The TV media are reporting that Ken Livingstone has been "found guilty" of btinging the office of the Mayor of London into disrepute, over his stupid "concentration camp guard" insults to a Jewish reporter for the Evening Standard, and his subsequent attempts to bully and brazen his way out of the ensuing media frenzy, which certainly reflected badly on the international reputation of London.
Why he could not have apologised months ago is mystery.
We await the decision of the rather pompously named Adjudication Panel for England , to which the complaint to the Standards Board for England was referred, to see what punishment, if any they impose.
In theory they could disbarr Ken Livingstone from public office, but that would seem to be unlikely, unless, for example, they order him to apologise, and he defies them.
Who pays for Ken Livingstone's legal costs ?
Are the taxpayers of London going to be stung for the legal fees in this case ?
The suspension of Ken Livingstone and the gaoling of David Irvine in Austria both reflect the very thing that was at the heart of Nazism...the denial of freedom of speech. Austria seeks to show how tough it is on the very creed, Nazism, that was given birth by an Austrian, Hitler. In doing so it goes about things in a very Nazi like way....thought control and the denial of free speech.
The Jewish organisation that set out to have Ken Livingstone thrown out of office was just as guilty of Nazi attitudes when it decided to deny Ken the right to free speech. It is a sick world when the historical victims (Jews) employ the same tactics as the Nazis did to get their way!