclass scumbag could get away
evenin ar moniker !
Evenin Frankie. Ken is a man after my own heart! Problem is, he is probably after my own crumpet too …
hi mate
ken portrays everything that is bad about socialism
and that is some fuckin list !
going for a quick bath catch you later !
Don’t polish the lighthouse thinking about that Galyna Kolotnytska. Nurse! Nurse! Aaaaaarghhhh!
I have had a bad day today. For Ken, read Boris!!!!!
Note to self: FFS Pull yourself together man!
No not a chance she must be as Barking as Ga=daftc*nt
No there is still a light left on for Ffion !
Have you f f f f f f f f….found Ffffion yet?
I’m waiting untill Willy-Bum Comes out and buggers off
Marc Almond is a lightweight I can drink fourteen pints a day!
Gaddafi,is at this very moment, on a plane returning from Santiago,Venezuela.
fourteen pints of male semen
by all accounts
At this very moment gaddafi and sons are firing rocket launchers on unarmed demonstrators in tri poli’s green square.
saif, gaddaf’si favourite son and personal friend of nate, gordon, bliar, mandy, david held and livingstone, today called on his western friends to throw their weight behind the gaddafi family bloodbath of innocent people to help gaddafi and his evil family hold onto power.
Interesting, knowing them as he did really well, that saif thought they would do that for him?
Suggests that they had had conversations over lush dinners in posh places that made him think they would support him even now!!
Where are they all by the way?
Syph Gay-daffy said on state tv
We have plan A ,B,and C
A= To live and die in Libya
B=To live and die in Libya
C= To live and die in Libya
I hope their wish is granted within the next 24 hours !
I’m not naturally a bloodsthirsty person but I really hope the gaddafi & sons firm, are going to pay the ultimate price for their massacre of their own people and as soon as possible.
If the libyan public take their revenge for the gaddafi family’s horrific killings of civilians with instant executions , I’m sorry, I have to say I welcome it!!!
http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2011/02/24/gaddafi-ken-livingstone-and-left
Let’s face it ken has a dodgy history – friends of bob crow, gaddafi, the ir a, cas tro, hugo cha vez ……………..
I think after this disatrous week in lb ya ken’s credibility will slip even further.
wh at the fu ck is wro ng with your sp ace bar gran ma ?
Just trying to beat the mod sweetie.
It especially does not like me , but I find if I use the space bar, randomly, it tends to ignore me.
It’s written on the papyrus scrolls that if Nell doesn’t put a space in names etc she gets moderated.
‘Tis also written that one should not put capitals to the names of people who we regard as evil, corrupt, incompetent or useless.
That rule applies to all people in politics regardless of their political party!!!
David Evil Corrupt Incompetent and Useless Camoron.
Hmm. I got away with it.
Yay it works
Thanks Nell I hadn’t realised that.
Well at least we now Know that Hague would have been as big a disaster as PM that Gordon was.
To give Dave his due he has certainly knocked heads together and got the government back on track since his early return from the middle East.
But who advised Dave that it was still OK to overtly sell arms to the Arabs at this particular time?
Can’t see why Dave recalled Nick back from his Skiing holiday though.
hague as big a disaster as gordon?
Nope gordon registers 10 on the richter scale way above anywhere else in the world except perhaps lib ya where gaddafi and sons are registering 40 maybe 50!!
So what is labour doing about it’s financial and social links to the gaddafi mafia?!!
Erm.. I think it’s time Ed Miliboy went and made some tea.
FFS come on !
Hague is ten times the politician Cameron is !
Can you imagine what Gaddafi thought when he heard Camerons statement
“What on earth do you think you are doing ? Stop it !”
He must be quaking in his boots after he changed his piss soaked underwear,
not out of fear
From pissing himself fucking laughing !
And what Did Gaddafi think when sat in his Trripoli palace as he heard Hague say that he was at this very moment on a plane to Venezuela?
We have an Airfix model of a Harrier Jumpjet, and another model of an aircraft carrier, and if Libya and other countries don’t stop messing about, we’ll photograph our models and send the jpegs to a newspaper and say, “don’t threaten British lives, Johnny Foreigner!”
That’ll show them their place. Oh yet.
What was he and his pros ti tute ukr aine ‘nurse’ thinking?
‘Thank God he hadn’t got on that plane!!
Because either the UK or the US would have shot him down before he arrived in venez uala!!!!
Only option left now? To be executed like cau ces cu!
We’d have shot him down with what? A pea-shooter?
And what did gaddafi and his sons think when cameron said ‘the arm of international law is very long and we are watching you’ ??!!
Though personally speaking I suspect that statement struck the fear of God more into bliar, gordon, militwit and david held!!!!
“The Swiss government, meanwhile, has ordered a freeze of any assets belonging to Gaddafi in the country. Libya’s foreign ministry has denied that any such assets exist, and said that it would ‘sue’ Switzerland.”
Al Jazeera
Notice the logic here? Same as that employed by Brown, Balls, Blair and all their awful minions. Oh, and that other Ed fellow, whatever he does…
They won’t find anything other than peanuts in the Swiss accounts. I advised the Gaddafi family well. As long as Tony, Peter and John do not sing.
So Libya is going to sue the Swiss for freezing assets that they dont have ?
Hmmmm ! So what will happen to the 20 Billion pounds he doesn’t have deposited in London banks then ?
Tell you what, Frankie. I you can find any of it, I’ll go halves with you!
Can I be Justice Secretary?
What would you like for your dinner Damien ?
I could fuckin murder a chinese
Sweet and sour Balls?
Yes.
Someone called E Balls has written to me telling me to sort out some geezer called E Miliband.
Sorry I can’t comment on Libya. I’m at one of my villas enjoying my millions.
St Tone is in Florida ‘on holiday with his family’.
Hiding, actually, from the world’s press.
Well would you want to be asked about your personal friendship with saif gaddafi, the ‘secret’ visits you’ve made to lib ya to advise gadda fi on hanging onto power and the £millions you’ve been paid for your advice , which has now come to grief?!!!!
bliar the failed man!
When are they going to sack him as the middle east peace envoy?!!!
When is he going to s-Gravenhage?
Blair might have failed in the mid east, but he is very wealthy out of it.
Does that mean he’s a worthwhile human being or a mafia type parasite who lives off the rest of us??!!
Please. Mafiosos only hurt other gangsters. Blair has made his millions in blood money from innocent lives.
Nell that definition of a parasite would apply to all HOC and HOL – plus, s the saying goes, Big fleas have smaller fleas upon them.
He is being a typical socailist, pull the ladder up behind you.
“……..middle east PEACE envoy?”..somewhat of a contradiction in terms
A headteacher has been removed from his school after suspending SEVEN youngsters after just two days in the job.
Superhead Craig Tunstall was hired to turn around failing Oval Primary in Croydon, South London on a salary of £137,881 a year.
A day in, he suspended five children, then two more the following day.
Staff claimed they were in a ‘climate of fear’ whilst pupils reported they were told to walk with their hands behind their backs as though they were ‘in prison’.
Behaviour which led to suspension included not lining up quickly enough, not wearing a coat, and not finishing a school dinner.
One mum whose five-year-old son was excluded said his suspension – for not lining up quickly enough – was ‘unbelievable’.
Croydon Council leader Mike Fisher said: ‘We apologise, we made a mistake.’
Burn the fucker down with all the teachers and children in it, nothing of value will be lost.
One of the reasons he was a well paid Head Techer was the fact he could turn around a bad school. However, his method was to be swift to stop any insubordination and to punish said miscreants. This went against the teachers who had lost control antway. So he is pillored because of bad teachers. Nuff said.
1st sentence I meant teacher, think I should not post whilst drinking alcohol.
You really think not finishing school dinner is grounds for suspension?
You really think not finishing school dinner is grounds for suspension?
“Economic downturn at the end of 2010 was the biggest drop in GDP in two years”.
Now someone correct me if I am wrong but: is a GDP measure that has been pumped up artificially by QE directly comparable with one that hasn’t?
I would say not – but I am not qualified as an economist.
Note:
GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports) (Expenditure method)
Has anyone got the new phone number for our great friend and financial advisor, the Middle East Peace Envoy, Anthony Blair?
The number he gave us does not seem to be connected anymore.
I’m sorry but all our operators are busy right now .However your call is in a queue and will be answered as soon as an operator becomes available.We should like to assure you that your call is important to us…in the meantime here is some music….
Tonight I will be Mr Blobby.
Lord Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, has been confirmed as the government’s preferred candidate to be the next chairman of the BBC Trust.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt put the 66-year-old forward after six candidates were interviewed by an independent panel.
The Culture, Media & Sport Committe will hold a pre-appointment hearing with Lord Patten on 10 March.
Sir Michael Lyons, the current chairman, will step down on 30 April.
In a statement, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said: “The Committee’s conclusions will be considered carefully before deciding whether or not to proceed.”
The appointment will finally be made by the Queen under the BBC’s royal charter, which is in place to establish the Corporation’s independence from government and parliament.
Chris Patten, now Lord Patten of Barnes, served as environment secretary under Margaret Thatcher.
He was later Tory chairman during John Major’s premiership, before overseeing the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule as governor.
He served as a member of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and has been chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003.
Sir Michael Lyons replaced Michael Grade as Trust chairman in 2007 and announced last year he would not seek a second four-year term in May
Nice to see Prezza whoring himself, What are top gear thinking of?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360725/Two-Jags-Prescott-gets-dri*ing-seat–time-hes-reasonably-pri*ed-car-Top-Gear-challenge.html
Lord Mandlescum Has spoken, now sit back and watch Labour have a civil war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/25/mandelson-criticises-miliband-new-labour
I can’t say i’m surprised
“Murderers launch campaign for freedom based on their human rights”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8349226/Murderers-launch-campaign-for-freedom-based-on-their-human-rights.html
So it’s Smaller, Better Government across the water?
Without Labour, even?
….
Or is it?
Papers are demanding UK go and rescue its poor citizens.
Just a few months ago Non Doms were about as popular as traffic wardens.
“They don’t live here. They don’t pay any taxes. Their families live in this country using up valuable resources that could be spent on old and poor people. Or even old,poor people. Its a disgrace.
Mary Bucketbin siad ‘ I live next door to a non dom. They have more stuff than me. It ain’t fair. Why should they not pay any tax in the UK just because they earn their money overseas? I don’t understand how it works but I do know their kids go private and mine don’t even go to school because they don’t like the teacher. The government should make them pay up and should make my kids go to school so I can get some peace. ‘
When asked should we rescue stranded non doms Mr Gobber replied
‘ They’re sort of like bankers aren’t they? No way. Let them get themselves out. We don’t need more people coming over here and taking our jobs and getting another free house from the council because they’re seeking asylum. I don’t want someone drilling for oil in the back garden. I bet a lot them are Scots. Why can’t they live in the North Sea like the rest of them?’
Deputy PM Clegg was unavailable for comment as he’s gone skiing.
Boris may be more popular than Ken Spart amongst CDEs, but why is that? Is it because Ken is (viewed by some as) a boring phony populist or that Boris is an intentionally comic character?
Frankly, I think that Londoners are short changed by the Boris/Ken saga – I’d like to see a more conservative candidate battle it out with the best that Labour/the left put up – Londoners might get a better mayor as a result.
Well just to point out there numbers for working class are within the margin of error.
And the election is some time off. Most likely Ken is winning solidly among people who live in London proper, just like last time around, and Boris has his base on the edge suburbs which are not really in London only in the “Greater London”
These numbers should be very worrying to Boris none the less. These C2DEs are the very people who are going to be most hit by cuts and are most likely not to believe they will be hit by cuts. In 2012 they will be shocked and angry at the extent to which their lives will be harmed and they are likely to take it out on LibDens and Tories in any election.
My analysis is that, to stand a chance of being elected Mayor of London, with a constituency of 7 million media watchers, you need to be a TV personality. Boris and Ken are both TV personalities.
As far as day-to-day life in London is concerned, the Mayor’s main powers are over public transport; he also has some powers in respect of the police and the fire service. For all these, operational issues are in the hands of professionals (whose competence is another issue). Beyond that, the Mayor’s other duties are strategic planning and PR.
Who else could be a candidate (without considering what party they might stand for)? Nigella Lawson? Alan Sugar? Jamie Oliver? Ian Hislop? The cast of Dragon’s Den? Simon Cowell? Andrew Lloyd-Webber?
Sorry – this article is very misleading… Anthony Wells, YouGov man over at UK Polling Report, was quite clear that you can’t take (unweighted) samples from the detail of a poll and extrapolate like that.
Cameron doesn’t give a stuff for the capital’s working class. In his mind, if they don’t belong to the ciabatta scoffing classes of Notting Hill and attend the right sort of dinner parties, they aren’t “our kind of person” and hence don’t count.