Two low-life London Mayors & candidates trade slurs.

Proved here beyond doubt is that no candidate from either of the two main parties ever deserves re-election again! Pots and kettles must come to mind when watching this exchange:

Local Elections - stop the Moral Nihilism!

Today is your only chance to register any disgust you may feel at the three major parties corruption of our political processes and castration of our Westminster Parliament. A German member of that country's Parliament has finally had the courage to compare the EU Reform Treaty to Adolf Hitler's Enabling Act that opened the door to totalitarianism by the destruction of democracy in Germany in the 1930s. We all know the consequences of those events yet our corrupt politicians and their colleagues in Parliaments across the EU are conniving in a repition of those dreadful events. (The full text of the speech may be read and the video viewed on my posting below at this time yesterday). A feature of totalitarianism is moral nihilism, the belief that the ends justify the means, what better description could there be of the process being employed to ram the Lisbon Treaty through the Parliaments of the EU Nations without their voters consent! There are independent and small party candidates across the country genuinely opposed to this destruction of democracy through the Lisbon Treaty. Vote for them. The European Parliament cannot protect your democratic rights, that institution voted to ignore any democratic rejection of the Constitutional Treaty by the Irish Referendum by 499 votes to 129 (Amendment 32). In the London Assembly a good summary of the alternative groups standing may be read from a Guardian article of yesterday, linked here. Although the English Democrat Mayoral Candidate dropped out in the high profile Mayoral personality contest between the two main contenders that Party might be worth your vote in the Assembly election and the One London members have done good work for the city in the last session. A view of the kind of exposure we might expect from an English Democrat representation is shown in the Freedom of Information details at the end of this post, in which Shakespeare's birthday costs have been used to boost St George's day expenses to make them appear slightly comparable to the huge sums spent on St Patrick's Day. The main priority today must be to send a message to Brown, Cameron and Clegg that they have no mandate to sell our nation's sovereignty for party funding via the EU and that our democracy is not theirs to destroy.

An English Democrats "Freedom of Information" question, has revealed that Ken Livingstone has lied to give the impression that expenditure on St Georges Day Events is equal to expenditure on St Patricks Day. (Initially his office first response gave no breakdown of expenditure) The weasel has included events such as Shakespeare's Birthday, as it if is a St George's Day Event. Naturally our greatest playwright should be celebrated, but this is coincidence that it is on the same day as St Georges Day. ================================================== ================ From Ken Livingstones Office In response to your query please see details below of a breakdown of spend on St. George's Day and St. Patrick's Day for 2006, 2007 and 2008. Please note the St. George's Day spend was actually higher than included in my first reply. St. George's Day 2006 £50K Shakespeare's Globe event £55K Leicester Square Chaplin event £15K Royal Society of St George, Covent Garden / Cenotaph Total £120K - Actual Total = £15K 2007 £50K Shakespeare's Globe event £50K Trafalgar Square Holy Grail event £15K Royal Society of St George, Covent Garden / Cenotaph Total £115K - Actual Total = £15K 2008 £50K Shakespeare's Globe event £15K Royal Society of St George, Covent Garden / Cenotaph £70 Trafalag £135k - Actual Total = £15K St. Patricks Day 2006 65k Towards Parade 35K Towards Stage Performances in Trafalgar Square Total £100k 2007 65k Towards Parade 35K Towards Stage Performances in Trafalgar Square Total £100k 2008 65k Towards Parade 35K Towards Stage Performances in Trafalgar Square Total £100k

BBC finally offer English Democrats some "internet" coverage

A link is here! Now let us see some proper broadcast coverage! As well as for the other parties standing in the London Assembly battle.

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.

Distortion of Democracy

The following clear lie and plain attempt to thwart democracy is from this morning's front page of the News Home Page of the London The Times Online Service, linked here: Candidates for the Mayor of London are Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone, Brian Caddick and Sian Berry

Sunday Times on Matt O'Connor- A Chance for Change

The article titled "What does Matt O'Connor have against Scots" in the Sunday Times, is linked from here.

English Democrat Update

English Democrat's London Mayoral Candidate - Matt O'Connor, today announced in a press conference close to his "Shock Jock" Campaign Poster at London Bridge Railway station, that he would be launching a new "Hard Hitting" English Parliament Campaign Group in May 2008, directly after the London Mayoral Elections.

He explained that the English Parliament issue is a "Killer Issue" and the established "Campaign for an English Parliament" is virtually invisible to most members of the public,and that's after 10 years of existence, he continued it's difficult to understand what the leadership of the Campaign for an English Parliament have been doing, it's time for a fresh radicle approach to gain justice for England, and maximum publicity for the issue.

He promised to firmly establish the "English Parliament" issue at the very top of the political agenda, once outside the restrictions of the Mayoral Election Campaign, in a similar way to his Fathers-4-Justice campaign.

"I'll make sure the established politicians can no longer ignore the will of the English people"

The Campaign for an English Parliament recently rejected an offer by Matt O'Connor to speak at their "Future of England Conference" on April 26 in London, as they were afraid it may attract "too much attention".

Bullingdon Boris bounds ahead in Mayor's Race

This post is based on the MSN London Mayoral Election On-line poll after 8,113 votes. It must be stressed that this is an online poll carried out by this influential website so it must be taken in that context. But it is still the highest rating achieved in any such poll and shows that there is significant support for the English Democrats in the capital.

Conservative candidate Mr Johnson leads with 53% of the poll, Matt O'Connor of the English Democrats is in 2nd Place with 17%, Labour are closely behind with 15% and Liberal Democrat trail with 5% in 4th Place with the BNP in 5th= with only 4% below the critical 5% level to give them a London Assembly Member. UKIP are "wiped out" in last place with 0%

The leader of the Conservative Party, is somehow ashamed of his Bullingdon Club associations and tries to remove images of himself in his blue velvet tails from the internet whenever he can. I have commissioned this pen and ink sketch of both Boris and Cameron feeling sure the Mayoral candidate could not care less at this portrayal. Indeed it is only when finding an original online and knowing the character of Cameron and recalling the lies over his promise to withdraw from the European Peoples Party soon after his election that anything the tails might indicate takes on the slightly sinister.

Bullingdon Club Picture Link Cameron's cronies


A protest vote against the conspiracy of the three main parties to destroy our parliamentary system through the Lisbon Treaty and a wake up call to all at Westminster would now seem best cast for the English Democrats and Matt O'Connor.

Telegraph Comments refused my contribution on Boris

Surprise, Surprise! See the stuff they posted here!

English Democrat's London Challenge

The following is the conclusion to this week's Spectator column by Fraser Nelson, linked here: New political currents are flowing in this direction. Londoners turning on the evening television news last Friday would have seen an impassioned broadcast by the English Democrat party’s mayoral candidate, Matt O’Connor. He denounced Ken Livingstone as the stooge of a ‘Scottish-run government’ which apparently ‘rules over our capital with an iron fist’. He referred to the Prime Minister as ‘Gordon, “I’m all right, Jock” Brown’. He asked: ‘Why is it that students in Gordon Brown’s constituency do not pay university fees, but students in London do?’ This last question is precisely the one Mr Salmond wants raised. He is pursuing what one of his advisers once described to me as ‘Operation Rile The Daily Mail.’ This means flaunting Scotland’s spending advantage, splashing out on drugs not available south of the border and generally trying the patience of Middle England. His strategy is not to provoke nationalism, but to offend a sense of English fairness. The intellectual case for English independence was made powerfully some years ago by Simon Heffer in his prescient book Nor Shall My Sword. The cause might not drive many people to march on the streets; and the Union of 1707 may never be formally torn up as a result of a popular uprising on either side of the border. The greater risk is that it unravels in slow motion — not as a result of Scottish fervour, but English indifference.

My response to the BBC

The reply I received from the BBC is posted below. My reply has been sent as follows: Dear Mr Moss, Thanks for your reply which fails to address the issues raised. I know how the BBC justifies its allocation of PPBs. The effect is to place a gearing on democracy. A State funded broadcaster which sees fit to to devote part of its output to threaten its paying public hardly seems fit to be given such powers. There can be only one basis for allocation of public broadcast time in an election in a properly functioning democracy and that would be on the basis of the total number of candidates running. Equal candidate numbers should provide equal air time. Perhaps you will answer these specific questions: The Tuesday night programme was billed as a public debate, how could the public attend? Did any of the Mayoral candidates request to at least be part of the audience? Was consideration given to inviting such other candidates by the Corporation which presumably employs you? As my complaint was received well before the programme complained of was either prepared or aired - was any meeting or discussion held to consider inviting other Mayoral candidates either to the panel or to the audience? Do you not feel your present employment somewhat demeaning? Martin Cole Later update; Predictably enough, I suppose, I received the following - Can I be bothered to continue? No, I cannot! This is an automated response from BBC Complaints. We are sorry, but our email system can only receive your email if it is submitted using our pre-formatted webform. We realise this is an inconvenience, but webforms allow us to manage the many emails we receive each day more efficiently and this makes best use of the Licence Fee. Please resend your reply or message using the webform at http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/. If we have previously given you a reference number, please include this. Thank you BBC Complaints

BBC Complaint response

I have received the following response from the BBC regarding my complaint, linked here: Dear Mr Cole Thanks for your e-mail. I understand that you are unhappy with the fact that BBC One programme 'London Decides: The Mayoral Debate' only included three candidates when there are ten fully registered candidates taking part in the mayoral election. I also note that you feel allocation of party political broadcasts is arbitrary. To address the issue of the inclusion of three particular candidates in this broadcast, I can tell you that our responsibility to provide comprehensive, authoritative and impartial coverage of news and current affairs in the United Kingdom comes particularly under the spotlight during the election campaigns. In the interests of fairness, the BBC makes a distinction between those parties or candidates with previous electoral success or significant current support, and other candidates. Political parties which have had the most significant previous support receive the widest coverage; however, other less major but established parties - such as the UK Independence Party and the Green Party - are also guaranteed coverage. Candidates who would be considered minor and have had no proven previous electoral support do not receive parity of coverage with more established smaller parties. With reference to your comments on party political broadcasts, we have an obligation to make airtime available for these broadcasts during local and general election campaigns. However, the broadcasts are produced by the parties themselves at their own expense. Neither the BBC, nor the independent broadcasters, are responsible for their content and their transmission does not imply our support for the views contained in them. The BBC is always under close scrutiny from every direction, but never more so than during elections. We are confident that the BBC's very strict guidelines are being adhered to during our coverage of the London Mayoral race. I can add that there is also in-depth coverage of each of the candidates on the BBC London website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/features/london_elections_2008/candidates/candidates_index.shtml However I would like to assure you that we have registered your comments on our audience log. This is the internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily for all programme makers and commissioning executives within the BBC, and also their senior management. It ensures that your points, and all other comments we receive, are circulated and considered across the BBC. Feedback of this nature helps us when making decisions about future BBC services and your comments will play a part in this process. Thanks once again for taking the time to contact us with your views. Regards Sean Moss BBC Complaints Some of my readers may find this satisfactory, but for me it totally fails to address the problem of how electors are supposed to make informed second choices, the nub of the matter in the London Mayoral election procedure. I must stand by my posting made earlier today.

London Mayoral elections

The BBC does know there are ten candidates for London Mayor as may be seen on their own web site, read here. So why did they only invite three to their Tuesday evening BBC 1 TV debate? More here. The BBC are also aware that first and second choice votes can be crucial, the first link above ends as follows: If none of the mayoral candidates gets more than 50% of votes at the first count, all but the top two candidates are knocked out and their second preference votes shared out. Their deposits are refunded if they get 5% of first-choice votes. Several candidates are also standing for a seat on the London Assembly, made up of 14 constituency members and 11 on the London-wide "top up" list - elected by proportional representation. So it would be perfectly feasible to cast a protest vote for one of the seven smaller party candidates but back that up with a second choice major party candidate if convinced that only politicians from the corrupt establishment are capable of governance. BUT most Londoners I speak too are unaware there are more than three candidates AND that must be as a result of the conspiracy of silence by the BBC and most of the remaining mainstream media! As I said this is outrageous!