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?

UK CONSERVATIVES - LONDON MAYOR BORIS JOHNSON - MAKING MOVE ON PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION

INDEPENDENT ARTICLE ... Moving away, for just a moment, from the cynical manoeuvrings of a politician on the make, it is an insult to Londoners that their Mayor should be trying to combine a vital – full-time – job with his race to the Commons, and thence, he may hope, to No 10. Boris, as he must love being known, clearly thinks he can look after this great world city in his spare time, but he is wrong, and his many apparent protestations that he would not attempt to combine both careers is a poor reward for Londoners who placed their faith in him. More widely, it will have done his reputation no good, nor the Tories’ chances of hanging on to the mayoralty next time around. But what is his reputation? Borisologists are divided about what makes this man tick. They say he is authentic, but is he? Is he, as many say, a clever man playing the buffoon? Or is he in fact a buffoon pretending to be a clever man playing a buffoon, even if he can quote Latin at will? He is not, it is fair to say, the latest attempt by the Conservative Party to ape Tony Blair and create a cloned copy of a leader in his somewhat tarnished image. To that extent, yes, Boris is authentic, original, almost refreshing – and this goes some way to explaining his electoral triumph in London, not usually promising territory for a Tory. ...  will have enjoyed his ridiculing of the Coalition as being like a Conservative bulldog mating with a Liberal Democrat chihuahua. They do not appreciate his liberal line on immigration, however, and the more censorious (i.e., all of them) are prudish about his private life. All of us worry about Boris’s urge to display his jocularity at every occasion, no matter how sombre. Mr Cameron finds it much easier to be, or at least to appear, sincere and “prime ministerial”. Mr Cameron may well not be the competition, however. On the Michael Heseltine principle that the assassin never succeeds in inheriting the crown, Mr Johnson will have to wait for a vacancy to arise (which does not preclude him from trying to create one). If Mr Cameron wins big at the general election, then Boris will have a long wait. If he loses, then Boris could be ensconced in the leadership by around this time next year. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/mayor-culpa-boris-johnson-is-an-exceptional-talent-but-he-is-doing-voters-a-disservice-in-being-a-parttime-leader-of-london-9652829.html

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Boris Johnson's the Mayor of London
Conservatives
Took over from Ken Livingstone
His dad:  European Parliament; European Commission; World Bank.
Oxford Uni / Eton College
Worked at journalism (Times etc), History (book; documentary) - get a load of this:

first documentary series, based on his book The Dream of Rome, comparing the Roman Empire and the modern-day European Union, was broadcast in 2006.

See, it's all about imperialism.  LOL


Haven't followed the links to explore his book etc.

Check out this wikipedia info:

Johnson explained his political philosophy in 2010, linking it to the One nation conservatism of Disraeli:

"I'm a one-nation Tory. There is a duty on the part of the rich to the poor and to the needy, but you are not going to help people express that duty and satisfy it if you punish them fiscally so viciously that they leave this city and this country. I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.^"

Of late, Johnson has been the subject of numerous rumours as to the future of his political career, and the possibility that he would stand to be the head of the Conservative Party. In 2012 Grant Shapps claimed that Johnson lacks many of the skills that are needed as the leader of a political party and prime minister.

Stuart Collier

Johnson was criticised in 1995, when a recording of a telephone conversation made in 1990 was made public, in which he is heard agreeing under pressure to supply to a former schoolmate, Darius Guppy, the private address and telephone number of the News of the World journalist Stuart Collier. There is no evidence that Johnson supplied the requested information, even though he promised under duress that he would. Guppy wished to have Collier beaten up for attempting to smear members of his family.

Not known if info passed on and nothing happened to the NOTW journo.

More controversies at the wikipedia link ... rather fancied this one:

"Chicken feed" remark

In a July 2009 interview with Stephen Sackur on the BBC programme HARDtalk, Johnson referred to the £250,000 per annum income he receives from his side job as a columnist for The Daily Telegraph as "chicken feed," suggesting that he wrote the columns "as a way of relaxation ... on a Sunday morning," and that he wrote "very fast" so the columns did not take time away from his duties as Mayor.

The big deal was the recession at the time.  But to me the big deal is the amount of cash in journalism.  Wow!  And the cross-over between journalism and politics.


This is new to me, so I could be wrong:

Get the impression this guy is all about 'imperialism' in one form or another:  his background; his interest in Rome; his Conservative politician status; his Disraeli thing (got impression Disraeli very much the imperialist) .. his 'dynamic' competitive London thing .. ie  it's all about business.