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| London mayor cleared of race slur |
| 2006-06-20 |
| Ken Livingstone was yesterday cleared of allegations of anti-semitism. The Mayor of London had faced a three-month suspension after he told Jewish billionaires David and Simon Reuben to "go back to Iran and try their luck with the ayatollahs". The comment was made in March in a row over the development of the 2012 Olympics site in East London, in which the brothers held a 50 per cent stake. But yesterday's report by the Greater London Authority's standards committee found no evidence of anti-semitism and ruled the Mayor did not bring his office into disrepute. It said he had "reason to be strongly critical", had not known the brothers were Jewish and his criticism "was reasonable in the circumstances". Mr Livingstone said yesterday: "The charge was ridiculous and I am glad it has been dismissed." He is fighting a month's suspension for likening a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard in a separate incident. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #6 MI-5, if they had 007 balls, should wetwork him. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-06-20 13:48 |
| #5 Oh and its especially good cause he was aquitted fighting the big, bad, Jewish billionaires over a row on development which the brothers held a 50% stake. Soooo... extra points for making the victims non-sympathetic and getting the waft of Livingston fighting the zionist cabal. Well done! |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-06-20 11:18 |
| #4 Liberal assholes can never be racist. Nope, can't happen, move along, nothing to see here. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-20 11:15 |
| #3 This is propaganda,or should I say, "public relations" damage control, at its finest. They make a big to-do about him being tried and acquitted on a weak charge that most of us think - yeah, whatever. Then at the very end of the article, we get to see what should be the big bold headline. So now, when someone talks about how he's a racist - they dredge this up this episode and talk about how he was acquitted on that. These guys are good. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-06-20 11:14 |
| #2 "Go back to Africa and try your luck with Idi Amin." If this is racist, so is Mayor Livingstone. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-06-20 07:18 |
| #1 If he had been on the right this would not have beel let to pass. But the left can never be racist orbigoted. QED. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-20 07:05 |