Ken Livingstone: my proudest moment was smashing new Labour into the ground

Asked for a new campaign video produced in the past few weeks to select the proudest moment in his political career, Ken Livingstone produced this outtake unlikely to make the final cut ...

The Ken campaign says that this is an April Fool but he is still risking a high price by saying it on camera (not least because his campaign co-ordinator is the arch-Blairite Tessa Jowell). Was this a wise move or an election gaffe?

Comments

[Horrid Harold]

We voted for him against New Labour, now he is new labour, how are we going to vote next time?

[AJ]

We love you KEN!!!!
What a guy! He may not be, what he once was; but christ, imagine that loony- boris johnson as Mayor.

If Johnson does pull it off- will the last person to leave london, please turn off the lights!!?

[Ken Hall]

So he is proudest of smashing the new labour machine? Why the hell did he cravenly crawl back into being a member of it then?

Vote Conservative to rid London of the New Labour parasites.

[Robin]

He doesn't know what he is; except a power junkie. He'd stand for the monster raving loony party if he thought it would get him re-elected. He's a complete charlatan.

[PC]

Get rid of him NOW ! and make a statement for some solid values and all that is being eroded that's so important to a stable society...

Vote English - Matt O\'Connor - London Mayor Candidate 2008
http://www.voteenglish.org/

[mario]

It really is time to rid London of this dinosaur
Livinstone. Boris will give London a real charismatic and energetic mayor. Policy wise, he can only be better, but at a minimum, not worse, so what is there to risk? Vote Boris and save London.

[Richard]

For Londoners, voting Livingstone out will be like Zimbabweans voting Mugabe out.
Both have been tinpot dicators who have grown more despotic as time went by and both have been disastrous rulers.
Goodbye, Mugabe, goodbye Livingstone and good riddance to both of you.

[P Stroud]

And all this on the top of entertaining extreme Islamist preachers and likening a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard. How can Londoners vote again for this man?

[John]

Ha ha nearly had me fooled there

[Greg]

Useless communist traitor should be in the Tower and Boris should be in the zoo.

[Howard]

AJ writes - "If Johnson does pull it off- will the last person to leave london, please turn off the lights!!?"

You may be tediously unoriginal, but you have hit on a key point. It is Boris who wants to turn off the lights in City Hall at night, unlike the climate change fanatic Ken who leaves them burning to illuminate his empire.

[Graham]

I almost spat my tea out when I heard that. It's why Londoners love Ken - he's one of us and he says it like he sees it.

Big difference with Boris, who's all funny talk and no action for Londoners. Ken's the real deal- the right policies and the right personality.

More of this Ken.

[David Knight]

Just get rid of the odious little twerp and let him take all his leftie parasites with him.

[Jeremy Wojcik]

What a hero!

[ShkTrgr]

Behind the jokes and smiles and grins I believe there lurks in Ken Livingstone a dark acidic foul nasty despicable man.

[ShkTrgr]

Behind the jokes and smiles and grins I believe there lurks in Ken Livingstone a dark acidic foul nasty despicable man.

[Hilary]

Well there we have it for the record, his proudest moment and it is plainly obvious he was thinking about what he has done for londoners........Not!!! Give us a break Ken we londoners are fed up and tired of you!! Vote for change People!!

[arne]

Ken Livingstone's fraternizing with dictators and religious fanatics has brought shame on London.

His use of the Mayor of London office for his self-serving purposes should end now.

[David]

Some people on here need to get a sense of humour. It's April 1 for heaven's sake. Didn't you even notice the date?

I'm glad that we've got a Mayor with a sense of humour who's actually doing the right thing for our environment and on the important issues like policing.

[Graham]

Ken's the man for London.

I think threads like this always attract some of the wackier elements, but when ordinary people look at their choice - the guy who gets things done, or the loose cannon, who makes it up as he goes along - they will pick Ken.

[Graham]

Ken's the man for London.

I think threads like this always attract some of the wackier elements, but when ordinary people look at their choice - the guy who gets things done, or the loose cannon, who makes it up as he goes along - they will pick Ken.

[caroline]

this film doesn't risk a rift with the London Labour establishment, as Tessa et al were complicit in its' production. nicely crafted piece of blog media for the mayoral incumbent sufffering a significant downturn in popularity-credibility ratings

[Paul]

The time has come to kick this rancid Maxist traitor out along with his overpaid dodgy sidekicks.Vote for Richard or Boris!

[Dave]

What does the media seemingly always take such innocuous looking comments and try and twist them in to an uber story?

Yesterday and today, we have had stories all over the media about Nick Clegg's honest comments in a GQ magazne with the self publicist Piers Morgan. I read the original interview and took his comments as either sarcasm - particularly his "no more than 30" joke - or going along in the spirit of a unprofessional 'lads' interview from Morgan. Then the grossly distorted article about Harriet Harman in today's Daily Mail, which shouldn't surprise anyone.

And now this video of Ken Kivingstone, christ - just how desperate are you guys?

[Cynic]

Wtf is Tessa Jowell doing as his campaign manager?

Hasn't she got a job already?