Post Tagged with: "Election2012"

• Building our election resources

  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 […]

   

• Video: The Conservative Election Broadcast

  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 […]

   

• New London Poll: women voters put Johnson in the lead

  A new poll by YouGov (pdf) puts Conservative Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson firmly in the lead, with six points over his nearest rival Labour’s Ken Livingstone. While Livingstone was ahead among those under forty and “non-white” voters Johnson is still in a strong lead with 11% of those planning to […]

   

• Labour defends its party political broadcast

  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 […]

   

• The London Liberal Democrat Election Broadcast

  Here we have the Liberal Democrat election broadcast for the London elections. See what you think then read our thoughts;   What about the policies? The first thing to say is where are the policies on transport, cycling, fares, inequality, climate change, green spaces, wages, the fire service, air pollution, […]

   

• UKIP launch Assembly campaign

  Earlier today the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) launched their London Assembly election campaign. Party leader Nigel Farage joined the London candidates at the Porters English Restaurant next to Covent Garden.   Fresh voice for London Farage said that looking at the polls “the party is very much on the up” […]

   

• Wednesday’s London Links

  Hackney Citizen reports on an awful incident of segregation at Clissold Park Leisure Center. Rickshaw riding fined for “furious driving”. Road CC Evening Standard is highlighting light pollution. Ali Dizeai tells the BBC his police career is not over. Election Watch Noise in the Crowd wonders whether the Standard understand […]

   

• Labour launches London broadcast

  Labour launches London broadcast, see what you think; Now this is more like it. Distinctly London, distinctly real and with a strong underlying theme that suggests that Londoners aren’t just better off with Labour, but are naturally Labour supporters. The switcheroo at the beginning changing from a “boring” talking head by […]

   

• London Liberal Democrats launch campaign

  The Liberal Democrats have released this launch video. I was trying to place what this video reminded me of and then it came to me. A corporate video. Souless music, odd lighting and fake enthusiasm. Although without it we would not have had the comedy gold of the “nodding man” […]

   

• Tuesday’s London Links

  Welcome to the East end riviera? Evening Standard. Though Cowards Flinch were at a jazz gig in Stoke Newington with disturbing results. Traffic smoothing is not flavour of the month at the Campaign for Better Transport (pdf) Londoneer has been looking at open spaces on the edge of the city. […]