The Conservatives' disastrous London campaign

In what was meant to be a plea to fans of democracy and  a rallying call to London's Tories, a Conservative member of the London Assembly has brought into sharp focus her party's links with known terrorists who threaten the violent overthrow of Hugo Chavez's legitimate government. Writing in The Guardian, Angie Bray related meeting with 'Venezuelan dissidents' whom the Mayor, Ken Livingstone, had barred from entry to the GLA building. Comments on her article, most notably from Calvin Tucker of 21st Century Socialism, drew attention to the fact that the so-called 'dissidents' were none other than Aleksander Boyd of the website VCrisis.

On a number of occasions, Boyd has publicly called for the violent overthrow of Venezuela's government (which has won 8 democratic votes, all scrutinised by international authorities).  He has also written that he wished he was Genghis Khan so that he could conquer Venezuela and pour molten silver into the eyes of his enemies. Don't we all?

Angie Bray's column was in response to the GLA's decision to buy oil for London Transport from Venezuela in exchange for below-market prices and some knowledge transfer from London to Caracas. Her aim was to paint Livinstone as recklessly doing business with Chavez (a figure hated among right-wing political groups the world over), just in order to offer Londoners 'an election bribe' prior to forthcoming mayoral elections. As some commenters on the Guardian website pointed out: this woman is trying to convince Londoners to vote Conservative by telling a sob story about a violent, self-obsessed terrorist who has also, interestingly enough, referred to  writer Tariq Ali as 'that Paki journalist'.

But that's not all! As part of her article, Bray makes claims about ballot papers and the electoral roll in Venezuela which are simply untrue:

Have you ever seen the Venezuelan electoral register? It looks innocent enough at first, with columns for your name, address and polling number. But then it suddenly turns slightly menacing: a long line of columns records every ballot you have ever cast.

This is a fantasy. One can only assume it was fed to her by that ass Boyd as an attempt to get her to see him as the one true Genghis.

In one short blog post, Angie Bray has done more to help Labour's mayoral campaign than Hugo Chavez. Naturally, she should resign for consorting with (and taking mendacious stories from) known terrorists and racists. Also, David Cameron must be asked about his knowledge of Angie Bray's contact with Aleksander Boyd, and whether he agrees that Chavez should be violently overthrown.

Also, just what is considered to be 'an electoral bribe' these days? A proposed Tory tax cut which would hurt the poor by cutting services but benefit the wealthy is somehow passed off as economics whereas a deal with Caracas to source cheap fuel for Transport for London, to the benefit of the poorest, is smeared as a cheap 'electoral bribe'.

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August 25, 2007 | Filed Under 'Terror', Politics, UK 

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4 Responses to “The Conservatives' disastrous London campaign”

  1. The Big Chorizo on August 25th, 2007 5:09 pm

    Tom, that's interesting I just watched a great documentary by John Pilger called The War on Democracy which I think you'll like after this post.

    Here's the link:

    http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5993713997456426891&hl=en

  2. Tom on August 25th, 2007 10:10 pm

    Thanks, Matthew.. I'd heard about this documentary and it was really very emotional viewing.

  3. The Big Chorizo on August 26th, 2007 10:30 pm

    Great, glad you liked it. I'm going to show it to a Venezuelan friend of mine who's into politics and what's going on in his country. He's going to love it.

  4. Calvin Tucker on August 30th, 2007 7:18 pm

    Thanks for picking up on this, Tom. I have just finished a piece for the Guardian on the Tories terrorist connections, which should be up on their website today or tomorrow. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/calvin_tucker/

    In the meantime, you might wish to add the website I edit to your list of links: http://21stcenturysocialism.com

    Cheers

    Calvin

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