Monday, 14 April 2008

Winston McKenzie's candidacy for mayor? Priceless

Mr Winston McKenzie is an independent candidate for the post of Mayor of London. He is the brother of Duke McKenzie, former three-weight world boxing champion, a man who believes left-handed boxers are automatically disadvantaged due to their predisposition to cut more readily in a fight.

Our old friends BBC "News" have written a profile on Winston McKenzie as part of their coverage of the London Mayoral election. They have done the same for the other 9 candidates.

Mr McKenzie's is the only profile I have read thus far. This is because I can guess what the others stand for:

Boris Johnson- Conservative Party- Free markets, free people and lots of money
Ken Livingstone- Labour Party- Back-breaking taxation of every type imaginable. Less pigeons.
Brian Paddick- Liberal Democrats- Communism
Richard Barnbrook- British National Party- Racist Communism
Sian Berry- Green Party- Communist racism
Alan Craig- Christian People's Alliance- God

Mr McKenzie's profile contains some absolute gems. It notes that his MySpace describes him as:

Writer, keep-fit instructor, educational motivator and modern-day philanthropist

As you can well imagine, given that he and I are so similar I am now inclined to vote for him. He goes on to destroy that rapport:

They say it's impossible. They say it can't be done. The truth is, London will see its first ever black mayor. The history books of politics shall be re-written

I have scoured the record books and opinion pages as research on the above statement. I can confirm that Mr McKenzie is completely correct, there has never been a black mayor in the history of London.

This seems pretty outrageous so I looked into it further and did some of my own research. Do you realise that this comes out to a percentage of 0% of mayors of London being black? Damning stuff.

In my research however I did only find one person mentioning the impossiblity of a black mayor of London, to whit:

BBC "News" profile of Winston McKenzie

Finally, I went back and counted how many mayors of London there have been to illustrate the depth of this problem, I also researched these "history books of politics" to see just what Mr McKenzie has to overcome in this election:

Number of mayors > 0
Number of black mayors =<>Life of mayoralty of London = 95 (months)
Google results for history books of politics = (about) 12,700,00 (in only 0.23 seconds, imagine if it had searched for a whole second!)

Mr McKenzie has a lot of rewriting to do once this grave injustice against black Londoners across the globe and across time has been righted.

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