Simon Hughes for Mayor!!!

28 April 2004
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I just can't see it happening. He's a really nice chap and would certainly be hard working, honest, reliable etc; etc; but I don't think he is ruthless enough to stamp his authority on the job. Whatever reservations you may have about Ken, you must admit he gets results, and if he sets his mind on making something happen, it will happen.
Simon is well known and liked in South London, but he hasn't got the 'street cred' of Ken. He'd be better advised to make another play for the top LD job, and maybe the party members would now realise they made the wrong choice in Charles Kennedy

I don't know that the Daily Telegraph would be happy about Simon bunking off during the cricket season.

there no point in getting things done if there the wrong things

I think simon Hughes is quietly forceful and would get things done ,but he would also listen to people,and do the right things

matter of opinion.

Ken has been great for London over the past few years. To echo phoney he gets things done and isn't afraid to make a controversial decision or two.

Ken's talking to a thousand Londoners tonight. Wait for the media distortions tomorrow. Despite the hostility and bias of the Evening Standard and other interested parties - nimbies, neocons, Tory dinosaurs and people who really did believe Thatcher's lunatic dictum that 'there is no such thing as society' - Ken will walk it. And that says volumes about the man.

move to chatter?

Do you mean SH4KL? I don't think Ken's his type.

kevin

I dont think Ken Livington is a socialist any more he sometimes seems more blairite that Tony blair.

I voted for him last time

after his comments about crushing opponents of developments like Potters Field s

I won't be voting for him again

Fair enough Michael. Just thing of the alternatives and the consequences. It's very easy to forget the dark days of the Eighties.

I agree with the pro-Ken vote. How many nice people have ever succeeded in that arena? None. Why? Because it isn't a nice business that's why. Ken can take it - not sure Simon Hughes would last two minutes. Anyone opoosing Ken has no real basis - apart from the fact that when he speaks he always seems a bit weasleish and insincere but then show me a politician with his experience that doesn't...??

Once in the game they all learn the survial game and any successor to Ken will be dancing a tune soon enough I am sure.

Unsurprisingly Michael, Potters Fields... again (quiet yawn in the corner...).