CROSSRAIL hole plot-promoter, Big BUSINESS agenda-tout, 'socialist ‘ [!!!!] careerist Ken Livingstone WAS TOO ARROGANT, so he deserved to lose in May

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CROSSRAIL hole plot-promoter, Big BUSINESS agenda-tout, 'socialist ‘ [!!!!] careerist Ken Livingstone WAS TOO ARROGANT, so he deserved to lose on 1 May 2008!

CROSSRAIL hole plot-promoter, Big BUSINESS agenda-tout, 'socialist ‘ [!!!!] careerist Ken Livingstone WAS TOO ARROGANT, so he deserved to lose on 1 May 2008!

Says who?

Says TESSA JOWELL!!!

Who she?



Indeed!

1140 GMT 1240 Hrs UK Time London Tuesday 23 September 2008:

KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That CROSSRAIL hole plot-peddler, Big Business tout Ken Livingstone WAS arrogant. That he was negligent, contemptuous of the people and was way out of order in his contemptible assumptions that he was BORN to live off London people....that he was the voice of the people.....Now, we hear that the very woman who was supposedly in charge of the Blaired party election spin including Livingstone's bid to stay in post at the XXXXty Hall in London SE1, says that Livingstone was arrogant. That he had been in the post for far too long.... SHE has confessed in effect to the fact that people were put off by LIVINGSTONE himself........KHOODEELAAR! will examine Tessa Jowell’s confession in the next 24 hours. [To be continued] First the impression of a report about what she has confessed to, from the web site of the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD, Tuesday 23 September 2008:

[To be continued]
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Minister for London Tessa Jowell has admitted that Ken Livingstone's perceived arrogance could have lost him the mayoral election.
"There is nothing that alienates people more than what they see as the arrogance of power," she told a fringe meeting at Labour's annual conference in Manchester.
Ms Jowell, who oversaw Labour's campaign, also suggested the former mayor's length of service could have put voters off re-electing him.
"You have to assume that in modern politics longevity works against you," she added.
Her remarks underline a belief held by many in the London Labour party that Mr Livingstone should not be allowed to stand again because he represented the past.
However, she added during the debate on the London elections that after four years he would be a "refreshed, reinvigorated" candidate and better placed to win than when he was the incumbent. Meanwhile, Mr Livingstone's former communications director has told how investigations by the Evening Standard "appeared to confirm that (City Hall) grant- giving was inf luenced by favouritism" - the first significant admission about the Lee Jasper scandal by one of Mr Livingstone's inner circle.
Joy Johnson said that Mr Livingstone's decision to "hang on" to Mr Jasper, his race adviser, despite allegations of cronyism, was "wrong", "doomed" and "a mistake" which cost the mayor "much political capital at a crucial time ... (for) someone who was ultimately a figure of secondary importance". At the meeting, a string of senior London Labour figures voiced criticism of Mr Livingstone's mayoral campaign. Councillor Steve Reed, leader of Lambeth council, accused the campaign of sending "mixed messages" about Conservative candidate Boris Johnson.
"With one hand we said he was a buffoon and with the other we said he was a dangerous extremist," said Mr Reed. "Both things cannot be true, and the voters concluded that neither was true."
Len Duvall, leader of the London Assembly Labour group, said: "It doesn't matter how impressive your legacy and achievements, you are not going to win by that alone.
"We had mixed messages and were a bit late coming in to play." Writing in the British Journalism Review Ms Johnson said: "When someone is in the eye of the media storm - on this occasion, Lee Jasper, Livingstone's equalities adviser - resignation must be swift.
"Our reasoning, that resignation would look like an admission of guilt, was a mistake."
The consequence of the Jasper affair was, Ms Johnson said, "an inability" for the Livingstone campaign to get back on the front foot.
"With a barrage of negative stories arising from leaked emails that appeared to confirm grant-giving was influenced by favouritism, which in turn led to allegations of cronyism, we were operating against a backdrop of hostile stories over a sustained period," she added.
Ms Johnson was also fiercely critical of the Evening Standard, saying its coverage was unbalanced and its billboards had caused "incalculable damage" to the Livingstone campaign.
However, she admitted that some of its stories were "legitimate".
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