Mark Pack

The emails I’ve been getting from the Ken Livingstone campaign often raise a smile. I don’t think they really meant that Ken’s election chances depend on people “like myself” for example…

And sometimes the details in such campaign messages are rather telling – as with this weekend’s email which listed the many professions of people who have helped his campaign. Well, I say many professions but in fact five were listed – of which four were public sector and only the one (builders) private sector. Only a detail of course, but a telling one about the instinctive view the Labour campaign has about the sorts of people who help it.