Chris Burford
Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:57:12 -0700
This is a Telegraph piece and therefore tailored to make the readers tut
self-righteously.
It is also a bit old.
The assumption is still the Ken will win but someone I know who I expected
to support him did not. This man worked in the GLC during Ken's leadership.
He pointed out that many of Ken's progressive ideas at the time came from
the couple of hundred of left wing councillors who made up the Labour
section of the GLS. Ken is a good left wing publicist but my friend
criticised him for not having any strategic thinking.
What will happen after the election? Ken will not have much power because
he will not have these left wing-councillors with him.
The test of his politics currently is his proposals about raising a bond
issue for the London Underground.
Chris Burford
London
At 13:05 11/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Livingstone aims Hitler attack at capitalists
>
>By Robert Shrimsley, Chief Political Correspondent Telegraph
>
>Ken Livingstone's efforts to project a business-friendly image were
>undermined yesterday when he said that international capitalists had killed
>more people than Hitler.
>
>His latest attack on the forces of capitalism follows controversy
>surrounding earlier remarks [see below] where he expressed sympathy with the
>rioters who brought chaos to the World Trade Organisation negotiations in
>Seattle and the simultaneous anti-capitalist protests in the City. The
>front-runner to be mayor of London made his comments in a question and
>answer session with readers of New Musical Express.
>
>Asked whether he still believed the bosses of the International Monetary
>Fund should "die painfully in their beds", Mr Livingstone replied: "The IMF
>and the World Bank are still appalling and now the World Trade Organisation,
>too. All over the world people die unnecessarily because of the
>international financial system."
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