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| Ken Livingstone: I Expect To Be Expelled By Labour Over Anti-Semitic Remarks | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 4 2017, 02:06 PM (12 Views) | |
| Webster | Apr 4 2017, 02:06 PM Post #1 |
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(The Guardian) Ken Livingstone gave an interview to the BBC broadcast on the Today programme this morning ahead of the disciplinary hearing this afternoon that could result in him being expelled from Labour. As the Huffington Post reports, in the interview he claimed that the Jewish Chronicle, and the way it reported what he said, was to blame for the offence caused by his comments about Hitler and Zionism. -Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ken-livingstone-blames-jewish-chronicle-for-hitler-row_uk_58e352c7e4b0f4a923b16808 |
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| Webster | Apr 4 2017, 02:12 PM Post #2 |
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--Ken Livingstone, arriving for his discip hearing, says if expelled he will delay his judicial review of Lab until after local elxns in May (Paul Waugh, Huffington Post - 4 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 4 2017, 02:14 PM Post #3 |
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![]() --Press pack waiting outside Church House, waiting to dispense the last rites on Ken Livingstone's career (Gawain Towler, 4 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 4 2017, 02:15 PM Post #4 |
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![]() (The Guardian) Livingstone says he expects to be expelled by Labour --This is what Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, said as he went into the Labour disciplinary hearing this afternoon. He admitted that he expects to be expelled from the party for his comments about Hitler and Zionism, which allegedly brought the party into disrepute. He said: I expect to be expelled, I always have done, because the national constitutional committee has got 10 right-wingers and two left-wingers. If I am expelled from the Labour party, we will seek judicial review, but we won’t submit that until after the local elections are over. He also said that he had never said Hitler was a Zionist, only that Hitler supported Zionism. That’s a simple statement of historical fact. I haven’t caused offence. In the weeks following my suspension I couldn’t walk down the street, hundreds and hundreds of people stopping, many of them Jewish, saying ‘I’m Jewish, I know my history, don’t these MPs read their history?’ The people who are offended are the people who believe the lies they saw in their media that I’d said Hitler was a Zionist. To suggest a man who loathed and feared Jews all his life was a Zionist, if I’d said that I’d be off to the doctor to check this wasn’t the first stage of dementia. Livingstone claimed that the “whole thing has been whipped up to undermine Jeremy [Corbyn], and that’s why they’ve deferred it and we’re back with all this nonsense again”. |
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| Webster | Apr 4 2017, 02:21 PM Post #5 |
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(The Guardian) Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle, has written a blog rejecting Ken Livingstone’s claim that what caused offence was not what he said about Hitler and Zionism, but how it was reported in Pollard’s paper. -Read more: https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/livingstone-hitler-and-the-jc-our-part-in-his-downfall-1.435671 |
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