The Other Labour Fight
Today is Ken Livingstone’s birthday. For such a polarising figure, people across the political spectrum have been quick to wish him many happy returns for his 65th year. Opponents are relishing the opportunity to highlight his age and subtly dog-whistle a comparison to his youthful and energetic mayoral rival Oona King. The mayoral nomination battle is heating up with accusations being aimed at King for coordinating a “series of attacks on Ken by Oona King’s supporters, who seem more interested in smearing the ex-mayor than promoting their own candidate.” Reference is given to the “shadowy” @No2Ken Twitter account. Not exactly Watergate but intriguing if there is an connection.
Jim Fitzpatrick MP, a King supporter has ruffled feathers with his demands to Labour general secretary Ray Collins that the selection rules be bent slightly, a suggestion firmly rejected by the party machine. The decision to choose a candidate nearly two years before polling day does seem odd. If the Tories did that in 2006 they probably would have ended up with Steve Norris again.
Despite their protestations that Ken is being victimised, it is amusing to see his team having a go at people fighting dirty, something Ken himself could write the book on. Even if the Labour leadership race is going to remain dull, the Labour movement looks to be splitting down some traditional lines over this battle. It’s certainly going to an amusingly messy side-show.
Who cares?
Said by the other 50M people that live outside London
I care. Red Ken is a typical socialist: he uses your money to tell you what to do and how to think. The surveillance state was not an aberration, it was mainstream ZaNu Labour thinking, as was mass immigration to change the character of England. The more we can undermine these types the pleasanter life will be.
Fight
Oona King looks like something out of “Band of Gold”
cheeky! I like the Band of Gold
“mass immigration to change the character of England”, and next the Apocalypse? Stop watching tv and get out.
why don’t you fuck off she is absolutely right!
Take a walk round London, chipolata. Remember to take your seeing eye dog. And Andrew Neather to share smugitude.
Melanie Philips (Mail 28-10-09) “The Labour government has been engaged upon a deliberate and secret policy of national cultural sabotage. This astonishing revelation surfaced quite casually last weekend in a newspaper article by one Andrew Neather.”
Shady traders
No happy birthday from you Guido
….and you’ve missed the at out, of ‘having a go at people fighting dirty’.
Head of diversity at channel 4 , tell me you made that up, please tell me !
doesn’t that make her some kind of beeboid, as well as being apparently completely useless ?
How exactly is Channel 4 – a broadcaster meant by statute to be politically impartial – justifying paying Oona King to be its full-time Head of Diversity?
(a) She is campaigning for a politically partial post
(b) She seems – according to her twitter & fb pages – to be spending much of her time campaigning rather than doing her job.
What happens if/when she is interviewed on C4 news about her mayoral campaign? Will they mention that she’s a C4 bigwig?
There’s that fecking word again, Diversity.I hate it and all it implies.
I want to employ a head of Quality Monoculture.
me me
Agree here.
You should see the University Of Bradford’s logo – they celebrate diversity for some reason. Chop. Chop. And more chop.
Trouble is, they do not mean diversity. There is no room in diversity for truly divergent views. Diversity has come to mean a fascistic adherance to an acceptable worldview as defined by a profoundly anti democratic, self-selected group of left wingers.
Disagree with that world view and they try to destroy you. The philosophy of “I will fight to the death to allow you to have different opinions, no matter how repulsive” is lost on them.
Well she is a reasonably attractive octaroon. Wouldn’t mind a soapy sandwich with her and Flinty.
a Blairite war monger who got kicked out of one of Labour’s safest seats in London. She will have the support of the establishment and Murdoch but not the People of London.
Plus, as I’m sure Red Ken and the Islamic-councillor-massif will take great delight in reminding folk (just as Respect-filled George Galloway did) – she’s a joo. And the wrong sort of ‘black’ too.
She’s fucked.
Ken’s a good man
seconded
turded
I remember her on QS a few years ago pontificating about Iran.
She was saying that we should not rule out military action to force them to sign the NPT and give up their nuclear weapons. She was spouting warmongering lie after lie to the extent that even Dimbleby had to step in and correct her to tell her that Iran actually IS an NPT signed nation and there has been nothing to prove that they have done anything contrary to the NPT agreement. There is LOTS of suspicion, and lots of faked evidence (by the same people that created the fraudulent Niger Yellow Cake memos no doubt) But zero proof. All of the nuclear material that Iran has is under 24/7 NPT monitoring and NONE of it has been moved without the NPT being aware of it.
Yes Iran has acted in bad faith and in a suspicious manner, but when America (backed, goaded and prompted by Israel) breaks every agreement that they have had with Iran in the past, what do you expect? But they have not done anything which proves they have a nuclear weapons programme, at all!
By way of contrast, Israel IS a nuclear armed nation, refuses to sign the NPT and refuses to allow inspections in their nuclear facilities. They could easily be proliferating all sorts of nuclear weaponry. It is known and public knowledge that they were once trying to sell nukes to South Africa.
But all the world’s condemnation is on Iran.
If she REALLY is that wrong and ill-informed about issues which are so serious that they could lead to nuclear war, she is NOT fit to hold any kind of political responsibility.
Octoroon
Octopussy
“”a broadcaster meant by statute to be politically impartial “”
You’re kidding me.
Channel 4 is nothing more than a propaganda spout for the left.
Jon Snow is the chief apologist and Goebbelsmeister.
If she is Head of Diversity then why has she not resigned her position to fight the campaign.
These lefties have no conception of moral or ethical standards, yet they have the cynical arrogance to demand the right to rule over us.
A pox and plague on all of’ em, Londoners don’t need either of them, or that Quangocrat Gavron from 2004.
Absolutely John Snow in called “widow twanky” a screaming pantomime queen in this house
Same old reds, always infighting. Yawn.
Vote for Ken vote for Ooooooonahhhhh
Boris couldn’t ask for a better present than Ken and Oona highlighting to the voters of London what a pair of crooks, liars, dr*nks and Labour apologist jackasses they both are.
It’ll be good to see the divisiveness that got them to the top of their personal pile of Labour shite used against each other.
Labour are shit at government. Labour are shit at managing things.
Labour’s only real skill is in fighting political campaigns. Happily they currently don’t have a scooby how to win back the national electorate, so it is fun to watch them utilise their core skills smearing and fighting each other.
Absolutely of no relevance whatsoever. Boris will win by a mile.
The whole mayor set up is a waste of cash. Boris is a buffoon
I thought Buff Hoon was Labour?
taxi for Buff Hoon
Don’t they make a lovely couple.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7585330.stm
I wonder how much capitalism played a part in socialism on this deal for Ken?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022000948.html
We all know one bank falling can knock the next one down, known as the domino effect, first described in the book of Bunker Hunt and the silver cartel. And as Gordon often said “It started in America”,and it did in 2007. But the US government bailed the banks out using the taxpayer and Tarp. So it would be safe to assume that if those banks bailed out failed to make their payments back to the government/people then they would eventually have to be left to fail,which should have been allowed to happen in the first place, and would have had not congress had a gun at it’s head. Well a month ago toady that’s exactly what happened when 90 banks failed to meet their payments. The London markets don’t seem to catch up with what happens stateside until the FTSE starts to be effected,by then it’s usually too late. Even though banks that fail in the US always take banks down in the rest of the world.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37732312
Actually, UK government debt did not ‘start in America’. It started with Gordoom Bruin. And continued with him.
They deserve each other, BUT Londoners do not deserve either of them.
Like Nick n Dave n Dave n Nick
Ken should be put out to pasture. London booted him out in 2008. Here is one of my rants against him at the time:
http://whatseatingmetoday.blog.com/2008/04/30/how-do-i-loathe-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/
and this classic car bumper sticker:
http://whatseatingmetoday.blog.com/2008/05/23/you-shouldnt-kick-a-man-when-he-is-down/
Good rant
“The descision to choose a candidate nearly two years before polling day does seem odd.”
Umm Guido, the point is to get someone seen to be the mayor-in-waiting for those two years. The public then know what they will be getting rather than taking a chance with “a change”. It is a sound policy. Imagine if your posterboy was elected leader of the Tories at the beginning of the year, do you think he would be in Number 10 now? Since “cast iron” dave became leader he got his PR campaign into gear, and hence we got the result that we have.
Whether Red ken or Luvvy King is the best choice is another question, but picking the candidate now means a long mayoral campaign where Boris will be fighting his old Bullington chum as much as he’s fighting Labour.
I thought we got the result we have, LibCon because he didn’t get his campaign into gear
This is about positioning. It’s also because the labour party has no idea how to handle their demise. They still cannot accept they are not in government. They still can’t accept the real reasons for them not being there. The above ‘contest’ is evidence of that. They think they are unbeatable, forever, ever.
Why else does Alistair Darling get free reign everyday on radio 5 to talk about the economy – the economy he and Brown have completey fucked? Because they believe in their own infalibility. It’s nothing to do with public service.
Na Na nan na na na na na
It will be reprise of the GLC result.
You vote for a chap and next morning following the overnight Putsch you awake to the dulcet tones of Red Ken announcing that he is in charge.
No matter who gets the nod there will be a substitute waiting in the wings ready to seize control and fuck london and londoners up.
We should watch this.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/188357
I love messy
No to Oona. She said that she had given up on politics but still seems to be at it. At least Ken was NEVER part of the nasty New Labour con inflicted on the UK. He also took on Tony Bliar and won. Oona just seems to be on the me-me-me trail.
Nothing unusual here, most of these “real work” dodgers will do anything to get their snouts in the trough, they trumpet their “so-called” work for the community but when you add it all up it amounts to bugger all.
What they basically want is an easy living at the taxpayer’s expense!
These wastrels are the REAL benefit scroungers, far too many of them to my mind, they really do need a severe thinning out.
no way to oona ming………shes a gobby hypocrite cow
no way to ooona ming, she’s a gobby hypocrite cow
That looks like a poster for ‘Eastenders’.
Guido,
Can you correct something you’ve written and which always annoys me? In what sense is Labour a ‘movement’?
No one ever talks about the ‘Conservative movement’ or the ‘Liberal Democrat movement’. We have seen to our immense cost that there is nothing mobile in Labour thinking at all – it suffers from complete intellectual stasis.
I think you would agree with me that in the sense that the word means, stool, turd or pile of shit, it is entirely appropriate. But I don’t think that’s what you meant – I think you fell into the trap of using their flattering verbiage of themselves.
I’ll do whatever the Labour leadership tell me. Just like when I was an MP. If you want an obedient, well behaved, obsequious and sycophantic toad, I’m your woman.
Hugo Chavez “is just like me”
Oona King could not beat George Galloway a looser.
They say Oona lost to George Galloway because she voted for the Iraq war. Interesting how Jim Fitzpatrick (who voted for the war) won Poplar and Limehouse in 2010, BEATING Galloway into third place !
Worth noting that Ken Livingstone works for Press TV (an Iranian government funded channel) They claim their output is impartial and free from government control, but you’ve only to watch it’s output to realise that it’s Ahmadinejad and his cronies pulling the strings. Plus it’s under investigation by Ofcom. For someone who has done so much for gay rights in the past I find it incredulous that Livingstone is now loosely affiliated with a government that is not known for it’s kindness towards homosexuals. I wish him all the bad luck in the world with his bid to be Mayor in 2012…..and shame on people like David Lammy and John Cruddas and the rest for backing his bid. Disgraceful.
London is a foreign land. We should move the Chunnel entrance to within the M25 and build a wall around it.
A couple of scoundrels associated with Ken Livingstone: http://eotp.org/?s=Ken+Livingston
I wish him a strange sort of happiness.
Nice cup of tea love, next time make sure you’ve got some whisky on the trolley.