“Boris to homeless: my house is worth shedloads”
That’s a good headline and it accompanied a decent anti-Boris article in yesterday’s thelondonpaper.
For some reason I only realised yesterday that, despite having Series-Linked both ITV London Tonight and BBC London news programmes, I should probably consider breaking the habit of the past year and actually accept the free newspapers being thrust at me in London, to keep an eye on what they’re saying about Boris and the Mayoral election.
So I grabbed thelondonpaper, which didn’t disappoint, and London Lite, which did.
London Lite – produced by the people who bring you the Evening Standard and the Metro, not to mention the Daily Mail – was even ‘liter’ than I’d imagined, offering pretty much no coverage of the elections at all.
Thelondonpaper offered the article with the headline above (a version of which is also online) which continued:
Boris Johnson was under fire today after boasting to homeless people that he lived in a big Islington house worth “shedloads of money”.
The gaffe-prone Tory had managed to steer clear of controversy in his bid to be elected London Mayor until last night’s housing hustings organised by homeless charities Shelter, Crisis and St Mungo’s.
Thelondonpaper has a London Mayoral Election web site, and is also running an online poll to see who you’d like to be Mayor, which currently shows Ken with 41%, Boris with 23% and interestingly Alan Craig from the Christian People’s Alliance and Christian Party in third place on 15%. Either the media and pollsters are missing a trick there, or web polls are hopelessly unreliable and easily subject to mass rigging. I wonder which.
April 6th, 2008 at 13.07
All the other polls show Boris way ahead… Boris is going to boot Ken out of that job and restore London’s greatness.
Go Boris Go.
April 6th, 2008 at 13.40
Dear me, Zach, you’ll respond to anything, won’t you? I hardly think that unscientific poll, which makes YouGov’s methods look perfect, was the key point of this post.