243 posts tagged BrianPaddick

"19th Stonewall hustings at the Southbank. Boris is bullish. Unfortunately he greets me "Brian, you old fruit," and as I start to laugh he quickly backtracks, "I mean old bean."' -Entry from the campaign diary of Brian Paddick, London's former top cop and gay Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of

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Brian Paddick had a mini campaign diary in the Mail on Sunday yesterday. I would like to make one correction to a diary entry. Brian says: March 1st Join Boris in Sidcup on a march against the closure of the A&E. A Labour supporter erects a placard in front of my face and then, after Boris speaks, his organisers steal the megaphone so I cannot address the crowd.

Like everyone else in politics Brian Paddick has sold his diary to The Mail on Sunday. The difference is that his are funny: Find myself broadcasting on Deptford Pensioners Radio station in East London. Wonder, not for first time, who exactly my Press officer is working for.

From Brian Paddick’s diary in the Mail on Sunday: 7th Lunch with the Evening Standard. Am asked how I will appeal to Conservative voters. I say I’m a former police officer, Oxford educated, business degree, scrub up well, can put sentences together in an intelligent way. “Yes,” says one of the journalists.

This is my favourite bit: 7th November 2007 Lunch with the Evening Standard. Am asked how I will appeal to Conservative voters. I say I'm a former police officer, Oxford educated, business degree, scrub up well, can put sentences together in an intelligent way. 'Yes,' says one of the journalists.

Now the London elections are safely out of the way, I’ve at last had time to read Brian Paddick’s autobiography, Line of Fire. This was published during the late stages of the London Mayoral campaign, I suspect more with an eye to boosting sales than to boosting his electoral chances.

One could almost feel sorry for Brian Paddick, who has published his London Mayoral campaign diary in (believe it or not) the Mail on Sunday. He was a candidate with little media experience, running for a party which has only ever had to drop a few leaflets, with some dodgy bar charts and attacking the incumbent, to get votes.

If you don't do anything else today, read THIS extract in the Mail on Sunday from Brian Paddick's mayoral campaign diary. It's safe to say he won't ever stand for the LibDems again. He reveals... The Libdems gave him virtually no campaign support or fundingNick Clegg as being constantly 'miffed' or

No prizes for guessing what my first newspaper column after the London elections is about...This weekend eight years ago I was elected to the London Assembly – and Ken became London’s first Mayor. It was so exciting – a blank page on which to write the capital’s future. And now it’s Boris! Unbelievable...