Why had Ken Livingstone hid the fact that Lewisham’s elected mayor Bullock had been a long-standing chum of his?

0840 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday
27 April 2010

Editor © Muhammad Haque


“He first came to London to work for the GLC and was at County Hall for 10 years until its abolition in 1986. For part of that time,
he was Ken Livingstone’s policy assistant and played a key role in developing the ‘Fares Fair’ scheme. He was later Chief Officer of Greenwich Community Health Council. After giving up the LBL Leadership Steve established the Civic Skills consultancy and later worked as a consultant and trainer with the Capita Group.”



The SERIOUS link with Lewisham's 'elected mayor' that Ken Livingstone did not tell his 'adoring fans' [!!!!??????] about!

What was that link?

That Steve Bullock, one of the three mayors whom Ken Livingstone favourably mentioned by office in his spiel delivered at the Brady Centre, Hanbury Street, on 6 February 2010 where Livingstone was introduced as the most important living being ever to walk on planet earth, was, in fact, a ‘policy assistant’ to none other than Ken Livingstone himself dating back to the 1980s at the Greedier Livingstone Conurbation [=GLC] !

That spiel therefore contained a serious lie in that particular.

How?

Because Livingstone and his entourage cobbled together to snatch away the fragile framework of local democracy and to totally demolish it, were floating the three boroughs of Newham, Hackney and Lewisham as some sort of ‘model’ boroughs on the sole ground that those boroughs had had ‘elected mayors’ in them.

The motive and the purpose behind the reference to those three boroughs in their OTT-hyped ‘launch of the YES’ ballot propaganda, could only have been to give the impression to the target audiences both present [whether there voluntarily or brought there under any number of false pretences] at the Brady Centre itself and those watching on the identifiable ethnicity linked satellite TV channels whose controlling elements must have given Livingstone and his operational acolytes the assurance that they would carry that promotion in detail in the subsequent ‘news’ ‘bulletins’.

The objective was to mislead the people into voting YES [ later confirmed to be scheduled to be held on 6 May 2010] on the referendum on the question of a directly elected mayor in Tower Hamlets.

AS IS HIS PROPENSITY, Ken Livingstone has counted Steve Bullock as one of the permanent fixtures on the list of ‘progressive’ signatories to OPERATION Ken Livingstone’s CAREER MAINTENANCE!
And how long has that been going on for?

As long as it has been since April 1986 when the “GLC” was officially closed and the ‘County Hall’ in London SE1 declared ‘Ken Livingstone’-free!

And when was Steve Bullock one of the signatories to another ‘progressive’ plea to voters of London to ‘re-elect’ Ken Livingstone as a mayor?

Why in the Guardian in 2008, of course!

So shouldn’t Ken Livingstone have declared that as part of the ‘reason’ for his flaunting of the ‘fact’ that in Lewisham they had a directly elected mayor?

That he did not do that was not just a slip. Not a minor error. But part of a calculated ploy of disinformation and lying in order to mislead the voters of Tower Hamlets into the undemocratic trap of voting in an anti-democratic post and its occupant who has the potential of turning the already volatile situation in the borough into a really intractable social and political cauldron.

Not really ‘liberating’ the people of Tower Hamlets from an “undemocratic, corrupt cabal controlling Tower Hamlets Council”, is it?

[To be continued]