An upbeat election broadcast on behalf of Ken Livingstone aired tonight showing the Mayor meeting ordinary Londoners and discussing the challenges facing the capital in the years ahead.
A spokesman for the campaign said the broadcast (available below)
“reinforces Ken’s commitment to London. It’s less an election broadcast than a film about London, Ken’s relationship to the city he loves, and the choice on May 1st in terms of the really big challenges ahead.
It’s Ken in his own words, travelling around London, from talking to individual Londoners right through to dealing with the big issues of Crossrail and the Olympics.
The inclusion of this election broadcast in no way signals support or endorsement of any candidate
Bobby Clarke says
April 8, 2008 at 11:28 pmLove him or hate him Mr. Livingstone of mayoral candidates is ‘independent’ of the main political parties even if Labour appears to endorse him. This makes him a most definite choice for Mayor of London where he can continue to cock-a-snook at party political interests with his famed reference; always; to the people of London’s concerns which government ignominiously ignores.
Anyone can see that the Conservatives; desperate for a credible mayoral candidate; can only drag up some scruffy, bumble-worded, out-of-town toff who has no relevant CV that makes him fit for the job. If Boris is ‘so cool’ why hasn’t David Cameron got him into the opposition cabinet? ‘David, it’s over to you’. On second thoughts ‘don’t bovver’. – Yes, he’s likeable (Boris that is) so are Paddington Bear and The Wombles of Wimbledon. I suggest these cuddly toys have more relevance to mayoral candidature than tousled haired Home Counties Boris Johnson. –
I say to Boris “Stay in your home county constituency Henley-on-Thames where I’m sure you will be continually cheered by fellow Hooray-Henry’s and Henrietta’s for your dexterous punt manoeuvres on balmy Oxfordshire’s River Thames. And Boris; is it true your poling skill once had you hanging on to a slowly sinking punt-pole in the middle of the Henley Thames as you watched your boat full of shrieking, hyperventilating rudderless Henrietta’s and Annabelle’s glide away leaving you stranded mid-river where you were last heard by the first of the evening’s towpath trollers crying “B_ _ _ _r Me! No Totty Tonight – I’ll pong too much like an Oxfordshire Toad?”
ravi says
April 10, 2008 at 10:42 pmDid Ken say 4 billion for affordable housing, at 100k 1 bed that only 4000 flats, just in Harrow there is a council house waiting list of over 2000 looking for cheap housing.Frop in the ocean
James Burrows says
April 11, 2008 at 12:34 pmThis guy is trying to ethnically cleans London, he is no better than Hitler.
Jim Brown says
April 11, 2008 at 12:42 pmNo mention of suicide bombers, honour killings, ritual beheadings of children, gun crime and he has the nerve to talk about enrichment!
communist genocide of a nation supported by Ken and all wrapped up with slippery buzzwords.
the man is commiting genocide against the indigenous people of this land. he is also breaking united nations law.
“UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights of Indigenous Peoples
As adopted by the General Assembly on 13th September 2007.
The Declaration establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity, well-being and rights of the world’s indigenous peoples. The Declaration addresses both individual and collective rights; cultural rights and identity; rights to education, health, employment, language, and others. It outlaws discrimination against indigenous peoples and promotes their full and effective participation in all matters that concern them. It also ensures their right to remain distinct and to pursue their own priorities in economic, social and cultural development.
Includes :
Article 7.2 “Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples”
Article 8.1 “Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture.”
Article 8.2 “States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress for:
(a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;
(b) Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;
(d) Any form of forced assimilation or integration;
(e) Any form of propaganda directed against them
Further as the following shows the Liberal notion of the British population as successive waves of immigrants is simply a BIG LIE
“The genetic evidence shows that three quarters of our ancestors came to this corner of Europe as hunter-gatherers, between 15,000 and 7,500 years ago, after the melting of the ice caps but before the land broke away from the mainland and divided into islands.”