"Red Ken" defies Blair to run for London mayor

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Tue Mar 7 19:37:26 PST 2000


How "red" Ken is (and maybe even how expert he was at running the GLC) may be open to some question: e.g., unlike some on the Labour left such as Tony Benn, he supported the US/NATO war on Yugoslavia.

--C. G. Estabrook

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Nathan Newman wrote:


> Here's a happy turn of events- Ken Livingstone, after having the party
> vote rigged against him, is running for mayor. Having had Maggie
> Thatcher abolish the Greater London Council out from under him when he
> ran it, I guess he wasn't willing to have another undemocratic system
> imposed on London. He did write a wonderfully titled book, "If Voting
> Changed Anything, They'd Abolish It" right after Maggie abolished the
> GLC. > So Blair is developing opposition and it is appearing on his
> Left. That is a very nice turn of events. -- Nathan Newman



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