Doncaster Mayor Peter Davies

[ciphergoth]

Doncaster just elected English Democrat party candidate Peter Davies, who had not expected to keep his deposit, as Mayor. This whole post election interview is side-splitting:

TF: You’re going to cut the Gay Pride funding.

PD: Yep.

TF: Erm, how much did Doncaster Council fund Gay Pride?

PD: Haven’t got a clue, I haven’t looked into… I haven’t got the details, I… I haven’t even started-

TF: About right, isn’t it? So how much did… how much was it worth to Doncaster?

PD: How…er, what?

TF: The Gay Pride march. 8,000 people in town for a day.

PD: I don’t know. They can still come. There’s nobody stopping them coming.

TF: So you don’t know what it costs, you don’t know what it earns, but you’re banning it?

PD: I’m saying that… hard-pressed taxpayers money should not be spent on promoting any type of sexuality whether it’s straight or gay.

TF: But for all you-, but for all you know it could be making a fortune for the town - you don’t know, you’ve not even looked at it.

HT booklectic

Comments

[actionreplay.livejournal.com]

Obviously his prejudices are more important than any potential financial gain. This just makes me want to hit him.

[wight1984.livejournal.com]

Probably never even occurred to him. Way too eager to believe us poor white English people are being taken advantage of and victimised in some way.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Heh. And as the last line of the interview indicates, that WAS a fairly easy interview. Can you imagine Paxman or John Humphries getting their hands on this guy?

Pwned.

[yoyoangel.livejournal.com]

I think the most amusing thing is that he hadn't checked whether his manifesto promises were actually legal!

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

I do love all of his indignation at stuff being illegal "But people want me to change it! That's what they've voted me in for!" - he can't fathom that it's not "the law is getting in my way" but it's "I promised things I can't deliver!"

[cyberinsekt.livejournal.com]

That interview's the best thing I've read all week. Not exactly the sort of grilling you'd expect from local radio.

Fab

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

I lurve that he has learned enough to say "hard pressed taxpayers" though!

Re: Fab

[keirf.livejournal.com]

I never realised that the money spent on promoting sexuality of any kind was a) hard or be b) pressed. Strange world we live in.

[owdbetts.livejournal.com]

Hey, really good to see you, and thank you for persuading me to come along today - I really enjoyed it.

So how did you suddenly intuit that your train was in the station? I was naively assuming that we would see it from the waiting room when it arrived.

-roy

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Heh - someone ran past to catch it! I was just in time!

Have been trying to word a warning sign in my head for that waiting room. WARNING - first you will see of your train from this waiting room will be it leaving the station.