Ken doesn’t know when the election is.
January 24, 2012 Ken Livingstone, London mayoralty Comments Off
I always enjoy receiving emails from Ken Livingstone’s campaign team. They’ve ranged from the sublime – “Attend a dinner with Ken and special guest Ed Miliband for just £1,000 a table!” (which was followed up by a second email, a few weeks later, that could be loosely paraphrased as “Erm, does *anyone* want to come to this dinner?”) – to the ridiculous – ”Donate money to help us colour in a chicken!”. The latest one was from Ken himself, and claimed excitedly that various events will be taking place this week to mark the fact that Thursday “26th of January marks 100 days to go” until the election…
The link from the email takes us to a page on his campaign site where it’s declared that tomorrow, 25th January, marks 100 days to go…
So which is right? Erm, neither. The ’100 days to go’ milestone is actually today, 24th January. Tomorrow and Thursday mark the somewhat less noteworthy ’99 days to go’ and ’98 days to go’ milestones. We know Ken’s not too strong on figures (see his unaffordable fares pledge for further evidence), but it would be interesting to know which of the two possible conclusions is correct – either Ken can’t count or he believes the election is on one of Friday 4th or Saturday 5th May…
