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
wine mps bars
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
views world way
My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.
feet eras mao
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
ethnicity people
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
gay rights london
I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
book house grew
I grew up in a house with very few books.
running people world
I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
detest loathe
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
financial affair interest
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
sound investment borrowed-money
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
lying incredibles newspapers
I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
garbage hollywood i-can
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
israel zionist
I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
law socialist rational
I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.