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CrabCake
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« on: December 05, 2014, 01:57:34 AM » |
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A GaussLaw vs Goldwater battle for the Mayoralty of Greater London would be an intriguing mess. Neither GaussLAw's socially conservative economically populist message nor Goldwater's admiration of such figures as is namesake would set the Labour-leaning city alight. I think GaussLaw could pull it off narrowly by playing it safe - less focus on religious issues per se, more of an appeal to stability, law and order and possibly a safe deal on trains.
I think Goldwater would be seen as too risky for a city that is largely confident of its place in the world and sceptical of a "foreign" idealogy like libertarianism. He might win somewhere like Kensington or areas of cosmopolitan commuters like Finchley. Ethnic minority areas - Tower Hamlets, Tottenham, Edmonton - etc. would rocket downwards in turnout, as would the hipster boroughs like Islington.
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