It’s Boris!

Yes, ‘the blondest suicide note in history’ has romped home to victory in the Tories’ London mayoral primary. The results were:

  • Boris Johnson: 15,661 votes
  • Victoria Borwick: 1,869
  • Andrew Boff: 1,674
  • Warwick Lightfoot: 609
  • The vote was open to all seven million of London’s voters, so it’s good to see a super turn-out of 0.2%.

    As LDV reported last week, though, the Tories may just have cut their own throats. And anyone who listened to Boris being interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning might be forgiven for wondering how on earth the Tories think they’ll sustain a credible campaign with Boris at the helm.

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    12 Comments

    • Weren’t they chargeing something like a £1.5 to vote in the primary? They must have made a deccent bit of money for their campaign fund out of it.

    • What alarms me is the thought that there are 1,869 people RIGHT NOW within thirty miles of where I am sitting who voted for Victoria Borwick.

      Increasingly, I fear her and her hair.

    • So how many people will be selecting the Lib Dem candidate?

    • Grammar Police 27th Sep '07 - 1:18pm

      Er, but Letters from a Tory, the man’s a joke

    • Benjamin Mathis 28th Sep '07 - 6:23pm

      I think one of the trolls on our LDYS forum put it best.

      “If the answer is Boris, it must be a very silly queston”

    • totallylibdem 29th Sep '07 - 11:02am

      We need to be careful about rubbishing a high profile Tory candidate when we our candidate whoever it is likely to be an a light weight

      Why did none of our high profile members risk fighting Ken?

      Could it be because we have given up before we have started?

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