Tories

Tales of daily text messages between Tory high command before Boris goes ‘off message’.

Over at the Guardian, Dave Hill reports on what appears to be a spot of pre-election Wikipedia meddling on behalf of the Tories. The case concerns an entry on Shaun Bailey, Conservative candidate for the new seat of Hammersmith (a key marginal), which looks to …

Photo / gitamalhotra The taciturn (and easily toyed with) visage of David Cameron on billboards around town clearly hasn’t convinced the denizens of Deptford, some of whom booed and heckled the Tory leader when he spoke at Lewisham College this morning. Showing a deep understanding …

The idea of a fifteen foot-high reproduction of the Tory leader’s rubicund face staring at you is nearly as terrifying as a similarly enlarged Gordon Brown attempting to smile in your general direction. Yet this is what the Conservatives think will win the election. Team …

Image / Route79 … that’ll be ‘row’ as in ruckus or bust-up, rather than a hark back to the area’s original name. A front-line Tory MP has caused consternation among the Bullingdon set by suggesting the Conservatives would revisit their oppostion to a third runway …

As the top Tory in the country, it was no surprise that Boris’ triumphant Tory conference speech would be received rapturously. Beginning with an amusing barb at previous nemesis Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Mayor rounded off his speech with crowd-pleasing promises on council tax and city …

Bored and lonely gentlemen, put your phones down – it ain’t what you think. Quite the opposite, actually. Mark Clarke of Bedford Hill, a Tory parliamentary candidate, is waging what he describes as a one-man war against vice in his neighbourhood. Fed up with ladies …

Barking and Dagenham and Bexley are the top two ‘fat boroughs’ in the capital, according to a new map showing the nation’s obesity levels. Nearly one in ten residents in the poorer boroughs are registered with their GP as obese, twice as many as in …

If you’re born with the proverbial silver soup-eating utensil in your gob, yet your aspirations include running a country with a long-standing disdain towards the average toff, how can you relate to the lumpenproletariat? Maybe by showing that you suffer from the same troubles they …

You may have noticed that not every element of London’s media was truly fair and balanced in their coverage of the Race for City Hall. Chickens, you may commence roosting: one of Boris’ bandwagon-jumpers has been given his marching orders for encouraging people to vote …