Posted on 09/19/2023 10:52:58 PM PDT by RandFan
Ken Livingstone, the former London Mayor and one-time figurehead of the Labour [Democrat] left , is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, his family has announced.
He is being "well cared for by his family and friends" as he lives a "private life" in retirement, they said in a statement issued to the PA news agency.
While having largely retreated from public life in recent years, the 78-year-old was a prominent figure in London politics for more than four decades from the 1970s.
In his heyday, "Red Ken" was a thorn in the side both of Margaret Thatcher's Tories and New Labour under Sir Tony Blair.
In his second term, which he won as the official Labour candidate, he earned praise for the way he stood up for London after the July 2005 suicide bombings and helped win the 2012 Olympic Games for the capital.
Mr Livingstone lost City Hall in 2008 when he was defeated by an equally colourful opponent in Boris Johnson and a failed bid to return to office in 2012 marked the end of his electoral ambitions.
His time in the Labour party ended ignominiously as he quit in 2018 amid furious demands for his removal over allegations of antisemitism.
It came after a long-running row over his claims that Adolf Hitler had backed Zionism in the 1930s, which had originally seen him suspended from the organisation in 2016.
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a brutal disease
That’s too bad, now this commie bastard will forget all the horrible things he has done. I’m betting he’ll be the angry patient.
I wouldn’t wish that disease upon anyone, including my enemy.
Hope it’s not too late for him to be moved by the Spirit to confess and believe on Christ. WAY above my pay grade to even guess at that important question.
What a convenient way to assuage one’s ego by erasing his past...
Wonder if “Red Ken” would rather be red then dead?
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