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
forever awakening taste
What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
friday country cities
The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.
feet eras mao
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
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The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
ideas people cost
The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.
stones projects transport
If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.
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I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.
revolution socialist
You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.
cutting racism movement
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
daily-mail groups members
You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
voice sound ministers
I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
climate climate-change
What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?
media two people
I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.
small-business position
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.