On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:08:16PM -0700, John B wrote:

I'm deeply sceptical, although it's possible that the people you spoke
to were idiots. In real life, bendies provide a much better service
than other buses on a given route.

That is, I'm afraid, not true.

Route 38 had a better service before it went all bendy. By which I mean
there were more seats (which were more comfortable) and a more frequent
service, with journey times being about the same. There was also less
fare-dodging.

The people of London didn't want Boris as their mayor. The people of
various unsavoury outposts that the Tories gerrymandered into Greater
London in the first place to end Labour's dominance of the County of
London wanted Boris as their mayor; the people of actual London voted
for Ken.

If what you say was true, then Livingstone wouldn't have got in in the
first place. Nor would Labour have won the GLC elections in 1964, 1973,
and 1981.

He lost because he stood as a Labour party candidate at a time when
Labour are deeply unpopular. If he'd stayed as an independent right
from the start, he would, I am sure, have done better, maybe even well
enough to win.

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