THE LONDON MAYOR elections are on the last hurdle with just over two days left until polling. The candidates have released their campaign videos (moving some to tears) and election posters.
Ken Livingstone, in a last ditch effort to narrow the gap, has launched a new poster depicting Boris Johnson as a martian. “The Tories are on a different planet” is the slogan that hovers over the head of Johnson and blue-skinned David Cameron and George Osborne.
Are these below-the-belt tactics or are we just not used to a ‘gloves off’ approach in Irish politics? Admittedly the opposition always tries to taint the policy choices of their counterparts (we’ll be liveblogging the blows in the TV3 fiscal compact debate here tonight from 9pm) but no Irish politician has ever been turned into an alien:
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