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
mean scumbags coalitions
Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
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I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.
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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
sun earth feels
I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.
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When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.
art people criticism
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
daily-mail groups members
You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
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Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
revolution socialist
You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.
friday country cities
The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.
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What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
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I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
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The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
jobs games people
Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.