London Mayoral Election

Khan is out campaigning for REMAIN in EU today with Cameron. Impressed that Khan has not let any grudges about attacks by Cameron during the mayoral election campaign get in the way of the greater good.

Not surprised Durhamjen there are a lot of bah-humbuggers amongst those who wish to leave.

I watched the London Assembly Mayor's Question Time - the equivalent of PMQs - yesterday. It was a breath of fresh air. The members could put forward questions - usually written but they could have follow up questions to clarify. Their desks were in a horse shoe shape with the Mayor on his own at the top - no cronies . The questions and answer could not be political; they had to be about the substance. One clever little Conservative thought he was an MP but was told not to be political and Sadiq Khan - so soon after the election - so not surprising wandered into election speak at one point but was again pulled back. He could not ask questions but had to answer those put to him. He could prevaricate of course but it would have been very obvious and there was no barracking, jeering or braying. Oh that parliament could be like that and the PM held to similar account.

Should this not be on the EU Referendum thread anyway?

☀️ or ☔️ Is it really our choice?

I think our climate will probably remain unchanged. (A bigger thing than a vote)
Or have you indeed had a portent, as you say?
(See below, to be read in a strong Borsetshire accent for English authenticity)

" St Swithun’s day Referendum day if thou dost rain Brexit obtain
For forty days it will remain
St Swithun’s day Referendum day if thou be fair and they don't get there
For forty days ‘twill rain nae mare"

(What has this to do with the London Mayoral elections BTW?)

I wonder what will happen to the climate if the brexiters win. Have I had a portent?

Just read that the Brexit campaign is led by climate change deniers. It's not just Farage.

www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/brexit-campaign-leadership-dominated-by-climate-sceptics/

Johnson, Gove and Lawson.

Nathan Gill UKIP Wales definitely does not believe in climate change. Not sure whether this is Mormon thing or just a stupid thing?

so it was a darkened room
scary

I was at my son's when I read it, looking after the grandchildren as my son and his partner were out running.
What was really strange was that it was sunny when I started reading it, but when I finished the sky went dark and we had hailstone, thunder and lightning.
I bet Farage does not believe in climate change, either.

Hope you had a lie down in a darkened room afterwards

Or did you have a pint?

The greater good of non-kippers?
I must admit, I found it hard. I imagine the interviewer did as well!

whose good? (not yours probably!)

There are occasions when you have to do something you do not like, Jalima; for the greater good, you understand.

I was reading an interview with Farage (sorry)
that has made me durhamjen

The members of UKIP Wales elected Nathan Gill as leader . The UKIP assembly members voted Hamilton leader of UKIP in the Senydd - seven of them, so he must have had at least four votes

Neil Hamilton was told off in the Senedd yesterday by the presiding officer, for his intemperate and sexist language last week. He started protesting and she told him she did not want to hear another word from him on the subject. Watch this space.

Oh did he. There were weeks of squabbling before they finalised the candidates for the Assembly elections. Nathan Gill MEP, AM is actually still the leader of UKIP in Wales, but Hamilton is the leader of the UKIP group in the Assembly.

I was reading an interview with Farage (sorry) and he said he was horrified that Hamilton was selected for Wales and ousted the previous UKIP leader.

Ah the joy of data.
As is this. UKIP vote was very low in Mayoral Election. Less than 4%. Set this against the 17% across the country in the general election last year. 13% in the Welsh Assembly elections this month.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_mayoral_election,_2016

This is an interesting analysis of the mayoral election.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/devolution/2016/05/victory-london-was-jeremy-corbyn-s-not-sadiq-khan-s

I didn't expect this at all. It would be interesting to know what Sadiq Khan thinks about it.

A spokesman for Johnson on Tuesday defended his record on air pollution as mayor and said he had not hid its impact from Londoners. “To suggest Boris Johnson’s administration was somehow trying to hide the extent of London’s air quality issues is risible,” he said.

But Katie King, director at Oxford-based environmental consultancy Aether and the author of the 2013 report, said that the GLA had publicly disclosed the positive conclusions in the report – that the number of people exposed to illegal pollution would fall by 2020 – but had held back the negative findings.

“The crux of the report was about understanding the inequalities of air pollution, so they chose not to make public the findings regarding inequality,” she told the Guardian. “The information that they did take from the report was the positive, that exposure was predicted to fall in the future.”

Anyone know anyone who lives in the affected area, with children at those schools?
I notice the Guardian article has over 1700 comments after it.

Not just the Lords, roses. Half the population lie about that.