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Originally Posted by Osem
I must say that the Mayoral campaign was lacklustre in the extreme. I've heard it said that the Tories were quite happy to sacrifice Mayor of London in order to help keep Corbyn in a job and to discredit Goldsmith who's been a major pain re Heathrow expansion.
Goldsmith seems to have had a personality bypass and Khan is almost as odious as Red Ken.
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What's wrong with Khan? Odious is pretty strong.
Also if it were the case they were 'sacrificing' the Mayoralty then Cameron wouldn't have bothered getting his hands dirty with it all. They seem to have simply lost because they ran a bad campaign, with a poor candidate in a city which trends towards Labour. The best quote I have seen was from an anonymous Tory who said "they ran a dog-whistle campaign in a city with no dogs", essentially pushing the Muslim thing isn't going to help you in London. It might even have hurt him as the turnout was the highest ever.