#VoteBike - 2012 London Mayoral elections

Two introductory points.

I would never vote for Johnson or Paddick.

That said, I cannot vote for Livingston.

Livingston is decisive.

He stood against the official Labout candidate 12 years ago thus turning his back on the party which he purports to follow. Most recently he campaigned against an official Labour candidate in the Tower Hamlets election.

I do not think that the Labour Party should support him. I most certainly won't.

His various antisemetic rants, however couched as "jokes", are intolerable.

He is dismissive of the very type of person that he himself is. He deplores middle class white people and excludes them at every turn. His is a London for the marginalised not a London for all Londoners. I believe strongly that every minority must be embraced because I believe that every individual must be embraced. Livingston does not. He divides. He rejects middle class white people (and Jewish people and probably a few other categories of people) and just embraces those that he wishes to embrace. The pick and mix of harmony.

Livingston is, in reality, just about himself and he will harm anyone, harm London, to promote himself.

I think this is a symptom of the fact we are electing a Mayor. Having so much power in one office must be the reason the Mayoral candidates are often so self-important or egotistic.

It's such a shame that the Mayor tends to overshadow the London assembly which is full of less famous, less egotistic politicians who are experts in their field. Why do we need one all powerful personality?

I'd ditch the Mayoral system, say good bye to Boris and Ken and give the power to the assembly. The same way parliament works and the same way most councils work. If there is no fame or fortune to seek London would be run by people who are there for the right reasons and we wouldnt have to bother with all this personality politics.