Psychoactive Substances: Rolling UK Politics in The Neo-Con Era

Bastards are everywhere these days

Just going by this, really: https://londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-results/live-count-progress-2016?contest=25

Thanks for link. Good to see my previous home borough appears to have voted Labour in massive numbers, Chingford wankers notwithstanding.

The only election I could've voted in yesterday was for a police commissioner and as it was I was out of town for the entire time the voting office was open, so I have to live vicariously through the London elections instead.

Lol at the Evening Standard dedicating their entire front page to Boaty McBoatface rather than acknowledging the whipping their boy is getting.

So far, Lib Dems down in 4th place but, better still, Galloway in 6th, behind the Women's Equality Party candidate.

Looks like it is going to be close between the BNP and the Polish fantasist with a made up title.

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Honestly at the start of the campaign I thought Goldsmith would win this pretty easily, which says a lot about how awful his campaign has been on almost every level.

I have a possibly city-vain idea that Lynton Crosby-style Fear, Divide and Conquer strategies don't really work in places as connected and interwoven as London.

Maybe Goldsmith's campaign was basically sacrificed a while back, and the racist fear-mongering was aimed at propping up tory vote elsewhere in the country.

Honestly at the start of the campaign I thought Goldsmith would win this pretty easily, which says a lot about how awful his campaign has been on almost every level.

Yeah, I thought the next mayor would be Labour until Goldsmith entered the race, at which point I thought "Shit, he'll play well with a lot of people". But no, car crash.

last time labour was in power in London under a tory government at westminster, the latter abolished the GLC. Maybe some of the more paranoiac rhetoric has been about preparing the ground for another Reichsexekution. What happened to Lutfur Rahman was possibly a dry run.

Think the Tories panicked when they realized he was just an impeccably ruffled but stylish, impossibly good looking plank of wood.

Goldsmith is just terrible at the basic things you expect politicians to be able to do, like talk to crowds and think on their feet. I am reading The Decline And Fall of the British Aristocracy at the moment and the parallels between him and late era young patricians who felt they needed to enter politics but found it boring and mystifying and couldn't engage with any of the electorate are glaring.

In the end, racism was all he had to fall back on but, even then, he looked like a patsy fronting a campaign he didn't fully believe in.

Honestly at the start of the campaign I thought Goldsmith would win this pretty easily, which says a lot about how awful his campaign has been on almost every level.

and khan has really not needed to do anything at all!

last time labour was in power in London under a tory government at westminster, the latter abolished the GLC.

There's a common thread running through all of this and he did his best to derail the Khan campaign this time around. I just can't imagine Khan running London is such a boneheaded, obviously self-destructive way as Livingstone did.

It'll be weird having a mayor who isn't a self-promoting arsehole, actually.

Ooft http://twitter.com/Jemima_Khan/status/728650886050922496

Who is she? Why has she named herself Goldsmith and Khan?

she's Zac's sister and ex wife of Imran.

As the result became clear, Conservatives turned on Goldsmith’s campaign. Former Conservative party chairman, Lady Warsi described it as an “appalling dog whistle campaign” and said it “lost us the election, our reputation and credibility on issues of race and religion”.

Roger Evans, the outgoing deputy mayor, said Goldsmith’s “very foolish” campaign left a “negative legacy which we in London are going to have to clear up long after the people who ran Zac Goldsmith’s campaign have gone on their way”.

It would have been a bit more meaningful to criticise him at the time rather than post-getting his sorry arse whupped.

In fairness, Warsi has been vocally critical for quite some time.

This is, above all else, a genuinely significant historical moment.Has any European capital had a Muslim mayor before?

sarajevo

Constantinople

the prefectural capital bradfordabad, wilayat bradfordistan, people's republic of south yorkshire

Letterkenny

Muslim mayors of Europe is my new band

(west yorkhire) xps

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http://www.kosovapress.com/public/uploads/image/520x320/aaaa-shpend-ahmeti-dhe-gold-ag.jpg

Shpend A. Ahmeti (born 18 April 1978) is a prominent politician of Kosovo. He was leader of the New Spirit Party, which has since been merged into Vetëvendosje!, of which he is vice chairman. He is currently the Mayor-elect of Pristina. Ahmeti ended 15 years of LDK tenure in the capital of Kosovo. Ahmeti lectured public policy at the American University in Kosovo until he became mayor.[2][3][4]

In the first round of elections on 3 November 2013, Ahmeti was some 8,000 votes behind Isa Mustafa, but in the second round on 1 December 2013 he won by some 2,500 votes. Mustafa accused Ahmeti of fraud.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

can we get confirmation that Dick Whittington was radicalised whilst trading in Yemen?

He was turned around, yes.

And so it begins https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/728974667852201984

stoked for the chilcot madness on july 6

wonder if this will keep the blairites quiet for the summer or not

https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/jamie-stern-weiner-norman-finkelstein/american-jewish-scholar-behind-labour-s-antisemitism-scanda

Is this fair about Shah and Livingstone?

It's Norman Finkelstein. Enough said?

Linked that on the anti-semitism thread - mostly otm.

Because I have nothing better to do I looked at the Euro 2016 fixture list and it appears that England will have two opportunities to get themselves knocked out of the tournament before the Brexit referendum. If they win their group they could exit the tournament the day before the referendum itself.

Considering that, Glastonbury, and the fact that hundreds of thousands of students could be between constituencies at the time, it feels like the very worst date to have chosen if you were hoping to secure an In vote.

England getting knocked out means people are more likely to vote Brexit, I suppose? Friend of mine prefers the more accurate Ukexit btw.

I suspect most people will have made up their mind by then, but England getting knocked out in controversial circumstances would be a gift to the Out campaign. Maybe there are enough morons out there to make a difference - on the other hand most of those people would probably end up voting Out anyway.

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/stop-after-test-parties-nicky-morgan-tells-primaries

she is such a traet

I'm obvs no fan of her but can absolutely guarantee that had she taken the opposite position you'd be seeing headlines along the lines of 'childhood-snatcher tells schools to bribe kids with parties to accept tests that are destroying their education' or 'Morgan admits tests are so traumatic children need parties to recover'.

lol :/

there's some sense in what she says but part of being a politician is figuring out how to say stuff without sounding like a cartoon villain

That story is from last November.

haha lol. when you read the URL instead of the article.

building 'breaking-news' into the url seems a little short-sighted