Livingstone Channeling Cameron
Fascinating interview with Ken Livingstone on LabourList – Ken demonstrates his supposed ability to channel the thinking of Dave and Boris:
On Boris and Cameron:
“he took the decision to stand for mayor not on the assumption that he’d win, but on the assumption that he’d run a good campaign, win some credibility and get back in the game in Parliament. I think he was horrified to win, as was Cameron.”
Here they are pictured on election night looking horrified.
Alex Smith, perhaps a little quizzically, follows up with “You think Cameron was horrified that Boris won the London mayoralty?”
Yeah. If you look at the Euro election results thirteen months on, Labour had its best result vis a vis the rest of the country that we’ve ever had. We came second only to the northeast in terms of the size of the Labour vote – that’s unheard of. That is partly because people see Boris and he doesn’t give them confidence about what a Tory government would do. Londoners are privileged to see the slight outline of what a Tory government might be like. The first year after my defeat, people kept coming up to me saying “how did he get in, it’s awful”. Now they come up to me and say “I voted for Boris, but I’ll never do it again, please forgive me!”
Of course in the South East where people know Boris and a London Tory administration best, Labour actually came fifth in the recent Euro-elections. Has Ken lost his grip on reality completely?
Ken Livingstone’s single brain cell has left the building.
It doesn’t matter that Ken is talking shit. What matters is that he has a radio show and can pump out his shit 24-7 for the next three years while he positions himself for another run at mayor.
If Cameron gets in and finally takes the tough decisions that the Bastard-in-Chief is busy pretending don’t ever need to be made then Boris could suffer a back-lash as the London doletariate and wacky lesbian rights co-ordinators refamiliarise themselves with being paid what they are worth. Ie fuck all.
Ken might be going to the Olympics after all.
BRITISH ARMY EQUIPMENT DEPLOYED IN IRAQ AND A”STAN IS PROVEN QUALITY AND FIT FOR PURPOSE*
(if you are popping down to Waitrose for a bottle of Chablis)
Gordon
From this side of my 4pm GandT it looks like you are making decisions that are leading to soliders getting killed when they ought survive. You hoon.
The newt loving, self satisfied, self deluding, dribble voiced, misfit is constantly masturbating his own ego and needs to be exiled to a nice Marxist run dictatorship. Oh I forgot, that is what Britain has become.
Oh I forgot, that is what Britain has become.
No; It is most surly what the whole world has became, quite some while ago. It is just that no one has told us on the BBC 9′Oclock News quite yet.
World Communism has been running the west since before the Russian Revolution. A revolution which was indeed organized and financed by the owners of The International Banking System.
SURLY THIS IS SELF-APPARENTLY OBVIOUS?
Where do you think all that Russian Gold Diamonds and Oil got sold to?
How did The Soviets get a virtually identical Concord from?
How come The Soviets space program was to large part more advanced then the American one?
How come The Soviets exploded a Nuke only a few years after the Americans?
If not because our secret services and that of The Soviet Union were indeed wittingly or otherwise working for EXACTLY the same people?
Which were the people who profited most from the so called COLD WAR. Which were the owners of THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM, and absolutely no one else.
The miserable, surly bastards.
I don’t like Leninscum either
It’s not just Ken. They are too many to name. Have tried to complain to Ofcom regarding bias, can’t, computer says no. How CMD resolves the BBC challenge will be interesting, unless swine flu delays the GE
You rang?
You rang?
They cannot be stopped.
Some people have a chip on their shoulder – Ken has a sack of King Edwards.
He never got over being shafted by Thatcher and now he can’t get over being beaten by Boris. A prize cnut.
Lets recap,
“People are coming up to me in the streets and asking me, when can I have my ID card” Jaqui Liar
“I voted for Boris, but I’ll never do it again, please forgive me!” Ken Liar
“Of all the countries going into this recession, we are uniquely placed to avoid the worst” Gordon Liar
“I hardly knew Mr Mcbride” Ed Liar
“The Lisbon Treaty is not the same as the Lisbon Constitution” David Liar
“You know me, I am a pretty straight sort of guy” Tony Liar
I think there is a pattern here, they are all compulsive liars, or freaks with some form of compulsive mental disorder, ranging from violent rage, perversion, Bulimia, OCD, Kleptomania or alcoholic pornographers, devoted to smears, truth twisting and self enrichment from the public purse.
What a shower of utter shite.
I voted for Boris, haven’t regretted it and unless he does a Woodward and joins Labour, I doubt if I ever will. Even if he does sweet f.a. for the rest of his term he was worth the vote just for getting the corrupt, incompetent Labour puppet and general twat Ian Blair removed.
What the fuck? Ken thinks that the Euro elections were a success for Liebour?
The vote count says that they were comprehensively thrashed in the south, and were so bad in the north that Messrs Griffin and Brons are now embarrasing us in Brussels!! Whose fault is that if not Liebour’s?
It is the fault of David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill.
G Brown ( nutter)
A Brown ( nutter’s brother)
A Brows ( chancellor)
A Brons ( elected )
Brown dog whistled british jobs for british people – the other one-eyed socialist got the votes
So is everything else. It’s just rained on my washing. That’s their fault too.
MB, I think you’ll find that the areas where the unmentionables were elected wouldn’t vote Tory in a million years!
These areas are the Liebour heartlands, who are fed up with unbridalled immegration and are voting for the only party that is addressing their needs as the indiginous white working class people.
Not my view, (I normally vote Tory) but that of those who voted for Griffin & co.
resurgemus, like it!!
That’s you, isn’t it, George ‘Stop messin’ abaaaaht’ Osborne? Got to be. No one could seriously believe Churchill is to blame for whatever he’s being blamed for. Could they?
Bator and ‘Stop messing abaaaaht’ Osbourne are one and the same. I’m surprised you didn’t know that.
*Think* about what you just said, then, Mr Bates… I trust you have no Jewish blood, are rigorously heterosexual, and contain no medically interesting racial components other than Pure Aryan. Promulgates known Communist views, allthough has no associates and never has had…? Ring any Bells?
I think you need to apologise to the shade of Mr Churchill for doing something with your mouth when your brain wasn’t engaged.
Us? Griffin isn’t embarrassing me yet. He made perfect sense yesterday when talking of the hatchet faced bitch Kinnock and her “we’re all right” shit husband.
“She is a political prostitute, simple as that. She and her husband started off their careers as anti-common market and now they are there not just with their noses in the trough, they are in the trough.”
Don’t the socialist, so they, in their deluded brain cell think they are, like the voters in Hull, UNDERSTAND, esp some of the lovers of Gorden Broon, Prescot, Mandlebum, Jacky, Blair, Cheri … ALL of them. THEY ARE TAKING LABOUR VOTERS FOR WHAT THEY ARE, THICK IDIOTS!!!!
Yes, you Labour voters are being stuffed. You are just too uninformed (thick) to realise it!.. Some, most, are now seeing the light….. Fuck the RED FLAG it is the historyand the result of of povety
Can go on forever.
P.S. TaT you have a problem. It’s called an inferiority comlex ….. NOW PROVE IT…….. btw look up your problem on the W.W.W. SAD S.O.B Well, it takes all sorts ……. He won’t get his ( or her ) head round that!!!!
FFS.
Ken says “We came second only to the northeast in terms of the size of the Labour vote – that’s unheard of.”
Which just goes to show that with the right coloured specs, everything looks just luverly.
Utterly, completely and irredemiably ridiculous.
New news, blair clear!
“Labour had its best result vis a vis the rest of the country that we’ve ever had. We came second only to the northeast in terms of the size of the Labour vote – that’s unheard of.”
And what a great result it was in London!
From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_39.stm
Conservative: 479,037 27.4% (+0.6)
Labour: 372,590 21.3 (-3.5)
Apparently “people see Boris and he doesn’t give them confidence” so much so that the Tories increased their share of the vote and Labour’s plummeted…
In which case the two of them spend an awful lot of time talking to himself. How sad. Care in the community just doesn’t work.
It’s the mindset of the left through the ages.When Stalin’s first five year plan was a disaster it was because the people were”dizzy with success”.Ken’s a great wind-up merchant.
No, Ken is a foul treacherous scumbag who could not lie straight in bed. As far as he is concerned everything from the Great Flood onwards was the fault of Maggie! God! These people never forgive when somebody trounces them!
As a non-Londoner, I don’t see any essential difference in the city when I visit it between the Ken and Boris eras, except that it’s becoming more and more odd to hear an English voice. Any Londoners like to explain the differences, good or bad?
To his credit, Boris dropped the western extension to the congestion charge zone.
If Ken was still mayor it would start at the M25.
Interesting though – one might have expected him to scrap it completely.
You are not kidding…
Ken and TfL slipped the ‘supplemental tolls’ bill through parliament and legally defined the Greater London border. As a result the power exists to toll all the A-roads and bridges (at least) in London and the toll infrastructure is already substantially in place disguised as a the Low Emission Zone cameras.
Mass tolling would have started next year, after the new C-Charge contract began this November. Personally, I think that the long-term plan was to use the money raised from mass tolling to permanently subsidse the bus network with the aim of making bus travel free – a long term Ken obsession.
It was only when Boris’s team was tipped off about the tolling plans (hem, hem…) that they could campaign in the outer boroughs on Ken’s lunacy, which rather oddly, was not in his manifesto.
Incidentally, he claims to have transformed the bus network. This was simply the act of raising the bus subsidy from zero to £700m. Average, across the day, bus ridership is just 17 people.
Also, the C-Charge didn’t work. The chief engineer told Lenin that it wouldn’t work, but Ken pressed on regardless. The system broke down within weeks, which was covered up, because it could not issue fines automatically.
Capita had to be bribed to not to walk way with a £70m bung to guarantee its profits. A massive number of staff had to be hired to manually check numberplates in order to send out fines to the right addresses. Adminstration costs went up from £90m to £150m.
The toll had to be raised from £5 to £8 so they could break even.
The true figure is that for every £5 taken in by the C-Charge, £4.75 went in admin.
The C-Charge only makes a profit through fines, which may end when the new contract with IBM starts in November. It’s possible drivers will get their own C-charge account and up to 2 weeks to pay, a la Stockholm.
and yet… he keeps it !
Boris is slowly getting things sorted out. He’s got years of Livingstone cock-ups, theft and stupidities to overcome, but he’s heading in the right direction.
He’s got rid of the western part of the Congestion Zone and will get rid of the rest of it when he can – it LOSES money, and always will. The CZ cameras don’t work properly (and never have) and require human intervention to analyse and log numberplates. The technology was sold to Ken’s clueless cohort by one of Liebour’s “donors”…
We’re getting rid of the stupid and deadly bendy buses. Many of them spontaneously caught fire, they are too big for many of the roads they have to use, and the driver’s lack of visibility out of them has caused the death of innumerable cyclists and pedestrians. Lievingstone should be brought to book for each and every one of those deaths…
We still can’t find where Lievingstone hid the money. He and his pals misappropriated MILLIONS…
Boris has at least got enough sense to stop funding the gays, lesbians, disabled and racially challenged – we don’t want ANY of them in our city and Boris recognises that. When we get rid of the dross, London will be a nice place to live again!
Churn churn churn
Depends if you speak ‘muslim’.
Fortunately the London Mayor has a high profile but very little power. If Cameron had the bottle he would be well advised to abolish the office (well a man can dream), so there isn’t much difference although it’s early days yet .
Boris has saved some money on PC causes, been instrumental in the resignation of Sir Ian Blair, raised the profile of St. George’s Day in London and, most notably, abolished Ken Livingstone’s “free” propaganda sheet THE LONDONER (paid for by London taxpayers) rather than converting it into Boris’s propaganda sheet. All good stuff, but not life changing.
Against that, he failed to keep the buses running when it snowed and wants an amnesty for illegal immigrants (a really bad idea – unless you are one).
If, after four years, he has done no great harm, we should all be content – that would be a much better record than Ken’s.
So what would you personally have done to keep the buses running in an unexpected foot of snow? Prat.
I’d have done the same as Boris or Ken would have, take the hit. (or berulsconi “see it as a nice holiday”)
The alternative is of course More snowploughs, More salt and More tax to pay for them.
Bogeyman. Not by any means a foot of snow and traffic was flowing past my home without hindrance from six o’clock in the morning. In most places the buses could have continued to run and would have helped to keep the roads clear, but never let the facts get in the way of mindless abuse.
There is no difference at all.
Bendy buses on the way out and that’s about all.
The place could run itself and in fact did so from 1984 – 2000 or so.
Its multiculturism, innit! Be grateful these people have dragged themselves thousands of miles through unmentionable hardships to sample your generosity and enrich your life with their fabulous skills!
Bob Ainsworth the Gun Runner”
Ho Hum
Depressing and yet not surprising.
It’s left the building and is now propping up the bar in the pub next door.
Labour simply cant deal with how deeply unpopular they have become, they seem to think if they put enough quotes and soundbites out to the contrary that somehow people will return to vote for them.
Sorry guys this is 2009 and any stupid statement will be destroyed by the blogs within minutes… This is in turn picked up on by the mainstream media.
The left have no clue about new communication technology and the increased freedom of expression it brings.
You cant force people to like you, why cant they see this?
They can#t understand that the government is a transfer agency. i.e. if they want to be nice to someone they have to be nasty to someone else to pay for it!
People remember being shat on longer than they remember a “favour”.
Can you fucking believe it, The Labour party are putting forward one Anthony Blair the snake oil salesman for EU President.
What else can these fuckers do before finally vacating their seat of power
Still, a snake oil salesman in charge of EU? Not totally inappropriate is it?
good analysis guido , kens still wanting a return to the job , things will have moved on a bit by the time the london election comes , i think boris will understand he cant write witty one liner puns and have parlour games for every urban crisis or situation !!
Ken Livingstone is responsible for me voting Tory.
He was responsible for screwing up London, wasting our money and acting like a dictator.
Boris won and I wish Livingston would just piss off.
Red Ken Livingslime is a chiseling little crook, in the same way he called the US ambassador for refusing to pay the KENgestion extortion tax.
As emperor of London, that bastard claimed that everyone in London wants to pay the cost of a walnut whip for an Olympics that no taxpayer wanted, and no taxpayer got a vote on. That has to be a Commons walnut whip because the cost is much higher then Ken claimed.
New Labour created the London mayor and his hundreds of hangers on just to piss more money up a wall at the likes of Lee Jasper.
At least when Livingstone tried to hit me, I made him pay for it.
The cnut should have got 5 years for GBH, but his girly little slap was so puny that it couldn’t be called an assault. He, on the other hand, got his nose broken…
Do tell!
Just remember, whoever did this was right:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article263003.ece
Ken but the “b” and the “ullshit” into “bullshit”.
Red Ken apart, it’s unlike Guido to misread or misrepresent – Boris and David look very happy and relaxed.
YES
Sounds like someone has joined Brown in the bunker.
OH DON’T BE SO HARD ON KEN !!
You know and I know and he knows he doesn’t believe this stuff..
He is a politician – he’s just ‘doing his job’..
Calm down, situation is normal.
You should read the comments beneath it. Red Ken really has lost the competitive edge – he wibbles on about tall buildings, a sort of fixation with them. Hmm… not a very good sport at all.
The BBC will shortly be reporting this as gospel.
So what?
That is what we give them taxpayers money for – to promote the gospel according to Labour.
What are you, state educated or something?
No, I said ” so weak”.
** pops round to Guidos to ask him to change post #57 **
Ken probably left a large turd in the toilet that’s why neither of them is smiling.
“Has Ken lost his grip on reality completely?”
Yes he has. Why doesn’t the fucking twat fuck off to Venezuela, given he thinks it is such a great place. All he does now is fuck around whining whining whining in the fucking awful accent. Huhne.
Pop you down as a ‘maybe’ then Elby?
Be reasonable: how can you lose something you never had?
Our Ken really does like being in the limelight doesn’t he?
He just keeps popping up.
He’s also invited to comment, by our savvy media, upon anything from the weather to politics.
He even pops up when not wanted.
He’s great.
Can’t we get him one of Gordon’s helicopters and fly him to Afghanistan??
Agreed he is now like most half arsed no-talent celebs scrabbling to get their forgetable mugs on the telly.
See him next on “get me otta here i’m a prize wanker”
Well Ken may be sh*t, but he’s certainly got you all yakking your empty heads off.
sam bellend
you have the empty head for missing the whole point here.
It’s the Kraaazy Kenny show.
I’ve heard people say they voted ken and wished they’d voted Boris (not that it mattered in the end) but not vice versa!
Dear old Ken. Get over it. I occasionally listen to you on LBC and the truth is you still can’t cope with the reality that you lost against all YOUR expectations. The fact is that most people without axes to grind don’t like your vindictive, divisive and essentially corrupt brand of politics: you spend your time greasing the palms of those whose politics is in line with yours and everyone else is so much shit on your shoe. You’re hanging around City Hall, like something between Banquo’s ghost and a very bad smell: your only saving grace these days is as a source of amusement.
The only people who listen to sad Ken drone on is his sad non productive leech mates in the public sector and muslim fodder votes who where fed a pack of shit about Boris banning the Quran etc. etc. other dirty tricks used by Ken during his campaign
If you read the quoted paragraph without knowing from where it came, your immediate thought would be “Mr Livingstone I presume”
The left are a bunch a fucking arseholes
Ed Millitwat on GMTV this morning looked like he has started sex change therapy
From The Times
May 15, 2009
Lily Allen: ‘I’ll vote for you, Gordon Brown’
Allen has been facing the recession head-on. “I haven’t lost any money, because I’m terrible, I spend, spend, spend, ha-ha. There are loads of Chanel jackets in my wardrobe. I am singlehandedly keeping the economy going.” (She has also bought a stretch of beach in Jamaica, where she plans to build a house.)-
er, no, fuck you!
The whore can fucking stay there and if the mumbo jumbo climate wankers are right she’ll drown at the next high tide.
Nepotistic whore please.
The climate change lobby is entirely wrong, stupid and corrupt. Anyone with the slightest bit of sense knows that the “global warming” that we’re seeing is just a part of the 170-year cycle that can be seen if you cut down any tree older than 200 years.
“Global Warming” is just another scam to try to part you from your money. We’re already one of the most highly-taxed countries on earth, and these hoons want to charge us more…
If you’re sensible, you’ll reject this silly notion of “Global Warming” and stand up to the “environmentalist” lobby and tell them to f**k off.
Build a beach house in Jamaica? She’ll need a fucking big fence and armed guards if she isn’t going to be spending her evenings getting brutally raped and robbed then.
Although she might like that.
Jamaica is fucking dangerous. It’s fucking dangerous for Jamaicans but for white folk dripping in Chanel it’s fucking lethal.
Sounds ideal.
Or maybe she could by a little parterre in Helmand Province.
In Lily Allen’s case, I do hope so. Puffed-up celebrity halfwit singing vacuous songs.
better watch out here! you never know, her big, hard, labour voting dad might come on and tell us all what to do and scare us all away – it’s nice that lily can just walk into a job without any training or experience because her dad’s hard innit? labour eops in action.
Terrible legs too
Her big, hard, Labour voting dad won’t be able to save her in Jamaica.
She has taken leave of her senses. She’s got a shit-load of cash. Why not St Barths. Or even Barbados.
Jamaica? Has she a death wish?
orvil
Never trust a singer with eyes on the side of their head.
I’m relieved. She’s not going to my favourite Caribbean island and so it’ll stay the same, quiet, unspoilt and untrendy.
I hate that ludicrous “Jafaican” voice that it puts on, presumably to give itself some street cred with it’s left wing chums (just like Sting in the 70s/80s) – absolutely bloody toe-curling
Can we pay for her flights? Sounds like an ideal solution too vacuos know nothing little twats.
Talking of them. What happened to Ben Elton and his “little bit of politics”? Gone strangely fucking silent!
I see spitting image also went very light on Broon in it’s latest and cheapest incarnation. Political Biase?
TOO F*CKING RIGHT!
The country needs a millionaire to start a party(cash only, keep your opinion to yourself!) to elect normal folk so as we can change the system. fuck these 30 year glasgow spounging bastards or their tory counterparts and fuck the BNP
and take her crappy shitty music with her, if she could at least sing then i might be bothered to actually listen to her.
Do I take it that you lot are not too keen on Lily Allen then?!
Not too keen on any of them tbh.
Why aren’t they taking some time out of their world tours/serial holidays entertaining our boys at Camp Bastion? You’d think one or two of the lefty politically on-message could manage to rock the casbah for the lads.
I’ve just read all these replies in the mistaken belief they were about Lily Savage. Time for my recess.
She is a useless twat only famous for getting her tits out on stage – much like her wanker of an old man who liked flashing his knob every chance he got. Oh I forgot they are a ‘singer’ and an ‘actor’ ha fucking ha and Gordon Brown is the “right man to lead the country out of the recession” as well.
On what part of Planet Newt does Ken live? The dark side?
Ken who?
Great minds think alike
Ed Milliband = Pilsbury Sex Change Dough Boy
Wonder if Ed and Dave play soggy biscuit together. Tossers!
Look, plebs, if we don’t tax & oppress you into the ground the British countryside will be destroyed by dangerous levels of climate change.
The BBC have no problem believing me, why don’t you?
Ah well, suck it up plebs.
Ed Miliband = Tony Blair’s mini-me
Ken never had a grip on reality. He’s a shining example of why Labour and socialism does not work.
A complete wally.
The total Hoon lives round the corner form my house…I bump into him on the tube from time to time. God I’d love to slap him. When he was in power I once read over his shoulder, and saw it was notes on how to deal with a trade union conference thingy he was going to. Had lists of things he should say that they would like, and things to compliment them on.
It worries me that he needs to be prompted to kiss arse!!
Anonemouse – next time you see the hoon, give him the kicking he richly deserves. Then ask him where the money went!
Ken who?
God damn. Two countries, same disease.
Also Ken is trying to project the reality of Labour winning two elections back to back after the inital one actually spelled out to Tony and his merry band.
Labour shit their pants when they actually won. Gordon had spent all that money expecting the Tories to sweep in and have to clear up the mess not for him to be saddled with it , Gordon was too thick to see their was no way out of the tunnel but Tony knew full well Labour winning that third election was the worse thing that could ever happened to the party.
Yep. It was Labours 1992 moment. They’d won the election but the bust was nailed on by 2005. It was an election to lose.
Can you imagine how sympathetic Labour would have been right now if the Tories were sitting there with the pile of shit and ficked economy Labour would have handed them in 2005?
Arsehole shills screeching about how the Tories had destroyed Brown’s ‘golden legacy’. No amount of explaining that the economy was fucked in 2005 would deflect their imbecile squawking. Even now they’re seeking to blame the yanks, the banks, any fucker at all is in the frame except the arseholes who sat there and pissed the whole fucking lot away.
Exacatly too right mate, it’s a silver lining in the cloud that we’ve been able to see it with our own eyes the depths these people sink too when they come into power, they deliberately fuck things up for their own benefit later on down the line and ruin people’s lives.
The utter denail of reality is a joke, these are the people that are ‘always right’ and nothing is ‘their fault’. There is no cure for people like this. When the UK burns to the ground they will still be doodling about like scatter brains.
Not to mention we’ve all seen the left can’t sustain their ideology over long periods of time as it’s an unworkable, unfinished failure of an ideology that’s why you have the coalition with anything that will provide them with ideas and votes and causes to bleat about.
They are a joke, a blight in politics even Looney Limp Dems are coming off more sane than these crackpots and they where the nutters kicked out of old Labour.
They are like children in the playground or the bosses son brought in to take over the company, they got no experience of real life or the actions and responsibilties you have to take in real life.
Everyone has either worked with or employed someone like what Labour is, all mouth and no action and no intention of doing an honest days work properly and always out for themselves.
Spot on.
The Tories would have been crucified by the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph et al.
Losing the last election was a huge blessing for the Tories and for the country.
It is obvious than in 2005 the populace weren’t ready to see things as they are, to see Labour for the scum that they are. Now they are a lot more receptive to reality, that big promises and tractor stats don’t amount to anything useful or real.
No. The biggest blessing we had was Cameron’s conference speech in 2007. Without that speech Brown would have gone to the country and he’d have won.
We could be looking at 3 more years of this imbecile instead of 11 more months.
If we survive this economic clusterfuck then history will record it was only because of Cameron’s speech in 2007 that frightened Brown away from a direct confrontation that Brown would, in all likelihood, have won at a canter.
It is bad that Brown is denying facts and avoiding the tough decisions purely to land Cameron and the Tories with a heap of shit that they will then make political capital out of with their brain-fucked core vote. Imagine how fucked we would be if Brown was planning to defer reality and keep pyramid squandering for three more years instead of 11 more months.
Imagine that.
October 3 2007. The recession had hardly got going. Northern Rock was a taste of things to come but Brown, the BBC, the vested interests were still in full-on denial. All over by Christmas. With his typical self-effacing modesty he was full of how he’d ‘successfully’ handled the F&M outbreak etc etc.
Brown could have won at a canter.
But he bottled it.
October 3 2007. A turning point in British history. An opening. Brown saddled with the bust he’d spent 10 years of megolomaniacal idiocy engineering but prevented from spending another five years driving us into destruction.
A hundred years from now, if we survive this economic catastrophe of Brown’s making, then that date will be taught to economists and historians as the window of opportunity through which sanity, serendipitously, stepped.
‘People come up to me and say…’
Most people go wobbly when they see/meet someone famous and often say the most toe curling lickarse shit.
Dont put to much weight to it Ken.
Probably the same people who stop Jacqui Smith in the street desperate to get their hands on their very own ID card.
Bull-fucking-shit.
Ken’s been on the Scotch again.
Bet he never paid for it!
You don’t know how much that hurts.
Sour grapes, Ken. Still bearing a grudge after all this time. Shame.
Don’t get me started on that trot Livingscum.
I long for the day when the troops are sent to escort him to the airport, remove his passport & wave farewell as the plane leaves for Venezuala or what ever South American left wing dictatorship he is being paid to promote in the west this week.
We remember Livingscum standing shoulder to shoulder with the IRA scum who killed our friends – & we will never forget that insult or them.
What about shaking hands and hugging that muslim terrorist who was banned from the country.
I’d rather he was escorted to Broadmoor.
He’d only go on expenses
“Has Ken lost his grip on reality completely?” – “lost”?
He’s just not got over losing has he? Remember how magnanimous Boris was in victory? Livingston should stop acting like a bitter old has-been and extend the courtesy in defeat, else go and Bite the Big One.
On your socialist dictator-loving bike Ken, go on, PISS OFF!
I remember Boris Johnson being interviewed and he was asked
“Will you call the former Mayor to city hall to answer questions?”
“I won’t have to he hangs around the place like Banquo’s ghost”
Seriously, Ken has such an ego almost unbelievable. To imagine Boris doesn’t is stretching it a bit though.
But when Boris goes I’m sure he’ll find better uses for his considerable talents than the one trick self publicist Ken.
I love Boris. He brightens my day.
A breath of fresh air?!
He’s got the plot.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/5814860/Its-poppycock-to-grow-crops-here-but-destroy-them-in-Afghanistan.html
Boris — the only politician I’d buy a drink.
It would be good to know whether the interview took place before or after a ‘Good Lunch’
Hic!
He told the Surrey Comet that he feels like a 35 year old and fully intends to run for Mayor next time around.
Oh ha ha – don’t kid yourself Ken – you look every bit as old as your are – and 35 is long gone!
Nell.
He meant to say he felt like a 35 year old Newt which is about 340 on the human scale!
He’s a busted flush Nell. Labour don’t want him as a candidate so he’s now whoring around with the Guardianista/Union backed “Progressive London” – a shower of self-regarding wankers who seriously think that the election result was some kind of aberration……
Basically it’s the same twats4Ken, moronswithbeards4Ken, lyingarseholes4Ken coalition of the dim……..
I think Boris would have to be caught in flagrante with the underage daughter of Abu Hamza and a ferret up his arse in order to lose the next election.
For the first time ever my council tax didn’t go up to pay for the bloated mayor’s office.
Sadly, the cnuts at Lambeth Council got their revenge by putting rents up by 17 per cent.
Next time you watch/listen to K.L. count how many times the cnut says ‘ I mean’
The twat,I mean, drives me crazy.
I voted for Boris, please forgive me Ken. Jesus Livingstone is an arrogant prick.
Of course people come up to Ken and say “How did Boris get in, it’s awful”. They are sucking up to the little weasel.
But the impression I get is that a great many Londoners are delighted to have a mayor who doesn’t hose their money at queer festivals and every other barmy cause that might harvest a vote.
You ever see a few admitting so on CiF.
Lick dat toad…….. Baybeh!!!
Semantics anyone ? I think what he means is, for example labour got no votes at all in the West Country, whereas in the South East , they got some ( not a lot, but some). Presumably the former labour voters in the midlands and north west voted for the b & p chappies, thus leaving the South East ‘second only to the north east in the size of the labour vote’.
I don’t normally do mindless violence, but I would like to cut his vocal chords.
OT Have a wonderful vacance, we’ll miss you !
“Has Ken lost his grip on reality completely?”
No, he’s just a compulsive liar…
Ken’s piece in LabourList is his usual starnge mixture of practical ideas on transport and policing, where he seems to have a real grip, and fantasies about Boris being surprised to win and about global warming.
Of course Boris was surprised to win. He lives in a state of perpetual surprise. Every morning, he is amazed that his feet are just the right size for his shoes.
Ken is, I think, a symbiont. There is Human Ken, a practical man, a bit leftie but basically on our side, and Goa’uld Ken inside him spouting Spartist drivel and class hatred. Outside Ken’s body the Goa’uld is mistaken for a newt.
I’ve just found a dead shrew in the garden
I said “is that you Ken?”
It smiled that inane grin of his.
I’ll leave it for the owls to have for tea.
This tells you all you need to know about Livingstone.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23478856-details/Anti-semitism+-+and+a+timely+question+for+Ken/article.do
And here he is gone native.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-494942/Turban-charged-Ken-defends-spending-740-000-public-money-trip-India.html
I see he lived very frugally whilst he was mayor.
He only ever ate in the finest most lavish of restaurants. On one occasion running up a bill of £1267.89 and on another occasion eating most modestly for £761.88. All apparently paid for by the taxpayer.
No doubt Londoners will be falling over themselves to vote for him next time around so that he can recommence his troughing.
I remember his “socialist” counter parts squabling over the tax payers paying the 14000 bill for their consultancy(dirt campaign!)
Oh how socialism has changed!
It hasn’t changed. They were always useless
He also made Karzie and assorted Afghani politicos look squeaky clean. Bribes and backhanders? Nepotism? Ken? Never.
I would never believe anything Livingstone says. He’s typical Liebour – always harping back to the past, with never any original ideas about the future. He’s a bitter and twisted individual who craves the limelight. I have never been able to fathom how this talentless individual ever became Mayor. A complete and utter cretin. I know the Beeb thinks the sun shines out of his arse but that’s just their institutional bias revealing itself yet again….
Yeah. their like a f*cking Hovis ads (sorry hovis) , Harping back to the days when they defended the working classes. The working classes/any class is just a vehicle too these sheisters. tory/labour/liberal/ Their only interested in their own self styled political class.
As they seem to think. Who else are the plebs going to vote for!
I would suggest that Livingstone be detained under S.136 of the Mental Health Act 1983. He is clearly a risk to himself and others.
Big injections of Largactil and 28 days in a medium secure unit should sort him out.
Put him on Red 5.
That’ll cramp his style.
As we say in Lancashire
“T’ lad knows Newt”
Sorry
NOWT
I Never had sex with your mayor, appen !
I may have done so had he spunked out t’best part of £1300 for Dinner, but I didnt.
Ist gut ja?
Guido Where’s your take on Labout mafia put Blair up as President of Europe?
Glynis Kinnock’s faut pas of today. We’ve all been screwed by Mandelson. They’ve screwed this country up now they all want plum jobs in Europe.
The swedes, the french, the germans and the spaniards are known to not want him and to favour other candidaes such as barrosso of spain.
Can you imagine cherry blair as first lady of europe.
My word – what a system she’d have to milk for money there!
Blair hasn’t got a prayer. No-one in Europe takes him seriously now, if they ever did.
Oh please let that be true! The idea of the pair of the smirking around Europe makes me sick to my stomach.
“Can you imagine Cherie Blair as first lady of Europe?”
Yes, and it would be like Carmen Miranda on speed.”
Fucking hell.
Please dear God, have mercy.
Ken hasn’t got a political philosophy, left or right. What Ken’s got is power craving and a love of politicking. He doesn’t give a toss about anything but what gets him into and keeps him in power. He rationalises it thus:
‘As I am right it’s right that I am in power, therefore anything that I do or say that might get me into power and sustain me in power, whether it’s truth or lies, is right. And any smear or aspersion that I can create that might undermine my opponents , whether it has a basis in fact or not, is right as it may help me to gain or sustain me in power, since as I am right it is right that I am in power. Furthermore once in power all the money that flows into the public coffers of which I have control is mine to spend as I wish on whatever project or interest group or politically expedient policy that will favour enough special groups that will ensure that I have a sufficiently large client electorate that will realise that it is in its own narrow interests to sustain me in power’.
Everything he says or does must be weighed against his power ambition. There is no truth in the man and there is no shame. He is the very worst kind of political operator that has traditionally used the flawed philosophy of the left, which he knows he can manipulate, as the launch pad for his power ambitions, and as far as possible never puts himself in front of a democratic electorate unless he is sure of victory. If that victory is in doubt he will either withdraw or seek to use political scheming to achieve his ambition. Democracy is not what he does.
I loathe him, not necessarily personally, but his type. They are the curse of politics and the enemy of pragmatic, practical and honest public adminsitration.
Are you talking about me?
Do you recognise yourself then?
If only. His moment of self-recognition would be a Youtube classic. Best not to be in the neighbourhood at the time it happens, though.
Shudder!
Yes, Lola.
He is a Marxist.
I still treasure watching Barry Sheerman stick it to Ken when they were interviewed during the run up to the recent failed putsch against Gordon. Ken tried to shout down Sheerman and to make allegations about his expenses. Sheerman said something along the lines that Ken had lost the mayoralty because of sleaze and he would take no lessons from him over sleaze issues.
Co-incidentally I was drinking in a Westminster hostelry a short time later and saw Ken consorting with one Elliot Morley.
BTW I have noticed how the BBC can’t wait to dredge anything up against Boris – his taxi receipts for example which come to a sight less than it would cost to keep the average Whitehall minister or permanent secretary’s chauffeur driven car going.
What were RED KEN’S troughing expenses ? I bet he excelled himself at the trough !
B-LIAR Tried every dirty trick in the book to keep red ken out . but then when he got in he kissed his arse . Same with Rhodri Morgan Both suffered a smear campaign from scum like Alistair Camp-bellend
Livingstone is a has been bore. He uses his LBC radio to constantly make snide remarks about Bozza. It’s pathetic & not even sad. He was a marxist nutter,leading the coup to to be the leader of the GLC in a classic piece of political back room dealing. His so called “love of London” is a mere handle to hood wink people. To Livingstone it is all about power and now he doesn’t have it through the ballot box he will use whatever vehicle to keep his profile up. Wonder how big his pension pot is……..
A fuck sight bigger than mine. Mine was piss poor to start with and now worth the princely sum of sod-all thanks to McBroons theft of the pensions (private only?) from 1997 on.
Not bad for 30 years of paying in is it.
More fool me for not working for the state.
is Dave Hill and Ken Livingstone the same person?
I get regularly modded on CIF for calling Dave Hill out on his obsessional online stalking of Boris, so perhaps.
I once got modded for suggesting that baldy Hill hated Boris because he had a luxuriant head of hair, that and a possible homoerotic fixation (on Hill’s part) on posh blondes….
St Ken Livinghell of Livingstonia was never, ever in touch with reality. Nor were the droids who voted for him. He is hoping to make a comeback and star in Android Mayor II in 2012 but his voice coach gave up – thinking his Croydon twang was a spoof on the Clangers……….
The pair of them look puzzled, perplexed and startled. Look at those false rinctus grins on their faces.
I reckon Ken’s right on the button on this one.
Boris is so obviously gaffe-prone that he’ll continually rain on Cameron’s parade.
As if Dave hasn’t enough problems worrying about other gaffers like Gideon, Grayling and that clown Lansley.
Thank god ken has a mate on here i really thought he was in trouble !
P.s pmsl
“Has Ken lost his grip on reality?”
A very flattering question for the adulterous, eternally thirsty, anti-semitic, amphibian-bothering, raving communist lunatic.
Thought that too! What reality did he ever have a grip on?!
Ken’s anti semitism has taken a while to crop up!
Next time you watch/listen to K.L. count how many times the cnut says ‘ I mean’
The twat,I mean, drives me crazy.
Ken does like a laugh. Well done, LBC, for giving him a radio show to broadcast his fine, interesting views, which I am sure make gripping radio, across London.
And just in case this is not enough, a visitor to the LBC website can “send ken Livingstone an e-mail” or “Read Ken’s weekly blog” or get “more about Ken Livingstone” or even, for those starved of images of the great man, see “Ken Livingstone in pictures.”
How wonderful.
Is it really true that the Quenn of Welsh troughing bitches has let it be known that the NEW MAN NONCE ( ie Bliar ) has got the nomination for prsident of Europe???
Only if the Irish vote yes for the Lisbon treaty. Better ask them if they want Bliar as their president.
Bereavement can take so long to get over!
Livingstone is still in denial and soon will be sectioned.
Being a Socialist requires a complete and total suspension of your grip on reality. This is why ideally you should be employed by the state or better still a state sponsored quango and live a life utterly removed from having to justify your own financial existence each and every Monday morning. This allows you to develop interesting and well meaning schemes that gave you a stiffy whilst a spotty teenager, things like saving the Africans (“bet that makes mummy proud, daddy shut up and Leticia Fairweather fancy me; oo-er, that thing’s happened again”).
Next thing you know you’re fooking up there with expenses galore, a gold plated pension, BBC up your arse and believing your own crap. And too many fooking “personal development” courses too so you can effortlessly justify your own “self belief” and that you are “worth it”. Ken’s just doing the standard ZaNuLab Neuro Linguistics, keep spouting shite and lies and some poor cnut somewhere starts to believe it, sadly sometimes even you do.
What a load of complete arse. What a crap day full of arse. Days like this I’m glad not to be in Dave’s place at PMQ because the temptation would be too great and that fooking mace would be on the McMental’s bonce with such a crack. The consequences would be worth it; place in history and fook the MP’s pension.
Hurry up and moderate this Guido. Forgive the rant; it’s Wednesday and I am 24 hours away from a pub.
What put me off Boris was that the first thing he did was to introduce a New Labour type ban on booze on the Tube. All the bollocks he talked during the campaign about re-setting the traffic lights, re-starting the Blackwall Tunnel contraflow, bendy busses, getting Government off our back all came to nothing but the ban was imposed double quick. As if we haven’t had enough bans from Labour. I reckon you’ll get similar treatment from Dave. They haven’t been able to make a law for 12 years and will probably go at it hammer and tongs instead of abolishing all the nasty laws Labour have enacted.
Boris is waiting for a Tory government, then he can fillet Transport for Lefties.
TFL is still narrowing major roads in London, despite this causing huge pollution by backing up the traffic.
TFL boss Hendy was bitterly opposed to the new Routemaster project and more than one TFL bus man told me (I helped talk Boris into the whole project) that I had made his life ‘very difficult’.
This translates as ‘I just want to be left alone to ring up Mercedes and order boggo Bendy Buses. I don’t want to have to go to the trouble of actually building a modern, clean bus optimised for central London.
Time serving commies….
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Routemaster
Who’s Ken?
Ken is sooo like Jennifer Aniston, he’s lost Brad (London) to Angelina (Boris), but just can’t let go.
Tschuss!
To be fair, Boris is pretty awful. How many of his ‘deputy mayors’ have had to resign now? I think I’ve lost count. As for his supposed support for cycling – how then does he explain slashing the budget for new cycle lanes? And as for end to Tory sleaze, why then did he take money from a Chinese construction company during his campaign which now as mayor he is giving support to? And let’s not forget his involvement in getting a journalist beaten up by one of his friends. The portrayal of Boris as a maverick nice guy is fading. People now realise that in reality he’s a nasty piece of work. Shame on this article for not making that clear.
Fuck you.
go shove a soap bar in your mouth, and then throw yourself into the Thames.
I agree it isn’t ideal- but at least these deputies have gone. The last one was made to resign over spending abuses on his GLC credit card was it not? While at the same time no heads are rolling in the Commons… I’m happy they go- not we see the abuse, and then they are still lording it over you, dishing out new laws to encroach even further on our liberty
Ken is another left wing icon who cannot face the reality if his demise, joining the likes of Arthur Scargill.
The attention Ken L had throughout the Blair era when reality was never part of the equation at any moment, parallels that received by Scargill whose persona was also created by the media to fulfil a political need at the time.
Neither Scargill or Livingstone were very important figures but building them up to be bigger than they were was useful to first Thatcher, and with Livingstone for Blair. In truth they were only important for the potential damage they could do. Neither one did a gram of good for humanity, destroying the coal mining industry in Scargill’s case, and destroying London’s economy in Livingstone’s.
I think the video Ken made to promote himself in the London Mayoral race showed him in all his glory. Trooping into his greasy spoon cafe for his morning ‘slap up” breakfast in his “Columbo” raincoat told us everything we wanted to know about Ken. The problem with left wingers like Ken is they think of us all as working class and downtrodden with no ambition, that is what Labour are all about. There was nothing new about New Labour, because they were also “users” and milked the unions for all they were worth. The new mantra for Labour is not……”Building a better Britain” but dead, over, and finished” RIP.