LATEST POSTS Christmas is always a busy time down at this blog’s favourite hub of moderation’n’tolerance, the East London Mosque, controlled by the extremist Islamic Forum of Europe. The punters have to be saved from what Mahera Ruby, the head of the IFE’s women’s section, called the “pagan myth of Santa Claus.” What’s that, Mahera? You mean Santa doesn’t really exist? Tonight, there’s a special treat (strictly gender-segregated, of course) to get the non-festive season underway. It’s the final round of the “Battle of the Isocs,” a quiz for university Islamic societies, former stamping-grounds of so many of our finest young terrorists. Among the celebrity guests (see above) is a certain Haitham al-Haddad, a big favourite at the East London Mosque. One of his previous appearances there was at an event to pronounce music a “social ill.” Haitham… Read More Ken's efforts to woo the "squeezed middle" took another knock today when he refused to condemn some of the chief squeezers. The Tube drivers, London's second-greediest people, announced four one-day strikes in pursuit of their modest and reasonable claim for triple pay and time off in lieu for working on Boxing Day. This is in addition to their current breadline salaries of £45,000 a year for a 35-hour week with seven weeks' holiday, final-salary pensions, total job security, guaranteed future above-inflation rises bringing their pay to perhaps £52,000 by 2015, a further £1200 bribe for not striking (ie doing their jobs) during the Olympics, and all for work that would not tax the physical or mental capacities of a 12-year-old. Ken's silence on the issue is simply explained: he is funded by the Tube unions. Over the years he has received around £140,000 in campaign donations from them, including at… Read More Happier days for Ken Last week, I promised you a word analysis of Livingdeath’s 720-page monster of an autobiography, You Can’t Hold That, er sorry You Can’t Say That, now I’ve got my hands on a searchable Kindle edition (just £1.99 on Amazon – down from the hardback price of £25!) It’s quite a revealing sign of what Ken is really interested in – and it’s not always petty old London. There are, for instance, 64 mentions of “Israel” or “Israelis” in the book and 32 mentions of “Zionists” or “Zionism.” This compares with only 30 mentions of the words “TfL” or “Transport for London,” and only 17 mentions of “NHS” or “National Health Service.” Ken’s famous obsession with the Third Reich is on full display – there are 23 references to “Nazis” or “Nazism”… Read More Not long after midnight tonight, London’s last bendy buses, from route 207, will crawl, unmourned, into a shed somewhere near Willesden, the historic end of an error. As Boris Johnson puts it, “We bid a final, but not fond, farewell to the bendy bus. These bulky and ungainly monstrosities were always more suitable for the wide open vistas of a Scandinavian airport than for London's narrow streets and I am glad to see the back of them. "While it is goodbye to the bendy, it is hello to the svelte and elegant new bus for London, which will grace the capital's streets from early next year." In fact, I can reveal, you won’t have to wait that long: the first open-platform Borismaster will arrive at Trafalgar Square in exactly one week’s time, before beginning revenue service on route… Read More I haven’t written about that self-proclaimed haven of moderation and tolerance, the East London Mosque, for a few weeks. After having their tolerance of hatred and extremism repeatedly exposed, they’ve been keeping their heads down. But now normal service is back. Last Friday, according to publicity material (above) and its Facebook page, the mosque was due to host that conspicuous moderate, Sheikh Saad al-Beraik, who has reportedly stated: “Muslim brothers in Palestine, do not have any mercy neither compassion on the Jews, their blood, their money, their flesh. Their women are yours to take, legitimately. God made them yours. Why don't you enslave their women? Why don't you wage jihad? Why don't you pillage them?” This is the second time Beraik has appeared at the mosque this year. He was due to speak at an… Read More Like Ken’s re-election campaign, it was launched with such high hopes – hopes which quickly encountered cruel reality. Less than a month after publication, Ken’s autobiography, You Can’t Sell That, er sorry You Can’t Say That, was reduced on Amazon from £25 to the bargain price of… £1.99. That’s 92 per cent off! Ken may be struggling to impress the punters with his alleged Tube fare reductions. But he has made at least one sale with this price cut, for the Kindle edition, which is almost as generous as a Lee Jasper grant in the good old days. I’ve bought one. I already had a free copy from the paper to review, but a Kindle has an electronic wordsearch. Look out for the fruits of my searching very soon… PS It was Amazon’s “deal of… Read More Just twelve days later, Ken has decided that it can be more after all – 40 per cent more! This morning, surrounded by people dressed as Santa, he bunged up his promised cut from 5 to 7 per cent, including a cut to the Oyster single bus fare from £1.35 to £1.20. But will Londoners believe in Father Christmas? Even the original 5 per cent, according to TfL, relied on money that is no longer in its coffers, and was totally impossible without massive cuts. So how on earth is Ken… Read More
East London Mosque: have a happy extremist Christmas
Tube strikes: guess who Ken Livingstone's supporting?
Ken Livingstone book mentions Zionism more than TfL, mentions Nazis more than the NHS
Bye bye bendies as Boris's new Routemaster makes first appearance
East London Mosque hosts speaker who has 'called for Jewish women to be enslaved and pillaged'
Ken Livingstone: one price cut I can believe
Ken Livingstone: I can't deliver my fares cut
Sunday, 18 December 2011
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On November 23, at a rally in Camden to promote his promised 5 per cent fares cut, Ken Livingstone said: “I wish it could be more. But unlike the Tories, we will not say anything we can’t deliver.”
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