An evidential post on OXFORD STUDENT online 24 April 2011 about Tower Hamlets and Ken Livingstone's careerist role in foisting a diversion
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auditthemedia
You state: “Livingstone recently faced a second
expulsion from the Labour Party because, critics said, his decision to support Lutfur Rahman in the Tower
Hamlets mayoral election rather than the NEC favourite was an implicit snub to Ed Miliband”.
There is nothing in the body of your item to substantiate the statement that Livingstone “faced ANY expulsion” at all. What you have confused as “facing expulsion” is the plethora of ROUTINE media hypes around Ken Livingstone. As for the statement that it was his “decision to support” an individual about or “in the” “mayoral election”, a few core facts need to be added for pure evidence and reference. Livingstone did not just support any named person in the event, he had been THE most-publicly identified Labour Party Personality who had been USED to promote the YES campaign even before that campaign had any known basis to claim “victory”. On Saturday 6 February 2010, it was Livingstone who appeared as THE MAIN PERSONALITY associated with THE LABOUR PARTY who addressed the “launch” of the “YES FOR A MAYOR” campaign in Tower Hamlets. At that stage, even a “referendum” on the question of whether the borough [of inner city East London] should have an elected mayor or not had not been held. So nobody was identified as a candidate. Nobody could be. After that date, it was again Livingstone who played the key PERSONALITY role in promoting the YES VOTE at the referendum during several months of the campaign. He was the ONLY SUCH PERSONALITY that was featured in the glossy promotional leaflet produced for a YES VOTE at the referendum [that was at that time scheduled for 6 May 2010]. After the 6 May 2010, it was again Ken Livingstone who played a key role in promoting the interests of those who wanted an elected mayor system. It was after those stages that any name was mooted as a possible candidate in the name of the Labour Party. Livingstone did not face any expulsion. And the rumours in the media were routinely floated about Livingstone “deserving” expulsion on all manner of grounds long before it was even suggested that Ed Miliband would be in post as the holder of the post of “Leader of the Labour Party”. Why is it that Livingstone did not face expulsion? The controlling bureaucracy in place in the name if the Labour Party has known the utility of allowing Ken Livingstone to pose as the most effective and trends-linked recruiter of vote fodder from the relevant sections in the eligible electorate. Livingstone has done this in his 40 year career as a handsomely paid and rewarded Labour Party bureaucrat. His selling point has been his diversity slogan!