Laila Cunningham - Reform's London Mayoral Candidate

[s1962a]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/laila-cun...

A worthy candidate for the 2028 London Mayoral election.

I'm pleased that finally there is a contender that Londoners will actually vote for. Someone who has lives here and understands how it works and what is important to many Londoners.

[WH16]

OT I guess, but how does anyone manage to read a website like that? It's like the site itself has ADHD.

[Terminator X]

I've dropped off of social media for Jan 26 but last year I did follow her and imho she seems to have "reasonable" views on things that seem to be important for the UK. Didn't realize she was London centric or is it just a candidate is a candidate?

TX.

[STe_rsv4]

Hopefully she can out Kahn. What happened with Ant Middleton running for MOL?

[MrBogSmith]

Standard said:

When questioned about accusations of Reforms’ “fantasy economics”, with a series of promises costing tens of billions of pounds, she said: “Have you ever looked at any manifesto and it adds up?” - before saying she had not looked at the figures.

Brilliant.

[oyster]

s1962a said:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/laila-cun...

A worthy candidate for the 2028 London Mayoral election.

I'm pleased that finally there is a contender that Londoners will actually vote for. Someone who has lives here and understands how it works and what is important to many Londoners.

I just knew ULEZ would be in there somewhere. Let it go - that was 2023. ULEZ removal would be a vote loser.

[butchstewie]

STe_rsv4 said:

Hopefully she can out Kahn. What happened with Ant Middleton running for MOL?

A stream of crap like this presumably.

Said for ages Reform need to professionalise and unless I've missed something Cunningham is at least an attempt at that.

[Terminator X]

oyster said:

s1962a said:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/laila-cun...

A worthy candidate for the 2028 London Mayoral election.

I'm pleased that finally there is a contender that Londoners will actually vote for. Someone who has lives here and understands how it works and what is important to many Londoners.

I just knew ULEZ would be in there somewhere. Let it go - that was 2023. ULEZ removal would be a vote loser.

A vote loser, why so? The opportunity to not pay a fee would surely be welcome.

TX.

[Randy Winkman]

Terminator X said:

oyster said:

s1962a said:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/laila-cun...

A worthy candidate for the 2028 London Mayoral election.

I'm pleased that finally there is a contender that Londoners will actually vote for. Someone who has lives here and understands how it works and what is important to many Londoners.

I just knew ULEZ would be in there somewhere. Let it go - that was 2023. ULEZ removal would be a vote loser.

A vote loser, why so? The opportunity to not pay a fee would surely be welcome.

TX.

I'd suggest that very few people pay anything and by the time the next London election comes it will be even fewer.

[Vanden Saab]

Randy Winkman said:

Terminator X said:

oyster said:

s1962a said:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/laila-cun...

A worthy candidate for the 2028 London Mayoral election.

I'm pleased that finally there is a contender that Londoners will actually vote for. Someone who has lives here and understands how it works and what is important to many Londoners.

I just knew ULEZ would be in there somewhere. Let it go - that was 2023. ULEZ removal would be a vote loser.

A vote loser, why so? The opportunity to not pay a fee would surely be welcome.

TX.

I'd suggest that very few people pay anything and by the time the next London election comes it will be even fewer.

17 million individual payments is very few people?

[markh1973]

Vanden Saab said:

Randy Winkman said:

Terminator X said:

oyster said:

s1962a said:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/laila-cun...

A worthy candidate for the 2028 London Mayoral election.

I'm pleased that finally there is a contender that Londoners will actually vote for. Someone who has lives here and understands how it works and what is important to many Londoners.

I just knew ULEZ would be in there somewhere. Let it go - that was 2023. ULEZ removal would be a vote loser.

A vote loser, why so? The opportunity to not pay a fee would surely be welcome.

TX.

I'd suggest that very few people pay anything and by the time the next London election comes it will be even fewer.

17 million individual payments is very few people?

If ULEZ itself was a vote winner then the result would have been different last time. If that is combined with other sensible policies then it may help.

It should though come with an explanation of how the revenue is going to be replaced.

I'm sure I read that Tory defectors weren't going to be selected as Reform candidates but here we have a major political role and the candidate uses to be a Tory.

[Scrimpton]

MrBogSmith said:

Standard said:

When questioned about accusations of Reforms fantasy economics , with a series of promises costing tens of billions of pounds, she said: Have you ever looked at any manifesto and it adds up? - before saying she had not looked at the figures.

Brilliant.

Love it

[amusingduck]

butchstewie said:

A stream of crap like this presumably.

Said for ages Reform need to professionalise and unless I've missed something Cunningham is at least an attempt at that.

Forget the tone - do you disagree with the substance of that post? I reckon you'd agree with every point if somebody made the case more elequently

[butchstewie]

I think the point is that if you can't make your point in a respectful and eloquent way perhaps you're not cut out to be in that kind of role.

You can make a point respectfully and people might disagree with you which is where I think Cunningham is from what I've seen and heard of her or you can make yourself sound like a knuckle dragging Tommy Robinson lite.

Middleton also went to prison for Assault and Unlawful Wounding.

If you were Farage who would you choose?

Who would you want representing you on the world (London is a global city) stage?

[Bill]

Vanden Saab said:

17 million individual payments is very few people?

Could be 1 person, could be 17m... What timescale is that over??

[Randy Winkman]

Bill said:

Vanden Saab said:

17 million individual payments is very few people?

Could be 1 person, could be 17m... What timescale is that over??

Yes - when I drive around SE London I really notice the vehicles that look like they'd have to pay ULEZ. They do stand out. Perhaps it's more of a van thing though and I'm not so good on ID'ing vans.

[valiant]

Vanden Saab said:

17 million individual payments is very few people?

And how many of those were from drivers from outside London?

Ulez was a mostly non issue when people realised that most cars are compliant and every year that goes by, more and more people change to complaint cars and all of a sudden they don't care.

The last tory hopeful campaigned on it and lost the election.

[Bill]

Had a look and apparently 97% of vehicles are compliant, and there are 29,000 ish charges a month. So 348k a year. Even among the 2.5 million possible voters that's bugger all.

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/ulez-online-factsheet-j...

[MrBogSmith]

Bill said:

Had a look and apparently 97% of vehicles are compliant, and there are 29,000 ish charges a month. So 348k a year. Even among the 2.5 million possible voters that's bugger all.

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/ulez-online-factsheet-j...

I imagine it appeals to the climate change-denying types who want to 'stick it to the man', even if they're not in London.

Much like their stupid 'net zero' proposal that makes no sense does.

[Bill]

As an ex-Tory she could claim credit as it's been very effective?