Take a look at the London Election Cinema at londonvids.com. There are a few YouTube videos that are worth watching. It’s being organised by Alex Hilton of Labour Home and Recess Monkey.
xD.

The Stonewall hustings took place on Saturday morning. Dave Hill has kindly provided an MP3 and selected video clips. I recommend listening to the whole debate as it is rather good and there is some genuine interplay between the candidates who attended – Sian Berry, Lindsay German, Brian Paddick, Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone - [...]

Here’s a little video about fear for Mr Johnson.

I can only assume that it is a combination of his uncertainty about his own policies, dubious mathematics, demonstrably poor knowledge of and interest in London prior to his campaign and woeful history of offence and unpleasantness coupled with a set of minders who are worried about [...]

Hopi Sen has an unofficial attack ad against Boris Johnson. A little bit of photoshopping and we have the front page the Evening Standard would like to run - click on the image to make it larger.

It’s also worth reading Septic Isle’s thoughts on the Standard.
xD.

On May 1, Londoners will choose the Mayor and London Assembly for the next four years.
In 2004, low turnout in the London elections allowed the BNP to receive 4.9% of the London Assembly vote — dangerously close to the 5% threshold required to win a seat.
You can register to vote using the information on the [...]

As Jeremy Paxman said in his intro to last night’s debate (RealPlayer) between the three main candidates, the Mayoralty of London is a very important job. The figures alone are worth repeating – a budget of nine billion pounds a year and a total spend of thirty-six billion pounds.
I wish that the debate had been [...]

I would like to draw attention to this post about Boris Johnson and astroturf by the Tory Troll. Astroturfing is a neologism to mean using people to pretend to be the grass roots.  Someone from the same IP address commented on this post of mine under two different names; while that is not proof anything, [...]

Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, has written an open letter to Lib Dem MPs in London asking them to give their second preference. I hope that they do make public statements in support of Ken. The race is close and Ken’s prediction from a while back when people were treating Johnson as [...]

“Vote for London”, Ken’s election broadcast, was on the BBC yesterday evening at 1855. You can, through the miracle of the internet, watch it here and now.

xD.

There is a poll in today’s Guardian that puts Boris Johnson a single percentage point ahead of Ken Livingstone, with other candidates nowhere in sight, for the upcoming mayoral election. Psephology seems to have more to do with reading the tea leaves than science, and this belief of mine is reinforced by the third paragraph [...]