Comments on: Daft, crazy and mad: Johnson supporter on Freedom Pass http://davecole.org/blog/2008/04/28/daft-crazy-and-mad-johnson-supporter-on-freedom-pass/ Thoughts, notes and comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dave http://davecole.org/blog/2008/04/28/daft-crazy-and-mad-johnson-supporter-on-freedom-pass/#comment-1220 Dave Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:17:00 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/04/28/daft-crazy-and-mad-johnson-supporter-on-freedom-pass/#comment-1220 Huh? I'm sorry, Roger, but you have completely lost me. Livingstone said Johnson wouldn't protect the freedom pass. Johnson has repeatedly said not only that he would, but that he would extend it. Johnson then announces that Cooke is supporting him on transport and in the press release, Cooke describes extending the Freedom Pass as "daft", "crazy" and "mad". That is not dirty tricks. That is telling voters what your opponents' approved supporters think. Meanwhile, the Johnson camp accuses the Livingstone side of 'dirty tricks'. Yes, that sound you can hear is irony dying. The trickery has been on the side of the Johnson team, replacing the press release in which Cooke decried extending the Freedom Pass with a poster saying that Johnson supports it! Now, I made a series of points in the above post - freedom pass, Tory history on the issue, bendy buses - that you have singularly failed to answer. Do I assume that you concede defeat? Huh?

I’m sorry, Roger, but you have completely lost me. Livingstone said Johnson wouldn’t protect the freedom pass. Johnson has repeatedly said not only that he would, but that he would extend it. Johnson then announces that Cooke is supporting him on transport and in the press release, Cooke describes extending the Freedom Pass as “daft”, “crazy” and “mad”.

That is not dirty tricks. That is telling voters what your opponents’ approved supporters think. Meanwhile, the Johnson camp accuses the Livingstone side of ‘dirty tricks’. Yes, that sound you can hear is irony dying. The trickery has been on the side of the Johnson team, replacing the press release in which Cooke decried extending the Freedom Pass with a poster saying that Johnson supports it!

Now, I made a series of points in the above post - freedom pass, Tory history on the issue, bendy buses - that you have singularly failed to answer. Do I assume that you concede defeat?

]]> By: Roger Wilsher http://davecole.org/blog/2008/04/28/daft-crazy-and-mad-johnson-supporter-on-freedom-pass/#comment-1219 Roger Wilsher Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:57:22 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/04/28/daft-crazy-and-mad-johnson-supporter-on-freedom-pass/#comment-1219 Tch tch. How desperate can Labour get? With only hours left before we can finally kick that liar Livingstone into touch, the left-leaning bloggers are resorting to stirring their own pots of bullshit. It is in no way acceptable in any election, let alone one as serious as for the future leader of London, to put lies out there and to continue the sort of dirty tricks campaign Livingstone has honed to a dark art! To borrow a Boris phrase, to say that the Mayor-in-waiting will go back on his word to retain the Freedom Pass, is absolute codswallop! Tch tch.
How desperate can Labour get?
With only hours left before we can finally kick that liar Livingstone into touch, the left-leaning bloggers are resorting to stirring their own pots of bullshit.
It is in no way acceptable in any election, let alone one as serious as for the future leader of London, to put lies out there and to continue the sort of dirty tricks campaign Livingstone has honed to a dark art!
To borrow a Boris phrase, to say that the Mayor-in-waiting will go back on his word to retain the Freedom Pass, is absolute codswallop!

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