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Which London Mayoral candidate do you agree with?

Here is a link to the London Mayoral 'vote match' site. It sets out details of policies, asks twenty questions. Then it tells you whom you agree with most. I matched with Ken Livingstone, then I think one of the independents, then rather surprisingly with the 'Left list' and then down until ending up in near total disagreement with the BNP.

All a bit of fun but the sort of thing that makes me think. The media agenda in London is clearly 'get rid of Livingstone'. Negative spin is being applied everywhere. Even then, though, London's chippy, nasal Mayor has denied his two contenders their one best shot. During the Newsnight debate the other day, they were awful, he was cool and rational. If they can't get it up--and you can have a look for yourself--for an event as important as that debate, what's going to happen if they get elected?

Any of the non-Ken candidates will end up discrediting the whole notion of an elected Mayor with independent powers in the city-state that is London. That is precisely what a Westminster-obsessed press wants, and it would undermine the already tenuous attachment of this political culture to doing anything the people want.

I'm beginning to think I may go and vote Ken, even if the Labour brand is toxic at the minute because of all the lies, liars and special interests.

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