Ominous signs that Ken Livingstone may have fallen out of touch with what matters to people in London

1350 Hrs GMT

London

Saturday 11 February 2012.

By © Muhammad Haque.

The weekend version of the CPGB’s “Morning Star” “newspaper” carries another routine piece with Ken Livingstone's by-line. The front page trailer says that Ken Livingstone is accusing the Tories of being out of touch. This is too bad for Ken Livingstone. How could he hope to have THAT as a “damning indictment” of the Tories? This shows that Ken Livingstone is himself out of touch. Had he been any different than he accuses the Tories of being then he would find a far more credible statement than the banality that the Morning Star is peddling on his behalf. How IN TOUCH is Ken Livingstone himself? He sure shows no evidence as far as I can see that he is any more in touch than the Tories are. And here is his problem. Unless Ken Livingstone can come up with credible and sustained evidence that he is IN TOUCH then I cannot see him returning to the Onion after the scheduled polling day in May, just over two months away. On all key topics that would likely affect the voting intentions and behaviour of the majority the people, Ken Livingstone has nt stood out as being at al any different than Boris Johnson. This should worry Livingstone’s “ strategic advisers”. [To be continued]