Laurence Fox isn’t giving up.
Laurence Fox today insisted that he will ‘march on’ after his London Mayoral defeat despite coming in sixth and racking up fewer votes than a YouTuber whose policies included a reversion to 5p Fredos.
The 42-year-old actor, whose Reclaim Party campaigned on an anti-lockdown platform, lost his £10,000 deposit after winning just 1.8 per cent of the vote, compared with Sadiq Khan’s 55 per cent.
He came in sixth behind YouTuber Niko Omilana, whose policies included ‘Boris Johnson will be forced to shush’, but ahead of mayoral rivals Count Binface and Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers.
Despite his election defeat, a source close to Fox struck an optimistic note and told MailOnline the Lewis star would continue to ‘march on’ and ‘stand up and speak common sense to nonsense’.
I’m not surprised by the results. After all, despite being an appalling mayor, Khan clung on. Again, no surprises here. As John Cleese pointed out (accurately) Londonistan is no longer an English city. Fox is fighting the right battle but on the wrong battlefield. He will get better results in the shires. There are plenty of people out there – like me – who are in tune with what he is saying about liberty. So, yes, absolutely he should carry on, despite the media and metropolitan luvvies rubbing their hands in glee. He has only just stepped into the ring.
A senior Reclaim source told MailOnline: ‘The plan will be to march on. Reclaim is a long-term project, London was fun but it’s a very different demographic to the rest of the country.
Precisely.
I had planned to vote for Fox. However, in the end I didn’t bother, as I knew he didn’t have a hope of winning. It was inevitable that that twat Khan would be re-elected.
If you’re not voting for the three main useless parties or the watermelon party then there really is no point voting. Your vote for a minor party is not going to get anyone elected. OK, so voting for the Brexit Party in the 2019 Euro elections *did* make a difference. But those were different circumstances from today.
@Simon
Ken Livingstone won as an independent and Boris was reluctantly endorsed by Conservative Party
Wonder how many others thought that way? At the minimum the lot of you cost him £10K and made it less likely he would continue to campaign.
It’s this thought process that causes us to lose time after time.
This kind of lack of thinking is why asswipes like khan get re-elected.
I gave my signature to Mr Fox and met him on the campaign trail a few days before. I voted for him, with Bailey in 2nd. At least, he did something.
I despair.
Unfortunately, he didn’t put anyone up in this area, but then, we didn’t have any local council seats up for election this time around.
Not voting is shameful. It sends the message that you don’t care. You must vote, even if it’s just to spoil your paper.
Not only that, enough people voting for Fox, even knowing there was no hope of winning, would have saved him the loss of his deposit.
Took some digging to find full result (1st & 2nd choice combined?)
Fox [endorsed by Farage Reform UK]: terrible result
Kurten abysmal result 12,000 fewer votes than joke Count Binface
Lib Dems humiliated by Greens
Shaun Bailey did well especially considering he was the Invisible Man, more or less disowned by Con Party. Why the hell wasn’t he putting himself on LBC, talkRadio, Turning Point UK, Fox, Sky Aus and even Rebel Media daily? Did he want to lose?
I’d like to see voter turnout by constituency, any abnormally high or over 100%? Tower Hamlets, Brixton…
Fox & especially Kurten did way worse than I expected
PS
More blatant censorship: disagree with WHO, Gov’t, NHS = Banned
David Kurten, an anti-lockdown candidate for London Mayor, was banned from Facebook on Thursday, the day of the elections
LifeSite reports that this was for his “challenging of the global narrative and his opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine passports” …
https://twitter.com/davidkurten/status/1390579417106288640
I actually liked Shaun Bailey, but his Conservative Central Office obviously decided more than 18-months ago that they couldn’t win the London Mayoral election against Khan and Shaun Bailey was little more than a placeholder. If more funding had been put in place and a more concerted effort to actually win the damn thing (including more media time as Pcar suggests), then Shaun Bailey could well have been adding to Labours other upsets.
Obviously there is a certain contingent of the London population that “would only vote for a Muslim”, but they don’t have a stranglehold on the Mayor’s office yet (although time will tell). I hope Shaun Bailey sticks around for the next run in three years and actually gets Tory support next time.
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Looking at these results, it was disappointing that Fox ended up sixth. It also shows the shattering of the former UKIP vote, in London voters were split between Reform/Reclaim, Heritage as well as the corpse of UKIP. We also saw this in the Welsh Parliament, where the Abolish the Welsh Assembly party also split the vote and didn’t get any seats (another disappointment). If they are to be viable going forward these shards need to be put back together into a single party.
Finally, it seems that the Greens are continuing to displace the Lib Dems as the third party protest vote, I do not see any viable future for them or path back to relevance.