Ken Livingstone speaks out on Tower Hamlets
The Ken Livingstone team have today released this statement:
I am disappointed by the way the NEC handled the selection in Tower Hamlets and I am sure that under Ed Miliband’s leadership these things would have been handled differently.
However, my position is clear: I fully support Labour candidates in all elections and I am calling for Tower Hamlets residents to use their first preference vote for our candidate Helal Abbas.
A second preference should be used for Lutfur Rahman to keep the Tories out.
As I said before, the technical grounds to expel him from the party are very weak indeed.
Sunder Katwala at Next Left has more commentary on the situation.
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As usual, Sunder lays things out with admirable clarity.
Though he (KL) did on camera say to Rahman that he thought Abbas was not credible or competent.
Still, he’s your parasite.
Enjoy him while he lasts.
How can Ken Livingstone say that the 2nd preference choice should have been selected, so that at least the candidate would have been “credible”, and then claim that he supports the candidate he just rubbished?
The whole thing is a mess.
(Can I just say that “ianvisits” is a brilliant blog.)
It makes no difference to me who wins as London mayor – as I never saw any difference when Boris took over – but there’s obviously a lot of local politics behind all this.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2010/sep/21/lutfur-rahman-removed-as-labour-tower-hamlets-mayoral-candidate
I’m not surprised that Ken is cosy with a guy like that.
I wonder what the regulars in the Blind Beggar pub make of it all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Beggar
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