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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
I find him as entertaining as the next person, but the fact he's in charge of so many things that affect me and my parents causes me alot of worry, mainly because he's the ultimate Tory insider and when they win the next election its going to much easier for him to let everything below Islington turn into a cesspool (not that New LAbour havent, but i thought Ken Livingstone was moving stuff in the right direction).
On the whining sentimentalist thing, in case you didnt know;
On 16 October 2004, The Spectator carried an unsigned editorial [84] comment criticising a perceived trend to mawkish sentimentality by the public. Using British hostage Kenneth Bigley as an example, the editorial claimed the inhabitants of Bigley's home city of Liverpool were wallowing in a "vicarious victimhood"; that many Liverpudlians had a "deeply unattractive psyche"; and that they refused to accept responsibility for "drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground" during the Hillsborough disaster, a contention at odds with the findings of the Taylor Report. The editorial closed with: "In our maturity as a civilisation, we should accept that we can cut out the cancer of ignorant sentimentality without diminishing, as in this case, our utter disgust at a foul and barbaric act of murder."
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Yeah I know about that Spectator editorial. You've got to live here to know that he is actually spot on about the "deeply unattractive psyche", as many citizens are xenophobic (fuck the north/south divide, it's liverpool/britain divide, at least from their point of view), as well as badly notorious for clinging on to stuff like the Ken Bigley thing for sympathy. The comments on Hillsborough are dead wrong, but I'm not sure how accurate that Wikipedia article is as I seem to recall reading some explanation of the Spectator article affair somewhere that didn't mention that at all. Either way, he's made it a big deal in one of his books to explain his motive for the whole thing as well as apologise for any offence. I don't hold it against him.
As far as his Mayor of London position goes, I don't know too much about it. He doesn't appear to have done anything disastrously wrong. I heard he hates bendy buses, which I hate too. I wouldn't know what a Tory council is like to live under- I've been living under a shit Lib Dem council for years, we've apparently got the highest council tax in Britain but also the shittest roads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA This is more like it