The real reasons to criticise Ken Livingstone
The mayor of London receives the salary of a Cabinet Minister - that is, £137,579 per annum plus expenses. The latter are bound to be high. In 2005 Livingstone went to visit the right-wing Republican Mayor of New York, Rudi Giuliani, from whom he hired the infamous Bob Kiley to oversee PFI on the Tube. Last year he went to the annual jamboree of the ultimate capitalist club, the “World Economic Forum” at Davos in Switzerland, as well as leading a “delegation of London ambassadors” to India, while highly-paid members of his staff went to Venezuela to meet Hugo Chavez. The total cost of foreign...