LIVINGSTONE'S LABOURS IN TROUBLE

It's really not looking good for Ken Livingstone. No point in saying otherwise. But to those of us hundreds of miles away from London it still seems unthinkable that a bumbling right-wing toff like Boris Johnson should now seemingly have a commanding lead in the polls. The last time I blogged re this I failed to understand how the voting sustem works ( being a Northerner unfamiliar with anything but FPTP) but hopefully those voting first preference for the Greens/RESPECT etc and Lib Dems will all switch to Ken and he will still pull it off. Let's hope so because for the Left it will be an utter disaster if he loses. If we lose London, winning the next General Election will be even more of an uphill struggle than it's going to be.