Comments on: Livingstone launches Progressive London coalition

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:23:05 +0000

Hi peter,
I am amazed, not that it matters, the quality of the blog spoke for itself, but I always believed it to be written by a yourself or Damian. Well done Helen, we used many lines from her hand on our blog but always attributed the words to the One London Blogger.

By: Peter Hulme Cross

Peter Hulme Cross — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:52:43 +0000

Is this website an early beginning to the Mayoral campaign for 2012, one might ask?

From Ken’s point of view, if he can keep his name in people’s minds and promote his ideas and policies on an ongoing basis, along with unrelenting Boris Bashing, then it gives a flying start to his campaign. Even if he is not selected as the Labour candidate in 2012, I wouldn’t mind betting he will stand again as an Independent. He has succeeded once by doing that and maybe he can do it again!?

One thing we shouldn’t forget as a result of last May’s election – Boris has 11 Conservative Assembly Members he can rely on to vote for his Budget and he only needs 9 votes to get his Budget approved. So he is home and dry on the one thing that really matters, the Budget, for the next four years.

It is quite strange, really, that Londoners should have voted for a new and completely untried and untested Mayor and given him total control over the Budget as well. Even Livingstone didn’t have that luxury, he had to have an alliance with the Greens to be sure of sufficient votes.

Thank you, Jason, for your comment about the One London website and Blog above, which is much appreciated. It was a ‘home grown’ affair from our office using freely available software. Credit should go to Michael Harvey and Daniel Moss for the website and Helen Szamuely who wrote the Blog.

By: votedforken

votedforken — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:56:04 +0000

The latest thing on the Progressive London site is a Guest Blog by the CEO of the London Cycling Campaign.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:54:52 +0000

Kens new web site is very basic. Looks like it has been put together in a hurry by a couple of pre teens.
One of the best political web sites I ever read was the One London Party web site and blog sadly no more. Perhaps Ken should try to employ the services of their webmaster.

By: Matthew Cain

Matthew Cain — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:33:05 +0000

I think that the website isn’t very good at “bringing Londoners together”.

http://bacatu.blogspot.com/2008/11/progressive-london-web-asessment.html