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Printed bus maps. Yes. #DGforLondon
Roger French | Homepage | 05.10.19 - 7:04 a.m. | #
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I think there's a good chance you might actually win
Ian | 05.10.19 - 7:14 a.m. | #
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Thank you for sharing your 2020 vision - the other candidates are all so short-sighted...
DavidC | 05.10.19 - 7:30 a.m. | #
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It is fitting that the DG manifesto for London is published today, the fiftieth anniversary of the first episode of ‘ Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Along with the heartfelt pledges DG makes as an extraordinary Londoner, he has written a scenario that could very well have been played out by Palin and Cleese etc.
As for Rory Stewart, yesterday En Marche, today London, tomorrow ??
Kenneth Morton | 05.10.19 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Poor Rory. He has no chance of winning now. Probably never did have as an independent candidate. Which begs the five questions: why is he running? Ego? Profile?
What's to be gained from failing in a MoL election? Anyone heard from Frank Dobson or Steven Norris lately?
Frank F | 05.10.19 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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Dear DG! If I were a Londoner you would surely have my vote!
Leuconoe | 05.10.19 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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The essential dilemma.... lots of spending, no means to pay for it as per all candidates for all parties; especially those who say "I have a fully costed plan"!
100andthirty | 05.10.19 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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What a dilemma! Vote for the Tory candidate and spending is cut back whatever is promised. Vote anything else, and Tory government sabotages it!
Brian | 05.10.19 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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You have my vote!
Is that the sound of the bosses at TfL quaking in their boots, I hear?
Cornish Cockney | 05.10.19 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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Can you let us know your policies on Bus Stop M please?
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 05.10.19 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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DG for London! Gets my vote but why not go one better...... DG for Prime Minister! 👍🏻👍🏻
Jo W | 05.10.19 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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Seriously I'd rather see you, Geoff Marshall and Jay Foreman competing each other for the post, than any other self-serving crooks.
Patrickov | 05.10.19 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Muggers lurking on every street corner? Will you set up a Muggers Guild so they can be properly organised?
I’d definitely vote for you.
Toni | 05.10.19 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Shaun Bailey slides into eighth place.
I'm with Roger. The bus maps issue is huge, a cheap win too.
Lorenzo | 05.10.19 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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Me and my 32 children live across the 32+1 boroughs and I demand that you create more housing without devaluing our properties or overloading our local services or changing the feel of our neighbourhoods.
toby | 05.10.19 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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Got my vote, can we have a cross London tram too?
john | 05.10.19 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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Bus Stop M will finally be fixed if you're elected. On the topic of buses, can you bring back Greenwich Waterfront Transit?
Dylan George | 05.10.19 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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A good platform, except Geoff Marshall is offering to build a network of disused tube stations and tunnels for us to explore. This is a killer promise. So, unless you can offer something like introducing a new fleet of "Old Bill" B-type omnibuses to London streets, he could well beat you.
Alex McKenna | 05.10.19 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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You had my vote in the bag before you even laid out your policies
Caz | 05.10.19 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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Favourite London pub Rory? “Pret a Manager”.
Kim | 05.10.19 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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Well said DG. Just what London needs, another Eton educated Mayor speaking for the "common people".
I was amused by the piece in the Evening Standard about his private polling (aka asking a few people in the pub/wine bar/coffee shop) which showed he had higher name recognition than the Tory candidate. Not difficult given that 99.9% of voters in London couldn't name him. I see the bookies now have the Tories as 4th favorites.
X | 05.10.19 - 11:24 a.m. | #
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For what it is worth from where I live, you have my vote. Your policies are very concise and so good that you reinforce them.
Andrew | Homepage | 05.10.19 - 2:23 p.m. | #
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DG can do buses, i'll do Tubes, Jay can do roads. Between the three of us we'll have transport covered. Tick!
Geofftech | 05.10.19 - 3:41 p.m. | #
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You say ' ... a FORMER Cumbria MP ...' presumably referring to Rory Stewart. He is still an MP, merely one that will stand down when the next General Election is held.
J. | 05.10.19 - 3:45 p.m. | #
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I dare you DG; no, I double dare you to ACTUALLY stand for MoL. You have plenty of proposers here. No probs getting your candidature in. Funding by the usual crowdsourcing. Sorted! Hee hee, I can just visualise your blinding the journalists with science as you present your spreadsheet-based data. (Carefully and thoroughly checked and edited beforehand by DG Blog readers).
B | 05.10.19 - 4:41 p.m. | #
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Ohh to have a candidate that we could trust and believe in. Pity I can't vote for you unless the London diaspora can vote nowadays :-)
Big Al | 05.10.19 - 6:25 p.m. | #
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No, DG cannot possibly submit himself as a candidate for MoL. He would have to show his face on the prospectus.
Long live anonimity !
Petras409 | 05.10.19 - 7:56 p.m. | #
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The spoof candidacy of DG shows up a major flaw in democracy. Wanting to take a leadership role, and getting the blame when events make it go wrong, is such a bizarre character-feature that it almost immediately disqualifies the person from being suitable.
I remember a science-fiction story where the most suitable person was somehow chosen, and then compelled to take the role (because they were naturally too sensible to have put themself forward).
Of course this could explain the existence of Eton - it is necessary for some people to be brainwashed into supposing they are "fit to rule".
Malcolm | 05.10.19 - 9:48 p.m. | #
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Coincidentally, Rory Stewpot was at the Bromley-by-Bow community centre today. I wonder what people thought of him.
Bob L-S | 05.10.19 - 10:24 p.m. | #
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I love that Rory walked from Roman Road to Bromley-by-Bow today, presumably past Bus Stop M. I must have rattled him already.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.10.19 - 10:31 p.m. | #
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I'd never heard of this guy Rory until this year. Turns out he's the MP for one constituency over from here in our now distinctly non London home.
Looking at his wiki page there's certainly more to the guy than appearances suggest ... certainly more than the career politician currently in situ and the fired journalist before him.
Mark | 06.10.19 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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"Too white, too Oxbridge (Eton)"
Paul | 06.10.19 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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He was the only sensible one in the Tory leadership contest which made me wonder why he was a Tory. No surprises now that he isn't. His interviews at the time reminded me of early Blair in which a youngish person with vision looked capable of gaining wide support. But his sudden turn from Cumbrian constituency MP to London mayoral candidate leaves me cold at the moment.
NickW | Homepage | 06.10.19 - 11:19 a.m. | #
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