BBC Outrage against Democracy

At 1035 pm tomorrow evening the BBC 1 London TV station will broadcast a programme hosted by Andrew Neil where an audience of Londoners will put their questions to three of the London Mayoral candidates - Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone and Brian Paddick in a special debate. There are ten properly registered candidates for the post of London Mayor and it is absolutely unacceptable that the other seven candidates should be excluded from any such publicly funded forum. See the full candidate list from the Electoral Commission site linked here. The BBC have for years suppressed free democratic debate in the country through their abitrary allocation of Party Political Broadcasts as I learnt first hand when representing Veritas in seeking a fair hearing in the run-up to the last General Election campaign - notably, following which election, the funding of the BBC for many years ahead was scheduled for review. All the tired old arguments used by the BBC to keep their particular paymasters in power cannot be trotted out for an election of a London Mayor. Each candidate should be allowed to stand on their merits, why else would first or second choice selections be permitted? There is no history of votes stretching back centuries allowing their normally spurious arguments to be put forth! Andrew Neil should be thoroughly ashamed of himself for agreeing to host such a Goebbels style propagandafest for the continuing anti-democratic three-party allocation of publicly funded offices. Contact Mr Neil and/or the BBC direct to protest at this latest outrage, which follows months of silence by the BBC on the democracy destroying Lisbon Treaty on which two parties' candidates represented in this debate have clearly reneged on election manifesto promises. Update at Midday. This posting has been forwarded in its entirety to the BBC Complaints Department. Others may quote it in their own complaints if they wish.

English Democrat's Matt O'Connor lying in 3rd Place

Matt O'Connor the London Mayoral Candidate is lying in third place this morning with 17 days to go to the actual poll. The 1st/2nd Choice voting system finally gives a chance for UK electors to show their complete disgust and contempt for the existing and established three main parties, and with seventeen days to go there is plenty of scope for momentum to build between one or more of the independent candidates. The English Democrats PPB screened last Friday evening made some powerful points and Matt may well be the first choice of many voters. The UKIP nationwide PPB goes out tonight. Remember the message to Labour/Conservatives and the Lib?dems will be all the stronger if it is rammed home across the long suffering country. The poll reported in MSN News is linked here and stated: "A separate online poll of more than 5,000 MSN users showed Conservative candidate Boris Johnson leading the field with 58% of the vote, while the incumbent Ken Livingstone trailed a distant second with 14%. In third place was Matt O’Connor of the English Democrats on 11%, with fourth place in the popularity stakes going to Lib Dem candidate Brian Paddick with 5%."

Scots twig nationalism has consequences!

The following is from the Scottish Sunday Mail, linked here, in an article reacting to Matt O'Connor's advertisement campaign for his candidacy in the London Mayoral elections. The ads in question may be viewed on this blog in our postings of 30th March 2008. O'Connor has no plans to back down and his party will unveil the posters at Holyrood tomorrow. He said: "The ads are not racist, they are pro-democracy. "Scots might want to think for a moment how they would feel if they had an English First Minister, English Finance Minister and English Leader of the House creating policies for Scotland. "England is run by a Scottish Raj and we are highlighting the gross injustice that sees the majority of the Union being run by a Prime Minister who inflicts his ideology on England but has little or no influence over what happens in his constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. "We've no intention of pulling what is a witty and provocative campaign." Despite complaints from Scots, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said: "We do not get drawn into this sort of thing."

Labour's tartan taxes