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 […]
2012 London Election
News and coverage of the 2012 elections for Mayor of London and the London Assembly (The Greater London Authority).
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 […]
UKIP unveils ‘Fresh ideas for London’
Scrapping the congestion charge and introducing 20 minutes free parking across London are some of the ideas being put forward by UKIP’s Mayor of London and London Assembly campaign. The party has published a mini-manifesto which will form part of their offer to voters. Other ideas include cutting business rates for companies employing local people […]
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 […]
London’s disabled passengers launch transport manifesto
Disability campaigners Transport for All have marked the start of London’s fourth City Hall elections by publishing a manifesto for a more accessible transport network. The manifesto includes five “key” demands, including a call for a third of Tube stations to be step-free by 2018 and 100% of buss stops to be accessible by the […]
