Elections: Labour's Sadiq Khan 'set to win London mayoral race'

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: BBC

Sadiq Khan looks set to become the new Mayor of London - boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland's elections.

Mr Khan, who would be the city's first Muslim mayor, is on course for victory over Conservative Zac Goldsmith.

The result would bolster leader Jeremy Corbyn after Labour were beaten into third in Scotland by the Tories and lost English councillors.

In Scotland, the SNP said it would form a minority government after winning its third election in a row in Scotland.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-36232392

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[KamaAina]

1. A Muslim mayor? So the whole of London is now a no-go zone?

[MowCowWhoHow III]

2. Regent street is...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. She's a nasty piece of work. Make Hopkins keep her word. Remind her of it.

On 17 April 2015, Hopkins wrote a column in The Sun comparing migrants to "cockroaches" and "feral humans" and said they were "spreading like the norovirus". Her remarks were condemned by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. In a statement released on 24 April 2015, High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein stated that Hopkins' used “language very similar to that employed by Rwanda’s Kangura newspaper and Radio Mille Collines during the run up to the 1994 genocide”, and noted that both media organizations were subsequently convicted by an international tribunal of public incitement to commit genocide.

{...} Simon Usborne, writing in The Independent, compared her use of the word "cockroach" to previous uses by the Nazis and just before the Rwandan Genocide by its perpetrators.

In 2009, Katie Hopkins stood as MEP for the South West England Constituency as an Independent candidate. She polled 8,971 votes or 0.6% percent of the total votes cast.

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[malthaussen]

4. I suppose this is unprecedented?

Centuries of old imperialists must be spinning in their graves under Westminster Abbey.

I confess I have no idea who Katie Hopkins is, and it would seem from her quote that I lose nothing by it.

-- Mal

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Imagine Ann Coulter with even less charm or intelligence

and you've got Hopkins. She was a contestant on the British version of The Apprentice, and she's since made a living by saying nasty things about people.

[malthaussen]

7. It is possible my imagination cannot extend that far...

... but I will try to encompass it ** shudder **

-- Mal

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Sausage

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/06/katie-hopkins-vowed-to-humiliate-herself-in-public-if-sadiq-khan/

[T_i_B]

8. Pass the chorizo...

I originally thought that Goldsmith would win easily, but he fought a dreadful, bigoted campaign.

Sadiq Khan by contrast proved to be a very good candidate.

[rurallib]

9. so bigoted he could be Trump's VP