Ken tries to toxify Boris's brand
New poster depicts Boris as a martian as the Mayor extends his poll lead to four points.
By George Eaton Published 30 April 2012 10:30
In a final attempt to toxify Boris Johnson's brand, Ken Livingstone's new poster depicts him as a martian ("The Tories are on a different planet") alongside the similarly blue-skinned David Cameron and George Osborne. It's a riff that Ed Miliband has regularly used, with some success, against the Prime Minister ("Planet Cameron"). But while the Conservatives are falling in the polls, Boris keeps rising. The latest YouGov poll shows that the Mayor of London's lead has increased from two points to four points over the last week. Given the scale of the Tories' woes, that is some achievement. But then one of the stories of this campaign has been Boris's ability to differentiate himself from his party. While he outpolls the Tories by 12 points (the "Boris bounce"), Ken trails Labour by three points ("the Ken drag"). As the LSE's Tony Travers notes, "Boris is still way ahead on likeability. This suggests it is an election between Boris and Ken – not the Conservatives and Labour.”
With three days to go, the gap between the two candidates is still narrow enough for Ken to stand a chance of victory and tying Boris to the Tories is probably his best hope. But the odds are against him, not least because of YouGov's exemplary London polling record. In 2004 and 2008 it called the results right to within one per cent (Ken had earlier lodged a formal complaint against the polling company, alleging that its methodology was "fundamentally flawed").
One striking finding from the poll is the degree of Liberal Democrat support for Boris. In the second round, the Lib Dem vote splits 70 per cent to 30 per cent in favour of the Mayor, up 10 per cent from last week. It looks like Boris's re-election will be a true coalition effort.
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Johnson is just a randy old crank, and not funny anymore. Has done little for London, and is lazy and rude.
And Ken just lost the Trekkie vote:
http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/7/79/Shran,_2153.jpg
Of course there's always the fact that Ken is crooked, but that hardly matters in the Labour party.
Just remind me why Boris was sacked from the shadow cabinet?
Lying about an affair =/= lying about tax avoidance
Now,now Douglas, please stop trying to move the goalposts.
I take it you are aware of Petronella Wyatt and Anna Fazackerley?
Ken v Boris, it's like a choice between two cancers, both are highly unpleasant and both likely to cause you harm.
I think the poster is quite good.
However, Ken suffers since he's been associated with Labour again. Ken was more popular when he was seen as more independent. Boris, on the other hand, has never been anything else than a Tory, but voters are more sure of him, whereas Ken makes voters kind of disappointed, having been in and outside Labour, difficult to get a grasp of. Truth is that Boris is given a lot of liberty by the Tories for pure tactical reasons, whereas Ken seems to suffer from the Labour association, it doesn't work for him.
The poster seems to want to say – look he’s a Tory! But people know this. But they can’t say – look, Ken is the same old Ken, he’s not a Labour slave. So there you go – Labour might seem more popular than Ken, but it’s because Ken’s become less popular since he got into Labour again. I think Londoners feel like he gave up on them, whereas Boris has always been the same.
What a crap poster! It makes the Tories look like tellytubbies rather than evil toffs.
Ken's people have lost the plot and, it appears, the election. Why did Labour select such a gruesome old fossil, thus saving Boris's (and Cameron's) bacon?