There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what… - Ken Livingstone

To take such generous contracts and screw them up so dramatically must suggest that these are the most probably the worst business people ever assembled in one place to run anything. … the civil servants were taken to the cleaners and on the face of it you still end up with a £750 million overspend based on your mismanagement of them. I think they should be sacked, hung drawn and quartered, thrown out of the country and the whole thing (the London Underground) returned to public ownership. I saw that they (Metronet management) wanted to talk to the Mayor about this — wasting their breath sunshine! — they can go out and raise the money amongst their shareholders who came here to get their snout in the trough — they screwed it up; they are not getting any of our money!

I can't think of a more appalling contrast between this wedding beanfeast and what is happening in Ireland.

I'm not in favour of the army, I'm in favour of replacing it with armed workers' brigades to defend the factories.