Sadiq Khan

[smurfchops]

How do we vote on May 2nd?  Online?? 

[Atheist]

davebro; you can have an opinion, but you don't have a vote. I don't like Trump or Putin, but I don't expect to have a vote.

[davebro3]

so will you vote for Khan or just be a good loser?

[davebro3]

& was it worth getting off the sofa?

[-SharonA-]

Davebro have you see the agendas of the other candidates?? Especially Count Binface? Would you vote for him? 

[ichkeria]

I think Binface needs to be heard 😄

BTW London has always had lots of immigrants ...

[davebro3]

Sharon - why would I look at the agendas for candidates I can't vote for?

[davebro3]

//BTW London has always had lots of immigrants ...//

Yes - that's why it's almost totally different from the rest of the country (for now). 

[fraser]

iamnot in london if i was britain first, nick scalon take our country back, commom sense really.

[-SharonA-]

Count Binface: Perennial trashcan-helmeted candidate seeks nomination once again. Previous policies include halving the Tories and bringing back CEEFAX.

Yeah right!!!!

[douglas9401]

I identify as a Londoner, where's my vote?

[-SharonA-]

Sharon - why would I look at the agendas for candidates I can't vote for?

Well you seem to have an opinion on us voting for Khan. So who is better?

[jno]

London provides about a quarter of the national GDP, the rest of you are just leeches. Ceefax is all you deserve. However, aspirational Londoners like douglas can sit a test. I think it involvesriding one of thse rib boats on the Thames. Most immigrants seem to pass.

[jourdain2]

London gets all the money and so can thrive.  The rest used to power the UK (Ind. Rev.) but can scarcely do so when major, busy A roads (just one example) remain un-dualled so tractors have the power, just by going onto them (which they have to) to halt everything.  I could cite so many things jno. New linking railways in London? No problem.  Dual the A64 (been proposed since the 1960s)?  Don't hold your breath.

Seriously, very seriously, the feeling now around  is that London is nothing to do with the rest of the country.

[jno]

you should demand levelling up for your region, jourdain, I'm sure one of the parties will oblige. 😕

[New Judge]

"It  was held to be an honour.  That's why I think postal voting should be severely restricted."

You may (or may not) be aware of the case of Lutfur Rahman, jourdain.

In 2014 Mr Rahman was elected as Mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. There was widespread suspicion that voter fraud had influenced the result and among the suspicions was the “harvesting” of postal votes. An “election petition” was raised, contesting the result. Here’s a few passages from the trial transcript:

"Mr Mukit was astonished to discover several voters who told him that they had voted by post at a time when the postal votes had not yet been sent out. It turned out that these voters had been induced to hand over their completed ATV (Application for postal vote) forms in the belief that they were actually voting. Mr Mukit discovered evidence that at one address, 7 Bacon Street E1 6LF, seven postal votes had been ‘collected by Mr Rahman’s men’."

"Miss Millgan told the court:
We also visited another address, 37 Cavell Street, E1, a small block of about twelve flats reserved for elderly Bangladeshi people, where I was told that a number of the residents had had their blank ballot papers taken from them against their will by supporters of Lutfur Rahman and Tower Hamlets First. Through the translator, one resident told me that this had indeed occurred. She said: “A woman came and said, we are here from Lutfur Rahman’s party. Many people of your age have voted for him already, so I’m here to take your vote. They came to me and took my signature and then took the blank ballot paper from me. I normally go to the polling station. I told them I was used to doing it myself and didn’t understand why it was different this year. I am a long-term Labour supporter and would never have supported Lutfur Rahman…”

After a trial lasting 30 days, on 23 April 2015, Mr Rahman was found in a civil finding personally guilty of corrupt and illegal practices. He was disqualified from standing for election for five years and ordered to pay £250,000 costs. The court also declared the election result void and a fresh election was ordered.

So what happened to Mr Rahman? He promptly declared himself bankrupt, unable to pay the costs. He was a solicitor and on 20 December 2017 the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the charges brought against Lutfur Rahman to be proven. These included: (1) failing to uphold the rule of law and administration of justice, (2) failing to act with integrity and (3) failing to behave in a way that maintains the trust the public places in him and in the provision of legal services. He was struck off the Roll of Solicitors, and ordered to pay £86,400 costs.

And I almost forgot: in 2022 he was elected again as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets.

[davebro3]

//Well you seem to have an opinion on us voting for Khan. So who is better?//

 

me

[zebo]

//That's why I think postal voting should be severely restricted.//

 

It shouldn't be allowed at all, there are also students who will postal vote where their parents live and vote in person where they study.  There is no attempt to verify the electoral roles.

[Gromit]

The Tory candidate is a loon and stands no chance of winning.

Hence the references to voter fraud and shenanigans. Of which there is no evidence. 

So she loses and that confirms the false allegations of  electoral fraud. After an inestigation no electoral fraud is discovered. And hpefully she fecks off to annoy a charity or an hedge fund.

[jourdain2]

N.J. Thanks for that.  I was in France at the time so although I vaguely heard of Rahman I didn't know too much about it. Race and religion will always override everything. Depressing isn't it? 

 

[-SharonA-]

And I almost forgot: in 2022 he was elected again as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets.

I must say I cannot ever recall having to vote for a local mayor for my area (Walthamstow). So how was Mr Rahman voted back in???