Londoners deserve a better choice of mayoral candidates
Surprisingly few of them have been well-known national figures from the political mainstream...
More often the wannabes have been publicity seekers and oddballs whose careers ended in opprobrium - as happened eventually even to two successful two-term mayors - Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson...
Tony Blair created the post of elected London Mayor in 2000 as part of New Labour's UK-wide push for devolution but quickly came to regret it after a vicious fight for his party's nomination.
It's a Tony Blair project, so that's a good enough reason to abandon the idea as a failure. The publicity seekers and oddballs were inevitable.
I reckon that if someone suggested to Blair that London had weapons of mass destruction, he could sort out most of the capitals problems.
ReplyDeleteSam - Derbyshire has no weapons of mass destruction whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd make sure that's on the internet.