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Originally Posted by Damien
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.
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Odious, yes he is. It may be strong but it's just one of those pesky opinions we're all entitled to. He reminds me of Red Ken in a slimy sort of way and that's enough to make anything odious.
As regards the Tory campaign, I'm only repeating what I heard on LBC this evening, from people much closer to events than me - Andrew Pearce and Iain Dale IIRC. Unlike previous occasions, in this area all I saw of any campaign was a UKIP banner and flags on an Audi estate parked around the corner. No posters, no banners, no presence in the high street, no knocking on doors, nobody at the polling station - it was bizarre. What I saw/heard of Goldsmith was deeply uninspiring, devoid of passion and crass at times. Like or loathe Boris, you'll never forget him. Contrast that with the boring billionaire's son for whom it all appeared a bit tiresome, a boring interlude between far more interesting campaign quaffing events. Goldsmith was already on a hiding to nothing in London and it seems he's a bit of a masochist to boot...
As for Khan, he's on the record as saying that more migration is good for London whist moaning about all the cars, pollution etc. Presumably, therefore, he'll build the tens of thousands of homes he reckons we'll need every year and ensure they're all occupied by people who walk everywhere, wear thick woolly jumpers to keep out the cold and don't want gardens. When all the available brown field sites are built upon he'll start building on the green belt because who needs that anyway and we need more people who'll live longer to look after all the older people who're living longer and causing so many problems...
