SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012
Saturday Seven Up
Last week saw 105,841 visitors making 274,331 visits to view 420,897 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:- Motorman: Britain’s Biggest Establishment Cover-Up
- Tory/UKIP Defection Runners and Riders
- Post-€uro Preparations for Irish Punt
- Labour Backlash at Harman/Watson By-Election Stich-Up
- Ken’s Tears Were For Actors
- Neutral Audience Savages Ken on Tax
- “Campaign Coordinator” Tom Watson Drops Another Clanger
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
Ken Losing Credibility Here
When the LibDems are making bar charts about your financial fakery you are beyond being in trouble. Mark Pack takes the credit for this chart.Don’t think Paddick will be winning here…
Another Blairite has come out of the woodwork to condemn Ken’s campaign. Andrew McMenamin is advising Ken to sack his campaign managers “the people running the politics of your campaign have messed up. Maybe that mess up was because they did not account for your mistakes, but that does not lessen their responsibility.” He also tells Ken to “abandon the core vote strategy you have followed”. Not sure that is wise, given Ken is now of necessity running a core-core strategy…
Farage Says “Stop Ayatollah Livingstone”
Ken's 'beacon of Islam' comments divisive and dangerous. In Ldn, vote @UKIP 1 and Boris 2 to keep out#AyatollahLivingstone #ukip—
Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) April 13, 2012
UPDATE: UKIP send over a full statement from Farage:
“Ken Livingstone is dangerous and does not represent the aspirations of Old Labour at all. His comments on Islam, calling for London to be a ‘beacon for Islam’ and to spend the next four years ensuring Londoners know the teachings of Mohammed’ are divisive, opportunistic and totally unacceptable. He has clearly been learning politics from George Galloway and is pandering dangerously to one religious group. He is standing to be the Mayor for the whole of London and particularly with the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee celebrations, should be someone all Londoners can respect and be proud of. Whilst we have deep reservations about some of Boris’s views, especially his support for amnesties for illegal immigrants, we now recommend that Londoners give him their second preference vote. Ken Livingstone – Ayatollah Livingston – would be a disaster for London.”Ouch!
Ken’s Fake Campaign
So Ken was crying over a script that he wrote, read by people given expenses and cast into roles. They call that acting. Fake tears for fake “authentic Londoners”.
When Ken put out his partial earning figures last week they turned out to be fake – this morning it emerges that he has quietly slipped out entirely new figures having forgotten to include his resettlement bung of some 70 grand despite a dubious claim previously that the figures had been signed off by an unnamed mystery accountant. Fake accountant.
This whole campaign has been dominated by Ken faking things. Like when he tried to fake a campaign bus. His manifesto is one long dodgy dossier of fake numbers. Fake finances, fake promises, fake tears, fake supporters.Time for Ken to fake off once and for all.
Ken’s Tears Were For Actors
Despite denying it at first, Ken has finally admitted to the Guardianthat all of those “genuine Londoners” that reduced him to tears in his election video were in fact paid actors. Central Casting at its finest…Sources in Team Ken suggested to Guido last night that the crying was not only mooted in a staff meeting but discussed afterwards as having gone too far. Guido is working standing up the embarrassing quotes…
“Campaign Coordinator” Tom Watson Drops Another Clanger
Labour MPs: Miliband Needs Media Training | Telegraph
Mehdi’s Mad Memory | Ben Lazarus
Hands of My Pack | Mark Field
Tax Transparency | Speccie
Spell Check | Total Politics
Birmingham Shaping Up to be Another Disaster | Dan Hodges
Who Will Lead? | Tim Montgomerie
The Taxman is Strangling Britain | Fraser Nelson
Livingstone Saved £75,000 in Tax | Jim Waterson
George Osbrowne | Douglas Carswell
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