Post Tagged with: "Election2012"

  • Alex Hilton: Why I’m voting Siobhan Benita

    In third of our series on how Londoners are voting Alex Hilton explains why he’s giving his support to independent candidate Siobhan Benita.   Having been a Labour Party member for 21 years, twice a parliamentary candidate and for four years a London Councillor, I have to admit it’s a […]

     
  • Was Livingstone right to walk out of Croydon Advertiser interview?

    It’s the bane of every jobbing politician – the easy quiz question. No one cares if you get it right but if you get Azerbaijan’s capital city wrong, woe betide you, you could be responsible for World War Three. The classic moment is, of course, Dan Quail’s attempt to “correct” […]

     
  • Why I’m voting Boris as my second preference: Lawrence Webb

    This is the first of a short series this week where we look at the way people are voting SECOND preference in the coming Mayoral election. Lawrence Webb, UKIP’s Mayoral candidate, (pictured) explains why he’s voting for Boris Johnson, after UKIP. I believe that if the voting system were better […]

     
  • Siobhan Benita’s impossible dream

    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 […]

     
  • Video: Watch out for the Nightmare

    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.

     
  • Election re-boot: rethinking our election posters

    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 […]

     
  • Meet Andrew Dismore (Labour candidate for Barnet and Camden)

    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 […]

     
  • Video: Project Sack Boris

    “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 – […]

     
  • Video: What a waste (of a Mayoralty)

    A nice little campaign video from Sack Boris, the unaffiliated anti-Johnson group. A toe tapper, if a little focused on the negative.

     
  • Public Meeting: Elections 2012 – Can there be a London Spring?

    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 […]