Ken pins his hopes on anti-Tory sentiment ahead of polling day
KEN Livingstone yesterday launched his final push to be elected Mayor of London under the slogan “Don’t let the Tories get away with it.”
Narrowly behind in the polls, his campaign now hinges on his ability to woo back traditional Labour voters who are intending to back Boris Johnson.
“Tory fare hikes, Tory recession, Tory police cuts, Tory scandal over phone-hacking all mean we need Labour values and a Labour administration in London,” Livingstone said, attempting to pin the Conservative’s national woes on its mayoral candidate.
Livingstone was speaking at the launch of a poster portraying Boris Johnson and David Cameron as aliens from “a different planet”, intended to suggest that the Conservatives are out-of-touch with ordinary Londoners.
But when City A.M. showed Boris Johnson the poster he said: “Ken Livingstone had a deranged plan to spend tens of millions on a London Space Agency which I had to cut to save taxpayers money. So if anybody represents the party of extra-terrestrial life it’s Ken Livingstone.”