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March 8, 2012 9:24 am

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In recent days the Boris Johnson campaign have produced a “Not Ken Again” poster with a fairly predictable set of attacks on the Labour candidate. In response, Livingstone’s team have produced this:

 

 

 

 

A spokesperson for the Ken campaign told LabourList:

“Over the last few days we’ve been inundated here at Labour HQ with phonecalls and emails from members of the public complaining about Boris Johnson’s advertising campaign. It is the latest in a long line of negative smear tactics from Johnson’s Campaign Director, Lynton Crosby. They are terrified of the movement we’ve created behind Ken’s Fare Deal. So we thought we’d add a little bit of reality and honesty to the poster! Hope you like it.”

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  • AlanGiles

    I dread the mayoral elections – we constantly have this ridiculous “Ken and Boris” Punch & Judy show which generates more heat than light.

    It is a waste of time and money – especially the Green, Independents and other candidates, including Labour and Conservative who just seem to have roles as “extras”.

    the danger for both K & B is that the public will just get sick to death of this  otiose playground-like behaviour and if it is raining on May 3rd people just won’t bother to turn out.

  • AnotherOldBoy

    All going swimmingly for Mr Livingstone, with the New Statesman firmly behind him: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2012/03/income-tax-mayor-livingstone

    Up to a point!

    • AnotherOldBoy

      I should ahve added taht among the broken promises referred to on the Not Ken Again poster are Mr Livingstone’s promises on fares in 2000 and 2004.

      • John Reid

        On the Not Ken again Poster, there’s A March 2008 quote from the Evening Standard, saying “Ken breaks his promise on not cutting Police”, Ironical seeing as Ken was Just about to increase Police in 2008 and Boris said he wouldn’t cut police, then Boris did cut thwm by 3,000,

  • ovaljason

    Mehdi Hasan is to be congratulated for his honesty on the Ken tax scandal.

    Mehdi argues (as have I)  that the only way out of this for Ken is to “do a Hazel” and write a cheque to HMRC in front of the TV cameras.

    Hasan continues: …his allies just don’t get it…they are in total denial.”

    This is issue is not going away.  Those who continue to support an orchestrated cover-up are providing more-and-more ammunition to Team Boris.

  • http://twitter.com/John_J_C_Moss John Moss

    Problem is the “Fares Cut” cannot be delivered without an investment cut of £3bn.

    What will go Ken?

  • Hugh

    “Over the last few days we’ve been inundated here at Labour HQ
    with phonecalls and emails from members of the public complaining about
    Boris Johnson’s advertising campaign”

    How many calls exactly has Labour HQ had from “members of the public” complaining?

  • KonradBaxter

    “a fairly predictable set of attacks on the Labour candidate”

    If it refers to his apparent hypocrisy, then these attacks should also come from the Left.  

  • Winston_from_the_Ministry

    “Over the last few days we’ve been inundated here at Labour HQ
    with phonecalls and emails from members of the public complaining about
    Boris Johnson’s advertising campaign.”Why am I struggling to belive this?

  • AnotherOldBoy

    I don’t think that they have had a call from Jonathan Roberts, Labour’s candidate at Thirsk and Malton at the last election: http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2012/03/08/an-open-letter-to-ken-livingstone/

    • Winston_from_the_Ministry

       Ouch.

  • Marga

    I only see that Ken enemies inside the party are helping Boris 

  • AlanGiles

    The problem is Marga that it is hard to swallow somebody saying in terms that nobody who avoids paying tax should be in Parliament, when the person saying it seems to think it is OK for him to do it himself. That is the textbook definition of hypocrisy.

    I suppose he would say he is not in Parliament, but when you wish to attain high office of any sort you have to be like Ceasers wife: I really cannot understand why in order to save a little money they probably don’t need anyway, anyone is prepared to  tarnish their reputation.

  • Allen Esterson

    Why was my
    8 March posting (below) on Livingstone playing along with the Iranian Islamic Republic’s Press
    TV censored?

    An example
    of Ken Livingstone happily playing along with the appalling Iranian Islamic
    Republic mouthpiece Press TV, 27 March 2011:

     

    Press TV
    interviewed Former Mayor of London, Ken
    Livingstone regarding pro-American and pro-Zionist neo-conservative politicians
    in the UK and England’s
    dire financial crisis.

    Livingstone: We have always had this problem as
    many of the politicians in Britain
    seem to have their primary loyalty to the United
    States of America, and often taking a very strong line on
    the question of Israel and Palestine. They are not
    actually putting the interests of the British people first.

     

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171870.html

  • Dave Postles
    • AlanGiles

      “The money is paid to Silveta, of which he is a director and Beal is secretary and director.
      Livingstone said he employed a researcher, a press officer and his wife [Beal] who typed his memoirs.”

      Mmm… it sounds a bit like the “Betsygate” defence to me,  TBH

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