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I've got my postal ballot papers in front of me here and the manifesto leaflet. What I've noticed is that some of the smaller parties (several of whom I've never heard of before) don't seem to understand what kind of power they will get as Mayor of London.

For example, the 'Left List' candidate, Lindsey German, is promising to "Bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan... spend the money used for war on welfare." I wasn't aware that Ken Livingstone has the power to declare war on other countries.

Boris Johnson seems to have ideas all over the place and is doing the thing of "I'll tell everyone what they want to hear".

UKIP are a bunch of closet racists. The Christian Choice candidate scares me slightly. I wouldn't want anyone who puts any one religion above any other as London Mayor.

The English Democrats candidate has a very strange hairstyle in his photo. He thinks that he has the ability to separate England from Scotland get a government specially for England. He sort of has a point but I don't think we need a dedicated party to sort out the issue.

So many parties I never knew existed. There's an option on the 'London Assembly member' ballot paper for a party called 'Abolish the Congestion Charge'.

What gets me is the way that candidates will run on one issue, such as immigration, Christianity or abolishing the congestion charge. You would never know what else they will do.

Is anyone else voting in the election? Or got any opinions about the candidates (other than Boris Johnson)?

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I'm voting for Ken again. He's the only one with any sort of long term plan.

There was a fantastic programme on C4 the other night regarding immigration. It illustrated just how much the media are misleading the public on how modern migrants operate. The Poles are already returning to Poland in droves and next it will be the turn of the Bulgarians. Before these it was the peoples of the former Empire/Commonwealth and the Irish.

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Its going to be between the big three as the rest, just looked over them on the BBC website, are all former activists aswell as a boxer. If I was able to vote for the London Mayor, I would probably go for the Lib Dems because their candidate for me, is the stand out of the lot. I love Boris Johnson for his pure comedy genious, but that would probably rub onto London and make this country seem more of a joke then it already is.

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I think the Green Party are the only ones with decent ideas that I agree with. I'm not sure how much chance their candidate has, but I'd rather vote for someone I believe in than vote "tactically".

I'm a tactical voter, however much it irks me, getting the best of a bad lot is generally better than a risking a (possibly wasted) vote on a minority.

'To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity'.

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If I were a denizen of London I would likely resolve to vote for the Green Party.

I vote on an ideological basis, and the Greens are consistent with that set of ideas, truths and maxims which amalgamate to form the basic concepts of an overriding inherent ideology that regrettably all too often seems unique to myself on human nature and the natural world.

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Lib Dem or any other party will be a wasted vote. I don't approve of the Tories nor the fact Boris Johnson is only running because he has a bit of celebrity status. But I'd vote for Boris. I don't like the state of Labour at the moment nor Gordon Brown and a vote against him will remove that smug expression from his face.

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If I were a denizen of London I would likely resolve to vote for the Green Party.

I vote on an ideological basis, and the Greens are consistent with that set of ideas, truths and maxims which amalgamate to form the basic concepts of an overriding inherent ideology that regrettably all too often seems unique to myself on human nature and the natural world.

Haha. Serin is hereby knighted 'Sir Russell Brand of the UM'!

I agree in a way though. If I voted with my heart, I'd go Green.

'To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity'.

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BNP All the way

I do hope you're joking. If a BNP candidate looked likely to get in, I would definitely be tactically voting.

There's no point in tactical voting in the election for Assembly member because the more votes the party gets, the more members they get, so I voted for the party I believed in the most.

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I watched some of the question time mayor special last night, My thoughts..

Ken Livingstone claimed the extremly over budget olympics was exactly how he planned.

The Lib Dem Guy has no chance. I dont really see why he had to mention he was openly gay, its not going to have any effect.

Boris is totally bizarre and im glad i dont live in london but Hopefully he wins :P

Btw if your planning on voting for the BNP its probably a wasted vote, they have no chance.

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