Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone?

lgbtpolitics Sun Jul 29, 2007 at 05:59:35 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Andrew Boff may be the only serious challenger to Boris Johnson and a gay candidate would add an interesting element to the primary- there's over a million LGBT Londoners to reach.



PinkNews has an interesting interview with the openly gay Andrew Boff.

 

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=5043 



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Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? | 11 comments (11 topical)

Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#1)

by Mark Colburn on Sun Jul 29, 2007 at 06:25:25 PM GMT

I've never thought that gays vote for other gays. Treating us like a voting bloc is a mistake.

Boff and Boris are two Tories, that's all I need to know. I don't care which one wins their nomination we'll still have to deal with their BS during the election campaign.


Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#7)

by flyingrat on Fri Aug 03, 2007 at 12:45:28 PM GMT

I thing it is demeaning to consider the pink vote as being a 'politics within politics' block who will just vote for anyone as long as they are gay. Playing the gay card is just cynical vote-grubbing in the 21st century where we have out-gay politicians and government ministers who choose not to play that particular line.

 

Why can't he just stand as a Tory and be bashed purely on those grounds, rather than try and corral the gay London vote as "hey look guys, I'm one of you!" 


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Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#10)

by libbysd on Fri Aug 17, 2007 at 12:51:17 AM GMT

He may get some right wing homosexuals who were previously put off by the Tories gay sceptic nature but, otherwise it is tottally unimportant in Modern london


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Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#2)

by NorthernMonkey on Sun Jul 29, 2007 at 10:35:04 PM GMT

Couldn't care less whether he's gay, straight or Australian. He's a Tory and that automatically means he doesn't deserve to win.


Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#3)

by newright on Wed Aug 01, 2007 at 08:36:15 PM GMT

gay candidate so what who cares who some one sleeps with, i don't. if the candidate got some thing worth voting for yes let him stand but just co's hes a creampuff, why should we care.

signed, Newright putting the left back in to labour.


Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#4)

by Lorin on Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 03:45:37 PM GMT

Why are there homosexuals in the party that introduced Section 28???


Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#5)

by fluffymike on Fri Aug 03, 2007 at 08:55:31 AM GMT

I thoguht Brian Paddick was standing?


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Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#6)

by fluffymike on Fri Aug 03, 2007 at 08:55:54 AM GMT

I thoguht Brian Paddick was standing?


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Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#8)

by libbysd on Fri Aug 17, 2007 at 12:47:51 AM GMT

He is, the author missed out that the most senior openly gay police officer in the country is attempting to stand for the liberal democrats. should be interesting though I don't think it matters in a place like london nowadays whether your gay unless of course you simply get labelled as the gay candidate and are unable to get your issues across.


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Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#9)

by libbysd on Fri Aug 17, 2007 at 12:49:25 AM GMT

Because they are conservatives. Sure they may reesent the actions of the sour tories but at heart they are right wing and thus the conservatives are their natural homes even if there is quiet homophobia among some members.


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Re: Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? (#11)

by champagnesocialist on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 01:22:46 PM GMT

Interestingly I have a friend who is gay and also a cyclist who has always voted Labour in the past but who welcomed the development saying that this time there were real alternatives to Ken - either he can vote for a gay man (Paddick) or a cyclist (Johnson) or Ken who he perceived had done very little for either cyclists or gay people.


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Could a gay candidate take on Ken Livingstone? | 11 comments (11 topical)