Random Variable

Here’s Infinite Thought:

As Don Letts put it: ‘They used to say don’t trust anyone over 30, but today I don’t trust anyone under 30 – let’s be blunt: today’s young are spoilt motherfuckers.’ Reared on warmed-over irony, children’s cartoons, cynicism and celebrity medja, those puffed up bastards who work in the city and offices all over London are exactly the kind of person who’d think: ‘wouldn’t it be hilarious if Boris Johnson was mayor, huh huh huh’. You fucking idiots! My generation can go to hell, spawn of Thatcher and Hobbes, with their fucking egotism and ‘what’s in it for me?’ attitude, trained like Pavlov’s puppies to respond only to money and to, like, stuff. Wankers, the lot of them.

Don’t take out your anger on us, at least not all of us. The views of people I know amongst the under thirties were (in descending order or popularity):

1. Why would anyone vote for Boris. Vote Ken. Tell everyone you know to vote for Ken. Shout it from the fucking rooftops.
2. We are libertarians. Johnson rox! Lolz. (approx 10%).
3. What election? (approx 20%).

That’s still 70% of us who are not wankers.

I think it was the bread and peace model that showed itself at work here. If economic growth falls below a certain point, then the incumbent loses. At the end of the day, it came down to issues. People want lower taxation and Boris will deliver it, at the risk of the collapse of public transport.

Voters are sooo predictable.

But perhaps Ken knew which group would destroy him:

… London’s financial centre was this small inward-looking club of old white men who’d all been to the same schools; [Thatcher] destroyed them, they were swept aside by international capital, which is much more dynamic, much more progressive, less racist and sexist (I mean, it’s not wonderful in there, but compared with the old lot …); and the new people were quite prepared to engage with me, whereas that lot would refuse to meet. Now they recognise that mayors can deliver things, and they rely on me to try and get the flow of office development and new housing.

And now the old club fought back.

And with that, I announce the launch of Boris Watch, keeping an eye on the mayoral trainwreck. I need co-authors for this to get off the ground. Anyone want to volunteer?