A few weeks back Labour blogger Hopi Sen posted an anti-Boris video someone had sent him and mentioned how refreshing it is that campaigning on the internet can be a lot more creative - being "freed from the dead hand of the party machine" means people can say & do things the parties never could. I share his excitement about that and occasionally try my own hand at mock campaign posters. As with the blog I try and be as balanced and fair as possible but the Brown problems lately have made that difficult - about a week ago I posted the image below to capture the 'car-crash' feel that was starting to surround him.
In light of what we've seen over the last 24 hours I though I'd be magnanimous and do something (above) that might capture how Labour loyalist feel about the likely Mayoral results. Lest anyone misunderstand my own position I'm absolutely delighted that it looks as though Boris has won - for me the ferocity and sheer wilful misrepresentation of the Labour attack machine over the last week or so makes his victory, if it comes, a just one as well as the right one. Zoe Williams was particularly awful in Wednesday's Guardian with one of the most mendacious and dirty pieces of journalism I’ve encountered in a long time - apparently Boris 'genuinely despises gays and africans'. She must have ran out of space to remind us that he eats babies too...
So premptive congratulations to Boris and commiserations to all my readers on the left - hopefully the image above will make you smile on a day when there's not much for you to smile about
4 Comments:
Nice one
Things Can Only Get Better!
Not really.
We now have a Conservative Authoritarian London State instead of a NuLabour Authoritarian London State.
Still, I look forward to a third runway at Heathrow, no more bendy- buses, no more congestion tax, zero-tolerance policing......
I saw that piece and the way that Labour told and re-told that transparent lie was shameful. I also saw Boris speaking inspirationally at Croydon and spoke to him a little , I’ve met him a few times in Islington actually and as a one time regular on his blog.
I can only say he always struck me as a kind hearted man in addition to his other well known qualities and he is closer to my vision of a Conservative than any other politician. That his elevation is a spoke in the eye for the managerialist pontificating bores is only part of the good news . It appears the English are still unimpressed by the ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ and long may it continue
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