I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
From Ken Livingstone
Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.
Psephology isn't a hate crime.
World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
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