The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has presided over London as it has (1) Become the World's Number One city (taking over form New York); (2) Won the Olympic Games in 2012 (3) Successfully pioneered road pricing reducing congestion and raising revenues (4) Significantly improved public transport.
Is he Britain's most effective politician by far?
2007-02-25 01:51:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Ken Livingstone is by far the best thing since sliced bread. He has been and continues to be a great mayor of London.
Look at it like this. My neighbour, a London Cabbie and a true blue Tory [poor darling] told me that he did not give a toss who the mayor of London is, so long as it's Ken Livingstone. This should help shed some light on who exactly is voting for Ken. Just about everyone it seems.
2007-02-25 03:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Sorry...Did you put 'effective' and 'politician' in the same sentence??
Who cares if London is 'the number one city'?
He 'won' the Olympic Games for which we will all be paying for until Kingdom Come...at no advantage to Joe Public.
Road Pricing is NOT a good thing and does NOT reduce congestion or global warming and have you ever been on a bus or public transport? Unreliable, smelly, full of village idiots.
Ken Livingstone acts for London and himself, NOT Britain.
You must be asking this question from another universe! Or this is Ken Livingstone himself!
2007-02-25 01:58:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You're joking, right? Or did you mean "ineffective".
World's Number One City? What for - gun crime? Mugging? Violence? Overcrowding? Litter? Highest cost of living?
Yeah, won the Olympic Games in 2012 at a cost of billions and billions to the tax payer. Just what we wanted, on top of council tax rises way over the rate of inflation and deterioration and cuts in the services provided.
Yeah, raising revenue by fleecing the motorist. The congestion charge has not significantly reduced congestion, but it has successfully killed an awful lot of businesses.
Significantly improved public transport???? Pardon me??? All he's done, as far as I can ascertain, is make it cost two or three times as much as it used to.
Very sensible. Price people out of their cars and then price them off public transport too.
2007-02-25 02:07:23 · answer #3 · answered by Guru Nana 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
it rather is real, his smugness it rather is. in the process the reign of the Queen ***** Thatcher Ken Livingstone became set the job of arising the Thames water barrier and as Thatcher style to dissolve the GLC (which Ken became the chair of) Ken had GLC imprinted on the facet of the Thames water barrier in twelve foot severe letters. maybe his smugness does source from the fact he's in some small way a lefty version of Tony Blair. i.e. a media hound.
2016-11-25 22:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by maysey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean the Holocaust denier who thinks Israel should be wiped off the map? The mayor who called a journalist a Nazi? The anti-Semite who declares all Jews have dual loyalty? The terror sympathizer who blamed the UK for the London bombings rather than the terrorists? That Ken Livingstone? Sure, he's effective. Londoners should be ashamed of themselves for electing him.
2007-02-25 02:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No!
He did not win the Olympics single handed. His introduction of the congestion charge has been a spectacular failure - there is little change in the levels of congestion, indeed the introduction of bus lanes has contributed to more congestion, along with the introduction of bendy buses which take up more road space. Most of the charge is "lost" administering the congestion zone so it is not even a revenue generator.
2007-02-25 02:58:41 · answer #6 · answered by Brian J 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I think he's a pillock.
The cost of the Olympics has quadrupled to nearly £12billion, the congestion charge is deeply unpopular, and public transport is more expensive and unreliable than at any time in the last 60 years.
2007-02-25 02:10:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
It could possibly be true - he has also in the last week done a deal with President Chavez of Venezuela to supply cheap oil for London's buses, which will allow residents of London on income support half price travel in the city...not bad if you ask me (and before you ask, i wouldn't qualify, but i still care!).
2007-02-25 02:01:43 · answer #8 · answered by DizzyDream 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He's effectively wrecked a lot of businesses with his charges.
2007-02-25 22:59:28 · answer #9 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hes cool but.. with a BIG BUT.. da transport issue is rediculous 2 pounds for a single bus ride?? and dont get me started on da conjestion zone expandin eurgh im not votin him in next time
2007-02-25 02:18:37 · answer #10 · answered by *PYT* 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋