Ken Livingstone has no right to pretend to represent the views of Londoners abroad, especially on his pointless trip to China.
His wretched comparison of the Tiananmen Square massacre to the Poll Tax riot in Trafalgar Square as reported in The Daily Telegraph shows his sickening authoritarian communist attitude to human rights.
What did he feel about being at the site of the Tiananmen Square massacre? he was asked.After commenting on the square's size and scale, he went on to make the comparison with Trafalgar Square.
When it was pointed out that the Metropolitan Police had not shot or killed anyone during the poll tax riot in London in March 1990, he suggested the comparison should be put into a longer context.
"If you go back to some of the early instances you will find many cases where innocent protesters were hacked to pieces with sabres - the Peterloo massacre, for example. There is no such thing as one country with a perfect record." In the Peterloo Massacre, the local militia waded into a crowd of radicals campaigning for universal suffrage on St Peter's Field, Manchester, in 1819, killing 11 and injuring 400.
On Tiananmen Square, estimates of the numbers of those killed by troops and tanks range up to 3,000, the figure given out by the Chinese Red Cross immediately afterwards.
He was also spreading falsehoods about the London Congestion Charge
"We have good experience in London with the congestion charge, which has cut traffic coming into London," Mr Livingstone said.
There has been no "cut in traffic coming into London" - there plenty of congestion outside the central Congestion Charge zone.
Does the communist Chinese Embassy pay the Congestion Charge ? If not, will he be personally insulting their Ambassador just like he did the US Ambassador ?
The London Debate is taking place at ITV studios on Wednesday 10th May. They need people with your opinions and concerns to take part and voice our concerns directly to the Mayor.
Questions need to be answered but they need to be asked first. Email stateoflondondebate@itv.com.
Thank you