Livingstone found guilty

[Kahnee]

From PA:

 

London Mayor Ken Livingstone was today found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute by comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.

The three-man Adjudication Panel for England unanimously ruled that Mr Livingstone had been "unnecessarily insensitive and offensive" to Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold in February last year.

David Laverick, chairman of the disciplinary panel sitting in central London, said: "His treatment of the journalist was unnecessarily insensitive and offensive.

"He persisted with a line of comment likening the journalist's job to a concentration camp guard despite being told that the journalist was Jewish and found it offensive to be asked if he was a German war criminal."

Mr Livingstone was not at today's hearing.

The panel has still to decide Mr Livingstone's punishment, which could include being barred from office, suspension, censure or being made to apologise or to undergo training for breaching the Greater London Authority's code of conduct.

[drdooom]

Why would he need training for breaching the Greater London Authority's code of conduct? He seems to be doing quite well without it

[Des]

I hate the Standard.

[andysama]

I hate Ken

[matty]

If that blokes so sensitive to 'Nazi jibes' he shouldn't work for the Gestapo Gazette. t*** him Ken.

[Eskimo]

Has it got to the stage were you might as well t*** someone if they piss you off rather than verbally assaulting them....

[andysama]

t*** him Ken.

 

Or push him over a wall.

[Cobs]

BEHEAD KEN!

 

 

 

BAN MURPH!

[Herbie von Smalls]

four-week suspension for ken.

 

wonder if he'll apologise now

[Knox_Harrington]

four-week suspension for ken.

 

wonder if he'll apologise now

It'd be the s***test apology ever. I'd be disgusted if he did and can't respect those "demanding" it.

[matty]

Ridiculous. Ban the Standard from London, Ken, you know it makes sense.

[Stevie H]

i f***ing LOATHE the standard. it's an even more smug and up its own hole version of the daily mail.

[sammy & a]

hassony is gonna be all over this

[Ostrich Man]

why...does he sleep rough?

[DanielS]

hassony is gonna be all over this

 

Has Ken been doodling cartoons again?

[ManxRed]

i f***ing LOATHE the standard. it's an even more smug and up its own hole version of the daily mail.

 

Me too, but I have to say I loathe Livingstone even more.

 

This is just like that Hamiltons v Fayed libel case. I can't decide who I want to lose more.

[Stevie H]

Me too, but I have to say I loathe Livingstone even more.

 

This is just like that Hamiltons v Fayed libel case. I can't decide who I want to lose more.

 

manyoo vs everton.

[ManxRed]

manyoo vs everton.

 

...with the winners playing Chelsea!

[stressederic]

Can't stand Ken Livingstone, but its shocking he can be suspended by a non-elected body.

[Crazy Horse]

I hate Livingstone, but his suspension is a disgrace.

[madaboutlfc]

its funny.. a mayor suspended in office

[Hassony]

hassony is gonna be all over this

[fyds]

Court has overturned the ban.

 

I can't understand anyone 'hating' Ken - he can be a twunt but hating is a bit much.

[John am Rhein]

If that blokes so sensitive to 'Nazi jibes' he shouldn't work for the Gestapo Gazette. t*** him Ken.

 

 

These people who 'can't stand Livingstone'

 

why is that?

[ManxRed]

Because he's a smarmy slimy two-faced self-obsessed twunt.

 

OK?