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Red Ken or Blue Boris

April 29th, 2008

I must admit that I have never liked politics much. I hated it at school and haven’t taken a huge amount of interest in it over the years, other then when there has been the odd dodgy photo - like when Cherie got snapped accepting a bouquet of flowers one morning looking rather worse for wear.

However, over the past couple of weeks I have been becoming increasingly more interested in who is going to be our next Mayor of London. Would I vote for someone who admitted that he ‘deliberately trapped the Government into bidding for the 2012 Olympics to attract fund for developing the city’s run down East End area’ as reported in The Telegraph or do I vote for someone who says that ‘If you vote for the Conservatives, your wife will get bigger breasts and your chances of driving a BMW M3 will increase.’ Mmmm a close call.

A few key policies are:

Ken’s policies are to improve London transport, reduce crime by adding more police to our streets and having dedicated teams in our neighbourhoods, affordable housing, more fines for gas guzzlers and rewards for green car drivers and also reintroducing youth centres (a £78million programme).

Boris’s policies are to reduce crime by working with police and communities, improve London transport both safety and regularity, improve air quality, keep our streets clean and have affordable housing.

So really there isn’t much in it and it may simply come down to the individual personalities and who you can trust to work in the best interests of our capital.

Other than the problem of finding a differentiating factor between the two main candidates, the other problem expected to hit voters is the voting system. The Telegraph is reporting that the system is far too complex and fear that there may be a lot of forms that are discounted due to them being filled in incorrectly.

So if you are voting, make sure you read the instructions and complete the forms really carefully to ensure that your vote counts.

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