BC Mayor Bid: Official
I think, therefore you are.- Sutter Cane, In the Mouth of Madness
Brockley Central is running for Mayor of Lewisham. Fact.
That's what we reported yesterday morning*, but any old fool can write a blog - it's not official until it's appeared on honest-to-goodness paper and ink.
And it doesn't get more official than the news in brief column on page five of the South London Press.
Today, the paper reports:
Blogger to stand as directly elected mayor
The writer of a popular internet blog will run as a mayoral candidate in the upcoming elections. Nick Barron, who runs the Brockley Central online forum, will stand as an independent candidate in Lewisham in May.
Ominously for the Labour Mayor, it concludes:
Labour's Sir Steve Bullock is the current directly elected Lewisham Mayor.
*Yesterday was April 1st.
17 comments:
Heh heh heh! Unless the SLP was April-Fooling too? All this double-bluffing is starting to get confusing.
Blimey, it's true what they say. Our local papers really have lost it.
@sevenoakser - I paid 50p to buy a copy specially, so perhaps they've had the last laugh.
Maybe the SLP dont believe there readers can do April Fools.Or they were stuck for stories.
Is the SLP the one that always uses the word cops instead of police?
And Nick, you should stand for mayor. There's a big fat salary that goes with it and a swanky office in, erm, Catford.
And by the sound of it you dont have to do much,open a fete, or the odd visit to a School or College.
What does Bullock earn?
about 100 grand all in
Hilarious - now you HAVE to stand, Nick! It's practically a moral obligation.
Shouldn't there perhaps be a Mungifesto?
Nominated by a newspaper - this could be the best Mayoral bid of all time...
I would vote for Nick.
Griffin or Barron?
Double bluff I reckon, but only goes to show that if they can waste space with a private joke, they have little respect for real news, which we knew already.
At least I finally get to know Brockley Nick's real name...unless they made it up...
A marvellous contribution to what was otherwise a sense-of-humour by-pass sort of day.
Maybe you could get them to sponsor you Nick.
so this was an April fools. did you know they were going to run it?
If it's an April Fool it's a lame copy of another April Fool.
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