Speaking at his pre-election rally on Monday night, Ken Livingstone told the assembled crowd that he’d always been jealous of Mayors of New York because they get to run the hospitals. Ken ‘Magpie’ Livingstone had struck again, borrowing policy ideas from anyone prepared to put them in the public domain. Earlier in the campaign he […]
Martin Hoscik
Boris Johnson is running a campaign, we just don’t hear about it
Over the past week or so people have asked why we’ve carried so little coverage of Boris Johnson’s re-election campaign. With those questions come inevitable accusations of bias and a deliberate policy of skewering coverage away from the current, and according to this week’s poll, likely next Mayor. The far less exotic truth is that […]
A day of good news for Boris until his campaign created him some bad…
After a day of bad PR, Boris Johnson has reverted the @mayoroflondon Twitter account to the Mayoralty and decamped to the @BackBoris2012 campaign account and, presumably, the currently empty @borisjohnson. I confess, I initially didn’t think the change was a big issue. But then I thought about all the City Hall arranged, taxpayer funded photo-ops […]
Electoral Commission urges voters to register
On May 3rd Londoners will have the chance to elect a Mayor and 25 members of the London Assembly but to have a say on the capital’s next four years, Londoners must register to vote by 18th April 2012 The Electoral Commission has released this video as part of its voter sign-up campaign. Find out […]
Election deposits force candidates to face reality
The following article defending the requirement for Mayoral candidates to pay a £10,000 deposit appears in Time Out as one side of their Face Off column. The full column contains an opposing view. Pop along to your news agent for a copy of this week’s edition. To run as Mayor the rules require each candidate […]
