I'm looking for the text of his last statement, it was very good. Does anyone know where I can get it?
It was great.
Here's the real Red Ken. What you heard today is eyewash.
in November 2003, Livingstone was named "Politician of the Year" by the Political Studies Association, which cited his implementation of the "bold and imaginative" congestion charge scheme. The honour came a week after Livingstone made the headlines for referring to George W. Bush as "the greatest threat to life on this planet," just ahead of the President's official visit to the UK. Livingstone also organised an alternative "Peace Reception" at City Hall "for everybody who is not George Bush," with anti-war Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic as the guest of honour.
Ken Livingstone was publically criticised in February 2005 after he compared a Jewish Evening Standard reporter to a concentration camp guard after he tried to interview him after a party. The London Assembly voted unanimously for him to issue an apology but he did not, stating "The form of words I have used are right. I have nothing to apologise for".[1] (http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/548073.html) Livingstone further sparked controversy in a March 2005 commentary [2] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/gla/comment/0,9236,1430185,00.html) in The Guardian where he accused Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon of being a war criminal, citing his involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacre and accusations of ethnic cleansing.