Johnson wins London mayoral race [Londoners go conservative]

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Johnson wins London mayoral race [Londoners go conservative]

Politics – Boris Johnson has won the race to become the next mayor of London - ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall. The Conservative candidate won with 1,168,738 first and second preference votes, compared with Mr Livingstone's 1,028,966 on a record turnout of 45%.

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Rating: +6 (+6/-0) | 2008-05-03 15:12:53

libsRfunny

"Mr Johnson's victory crowns the Conservative Party's May Day local election wins in England and Wales."

Lemme see ... Italy, France, Germany, the EU and now London and the U.K. all going conservative. Socialism is losing ground.

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Rating: +6 (+6/-0) | 2008-05-03 15:12:00

libsRfunny

FTA: "Mr Livingstone's defeat ended what Gordon Brown called a 'bad' day for Labour, in which it suffered its worst council results for 40 years.

"Asked by the BBC what his views were on the poor Labour showing, Mr Johnson said: 'The smart thing for Labour to do would be to quietly to remove Gordon Brown and install [Foreign Secretary David] Miliband, is my view, but I don't think they'll do it.'"

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Rating: +6 (+6/-0) | 2008-05-03 15:15:55

Dicax_Maximus

Good riddance to bad rubbish (LivingCrone).... Alas, he'll probably end up with a job in the EU's parliment.... Where he can cause yet more damage & feed from the trough.....

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Rating: +6 (+6/-0) | 2008-05-03 17:43:59

Nixie

I find it interesting that in places where they have lately had a liberal government, they are now electing conservative leaders, ie. France, England. Conservatism seems to be on the rise. Liberal Americans should be embarrassed that the Europeans are wising up sooner than they are.

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Rating: +7 (+7/-0) | 2008-05-03 18:46:16

Endoscopy

There is a conservative wind blowing in Europe. France and Germany. Now part of England.

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Rating: +3 (+3/-0) | 2008-05-03 22:26:58

Silverghost

The London Brits have gone Conservative! Amazing! There's hope for the world yet! LOL -Rev. S

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Rating: +0 (+0/-0) | 2008-05-04 09:41:28

Wolfie2007

Well, after a while even the most obtuse usually realize that socialism never works anywhere or any time it's tried and capitalism works every time it's tried every where.

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 42 votes / 2 sinks