Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstoneis an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Councilfrom 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliamentfor Brent East from 1987 to 2001. A suspended member of the Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a democratic socialist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 June 1945
years wife three
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.
britain loses
You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
war referendums dave
Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
issues ugly politician
I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
nice trying ambassadors
It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
views people socialism
I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.
bisexual
Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.
law development needs
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
mistake done should
Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
quality way climate
To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live
democracies-have voting democracy
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
serial-killer assassins killers
I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
government people nazism
To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.
wings pigeons rats
[Pigeons are] rats with wings.