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Ken Livingstone - Oliver Feingold Anti-Jewish rant London GLA Mayor Red Ken Livingstone Satirical parody of an anti-semitic rant BASED ON A TRUE ENCOUNTER with Mad Ken livingstone by Jewish EveningStandard reporter Oliver Feingold This political satire clip may have been slightly dramatised f
or parody purposes The true transcrip was as follows Ken Livingstone was publicly criticised in February 2005 for remarks made to an Evening Standard reporter, comparing him to a Nazi concentration camp guard after the reporter had tried to interview him following a reception marking the 20th anni
versary of Chris Smith's coming out as gay. The reporter, Oliver Finegold, was in fact Jewish and said he took offence at the remarks, but Livingstone refused to withdraw the remark and was subsequently accused of anti-Semitism. Finegold had an audio recorder running.[42] The Evening Standard decide
d not to run the story at first but the following transcript of the conversation was published by The Guardian:[43] Finegold: Mr Livingstone, Evening Standard. How did tonight go? Livingstone: How awful for you. Have you thought of having treatment? Finegold: How did tonight go? Livingstone: Hav
e you thought of having treatment? Finegold: Was it a good party? What does it mean for you? Livingstone: What did you do before? Were you a German war criminal? Finegold: No, I'm Jewish, I wasn't a German war criminal and I'm actually quite offended by that. So, how did tonight go? Livingstone:
Ah right, well you might be [Jewish], but actually you are just like a concentration camp guard, you are just doing it because you are paid to, aren't you? Finegold: Great, I have you on record for that. So, how was tonight? Livingstone: It's nothing to do with you because your paper is a load of
scumbags and reactionary bigots. Finegold: I'm a journalist and I'm doing my job. I'm only asking for a comment. Livingstone: Well, work for a paper that doesn't have a record of supporting fascism. This last comment was a reference to the Standard's owners, the Daily Mail and General Trust, whi
ch endorsed Oswald Mosley's Fascists in 1934 and supported Nazism until 1939. Livingstone also claimed the Standard was guilty of "harassment of a predominantly lesbian and gay event".[44] Peter Tatchell suggested that this explanation "came across as patronising. Gay people don't need the Mayor's p
rotection to fend off a journalist asking simple questions."[45] Wikinews has related news: London Mayor Ken Livingstone to appeal over suspensionAfter listening to the recording supplied by Finegold, the London Assembly voted unanimously to ask Livingstone to apologise. Livingstone responded by s
aying "the form of words I have used are right. I have nothing to apologise for."[46] Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron, herself the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, said of Livingstone: "These were inappropriate words and very offensive, both to the individual and to Jews in London."[47] Some two dozen co
mplaints were referred to the Standards Board for England, the body responsible for English local government standards, which passed it to the Adjudication Panel for England, which has the power to ban individuals from public office for five years. Wikinews has related news: Reaction to Ken Living
stone suspensionThe Adjudication Panel addressed the case over two days on the 13 & 14 December 2005[48] and adjourned the hearing for two months. On 24 February 2006, Ken Livingstone was found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute and suspended from office for four weeks, stating that he seemed "to have failed... to have appreciated that his conduct was unacceptable".[49] Livingstone attacked the decision on the grounds that the Adjudication Panel members ought not to suspend a democratically elected official from power, describing their actions as "striking at the heart of democracy". The ban was due to begin on 1 March 2006, but on 28 February, a High Court judge postponed it pending an appeal by Livingstone.[50]
The decision was later quashed by the High Court of Justice when on October 5, Mr Justice Collins overturned the suspension, regardless the outcome of Livingstone's appeal concerning the breach of standards.[51] The final judgment upheld Livingstone's appeal and stated that the Adjudication Panel
had misdirected itself, although the judge stated that the Mayor should have apologised.

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