Ken Livingstone in U.S. rant

November 06, 2006

LEFTIE London Mayor Ken Livingstone has launched an astonishing anti-US rant while sunning himself in Cuba.

He praised communist Cuban leader Fidel Castro and denounced President Bush. And he claimed Cuba had “been able to give its people the best standard of health care, brilliant education”, despite an “illegal economic blockade by the US”. America has called for free elections in Cuba since the 1959 Castro-led revolution, and imposed a trade embargo in 1962.

But Livingstone said the US shouldn’t “cast the first stone on these things” considering they had “launched an evil war” in Iraq.

Leader of the London Assembly Tories Angie Bray said: “Its all the loony left stuff that people thought he’d packed away.”

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Night Mayor

KEN Livingstone embarrasses our capital.

London’s Mayor hails Communist Cuba, his spiritual home, for providing top-quality health care and education. Then he hurls abuse at America.

Just one question, Ken . . .

Why do boatloads of fleeing Cubans stop at nothing to reach Florida?

ping

Mayor of London - Biography

Ken Livingstone - Biography

Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
Elected on 4 May 2000
Elected for a second term on 10 June 2004

The Mayor's Standing Register of Interests entry.

Ken Livingstone was born in Lambeth in 1945 and educated at Tulse Hill Comprehensive School. After eight years working as a technician at the Chester Beatty Cancer Research Institute in London, he entered Phillipa Fawcett Teacher Training College, qualifying in 1973.

He was a Labour member of Lambeth Council between 1971 and 1978, holding the position of Vice-Chair of the Housing Committee from 1971 to 1973. From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of Camden Council, where he was Chair of the Housing Committee from 1978 to 1980.

In 1973 he was elected as a Labour member of the Greater London Council. He was Vice-Chair of Housing Management from 1974 to 1975 and was elected Leader in 1981. He remained Leader until March 1986 when Margaret Thatcher abolished the GLC.

From 1987 to June 2001, he served as Labour Member of Parliament for Brent East. He was elected as member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party between 1987 to 1989, and from 1997 to 1998.

He was elected to the position of Mayor of London in 2000, having been expelled from the Labour party for running as an independent candidate. He was readmitted to the Labour party in 2004, shortly before re-election as Mayor.

He has written two books, If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It (1987) and Livingstone's Labour (1989).

And one would expect nothing else from the b@stid! I got fed up with his Bush-bashing during the 2004 campaign and fired him an e-mail re his usual line about the world having more to fear from Bush than from the terrorists, asking him what color the sky was in his world! I started it out "Oh wise and wonderful mayor of Oz:" Got me nowhere, but it felt good to let him know how I felt.

Red Ken, indeed.

"What's amazing here is you've got a country that's suffered an illegal economic blockade by the United States for almost half a century and yet it's been able to give its people the best standard of health care,

Yeah, maybe their health care system looks good compared to your sorry state-run system, but both pale in comparision to ours.

brilliant education,"

Only if the objective is brainwashing children into Marxist robots. Oh, that's right, you're a Marxist robot yourself.