Sometimes the truth has to hurt.......
The Dame has broken bread with Shaun Bailey and Richard Tice, founder of Reform UK.
Over a sandwich lunch, the Dame endured an hour of Bailey talking incoherent rubbish. Not once did he ask a question. He behaved like a mobile phone salesman not the potential mayor of a super city.
The Dame has written several times to him as an AM: predictably the question being complex got no response.
On the other hand, the Dame has met Tice and was impressed by his intelligence and leadership skills.
In the years ahead, London will need an 'ambassadorial leader'.
That a blustering blowhard like Bailey could fit the bill is deeply concerning.
Tice is considering standing as Mayor of London.
Great cities need leaders with the personality and business skills to lead a team: Tice has those skills....Bailey, an ex youth worker is totally ill-equipped....but worse, fails to realise his shortcomings.
No wonder Khan smiles when Bailey's name comes up.
Only Tice could wipe the smile off Khan's face.
Its not even the New Year and the Dame is stirring. covid seems to be stimulating the old thing
ReplyDeleteYou can only fight through one of the big Party machines. Independents like Tice should save their time and money - assuming that he is vain enough to be thinking of this mad suggestion
ReplyDeleteVanity? I think it has far more to do with worrying about an ignorant arsehole like Baily becoming mayor of our fabulous city
DeleteNot a good reason to stand for office.......
DeleteBailey's big problem is that he is worried about Khan
He has every reason to be worried about Khan. Khan does at least look as if he knows what he is doing.
DeleteDon't worry, Dame. Bailey's campaign is being run by Greg Hands. Look at his track record of running other people's campaigns - Jeremy Hunt for the Tory party, Liam Fox for the WTO.
ReplyDeleteStrange how Greg Hands fawns over Bailey. Champion of lost causes
DeleteI have lived in Chelsea since the 1990's. We have had some good Members of Parliament. Scott, Portillo, and Rifkind all of whom were good constituency MP's. Things changed when that dreadful Hands bloke came along.He is an apologist for the Council. A friend of mine who lives in a Council flat went to him about the TMO and he was useless.
DeleteI have lived in Chelsea since the 1980s. I always felt that Scott, Portillo and Rifkind, each with their different talents, were more focussed on non constituency matters.
DeleteEnter Greg Hands. A breath of fresh air with his energetic application to local issues. But as I look back at what he has actually achieved in Chelsea, I'm struggling. Can someone please help me? All we seem to see of him nowadays is photobombing and slagging off the Labour Party.
11.03 suggests that this is a race between candidates sponsored by Con, Lib Dem or Lab parties.
ReplyDeleteI think many Conservative voters could discreetly vote for Tice on the obvious grounds he is more competent than Bailey.
I dropped in to hear Bailey at a Q&A session. His performance was really quite dismal. Incapable as he was of a succinct answer the question segment was destroyed by his interminable and rambling answers.
There is of course another option... Brian Rose! Now there is someone truly terrifying.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes...perfectly true...the Dame rather blundered on a rose by any other name.
ReplyDeleteBailey is now on £70k a year as an AM. He must have felt all his Christmas's had come together. What a plonker