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Ken and Abbas in happier times

November 14, 2010 by trialbyjeory

Andrew Gilligan highlights an appearance by Ken Livingston on Andrew Neil’s Daily Politics show last week. I found the last sentence of the following part of their exchange particularly interesting:

Neil: You did, really, campaign and wanted to see this Lutfur Rahman winning, and he wasn’t the Labour candidate, didn’t you?

Ken: He’d been selected by local people, I think the NEC was wrong to remove him. It’s had real shades of me ten years ago.

Neil: But he loved it. He said, I’m grateful to him for coming here to support justice, I’m very happy to have his support.

Ken: I know.

Neil: Against the Labour candidate!

Ken: I would have been quite happy to go down with the local Labour candidate, but he didn’t want me around, because he’s been one of my opponents for a long time.

Helal Abbas, one of Ken’s opponents for a long time? Really?

When Ken was fighting for re-election as London mayor in 2008, they didn’t look like enemies. In fact, in the last week of his campaign when Ken begged for votes at the Brick Lane mosque, where Abbas was an influential figure, I watched him warmly wrap his arms around his “enemy”.

They even marched down Brick Lane together, smiles aplenty. Ken seems to make a habit of doing that doesn’t he?

Here’s the East London Advertiser report we produced at the time:

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7 Responses

  1. on November 14, 2010 at 3:46 pm mint

    Ken iz a liar? But we knew this? Let the discussion commence about Kens lying ways starting from 1810…


  2. on November 14, 2010 at 3:46 pm The Friendly Lefty

    What’s your point Ted?

    That pre-election two Labour figures who don’t get on buried their differences and sought unity for the sake of a media opportunity?

    Big whoop.


    • on November 14, 2010 at 4:42 pm You couldn't make it up!

      Read the strapline underneath the title of the article – and I think you might have your answer.

      Neatly done Ted! 😉


  3. on November 14, 2010 at 6:05 pm Fighting4EdMiliband

    Great, just the kind of publicity Ken needs to win with sympathy votes, jus like LootForO’heed!


  4. on November 14, 2010 at 11:51 pm Fighting4EdMiliband

    Rightwing Gilligan has rightwing admirers who bounce from left to right and vice versa when it suits them. Of course, some can’t absorb defeat so easily as it tastes rather bitter to drink unfermented wine…


  5. on November 14, 2010 at 11:58 pm ha ha

    This is a meaningless post. Councillor meets Mayor in 2008. So what?


  6. on November 15, 2010 at 2:16 am Fighting4EdMiliband

    I have never met Ken but am glad he irritates rightwing commentators and politicians…



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