As a Salford Councillor I don’t tend to blog about local politics in London unless there’s a local angle to it. Today, however, I will make a brief exception.
Our candidate for London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has just launched a new website to support his campaign, and to be perfectly frank it is one of the best political websites I have ever seen. It is exceptionally well-designed, clear, concise, attractive and easy to navigate. A great job - hats off to the designers!
Of course, Boris has a strong history of using new technology well. He was the first Conservative MP to start a blog, after all.
Good website. Shame about the candidate.
I’m bowled over by the depth of your argument, Adele…
When the candidate is such a prize chump (some say goon, some say twerp) a reasoned debate is hardly the way to voice displeasure.
Ok, I’ll add a bit of depth then, Boris Johnson has written of Africa that ‘the problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more’; has described South Africa under Nelson Mandela as the ‘majority tyranny of black rule’; and he has written in relation to African people that ‘left to their own devices, the natives would rely on nothing but the instant carbohydrate gratification of the plantain’.
He has also written that the Stephen Lawrence inquiry was ‘Ceaucescu-ish’ ‘hysteria’, with the ‘whiff of a witch-hunt’, and described it as ‘Orwellian’
I can’t believe that you can’t see the implications of choosing someone that thinks it is ok to make those comments to lead the most diverse city in London.