The Mayoral race is on

Today is the official start of the campaign to elect London's Mayor and the 25 Assembly Members. The Media so far only mention Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, Brian Paddick and occasionally Sian Berry from the Green Party. We forget there are many other candidates. Why they are standing only god knows but one has to give them credit at least for putting their name in the race.

Mayoral Candidates

Alan Craig, Christian Peoples Alliance & The Christian Party
Boris Johnson, Conservative party
Brian Paddick, Liberal Democrat
Chris Prior Stop, The Congestion Charge party
Damian Hockney, One London party
Dennis Delderfield, New Britain
Gerard Batten, UKIP
Ken Livingstone, Labour party
Lindsey German, Left List party
Matt O'Connor, English Democrats party
Richard Barnbrook, BNP
Sian Berry, Green party
Winston McKenzie, Independent
John Flunder, Senior Citizens' Party

Polls this week in the Evening Standard put Boris Johnson clearly ahead of the current Mayor Ken Livingstone. Was a bit of a shocker to many political pundits. Now the campaign fight is on. The war of words we've witnessed over the past few months is nothing to what we can expect over the coming weeks.