Why have people voted for Boris?

easyrider · 3 May 2008 at 00:30

Its a joke right? :confused:

Dunks · 3 May 2008 at 00:32

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7380947.stm

Voted him in seems

Evolve · 3 May 2008 at 00:33

Because he's not Labour.

[TW]Fox · 3 May 2008 at 00:34

Becuase he isn't Ken Livingstoke and doesn't practice politics of envy.

Azza · 3 May 2008 at 00:34

Because he is a very good politician.

Even though the only word you can really describe as being is a buffoon most of the time he knows what needs to be done and he can do it.

I know I would vote for him any day of Ken Livingstone.

Hxc · 3 May 2008 at 00:34

Fox hits the nail on the head.

lee32uk · 3 May 2008 at 00:34

Boris is a legend

Luseac · 3 May 2008 at 00:35

Because labour are on their arse and people have had enough of Ken

Oh, and he's awesome.

M0T · 3 May 2008 at 00:35

Because Ken is Labour and at the moment Labour have shown great stupidity and incompetance so he is suffering for their faults.

Doohickey · 3 May 2008 at 00:36

It's because he's Boris Johnson. I imagine that many of his votes will have been as a result of his somewhat cult status. I personally think that London has done very well with Ken Livingstone, and would have voted him for another term, if I'd registered in time

Edit: This is what I mean

lee32uk said:
Boris is a legend

lucasade1 said:
Oh, and he's awesome.

easyrider · 3 May 2008 at 00:37

So Torys think he was the right man for the job?

Surely someone with a brain within the tories would have been better?

paradigm · 3 May 2008 at 00:38

Evolve said:
Because he's not Labour.

\o/

Conservatives FTW.

Evolve · 3 May 2008 at 00:38

easyrider said:
So Torys think he was the right man for the job?

Surely someone with a brain within the tories would have been better?

He has a brain, there are just sometimes issues with connecting it to his mouth.

easyrider · 3 May 2008 at 00:39

I don't want to get into the labour V tory thing.

But its clear Boris is a tool?

kibblerok · 3 May 2008 at 00:40

with well reasoned policies http://www.backboris.com/index.php

far better than someone who wants to shaft motorists and tinker with traffic lights

iamdjdz · 3 May 2008 at 00:41

Because he's called Boris, it adds humour to the political landscape, a feeling of humour deprivation has increased the resentment to raised taxes and the like, and with the obvious addition to the comedy value of British democracy, there is a chance for another party to be voted in who may decrease, or stabilise the taxes.

I myself vote in Northern Ireland and vote a mixture of Alliance, SDLP and UUP, depending on who sounds better at the time and thus meaning I have no say in British politics.

easyrider · 3 May 2008 at 00:42

He failed when doing question time.

He was clearly out of his depth.

If he cannot deal with simple debate.

Then he cannot deal with anything.

easyrider · 3 May 2008 at 00:43

Evolve said:
He has a brain, there are just sometimes issues with connecting it to his mouth.

This is a skill needed for the job though.

robgmun · 3 May 2008 at 00:44

a better question is why are there 69,000 small minded bigoted racists in London

Chronictank · 3 May 2008 at 00:44

easyrider said:
He failed when doing question time.

He was clearly out of his depth.

If he cannot deal with simple debate.

Then he cannot deal with anything.

nail hits head