London Mayoral Elections

My comment to Simon Heffer's column in the Daily Telegraph this morning on the disgrace underway in London, linked here, is as follows: I think some words on the medias almost total lack of attention to the other seven candidates (particularly given the valuable "second choice" opportunity) is a disgrace against democracy. Mr Heffer by not making that same point in his column today and instead advocating abstention participates in this scandal. A vote for the English Democrat candidate who withdrew, presumably in frustration at such lack of media attention (even when running second on the MSN online poll), might be one such repositry for a protest vote but there remain six others and a mass of independent candidates up and down the country. These local elections will be the last before the Lisbon Treaty potentially makes future polling irrelevant. A vote for the two parties breaking their manifesto promises or the third offering only pantomine opposition will condone the castration of our Westminster Parliament.