{"id":53795,"date":"2012-03-15T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=53795"},"modified":"2012-03-15T11:29:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T11:29:51","slug":"thursdays-london-links-election-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/?p=53795","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8217;s London Links: election watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The last Mayor&#8217;s Question Time of this Mayoral term yesterday was a bad tempered tribal affair. <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/londonist\/sBMe\/~3\/MHyxBDfkrUM\/mayors-question-time-bad-tempered-edition.php\">Londonist<\/a> reports.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/liberalconspiracy.org\/2012\/03\/15\/boris-airbrushes-tory-roots-from-campaign\/\">Liberal Conspiracy<\/a> are detecting a lack of the Tory brand on Mayor Johnson&#8217;s campaign material.<\/li>\n<li>Some Tories are becoming a bit jittery about their candidate. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelondondailynews.com\/boris-better-step-could-face-olympics-p-5638.html\">London Daily News<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/snipelondon.com\/scoop\/the-promises-boris-johnson-claims-to-have-delivered-but-hasn-t\">Snipe&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0Adam Bienkov is\u00a0skeptical\u00a0about Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;progress report&#8221; that claims 91% of promises were delivered.<\/li>\n<li>Also in <a href=\"http:\/\/snipelondon.com\/scoop\/ken-s-lambeth-allies-pop-into-the-drugs-supermarket-to-attack-paddick\">Snipe<\/a> Darryl Chamberlain puts his voluminous local knowledge to work to point out a little bit of Labour&#8217;s\u00a0hypocrisy.<\/li>\n<li>Talking of the Labour campaign there was an unexpected an unwelcome intervention at one of Ken&#8217;s walkabouts. <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheToryTroll\/~3\/C0OykoVEWQo\/camerawoman-confronts-guido-fawkes.html\">Tory Troll<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailymash.co.uk\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5009&amp;Itemid=28\">Daily Mash<\/a> makes its first appearence in these round-ups with its &#8216;Livingstone promises more magical nannies&#8217; scoop.<\/li>\n<li>Green candidate Jenny Jones sets out her vision for London at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/politicsandpolicy\/2012\/03\/13\/london-mayoral-election-jones\/\">LSE blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaslondon.com\/?p=1007\">GlasLondon<\/a> have also interviewed Jones on the Green campaign.<\/li>\n<li>Brent Liberal Democrats are feeling the fire from <a href=\"http:\/\/krupesh4brent.com\/2012\/03\/14\/sarah-teather-and-the-brent-liberal-democrats-slammed-in-parliament-for-hypocritical-leaflets\/\">Cllr\u00a0Krupesh Hirani<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/video\/2012\/mar\/15\/london-mayoral-election-cycling-video\">Guardian<\/a>\u00a0have been out vox popping on what Londoners think about cycle safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, in possibly our first mention of the 2014 council elections (gasp), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-17378894\">BBC<\/a> report that the Hackney riot heroine, Pauline Pearce,\u00a0is to stand for council for the Liberal Democrats. A ward where they will have to more than double their vote to get elected, goo luck with that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you spot any interesting news or blogging that you think should be included in these round-ups feel free to email us at <a href=\"mailto:editorial@bigsmoke.org.uk\">editorial@bigsmoke.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Mayor&#8217;s Question Time of this Mayoral term yesterday was a bad tempered tribal affair. Londonist reports. Liberal Conspiracy are detecting a lack of the Tory brand on Mayor Johnson&#8217;s campaign material. Some Tories are becoming a bit jittery about their candidate. London Daily News. Meanwhile Snipe&#8217;s\u00a0Adam Bienkov is\u00a0skeptical\u00a0about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-53795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-overflow","tag-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/london-links1.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20Jsr-dZF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53796,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53795\/revisions\/53796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigsmoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}