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Blogzilla (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Flickr photo by secretlondon123 The Open Rights Group has just published its report on May's elections for the London mayor and assembly. A team of 27 ORG observers (including yours truly) observed the procedures at the three e-counting centres following the vote, and has concluded: “there is insufficient evidence available to allow independent observers to state reliably whether the results declared...
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
Featuring a host of stars including Paddy “I never predict the outcome of elections, but this one feels good” Ashdown, Ming Campbell, Julia Goldsworthy, Nick Clegg, Brian Paddick, lots of balloons and several printing machines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPC1R9×95c0 Details of how to help in the Henley by-election at are www.henleylibdems.org.uk
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Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Asked by Andrew Marr whether he would run for a second term as London Mayor, Boris ' Bansturbator ' Johnson said that he would be judged on many things - crime, transport etc (fair enough) and whether we had had "a successful Olympics". Somebody buy this man a calendar! The next Mayoral elections will be in May 2012, a month or two before the London Olympics (or possibly a year-and-a-bit ). Twat, frankly....
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Simonsays (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
I blogged back during the London Mayoral elections about Lib Dem candidate Brian Paddick using Twitter as a tool for a virtual Q&A session with the electorate. Well it seems that his dalliance with the tool has ended pretty soon...
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Five Chinese Crackers (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Just after the London elections, I wondered about how dangerous it would be to give the BNP a platform. They might well be a bunch of bozos now, I thought, but what would happen if they got some decent PR? Richard Barnbrook now has his own blog on the Daily Telegraph website, and thankfully those days look to be a long, long way off. The guy not only doesn't realise that it probably isn't a
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
The recent elections in the UK for local government, London Mayor, and a bye-election may have resulted in losers and winners, but I believe the message to all politians is 'we are losing faith in you'.... in your ability to : - have a strategic vision for the UK economy - address social unrest - manage your own affairs in an honest and transparent manner Plus others. We now face two years of the present...
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PoliticalHackUK (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
Local elections, London mayor, Crewe and Nantwich.... Part of this IS a midterm dip, part of it is caused by a misfiring Crewe by-election campaign and this is certainly all coinciding with a downturn in the economy - not a recession, at least not yet. What we mustn't do is put all of the blame on those things and ignore the reality behind it. The Crewe campaign didn't work - we can't build everything...
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
THE London Evening Standard's Paul Waugh asks Kate Hoey, the former Labour sports minister and still Labour member of parliament for Vauxhall, now operating as Boris Johnson's Commissioner for Sport, how she voted in the London mayoral elections. Boris or Ken? Her reply: “Er…when was the election…I can't remember!”
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ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
This article appeared in the Guardian on Wednesday May 14 2008 on p5 of the Society news & features section. It was last updated at 00:12 on May 14 2008.Public services reform was the dog that didn't bark in the recent elections. Boris Johnson was elected London mayor with standard promises on police numbers [...]
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Aston Martin Rust Oration (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
What a great weekend! The best ones are usually when it's been a bugger of a week - or month in this case. The impending launch of The State of the Natural Environment report and the London mayoral elections have kept my nose firmly on the grindstone. So Zen'? Well that's my new toy - I lost [...]
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Stephen Newton's diary of sorts... (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Following Labour’s disastrous showing in last week’s local and London mayoral elections, the Tories have every right to gloat. For Labour, it's bitching season with confessionals from people with books to sell like Cherie Blair, Lord Levy and, much more surprisingly, John Prescott who, until now, I’ve had a lot of time for. While it's clear [...]
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Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Now the London elections are safely out of the way, I’ve at last had time to read Brian Paddick’s autobiography, Line of Fire. This was published during the late stages of the London Mayoral campaign, I suspect more with an eye to boosting sales than to boosting his electoral chances. Disappointingly for politicos, there is almost [...]
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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
The engrossing London mayoral elections failed to help the London Evening Standard, which saw its circulation drop again last month. We’re shocked to hear the newspaper’s ‘fair and balanced’ coverage wasn't appreciated more.
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Lightwater (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Sorry it's taken till now to give my final observations on the recent elections. Here they are: While not momentous, there are things that occurred or resulted from the recent local government and London Mayoral elections that are important to consider. Observation 1: The BBC will struggle to regain the role as the main election news source.The simply dreadful and amateurish coverage [...]
