Dear Boris Johnson,
In light of the remarks made yesterday about you, I sincerely hope that you can remain calm and collected and resist the temptation to get drawn into the dispicable kind of electioneering that Ken Leavingsoon is throwing at you. His personal remarks were shocking and distasteful but you cannot afford to retaliate.
The word ‘desperate’ doesn’t even come close to what Leavingsoon is resorting to. To have Doreen Lawrence, the mother of the murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, to make some outrageous and totally unfounded remarks is stooping about as low as he can get. She said: “Ken has given tremendous support to the Stephen Lawrence Centre which is in memory of my son. I do not believe the Tory candidate would have had such commitment to the centre.” How the hell can she say that? The fact that this quote magically appears at the launch of Leavingsoon’s campaign when he finds himself so far behind in the polls, instead of many months ago, shows precisely what he is willing to do to derail your campaign. For Leavingsoon to then suggest that the “culture of openness, tolerance and mutual respect” will be lost if you become Mayor is similarly disgusting. The fact that he is using such tactics shows that this culture is already irrelevant in his eyes, such is his contempt for fellow politicians and Londoners.
Leavingsoon getting a bereaved mother to take verbal shots at you is all you need to know with regard to his campaigning tactics. I suspect there is more of this to come, but please please please do not get involved in this. Like Cameron, you are painting a positive picture about the future of London with some very sensible policies and this is the right road for you. Long may it continue.
Yours respectfully,
A.Tory
4 responses so far ↓
Ed // March 19, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Livingstone is so out - my flatmate who is generally a leftie but totally anti-politics will vote for the first time to oust Livingstone.
Candid // March 19, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Let’s face it the monument is a complete sham in the first place and only built to give Ken et al. more brownie points.
If every murdered person in Britain had a monument dedicated to them then we would be having serious planning issues over greenbelt land.
Its construction was to appease a community for selfish purposes in the hope that they would vote for him.
Quite frankly, its sickening.
Letters From A Tory // March 19, 2008 at 2:36 pm
This whole thing is horribly warped. Ken is using a dead teenager and his mother to score political points over Boris. Obviously Ken is getting increasingly desperate which makes me very nervous about what he will do next.
The fact that Stephen Lawrence’s mother agreed to say what she did is equally as disturbing.
asquith // March 21, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I’ve decided that I share your detestation of Leavingsoon. I was always against him, because of his authoritarianism and links to various sinister organisations, but his stunt with the Greens was really the last straw for me. I’m far greener than 90% of people in this country, but I’ve got no time for the Green Party because they’re just leftists militants, half of whom have got nothing to do with actual environmentalism. I’ve got no idea what Leninspart and Berry were trying to achieve, but it smells.
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