“You had Tory central office people wandering round the newspapers back when I was leader of the GLC, saying I’d been sodomised by six men in succession at a gay orgy.”
Glad he’s cleared that up.
And in full:
Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.Silver cities rise,
The morning lights
The streets that meet them,
And sirens call them on
With a song.Its asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.We’re coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.We the great and small
Stand on a star
And blaze a trail of desire
Through the dark’ning dawn.It’s asking for the taking.
Come run with me now,
The sky is the colour of blue
You’ve never even seen
In the eyes of your lover.Oh, my heart is aching.
We’re coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.It’s asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.Were coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.
Well, it’s certainly different.
This is the spectacularly awkward moment when Ken Livingstone was confronted about his claim that the 7/7 bombers “gave their lives in protest at Iraq” by the families of the victims. One calls Ken “a stupid man who just wants to upset people”, a second says “he is legitimising terrorism”. Ken replied that they shouldn’t believe what they read in the media. Classy.
UPDATE: Birmingham MP Jack Dromey has called on Jeremy Corbyn to sack Ken Livingstone for “legitimising” terrorism.
McDonnell to @BenBrownBBC on millions of deaths under Mao: Of course I condemn all that pic.twitter.com/rZspvDcqbk
— Ross Hawkins (@rosschawkins) November 25, 2015
You know your response to the Autumn Statement hasn’t gone to plan when you’re being forced to condemn the millions of deaths under Mao live on BBC News…
Just when you thought today couldn’t get any worse for John McDonnell, he decided to tweet out a video of his response to the Autumn Statement. Yet mysteriously, when he starts his section on China, the film oddly fades to black and then skips forward a couple of minutes. McDonnell’s team wiped his Little Red Book section from their official record. Forget Mao, that’s more Stalinist…
