Livingstone's anti-semitic insults, the barely credible act of jew-baiting in a London street by the Mayor of London, were mentioned in a post on 16 July in the context of querying what decent members of the London Labour party were thinking of in accepting Livingstone's renomination.
Livingstone's election mill is grinding very small indeed as yesterday a comment was submitted to that thread defending him and denying that there is a growing antisemitism experienced and feared by London's Jewish communities.
When Livingstone insulted the Evening Standard reporter selecting those terrible images, after being plainly told that his victim is Jewish, and with all the force of loathing for the reporter he could put out, he involved every Londoner in his abuse.
Livingstone should never have been nominated and it is the London Labour party's shame that he was. Clearly Labour activists are equally shameless, uncaring of what they associate with both in the past and today. Many of London's voters will be more fastidious in their choice.
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It would seem livingstone has not changes a jot since I left hertfordshire some 19 years ago for NZ. Unfortunately we have a similar bunch of fellow travelers running things down here.
Hello BB. The fellow travellers have divided up the task of answering any and all criticism of Livingstone and their disgusting cadres are hard at it; and they're all smeared in what their candidate is and has proven himself to be.
Unlike many expats I did not leave england due to any underlying sense of disappointment or inability to get on. I originally was just off doing the big trip before settling down. However after 4 trips back in 19 years i cannot believe the changes. It is stark when you have a break from it, when you are there all the time changes creep up on you.
I cannot envisage a set of circumstances that will ever see me return for any reason now.
I miss home, particularly Baldock ad surrounds but unfortunately home does not exist anymore.
BB, everyone says New Zealand is utterly beautiful, so your choice to stay there is wholly understandable in any circumstances. But Baldock was pretty too, as was all of north Hertfordshire, but it isn't any more.
It's been overwhelmed by mean building; instead of setting out a Letchworth or Welwyn, which certainly took away domestic but deeply pleasing countryside, yet produced good places to live and decent townscapes too, every village, hamlet, town (the horror that is Hertford has been insufficiently discussed) has a scummy encircling rim of estates and extensions without any concern for aesthetics, or urban organisation, or infrastructure provision.
I read that Essex is getting it in the neck too, round Harlow.
And that's only mentioning the physical environment not the moral and political climate.
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