#VoteBike - 2012 London Mayoral elections

thats actually 100% not true. They walked out on a (One) meeting to protest about procedure that they felt was undemocratic and unfair. Among various other issues, that meeting involved discussion about cycling lanes. They made the point very specifically that the walkout had absolutely nothing to do with the cycling issue yet it was reported as such.

Im sceptical about Paddick just as i am about most of the other candidates but this is a good article about Ken Livingstone and his 'dog whistle politics': http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/comment/comment/londoners-on-the-left-do-not-have-to-vote-for-ken-7681536.html

There have been several staged walkouts by the tories.

And that article is just another bit of negative campainging. Almost all the critisism of Ken I read is that he's just a negative campaigner, yet all that shit derives from anecdotal and biased negative stories about Ken in the standard etc.