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  • 71 Per Cent Of Londoners Would Be Happy If London Mayor Was Gay

    A poll for radio station LBC has found that 71 percent of Londoners would be happy if the next Mayor of London was gay.

    The poll of 1100 adults found that most Londoners would be happy if the next Mayor of London was gay. Sixteen per cent said that they would be uncomfortable with a gay person taking the position.

    As it stands there is are three out candidates declared in the mayoral race which will see a new Mayor take over from Boris Johnson in 2016. Peter Whittle, UKIP’s mayoral candidate and the Conservative’s Andrew Boff are both out candidates, whilst Benali Hamdache is the chair of LGBTIQ Green Party.

    The poll by YouGov revealed that only 55% of those questioned would be comfortable with a Muslim Mayor and 31% said that they would be uncomfortable.

  • LBC Radio Presenter Iain Dale Slams Ivan Massow Mayoral Campaign Video

    Long-time LBC presenter Iain Dale has slammed Ivan Massow’s latest mayoral campaign video as “buttock-clenchingly awful”.

    The out LBC presenter Iain Dale tweeted his disapproval of Ivan Massow‘s latest mayoral campaign video calling it “possibly the worst campaign video” he had ever seen.

     

    Comments for the video have been disabled on YouTube but that didn’t stop Iain Dale having at pop at Massow, calling the campaign “buttock-clenchingly awful”.

    In an interview with THEGAYUK Ivan Massow told us: Having spent the last year “visiting various London institutions… hospices, meals on wheels, homeless shelters, tube digs…And every Housing Association in London…developers, [and] planning departments” and he is now keen to take this a step further, over the course of a month, he wants to spend each night staying with a different London-based family, to find out what bugs London about London.

    In direct response to Dale, Massow tweeted: “the idea is to hear from Londoners directly about their own area.”

     

     

  • IVAN MASSOW: Video Hits 500K Views

    London Mayor hopeful, Ivan Massow, has amassed nearly 500,000 views on his viral video.

    Streaking ahead as a firm favourite for Londoners, the openly gay, self-made millionaire, has seen the video created for his campaign to make Londoners aware of Massow, uploaded a month ago, has reached nearly half a million hits on Facebook and 40,000 on YouTube.

     

    Meet Ivan Massow. He wants to be the next Mayor of London, and here's why. Posted by Ivan Massow on Monday, 18 May 2015
      The video has attracted over 2500 likes and 548 shares. In the video, Ivan tells the audience that he is gay, that he’s an activist, an ex-alcohol and that he has dyslexia. He mentions that he is adopted and that he is a disruptor. Along with Brighton born Ivan, 47, Andrew Boff, Sol Campbell, Simon Fawthrop, Zac Goldsmith and Stephen Greenhalgh are the Conservative candidates that have declared.