London liberated!

Boris wins!

Boris Johnson delivered the coup de grace as the Conservative sweep across the country culminated in a stunning and comprehensive massacre for Gordon Brown’s Labour Party in the nation’s capital. The former journalist and Spectator Editor made a gracious acceptance speech even thanking “Red Ken” Livingstone for his contribution to London’s affairs, Tim Montgomery at Conservative Home was not too impressed;

ConservativeHome doesn’t share Boris Johnson’s generous assessment of Ken Livingstone although we respect Boris for being kind in victory. As Mayor, Ken Livingstone cuddled up to some of the world’s most odious dictators - including Chavez and Castro - and also invited Islamic extremists to London - notably Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He was an embarrassment to London and we are delighted he is no longer the Mayor of our capital city. Muslim supremacists have lost their greatest western political ally. Over on the Platform, Paul Goodman MP looks at how Muslim extremists attempted to keep Livingstone in office and how moderate, mainstream Muslims are increasingly playing a role in the Conservative Party.

Oh well, at least Londoners have been liberated from all of that political posturing, but I bet they’ll still be lumbered with the dreaded congestion charges for a long time yet.
What puzzled me about London, the world’s financial centre and one of the foremost modern cities on the planet, was that it staged an election which took for ever to produce the result! Apparently counting machines were used and the result came through at almost midnight yesterday, yet at general elections they can get a result in a few hours!

I’ve just been listening to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith being sent down interviewed on Radio 5 Live, and for about the sixth time in the last 24 hours I’ve heard a government minister bleating away about examining Conservative policies a bit more closely, and listening to people outside of Westminster. If I hear these words trotted out once more I’ll scream! Why do they  have to make it so obvious that they’ve all received the same bloody briefing sheet, they are still treating us with contempt!

For the record Jacqui, the electorate are not telling Labour that you need to listen and that we’d like you to put right all of the problems that we face right now such as increased living costs, increased energy bills, increased fuel prices, uncontrolled immigration, falling house prices, increased council taxes, increased food prices, punitive taxes for the low paid, stolen pensions, two wars, and numerous failed promises. You have had eleven years to put these things right and you have failed,no amount of messages about Gordon Brown being a “serious politician” is going to change things now, the message that the electorate is sending to Labour is that we’ve had enough of you, had enough of Gordon Brown after only eleven months, and that it’s time to GO!

Brown’s stock is so heavily damaged after Thursday’s massacre that it cannot recover over the next two years, these wounds will prove to be fatal, the momentum has irreversibly changed and unless the Labour Party sees sense and replaces it’s unelected leader it faces another long period in opposition after the next election (which it will lose in any case.)

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