Left-leaning Ken Livingstone, racking up impressive majorities in ballots by union and other Labour membership groups, is protesting a stacked nominating system that has officially delivered the London mayor party nomination to a Blair-picked candidate. Having watched Maggie Thatcher abolish the London Council out from under him, he has now seen Blair try to steal a mayor nomination from him against the wishes of a majority of London party members.
Hopefully, this will make Livingstone a pole for real opposition to Blair in Britain. If the party doesn't reconsider the nomination, hopefully Livingstone will run independently. See the URL link for coverage on the race:
http://uk.fc.yahoo.com/l/london_mayor.html
Nathan Newman nathan.newman at yale.edu