Abernathy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:47 pm
I caught a little bit of this on Ferrari this morning. As well as re-treading the “pickpocket”debacle, she was flogging the ULEZ extension dead horse, and banging on about crime. It was actually fucking painful, she is so bad. How could the Tories have selected such a pitifully inept candidate?
The Tory media, and lots of international social media, depicts London under Sadiq as Mad Max, so the selectorate and candidates respond to it.
If they started to see London as being what it is- not that different to other urban areas in terms of crime, and with much better school results, then they might get better candidates. Trouble is only the first half computes with that lot. I'm not the biggest fan of Gove, obviously, but if he were running, he'd do what he did as Education Secretary, turn up at a few schools full of Black kids and make a positive speech about how great the school results are, and say he'll do whatever he can to help if elected Mayor.
I can't imagine Hall managing to do that, with any conviction at all. She'd be dropping her wallet and complaining one of the kids had pinched it.