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10:38am Saturday 2nd February 2008
Secretive graffiti artist Banksy is among more than 20 artists who have donated work to raise cash for Ken Livingstone's mayoral election campaign.
Banksy, who has become a favourite of celebrities including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is supporting Livingstone's bid to keep his job in the May election.
Banksy's work will go on sale in March alongside pieces from Antony Gormley, who created the Angel of the North, and Jeremy Deller, who won the Turner prize in 2004.
The works will be sold at auction at the Aquarium Gallery in Farringdon next month, with all proceeds going towards Livingstone's campaign to secure a third term in the May 1 elections.
Mr Livingstone, who was first elected as mayor in 2000, said: "London is a city where the arts flourish.
"Artists in all fields make a central contribution to how we see our city and our society as a whole, and I am delighted that so many fantastic artists are willing to contribute in this practical way to helping keep London on a progressive and forward-thinking path."
Muhammad Haque, London, UK says...
4:55pm Sat 2 Feb 08
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andy, lomdon says...
5:21pm Wed 13 Feb 08
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Muhammad Haque, London, UK says...
4:36pm Sat 2 Feb 08
Why would anyone donate cash for Ken Livingstones mayoral election campaign?
Isnt Livingstone supposed to be the official candidate fur a particular political party with a budget and a campaign fund of its own for the scheduled 1 May 2008 mayor and GLA elections?
What is it that Ken Livingstone cannot do around the 1 May 2008 elections without extra cash that he has been allowed to do at the expense of the people of London for the past eight years since being given the cash and the cushions by Tony Blair?
Did you tell your readers and visitors how much Livingstone paid to his advisers and their advisers ? Did you do so by breaking down the figures year by year?
Did you publish a list of the mainstream media slots that ken Livingstone gets given without his having to spend a single penny from his own pocket?
Is Ken Livingstone running
Does this mean that the secretive graffiti artist will break out of his or her lucrative business of being in secret and show to ordinary people in London what he or she may look like, what their ideological affiliations are, what they have to say about the multi £ billion budget over which the holder of the office of mayor of London exercises such unaccountable damaging and wasteful power, what they actually know about the role that Ken Livingstone has been playing in imposing the agenda for big business control of society .. And a thousand other questions about London and the future of the people ?
Khoodeelaar! the Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill and against the Big Bossiness agenda against London communities that Ken Livingstone has been fronting
1635 Hrs GMT
London Saturday
2 February 2008