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politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Was “public sector weighting” behind MORI’s Tory 52%? One of the biggest polling changes that we’ve seen in years was introduced by Ipsos-MORI in the summer following a review after the London Mayoral elections. For in trying to work out why its surveys seemed to be over-stating Labour the firm discovered that people working in [...]
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
During the London Mayor elections, Boris Johnson and his campaign had to get the bulbs changed in five lamps in their office. No surprise there really. But you might be a little surprised at how much they paid. Changing five lamps required someone to be paid for two hours of work, at £28.98 per hour. (That’s 24 minutes per lamp.) Plus [...]
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Eight 'cronies' of Ken Livingstone are to receive £1.6million in pay-offs following his defeat in the London mayoral elections, it emerged yesterday.
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
In the immediate aftermath of this May’s London Mayor and Assembly elections, it became clear that some mistakes had been made during the count. Some Mayor votes in Merton and Wandsworth were omitted from the count, and in addition the checking process was flawed as votes were reported from more wards than exist in London. Neither [...]
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angels in marble (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
“I wonder whether we can put up with this for another 18 months. “... whenever people have had a chance to speak about this Government, whether at the local elections, whether in Crewe, whether in Henley, whether in the London mayor elections and now in Glasgow, they have said 'Look, we think you’re failing and we want change’.” “...the Prime Minister should have his holiday but then... we need an...
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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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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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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 [...]
