Ken Livingstone in "suspended from being Mayor
by idiots" fiasco http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4746016.stm This has had me livid for about an hour how. It's worth knowing that the journalist, Oliver Finegold, works for the Evening Standard. The Evening Standard is owned by Associated Newspapers, which also owns, amongst other publications, The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. Maybe Ken should have been more forthcoming in his apology to the Jewish
Community (whatever that means - I certainly don't count myself as part
of the Lapsed Catholic Irish Immigrant Community, and neither do any
of my family, and it's not like any of us would fall to the floor in
tears if anyone mentioned the Black and Tans, despite them beating and
killing untold Irish back in the day... I digress...*), but he's been
very clear all along
Ken Livingstone is the chair of Unite Against Fascism, and has a 3-decade
history of fighting racism, fascism and inequality. That four unelected If there's a march, I'll be there. Seymour *I'm not trying to compare the Holocaust to the Irish
Troubles here. But neither am I impressed or convinced by people trying
to gain political Rant like a High Court Judge about this piece on
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