Come Back Nasty Ken, All Is Forgiven
Now that Ken has neutered his entire campaign by promising not to say anything negative, ever, he’s stuck with terrible and desperate email stunts. This one is off the cringeworthy scale:
From: Simon Fletcher Chief of Staff
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:23:35
Subject: An email I wanted to you to seeGuido –
I’ve just been sent an email by our Head of Digital and Volunteers and I really wanted you to see it.
He says that we have been overwhelmed with the response for our huge day of action on Tuesday, “Fare Deal Tuesday”.
It promises to be a big day as we leaflet hundreds of stations and thousands of commuters.
I really hope you can be a part of it.
Best,
Simon
Simon Fletcher
Chief of Staff
Ken Livingstone Campaign–
From: Mike Joslin
To: Simon Fletcher 04/04/12 12:15
Subject: OverwhelmedSimon,
I wanted to let you know that hundreds of people have signed up for Tuesday morning.It is quite incredible that so many people have signed up.
It shows that we can out organise the Tories.
Do you reckon we could send out an all supporters email to tell people the scale of what they’ve done already and give other people the opportunity to take part?
Cheers,
Mike
Who actually speaks like that?
I would rather have Nick Clegg as mayor than Ken
I really think you need to investigate the French backed ad agency behind these stunts
And while we are about it…..has anyone Labour or Tory, checked out the postal voting that took place in the recent Bradford by-election?
Surely, there needs to be a public enquiry into postal votes, etc.
I’ll run it..
“Surely, there needs to be a public enquiry into postal votes, etc”
We sent 50,000 my feedback was that they were all counted.
My Council Tax bill speaks for itself, it soared whilst Ken spent his time doling money to people like Lee Jasper.
Who speaks like that?
NuLab managerial hacks, and their thinkalikes in other sectors.
Thankfully they are rarer and more discredited than was the case a few years back, but they’re still not yet extinct. Alas.
Big news. Candidate in email to supporters list shocker. No wonder you need the income from the Daily Star.
Ken is rattled. It’s now widely accepted that he is a tax-cheat – this will stop swivel eyed Guardian readers voting for him.
Calling him an anti-semite did nothing – the fundamentalist moslems who are enr1ching our capital vote for Ken anyway. Pointing out that he has done a Blair and set up pretend companies to avoid taxes is a vote killer for Ken.
Expect lots of nasty fighting back.
Re Guido’s earlier post and UKIP’s (and therefore any eurosceptic conservative voice) exclusion – has anyone tried complaining? I sent an online complaint. If everyone who read this blog did so it would at the least snarl up the BBC system and let them know that we notice what they’re doing.
The right in the USA have had success with such tactics. When Bush wanted to grant an amnesty for the 1llegal 1mmigr4nts millions of ordinary americans just non-stop phoned, emailed, faxed the politicians until they backed down (for now).
I will add that anyone can email them here
newsnight@bbc.co.uk
To let them know how we disapprove of their attempt to make the debate 3 socialists v 1 conservative. Remind them that in the last European elections UKIP beat both Labour and the Lib Dems. Let’s remain polite and fair-minded in emailing them though, assuming anyone else does!
“It’s now widely accepted that he is a tax-cheat – this will stop swivel eyed Guardian readers voting for him.”
That, and Ken’s also on record for saying that only stupid underachieving failures vote Labour, whereas, according to Ken, smart successful people vote Tory. (Well, we used to.)
It was ballsy of Ken to tell his core supporters that they’re thickos who will never amount to anything in life.. some would say it’s not the best marketing in the world, but I think it’s great that he’s been brutally honest with them.
Red Ken has just copied me the political cheat.
Ken in a speech at the Finsbury Park Mosque said ‘he wanted to make London a beacon of Islam’
Set fire to the place, that’ll turn it into a fucking beacon
We tried that already in 1666.
Ken’s toast.
Why does Ken’s Head of Digital and Volunteers have to ask permission to send an email about volunteering? Surely his job consists of sending emails to volunteers…
Always requires a committee to make a decision in Labour circles! Preferably one with at least a woman, a black and an uphill gardener
Good point. Check out BETC.
Let’s start a “we don’t want Ken” leaflet blizzard, be a good laugh. Could also add hate a newt week too.
Nowt wrong with native newts, we have them in the garden pond. (Smooth only, no Great Crested sadly).
Trade in endangered species is a different matter. I think Ken is a newt fancier rather than a conservationist and that makes a bit too close to the dark side…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17386764
Make Ken extinct, not an amphibian!
Oh yes it really is overwhelming isn’t it, Mike? Just heart warming, brings a tear to my eye. It’s chicken soup for the soul. It’s like watching the end of It’s a Wonderful life over and over again. Fucking prick.
Why is the date on the “To” line of the forwarded email? And why is it in a different format from the other one?
Looks like a fake to me…
I’d guess that “Simon Fletcher 04/04/12 12:15″ is an email alias, he changes his email address every 8 minutes.
Ken is a real peoples man…..
If you elect me, I swear I will pay my taxes.
Unfortunately the “People’s” in question is the People’s Republic of North Korea.
Oh great, more litter on the tube. Fucking ace.
Out and about today in !anchester. Looking for a good pair of Fairtrade hair straighteners, had an ice lolly. Brrrrrr , was a bit cold! LOL!
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That’s Ken’s campaign down the tubes!
Zillions of people turning up for ” Fares Fare ” Tuesday ( or whatever ) .
Only one retort :
You’re a fucking liar
You’re a fucking liar
You’re a fucking liar
Repetitive I concede but brutally effective .
( I won’t be turning up , couldn’t give a monkey’s …….I’ve got a Freedom Pass LOL)
Ken is a true, true, socialist.
He pays minimal taxes. sucks up to minorities for purely political gain. Makes personal attacks a campaign priority. Thinks if it’s good for Ken, then it’s good for London.
It brings a tear to my eye just thinking about what a true socialist he is!
I only hope he gets a Tuscan villa one day so he can really ride the hypocrisy to the next level.
I don’t think Tuscany is to Ken’s liking Polly, he much prefers Caracas or Havana. Well until they become democratic, then he will hate them just as he hates this country.
What sort of brainless commie girlfriend beater could imagine that bendy buses would ever work in London.
Oh, that one!
I don’t really get all this bendy bus hatred. they seem to work in other capital cities OK. or is the londoner uniquely dim?
Simply too long and not bendy enough for some of London’s smaller, medieval roads, taking forever to go around a tight corner, leading to congestion, which gives Ken an excuse to scam money off of car drivers.
Maybe you have never been stuck behind one and forcibly “congested” while it takes three goes to get around a corner, just in time for the lights to go red, Ken’s favourite colour!
The average Londoner is a third world migrant these days.
THey blocked every junction.
Are Rod, Jane and Freddie from Rainbow running the Livingstone campaign? Pass the sick bucket (sic)
That is so fucking terrible, an intern must have written it
out organise the tories?
I bet you haven’t out organised the capitalist boys and girls atWolverhampton Wanderers FC
Wolves have managed an average home gate this season 24,723 despite being shit
wankers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9185259/Fears-of-double-dip-recession-unfounded-as-UK-services-sector-posts-robust-growth.html
You can almost hear the screams of rage and anguish emanating from Ed Balls’s office.
I honestly don’t think he understands economics. He was only Brown No 2.’s
“Who actually speaks like that?”
Windowlickers with an agenda to control, extort taxes, and take a big ride on the gravy train.
Eight ‘cronies’ of Ken Livingstone are to receive £1.6million in pay-offs following his defeat in the London mayoral elections, it emerged yesterday.
Those getting payoffs include John Ross, Mr Livingstone’s economic advisor; Redmond O’Neill, his transport advisor; Simon Fletcher, his chief of staff; and Mark Watts, his climate change advisor.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041453/Ken-Livingstones-political-aides-1-6-million-payoff.html#ixzz1r56v32S6
I remember that. Not normal for political advisers to get a pay off but RedKen changed the rules.
Hey, not to worry, its funded by the ratepayers of London, they can now vote him back in.
I’m so popular !
Much as I dislike Ken, the strategy worked didn’t it? You posted it on your site and according to the tenet of ALL PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY, Ken won. You bloody nonce, letting Ken get a win like that.
“Who actually speaks like that?”
Tossers who work in marketing usually. The 1997 election was more of a marketing campaign than a political campaign.
Ken is a Knut.
It is not simply a matter of who “speaks like that ” but who “writes” like it.
Must be a young graduate of Blair’s “edukashun educasion, edukassion” failed regime.
Ken is a bore. His nasal whining just grates.
Well, so does Boris’