Even though he is faced with the Trade Union of transport he has managed to subsidize sectors passages poorest thanks to an agreement with Chavez who takes him abaratada petrol. Livingstone is careful not appear with Brown or that their propaganda has a labour label. Cares also distance themselves from the left. He has made a pact with the Greens to support each other in the second round, but has made no deal with two lists of Respect, which garnered in the 2004 best vote for Mayor than the Greens. For its part the left has been mired. Unlike the parliamentary where it is very difficult to compete in a I bench, there is an Assembly of 25 members in London and all strength that exceeds 5% of the votes Gets a post.
In 2004 Geman Lindsey’s Respect by few tenths did not do so. This time the left could have channeled the disrepute of the labour and to present a unified list. However, instead, Respect has been divided. Galloway wants to keep as a warlord linked to Muslim Middle and affluent layers, which are hostile to abortion and gays, while the of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) Lindsey German’s are feminists and supporters of a socialist revolution. Both sectors dividing it would be auto-anulando.
However, such action, in addition, prevented that left could try organize unions and neighborhood organizations that resist to labour on a common front, so his chances in this election are not strong. There is a turn toward conservatism that may benefit Johnson wear of labour is being capitalized in different ways. In Scotland and Wales are nationalists who grow more considering social policies that are to the left of this. The new Government of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) advocates prescriptions and university education free, while in England the Labour established the payment of tuition and raises restrict free health services to non-citizens.
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