Sunday, January 20, 2008
Ken Livingstone
I know I poured a degree of scorn on the idea that political exposes could make a better world, but, having read NickCohen on Ken Livingstone, I am prepared to make an exception. I am happy with whatever it takes to get rid of this 'Mayor'.
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Have you seen the Comments under Cohen's piece?! Those that were printable, that is...
ReplyDeleteYes, Nige, I've just read some of them. Judging by the level of vitriol being spewed in his direction I would say Mr Cohen is definitely onto something here...
ReplyDeleteHas everyone forgot that in the dying days of the GLC he gave out about £83 million to his lefty pals in London..?
ReplyDeleteLike Nige I scrolled down through about a third of the comments. I'd started reading the Observer because it had some good pieces, on subjects like why British playwrights are mostly left-wing. There seems to be some radical dysfunction between the paper and the mindless-venomous leftism of its readership. This has depressed me so much, I am writing this from bed. As for Livingstone (Ken makes him too cuddly), there is a vicious, manipulative, machine politics of buying up so-called 'community' leaders (better tribal clients) worthy of Tom Wolfe's fiction. All credit to
ReplyDeleteto Nick Cohen for highlighting this sinister misuse of the ever larger monies the GLA rakes in from council tax payers. But who does one vote for, if one is also clown averse? London is too big a deal to leave it in the hands of an Etonian chancer- who may ruin everything for Call me Dave in the bargain.
In that case, does that mean it is not all that hard to ruin everything for Call me Dave, Cap'n? Is he so "fragile," as it were?
ReplyDeleteI think Dave has admitted that only half of his shadow team are serious cabinet players. Looking at Peter Hain, Jacqui Smith, I suppose that is all we can expect....but. Also, a very large number of my acquaintance- many with kids at private schools themselves- seem to resent the implication that only old Etonians are born to govern (an urban myth since only two of his team are OEs) although Boris is too. The outlook for Brown's lot gets worse by the hour, but, I'd be happier if Frank Field, Kate Hoey, David Trimble and a few others, suddenly cropped up on the Tory front bench, adding that missing grit. Fat chance of any of that. Anyway,
ReplyDeleteDave did it for me (ie lost my vote) when he said the BBC was a treasured British institution. All he has to do to win is to promise more tax cuts, and, most difficult, to say that instead of passing meaningless laws, he'll spend a year rescinding most of those passed in the last ten years.