Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstoneis an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Councilfrom 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliamentfor Brent East from 1987 to 2001. A suspended member of the Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a democratic socialist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 June 1945
democracies-have voting democracy
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
running country world
The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
pay truth-is taxes
The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
election polling accurate
Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
running cities focus
If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
war election vote
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
years careers average
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
country rights world
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
issues ugly politician
I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
war referendums dave
Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
britain loses
You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
years wife three
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.
trying daily-mail germs
If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.
Everyone changes all the time.