The Tory Troll has a good analysis of why the Sun has today decided to throw its weight behind Boris in the Mayoral election.

I suppose ‘the Scum’ and Boris do have a lot in common. They’re certainly both very popular in Liverpool.

The Sun is not known for backing losers: indeed, they tend to wait until as near to polling day as possible to come out for anyone, so they have the maximum possible opinion poll information on which to base their ’support’, ready to claim it was them ‘wot won it’ a few days later.

Unfortunately the result of their track record at backing winners is that I’ve heard a few people expressing defeatist sentiments today in the wake of their endorsement of the blond buffoon. People are saying "this is it, it’s all over, we’re going to have to accept that Boris will be Mayor," which is a very disappointing stance to be taking with over a week to go until the election.

And in this election, the polling evidence is extremely mixed. There is a tendency towards Boris being in the lead, but there have been several polls where he isn’t, and in many of the ones where he is it’s by less than the margin of error, making his lead in those statistically meaningless.

So don’t let the Sun trick you into thinking this is all over. It’s very far from over. We still have nine more days until the polls close and there is not a moment to waste in spreading the message to everyone we know in London.

Remember the key points here:

• Boris is not serious enough to do the important job of Mayor of London and manage an £11bn budget. This is the most important point to drive home as it’s this fear that is getting progressively stronger in the opinion polls as time goes by and people see how bumbling he is on TV etc.
• Boris can’t be trusted to get decisions right: he denied climate change was a problem for years, opposed gay marriage, supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, campaigned actively for George W Bush to get elected in the USA in 2000 and 2004… you know the list by now. On many of these things he has come around to the mainstream way of thinking, but not for years after getting them wrong and basing his political actions on having them wrong. As Mayor he has to get his decisions right first time or he’ll waste millions on erroneous policies.
• Boris has been renowned for his incompetence in every job he’s ever done. He was sacked from his first job for making up a quote to print in the Times. He was sacked from the Tory front bench twice! And one of his staff when he ran the Spectator recently wrote that even suggesting he used to choose where to take the staff to lunch overstated his level of involvement in managing the organisation.
• Lots of Boris’s policies are completely undeliverable: his manifesto is a fantasy document, not something that can be taken seriously. Promising an airport he can’t build in an area he doesn’t control, or a no-strike deal with a union who’ve insisted in response that they’ll never sign one, or a Routemaster bus that hasn’t even been designed and might well not be, is wishful thinking, not a political manifesto.

I say those are the key points, but really they’re just the ones that came to mind just then. There are so many: this is the 122nd post on this blog so there are quite a few others knocking about here. So really, tell whoever you’re speaking to whatever reasons there are to oppose Boris which you think will appeal to that particular person.

Just don’t give up on the campaign now. We can do this.

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