New Mayor of London Boris Johnson is Racist?

so how many of you went to the polling station?

The thing will Ken Livingstone was that he too comfortable with the job he shot everyone down with his overwhelming PR crew- except that guy from evening standard-Andrew
And he was also playing the ethnic minority card too much he did a lot for them but at the same time they are still a minority in London and half of them don't even vote!!

I think if there was a different labour candidate he would probably have won he's been there Eight years!!
having a person like Gordon brown as the leader of labour party doesn't help either

If the conservatives don't curb Boris Johnson's buffoonery they wont win anything in a major election, so i think labour can count on Boris to F up big time! who wants the tinny routemaster when there's free bendy bus

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You really can't say that blacks have no unity of purpose. If you look at the poll results, you will see that Ken had majority of votes in the areas with large black population:
Southwark and Lambeth: Ken 48% and Boris 29%
Greenwich and Lewisham: Ken 42% and Boris 34%
City and East: Ken 50% and Boris 26% (Note the East in this constituency is the one with a large black population)

This shows that blacks were united in voting. I don't expect black votes to make a relatively huge difference in the election results. Afterall, what is the percentage of blacks compared to whites in London and elsewhere in the country? People obviously wanted a change from Ken after 8 years and whereas, Labour did not make Ken's matter any better as G. Brown has not been perceived to be bringing up policies that are favourable to the people.

Since Boris has been publicly percieved to be racist, then i expect him not to act in ways to confirm that he is one. I don't believe that majority of whites really want migrants out of the country. What annoys them is when migrants are given priority over them in terms of housing, education, benefits, e.t.c. Do your colleagues or classmates think you shouldn't be here in the first place? The average UK citizen want immigration controls, not necessarily complete freeze on immigration. Afterall, British people are heavy migrants too, migrating to France, spain, Portugal, Australia, e.t.c. Boris has no direct or major say in determining immigration in the UK. He controls London affairs and this largely concerns Transportation, Fire and police/security. Those are the main areas he oversees in this city. His win means the conservatives will become bolder in trying to win the hearts of the people. Did anyone of you see how no one wanted to sit near the BNP guy in the London assembly meeting last week? It was hilarious!

The bottomline is that our leaders should get their acts together in Nigeria. Most Irish people who migrated have returned to Ireland in recent periods as the country is now very prosperous. If Nigerians return, it is obvious that they will be concentrated in the major cities so overpopulation will definitely be an issue.

roflmao!

I like your thought process and ideas.

However, the fact that your mates don't think you should not be here does not mean they don't think every other black person should not be here. Why else do you think political parties always make immigration their main issue at campaign time? They know what they hear on the doorsteps.

If Nigeria was a well-run country, I may not have returned to the UK anyway.

Couldn't have been better said!!!

Why is it that killings in Greenwich, Peckham and Lewisham don't get that much newspaper coverage again?
Because it now happens every other month.
But that doesn't mean we are more than the rest in terms of immigration, just that we're the ones causing the trouble.