Anger at Livingstone Saudi rant: "hang Al-Sauds from lampposts"

[emad]

From BBC News:

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Labour has refused to comment on remarks by Ken Livingstone that he longs for the day when the Saudi royal family are hanging from lamp-posts.

The London mayor, recently readmitted to the Labour Party, also attacked US policy towards the Middle East.

He blamed the plight of Palestinians on the "network of corruption" between some oil sheikdoms, oil companies and the White House.

Tory mayoral hopeful Steve Norris called the comments a "dangerous rant".
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More:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3610789.stm

Good old Ken, always active during the election season...


Edit: More http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gla/story/0,9061,1188574,00.html

[Dead_Parrot]

1. Lol. Good ol' Ken...

How long before he's kicked back out of the party, do you think?

[emad]

2. He's only just been re re-instated so he can stand for Mayor

of London as a Labour candidate as opposted to turncoat like last time when they threw him out and he won a landslide.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Say it's not so, Mr Livingstone!

Polite people don't hang corrupt Saudi royals from lampposts. Polite people send corrupt Saudi royals into exile and then sue them in international civil courts. Forever and ever.

--bkl

[adriennui]

4. and invite

them to crawford, texas.

[monobrau]

5. Sounds about right to me

I hope one day the Saudis take their country and execute every last royal. It's a shame that the new regime will be hostile to the US, but once again, we've backed the wrong horse. No doubt when the revolution comes, our tax dollars will pay to jet out the corrupt, murderous dirt bag Al-Sauds to some posh playboy playground, where they'll be given the hero's treatment.

[Pert_UK]

6. Holy Crap! What a statement!

"I just long for the day I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lampposts and they've got a proper government that represents the people of Saudi Arabia."

"Every year the international financial system kills more people than world war two. But at least Hitler was mad."

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gla/story/0,9061,1188574,00.html?=ticker

[cleofus1]

7. great quote!

the royal family is pure evil, becouse they have no clue how much misery they perpetuate...and they do not care to know.

[Capt_Nemo]

8. Give'em Hell Ken!

If only there were more politicians like him in the UK!