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25 August 2010
Editor © Muhammad Haque
Big Business scam agenda peddling Ken Livingstone is reported this evening as having ‘endorsed’ Ed Balls whose ‘qualities’ Livingstone [is claimed to have] listed as Balls’ backing of Crossrail whilst in Government!
That is outrageous.
Why?
Because Livingstone is singling out Crossrail as the test, as the criterion for judging the suitability of a candidate for the Leadership of the former Labour Party.
A look at the evidence of how CrossRail has been pushed up the agenda will show that it has been secretive, unaccountable and undemocratic forces, elements that have done the pushing.
So is Livingstone backing what is undemocratic, what is secretive, what is discredited and wasteful and debts-causing?
The answer can only be YES if what the Evening Standard is reporting is accurate.
And going by the ‘permitted’ ‘comments’ as shown so far on the EVENING STANDARD website, the image of Ken Livingstone is shown to be one of a ‘loser’ and a ‘failure’.
Whether those comments are posted by Oona King’s promoters is not clear. But the fact that none of those comments is from Khoodeelaar! Shows that we are not alone in the UK to observe that Ken Livingstone may be backing and peddling the wrong interests.
We have chronicled his serious errors in acting as a tout for Big Business interests while he keeps on faking it as a ‘lefty’.
We notice that Dennis McShane in the EVENING STANDARD yesterday [Tuesday 24 August 2010] praised Livingstone in superlative terms that have not been seen in the literature of fakery in a long time. Not anywhere in the vicinity of the ‘Palace of Ghostsminster’ any how.
So what is going on at the Crossrail peddling organ of Big Business interests the EVEBNIUNG STANDARD?
Are they as desperate as some of these elements to appear topical?
The EVENING STANDARD has suppressed the truth for ages.
And in peddling Crossrail, the EVENING STANDARD has not only let the people of London down on democratic say and accountability, it has also failed in its duty to tell the truth about what is best for the economy and the environment.
In its role as the tout organ for the City of London interests and their associated prompters, the London EVENING STANDARD has hidden the truth and published untruths.
[To be continued]
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from the web site of the London EVENING STANDARD:
Ken Livingstone throws weight behind Ed Balls as Labour leader
Joe Murphy, Political Editor
25.08.10
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Ken Livingstone weighed into the Labour leadership contest today by hailing Ed Balls as a “fighter” who had done most to boost London.
In a letter sent to all Labour Party members, he said he had worked with all the candidates as Mayor and found Mr Balls the most effective.
Crediting the former schools secretary with sourcing the funding for Crossrail and implementing the London living wage in his department, Mr Livingstone urged: “Ed doesn't just talk the talk but gets things done.”
Mr Livingstone also backed Diane Abbott and Ed Miliband in the contest, where voters can rank candidates in order of preference.
In a speech tonight, shadow foreign secretary David Miliband will say Labour must attract the middle classes in the South as well as core supporters in the North — an apparent attack on his brother Ed.
He will say some candidates wrongly wanted to retreat into a “comfort zone" and Labour lost the trust of voters before the election.
“The fact that they are wrong matters less than the fact that we are not trusted. We are pigeonholed as profligate when we need to be frugal; we are seen as statist when in fact our mission is to empower individuals, communities and businesses; and we are seen as the Establishment when we need to be the radicals.”
His speech has been billed by aides as the most important of his campaign, coinciding with him nothing up his 100th MP supporter.
“There is no future for Labour in the comfortable but deadening policies of the past,” he will say.
“And there is no future in a politics based on a tactical, patchwork approach to building electoral support.”
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Reader views (6) Add your view
Does this mean Balls is being "newtered"?
- James Elliott, Eastbourne UK, 25/08/2010 19:16
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So this disgraced 'clown of a man' is not backing the one Labour 'scunner' who might just win. Ken you are an uneducated loser just go away and give us something better to laugh at !!!
- nick holland, glasgow, 25/08/2010 16:24
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Failure supports failure to lead failures.
- Nobby Clark, Perth, the Scottish one, 25/08/2010 15:43
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One Labour loser supporting another Labour loser.
Shame they waste their time and money.
The voters have brains and both of these losers are out of office because as electors we made the right choice.
They should just crawl up each others backsides.
- PATRICK'S OPINION LAMBETH, LONDON, 25/08/2010 15:03
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Who cares. Two losers trying to hang on. No more wasters I say they should go away.
- Georgie, Islington, London, 25/08/2010 14:54
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Irrelevance supporting the unelectable. There's two of them, but I'm not sure Balls is the appendage I'm thinking of.
- jon, london, 25/08/2010 14:35
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