Crossroad London Elections
The London Mayoral elections are now almost upon us. For some they are of little interest for others they believe that it doesn’t really matter who’s running London but I would beg to differ to both such individuals. London now stands at a crossroads. The current mayor says that he will unite Londoners but I’ve never seen a more divided London in my life with a growing immigrant inner London vying for favours and an indigenous outer London recoiling in distrust. Knee deep in corruption, cosying up to foreign dictators and Islamic fundamentalists whilst dreaming of converting London into his Marxist utopia Ken Livingstone is a ruthless machine politician who uses public money to burnish his image while brushing aside serious questions about his conduct with a disturbing nonchalance.
It doesn’t matter what the other candidates have to say :
Ken Livingstone must be stopped!
I suggest you watch the film below before you cast that vote…
Dispatches - The Court of Ken 2/5
Dispatches - The Court of Ken 3/5
Dispatches - The Court of Ken 4/5
Dispatches - The Court of Ken 5/5
Update :
See the Boris Johnson campaign video.
Nope sorry there are far more important things for Boris to do - replacing Humph as Chairman of “I’m sorry I haven’t clue” being the most important.
Being radio I’m sure he could quite easily manage both, after all Ken found the time to run London and kiss arse with Hugo Chavez. Which of those would you say does more damage to the image of the office of Mayor of London?
The London Mayoral elections are now almost upon us.
I’m converted, I’m converted. Where do I sign up?
[Seriously - think London must have read this post.]
By the way, have you done your coat of arms yet?
Just looked at the vids - wow - what did you just escape?
Ken had to go, for sure
For many reasons not mentioned in that film which I think skirted around the more serious problems with Ken’s reign, particularly the second term
One thing that does concern me though is some of the language being used to describe the changes that are being forced on us here in the UK and globally. You use the term Marxist in your post. Many Europhobes refer to the EU as being a Communist institution.
Ken is no Marxist, certainly not in recent years and the people who run the EU project aren’t Commies. Their instincts are totalitarian and elitist and could therefore be equally described as fascistic. Personally I think fascistic is more accurate as it encompasses the role being played by privately controlled corporations in the new world that is being shaped around us
The problem with the terminology which is being used is that it effectively separates though who see themselves as conservative from those who consider themselves to be of the left, when the reality is that they are, broadly speaking, concerned about very similar issues
Stef, in using the term Marxist in this post I was only referring to the personal political aims of Ken Livingstone and not to the Labour government as a whole.
I have never met Ken Livingstone so without the benefit of a personal in-depth interview I cannot be certain of his precise affiliations and can only rely on the opinion of individuals who have been close to him and have “defected” so to speak. It is my observation that his political modus operandi is entirely compatible with that of a Marxist political player, perhaps because I view Marxism with more cynicism than you do.
This subject could easy blow-up into a politically existential debate but I think you underestimate the undercurrent of totalitarian cynical exploitation that is inherent in Marxism right from its inception. Orwell had it in a nutshell and I don’t think I could improve on his dissection. Livingstone carried the full pack from his exploitation of tribal vanity to his venal tolerance of corruption.
He knew how to push your buttons on occasion too.
LOL
As a died-in-the-wool-fruit-loop-conspiraloon, I don’t underestimate the possibility of cynical undercurrents in any political movement. You can trace evidence of high level funding of Marxist/ Communist revolutions by capitalist bankers from the French Revolution, the Russian revolution all to way to
Chavez’ election. The easiest way to win a war, or a political struggle, is to back both sides
My belief is that what every taxi driver has suspected since the year dot is true - They’re all the bloody same. Bandying around terms such as Marxist, Stalinist, or Fascist, as if the end results for ordinary people are any different, obscures that fact
I hear a lot from people on the ‘Right’ of politics who argue that Leftist belief systems are a con which are used to dupe idealists into submitting to tyranny.
That could very well be so, certainly as far as much of the leadership is concerned. What I don’t hear articulated so much is the suggestion that capitalist belief systems are manipulated in exactly the same way. How much of our current economic system really is truly subject to free and open competition? How much of the stuff we can’t do without is actually subject to oligopoly and monopoly?
Livingstone had to go. And contrary to what a lot of disappointed Leftists believe, I doubt that Johnson’s administration will be that much different. What will be different is people’s conditioned perception of the things that administration will do