Political Opportunism Drama in UK - Ken Livingstone Targeted

POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM DRAMA U.K. Ken Livingston nickname:  'Red Ken' Labour Party ARTICLE - RT Tories seize on Zionism comments, unrepentant Livingstone sets out to foil newts Published time: 29 Apr, 2016 12:08 EXTRACT Anti-Semitism is an internal “virus” the Labour Party must treat, according to London Mayor Boris Johnson. But a defiant Ken Livingstone says he will present evidence of his claims once he’s dealt with his garden pond. The outgoing mayor appeared to be attempting to cast accusations of Labour anti-Semitism wider on LBC radio Thursday evening when he said that anti-Jewish prejudice is common in the party.  [ie Johnson] He opined that “there’s plainly some sort of virus of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party that needs to be addressed” before attempting to connect Labour’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan with the row currently engulfing Ken Livingstone. “It seems to me there’s an ideological continuum between the views of Ken Livingstone about Israel and the position of Jeremy Corbyn and indeed the views of their candidate for London mayor, Sadiq Khan,” he said. Johnson himself has repeatedly been cast as having dubious views on race. Last Friday he was attacked from political left and right for referring to US President Barack Obama’s Kenyan heritage. The mayoral campaign run by his fellow Tory Zac Goldsmith has been accused of being colored by “dog whistle” Islamophobia in recent weeks. For his part, Livingstone remains unrepentant and, in his only direct comment on the issue to the Evening Standard on Friday morning, stated “everything I said yesterday was true and I will be presenting the academic book about that to the Labour Party inquiry.” [Comment:  Got to be kidding.  A time/resource wasting 'Labour Party inquiry' on this?] The Standard speculated that the book in question was 2002’s ‘51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis’ by American-Jewish writer Lenni Brenner, which details the Haavara relocation accord struck between the Nazi regime and German Zionist leaders in 1933.  ... CONTINUED https://www.rt.com/uk/341354-livingstone-zionism-nazis-fact/ -------/\/\/ ARTICLE - RT George Galloway says Livingstone 'zionist' suspension part of ‘slow motion coup’ Published time: 29 Apr, 2016 11:55 EXTRACT London mayoral candidate George Galloway put forward a fiery defense of suspended Ken Livingstone, arguing the former mayor’s comments on a Nazi-Zionist accord on relocation were a matter of “historical fact.” Speaking at length about the Haavara Agreement reached on 25 August 1933 between Germany’s Zionist leaders and its fascist politicians, Galloway told Sky News Livingstone had fallen victim to an “entirely synthetic crisis.” “Ken Livingstone said absolutely nothing wrong, everything he said was the truth: historical fact, proven. I’ve got the books, so should you,” he argued. CONTINUED https://www.rt.com/uk/341352-galloway-livingstone-zionism-row/ -------/\/\/ COMMENT This caught my eye while checking out RT News. It demonstrates the ludicrous lengths scumbag politicians will go to, to create a drama that smears and fetters their political opponents (who are just as unappealing as the finger-pointers), and how these politicians exploit the ignorance of the public to sway public opinion in favour of their political agendas. In my view, it also demonstrates how mainstream politics is hijacked and dominated by minority interests. Neither the left nor the right appeals.  If I had to (hypothetically) pick, I'd probably go with the right, although they're despicable.  But the tears-shedding universalist left are even more despicable.  So the choice is:  despicable or despicable. While politicians on both sides are arguing nonsense, setting up nonsense inquiries, are highly invested in minority interests, and are publicly grovelling and appeasing one minority or other with regularity, who is prioritising the interests of ordinary Britons?