Posts Tagged “Ken Livingstone”

Well I said the last one was work in progress. I liked the concept of the city hall as armour but I reckon this one could remain in progress for some time unless I start from scratch. Needs more work, caricature included but I reckon I’ll leave that for some other time.
Hopefully a short animation later today.
Here’s Quaequam on the Venezuela Oil Deal cancellation.
And, surprisingly Associated Newspapers (owners of The London Evening Standard) are having a dig about Boris over at the image-thieving-for-profit Daily Mail (I prefer not to link directly).

The media onslaught will be interesting over the next couple of days.
A few old images..

In my rush to repost these images, I forgot this :
With thanks to Wikipedia user Arpingstone (Adrian Pingstone) who released the base image of City Hall, London, England into the Public Domain.

For anyone who has seen The London Evening Standard commit editorial hari-kiri and turn into an election leaflet over the last few weeks, there is a great Martin Rowson cartoon on Comment is Free today.

The Lib Dems must be overjoyed at their rebranding as the ‘not so fluffy and slightly nasty party’ by Brian Paddick and his imported advisors.
Paddick contributed to the London Evening Standard today with a follow up assault on Livingstone after the Daily Mail’s sister title majored on religion and claiming Livingstone was receiving support from a backer of suicide bombers.
The headline ‘Suicide bomb backer runs Ken’s campaign seems to (deliberately, falsely) imply that any ‘campaign’ is part of Livingstone’s official election set up.
Things are hotting up in London and I reckon it will have implications for the rest of the UK in terms of national party perceptions and especially political campaigning on the web.

I honestly haven’t made my mind up of who I’ll be voting for but it will be influenced, in part, by campaign tactics and, of course, my opinion of the behaviour of the incumbent since taking office – and that is far from favourable.

Is it because Boris Johnson is such an amiable chap that I feel tempted to vote for him in the election for London Mayor ? – Nope.
Is it because he may declare an amnesty for anyone caught smashing up a restaurant if they’re wearing a dickie bow and have the wherewithal to provide hush money to pay the shocked proprietor ? – Nope.
Is it because the Conservative Campaign Newsletter AKA The London’s Evening Standard and Andrew (contemporaneous) Gilligan charge me 50 pence to tell me I should ? – Nope
Maybe it’s because he’d be an endless provider of hilarious material for the guys (and ladies) at the PCO and myself ? – Maybe.
Maybe I should start a campaign……

Update – I see that Bremner Bird and Fortune had put together a ‘blunderer’ video some time ago.