More on Ken Livingstone

The Evening Standard are reporting that "Mayor Ken Livingstone faces another blow to his re-election campaign amid a fresh series of damaging allegations.

A Channel 4 documentary is to claim that the Mayor's inner circle of advisers breached strict rules which ban City Hall employees from working on election campaigns.

The Dispatches programme, to be broadcast on Monday, is to claim that key aides raised funds, wrote articles and conducted briefings for the Mayor's election campaign in 2004 even though they were being paid by the taxpayer at the time.

In the programme a "whistleblower" claims three of the Mayor's most senior advisers ran the campaign while on the public payroll.

Dispatches maintains that although any breach of the GLA rules would not necessarily have been a criminal offence it should still have been punishable by disciplinary action."


It wouldn't surprise me, the trouble with Ken Livingstone is that he believes (like many of our Labour masters) that the normal laws and rules do not apply to them. Maybe there will come a day when the ordinary Londoner can take their revenge on Ken Livingstone and his henchmen; whether via the ballot box or otherwise...