New Mayor of London shows most people don't support the racist agenda

I don't think the Tories ever considered inviting Livingstone to stand for them, albeit that over the years he must have been one of the Conservative Party's greatest electoral assets and even now he seems like the gift that keeps on giving.

Ha, don't be slippery, you mentioned Labour people as well as Tories.

Like I said, I think Ken's genius for politics in his old, sane incarnation, is something Nulli doesn't like to dwell on.

You seem to be confused. I am celebrating the fact that the Tory attacks did not work. It was they who attempted to brand him as a Muslim extremist. To argue that it was the Labour Party is five star ********.

It's good news for everyone!
I'm happy about it.

Craaaaaap - ever since this started the Labour Party has been wanting to make this an "Obama" moment. The truth of the matter is the Khan is not a muslim in any meaningful way (eg he has voted in favour of same sex marriage and more or less every "right on" liberal idea going at total odds with more or less everything Islam stands for).

The conservatives RESPONDED with their failed "hate" campaign but it was the Labour party that made this election focus on the "Lets prove we're not Islamophobic". I suspect this might have damaged the fabric of London for a while - it will be harder to critise Islam without appearing to be a right wing extremist.... As this whole thread sort of proves.... There actually have been posts on this thread where it has been suggested that those opposed to Khan are racist (or similar).

"If you don't agree with everything I say then you're a racist, even though religious dogmas aren't races and people who follow the ideologies associated with it come from all races imaginable. This is because I see all Muslims as brown people so therefore you also do" - OP and most other social justice warriors

Craaaaaap - ever since this started the Labour Party has been wanting to make this an "Obama" moment. The truth of the matter is the Khan is not a muslim in any meaningful way (eg he has voted in favour of same sex marriage and more or less every "right on" liberal idea going at total odds with more or less everything Islam stands for).

The conservatives RESPONDED with their failed "hate" campaign but it was the Labour party that made this election focus on the "Lets prove we're not Islamophobic". I suspect this might have damaged the fabric of London for a while - it will be harder to critise Islam without appearing to be a right wing extremist.... As this whole thread sort of proves.... There actually have been posts on this thread where it has been suggested that those opposed to Khan are racist (or similar).

"We're going to smear anyone who is a Muslim and who stands for high office using terrorism as the pretext and with the calculated tone and insulting manner used by people like UKIP, even though we are supposedly nice, safe, middle of the road, One Nation Tories, to define brown people and anyone frankly that we don't like as strange, debased, savage and 'other' in a way that exactly replicates the racist attitudes that underlie it. We won't challenge in any way the entrenched British colonialist and imperialist mindset that feeds these attitudes and when challenged, we will claim it is all the fault of the Left and that it is them who are confused and not us who play the race and religious hate cards whenever it looks as though members of the ethnic minorities are getting above their station." - D Cameron and a lot of the hate posters on TSR.

Which is why the Tories ran the GLC from 1967 to 1973 and from 1977 to 1981.

I meant in recent years

time will tell

time will tell

You choose the mayor because of their skills, not their religion, race, colour or whatnot. Obviously he had a great campaign and it worked.

That is a very unusual use of the word "always"

A big majority of Londoners voted for a Muslim Mayor of London. Far, far more than just the Muslims living in London.

It's no wonder that we are seeing a rash of xenophobic and racist-oriented UKIP-style threads on TSR this morning, as the far right go into shock that a clear majority of people don't share their views, won't react to their dog whistle politics and believe that a tolerant, multiracial London is not just possible but a current reality.

Will the right wing headbangers please take a lesson from this and stop trying to fill TSR with hate messages every morning? Pretty please?

Absolutely agree 100%

I wish I could rep more

A big majority of Londoners voted for a Muslim Mayor of London. Far, far more than just the Muslims living in London.

It's no wonder that we are seeing a rash of xenophobic and racist-oriented UKIP-style threads on TSR this morning, as the far right go into shock that a clear majority of people don't share their views, won't react to their dog whistle politics and believe that a tolerant, multiracial London is not just possible but a current reality.

Will the right wing headbangers please take a lesson from this and stop trying to fill TSR with hate messages every morning? Pretty please?

A big majority of Londoners voted for a Muslim Mayor of London. Far, far more than just the Muslims living in London.

It's no wonder that we are seeing a rash of xenophobic and racist-oriented UKIP-style threads on TSR this morning, as the far right go into shock that a clear majority of people don't share their views, won't react to their dog whistle politics and believe that a tolerant, multiracial London is not just possible but a current reality.

Will the right wing headbangers please take a lesson from this and stop trying to fill TSR with hate messages every morning? Pretty please?