COMMENT: Has Ken Livingstone gone mad?

Ken Livingstone has always been controversial and, over the years, has said some outrageous things but, during in the campaign to regain the position of Mayor of London , he seems to have totally lost the plot and has now called for bankers to be summarily executed. Yes, really.

Here are 6 recent examples of Livingstone having lost the plot:

1) 18 August 2011 - Livingstone compares Boris Johnson to Adolf Hitler when he claims that the mayoral election is “a simple choice between good and evil. I don’t think [the choice] has been so clear since the great struggle between Churchill and Hitler.”

2) 18 August 2011 - Livingstone claims that anyone who doesn't vote for him will be punished by the Angel Gabriel, will “burn for ever” and have their “skin flayed for all eternity.”

3) 2 November 2011 - Livingstone tells Tory councillors in Hammersmith & Fulham that they will “burn in hell” and have their flesh “flayed by demons for all eternity” because they redeveloped a council estate.

4) 17 November 2011 - Livingstone asked a public meeting “How many people think we should hang George Osborne?”

5) 8 February 2012 - Livingstone claims the Tory party is “riddled with” people “indulging in” homosexuality. He also claimed that a number of Labour MPs only got their jobs because they were homosexual.

6) 17 February 2012 - Livingstone says that Britain should “hang a banker a week until the others improve.”

How on earth can this man be elected as Mayor of London, one of the world's great cities? Arguably, it would make him the second most powerful person in the country. He's so clearly barking mad!

And why (a) did Labour select him and (b) haven't Labour dropped him as their candidate?

One final thought, is Ken Livingstone actually safe being loose in public or shoud he be detained for his own sake and the safety of others?


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