'Red' Ken does it again!

[InsaneApache]

The idiot just can't help but put in size 12s in his gob, can he?

Ken Livingstone has compared events in China's Tiananmen Square to the history of protest in London's Trafalgar Square during a visit to Beijing.

China's human rights record was raised as he went to the site of the 1989 massacre. London's Mayor said his city also had an "interesting history".

He is in the 2008 Olympic Games host city to build trade and tourism links.

But some human rights campaigners said to compare the poll tax riots to the killings was an "insult" to the dead.

Auntie

and....

The London mayor has kept quiet about human rights abuses perpetrated by his Chinese hosts. I wonder why

KEN LIVINGSTONE would like to install a countdown clock for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but is uncertain where to put it. I know, I know, but try to keep it clean, will you? Ken’s suggestion is Trafalgar Square. His fear is that it will be opposed by the conservatism of Westminster council, a body he bravely denounced on a fact-finding trip to the host city for the 2008 Games, Beijing. If only all leaders could be as enlightened as the Chinese, eh, Ken? If only the men and women of Westminster could be as foursquarely behind progress as our dear friend Wen Jiabao. Oh, come on folks, you’d pay good money for comedy like this over the West End.

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If I was a London ratepayer I'd want to know what he was doing in China, at my expense, in the first place.

I used to think he was just a newt fondling idiot. Now I think he's a newt fondling dangerous idiot.

[Marcellus]

Heh, I was just thinking of starting a thread on this...

I can't believe he did this. He really should have thought a little harder before he made the comparison.

No one died in London's poll tax riots and the police did not use tanks.

I think that sums up the differences nicely.

[English assassin]

Be fair, he was probably disorientated because there are no Jews in Beijing for him to insult.

[Duke Malcolm]

I thought that sort of thing was the duty of the Lord Mayor of London?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

The political and the cultural background and context are not similar

Heh, understatement of the year. He could probably have added that what actually happened wasn't similar either...

Also-the Peterloo massacre? What the hell?!

[InsaneApache]

As a Mancunian I grew up with the 'Peterloo' massacre. It really doesn't bear any resemblance with what happened in Tiananmen Square. A few drunken (and scared) militiamen on horseback with swords 200 years ago cannot compare with modern day tanks and troops.

Hmmm...I feel a Monastery thread coming on....

[BigTex]

Ken Livingston has this strange ability that whenever I hear about what he does, my mind imediatly goes to the 90's cartoon Animaniacts. In fact here we go.

It's time for Animaniacs
And we're zany to the max
So just sit back and relax
You'll laugh 'til you collapse

We're animan-iacs

Come join the warner brothers
And the Warner sister, Dot
Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot
They lock us in the tower
Whenever we get caught
But we break loose and then vamoose
and now you know the plot

We're animaniacs
Dot is cute and Yakko yaks
Wakko packs away the snacks
While Bill Clinton plays the sax
We're Animaniacs

Meet Pinky and the Brain who want to rule the universe
Good Feathers flock together, Slappy whacks 'em with her purse
Buttons chases Mindy while Rita sings a verse
The writers flipped we have no script why bother to rehearse

We're animaniacs
We have pay or play contracts
We're zany to the max
There's baloney in our slacks
We're animany
Totally insaney
Here's the shows name-y

Animaniacs
Those are the facts.