Sometimes we have dreams so impossible, so fantastic, so incredible that we simply let them fade away with time. Sometimes when we dream we find ourselves so inspired that we actually take that leap into the unknown before an inevitably humiliating ending. When Siobhan Benita looked around and decided there […]
A more unofficial campaign video for Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick. Very nicely put together, but ramping up the fear factor to eleven sadly. Judge for yourselves.
It’s time to start looking at London’s elections with fresh eyes, and when I say fresh I mean old. What if today’s election was being conducted at the time of Palmerstone, Gladstone or even Keir Hardie? Well, putting my far from adequate photoshop skills to use I’ve had a go […]
Andrew Dismore is the Labour candidate for the Barnet and Camden constituency seat. As one of our “ones to watch” we wanted to ask Andrew a few questions to help voters decide if he is the candidate for them! Q: Barnet Council seems to be on a mission to close […]
“Sacktivist” Dawn Foster explains why the Sack Boris team were out and about round London last night projecting images onto various London landmarks. Locations included City Hall, the Bank of England, the old County Hall, once proud seat of the GLC, and the Transport for London building in Victoria – […]
A nice little campaign video from Sack Boris, the unaffiliated anti-Johnson group. A toe tapper, if a little focused on the negative.
With George Galloway’s surprise victory in Bradford is there a new space opening up for the left? Can the left copy respect’s “Bradford Spring” here in London? This meeting brings together speakers from the progressive left, Labour, the Greens and TUSC to debate the prospects for the left at the […]
As you’ll have already seen we at Big Smoke are building up a set of resources to help you decide how to vote at the beginning of May. We’ve already created a one stop shop for info on the London Assembly constituency candidates which tries to provide at least one […]
The election broadcast for the Conservative Party. Watch it and judge for yourself. What are we to make of this? Sad music, gazing wistfully out of a train window… I was wondering whether this might turn into a tampon advert. Curiously it is slightly downbeat rather than inspirational, although in […]
The Evening Standard and various right-wing blogs have attacked Labour for their party political broadcast claiming that the ‘ordinary Londoners’ were in fact paid actors. Labour’s team have come back with this strong video proving that, as you would expect, they used Labour supporters who lived in London and who […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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