London Mayoral Election

Two wrongs don't make a right - at least that's what my mother taught me.

Strange how Corbyn is never given the benefit of the doubt. Everything he says and does gets analysed in great detail.

If I had lived in London, I would have voted for Khan, but I would still have said the same.

I don't live in London and a slight slip of the tongue does not bother me in the least, it was obvious what he meant.,

Give the poor bloke a break!

Nobody has been saying that London isn't important. The point was that the new London mayor, who is all about inclusivity in the Labour party, did not think that the rest of the country's Labour mayors are important.

I think I mentioned Sir Les Patterson up-thread somewhere.
Here is one of his quotes:
"I'm not racist. I love all races, particularly white people. You know, I even like Roman Catholics"

(or it could have been Dame Edna)

suzied, I accept Londons importance in banking etc, but this does not make it more important to the people of Liverpool, Salford, Bristol etc surely

See Lynton Crosby has just been knighted for his services to racist electioneering.

London is an important hub-an international financial and business centre, whether that matters to you or not, not just solely the seat of UK parliament. Which is why we are talking about it.The London Mayor is one of the most politically significant posts who controls a huge budget - met police, transport etc. Maybe those critics should also criticise Sadiq Khan for not wearing a tie or brushing his hair properly as well as forgetting to mention Labour Mayors in other cities in his speech. He'd better brush up on the National Anthem as well.

Yes, we know- and I get what you are saying. But London is the City the world looks up to and talks about, at the end of the day. Just like Paris in France- or Berlin in Germany. Mayoral elections in other parts of the UK just do not make the headlines (sadly, but the fact). And as said, the in the world press and the massive Islamophobia it has 'lit' in France, and the USA too, and all over, is just sickening and so depressing. If you do not read the foreign press or watch other TV channels, you may not be aware of this.

London more politically significant to whom? Not to me , it is a city which has the UK parliment sitting but it is the UK parliment not the London parliment

I am sure to anyone living in London it is a minor error.
Most of the population live outside London.

It does not bode well for the Northern powerhouse that their mayoral elections are ignored. There have been at least eight directly elected Labour mayors since 2002.

OMG the poor guy is criticised for making an minor error in his speech, you know he meant London election! And you moan about trivial criticisms of Corbyn! I'm sorry, but London is bigger than Salford and consequently more politically significant. I don't see a 12 page thread on the Salfold Mayoral Election. I am sure he will correct that error when it is drawn to his attention.

Not outside the London bubble Jen .

I was a bit annoyed with Khan when he said Labour hadn't won a mayoral election since 2004.
Liverpool? Salford? Don't they count?
If he'd said a London mayoral election that would have been different.

Think we saw more of the empty seat than we saw of Khan, if Corbyn had been there it would have been Corbyn/yawned/sneezed/ blinked/smiled / didn't smile ,/ didn't wear a tie/ wore a tie which clashed with his shirt / didn't look at Milliband/ glanced at Milliband but didn't speak to Milliband and reminded viewers Milliband is the son of Jews and his father fought in the war.

My son said that the cameras kept focusing on an empty chair when Corbyn was mentioned. When I looked at the coverage again, I was sure that it was Khan's chair, next to his wife. Lenses sharpenly focused as well as pencils.

Corbyn certainly doesn't jump when the media yells jump, I am quite sure they had pencils sharpened ready for his presence at Khan's signing in, hard cheese

I wonder if they are frustrated. Here we are with only four years to go until the next general election and the LP haven't laid out enough of their policies in detail for the media to pull apart. Add to that the LP don't think they have to run to the media time table. How annoying for the press.

Yes she can bring him into everything she reports it really is ridiculous.

Perhaps Laura K has a memory problem, she constantly reports that a senior member of the Labour Party told her etc, but never a name .

When she has a chance to attack Corbyn -she would manage this if she reporting the weather - she gets so excited

Had several messages today on FB from Swiss and French 'friends' which made me feel sick- replied and then deleted them
I think I would be deleting the friendships too.
Thank goodness my messages on FB today have been wishing me a happy mother's day, photos of other family enjoying a wedding etc etc, someone's birthday celebrations, happy stuff.
I didn't think that FB was for anything political and deeper !

Why "poor old Londoners having to have a mayor"!
I must admit I am one who does not agree with having an elected Mayor, but if that is what Londoners want, that is fine!

Unfortunately, as was demonstrated in London with Boris, and in Bristol with George Ferguson, the position of Mayor has tended to concentrate more on a personality cult than on what is best for the cities they purport to represent. Far better to have a Leader of the Council, someone who is not a 'personality' and who works with their Council (we hope) with dignity for the best outcomes for their areas, as we hope happens in the shires, counties and boroughs/cities without mayors.

The BBC can't win, then; for years they were accused of being leftist and biased towards the Labour party, now they are accused of being biased towards the right.

I thought Laura Kuenssberg was always biased towards the left, but challenging JC as one would challenge any new party leader thus giving him the chance to state his case and his beliefs.

Naughty Jen It is interesting though