Red Ken Says Give Asylum Seekers Cut Price Bus Travel.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:24 pm
welcome back to grumpy towers
KEN Livingstone has come up with an incredible election strategy - give asylum seekers cut-price bus travel.
He revealed the vote-losing plan to give immigrants Oyster cards with discounts during a London Mayor debate.
He pledged he will seek to use funds provided by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to subsidise public transport for failed asylum seekers.
All four leading candidates in the London mayoral election were last night asked to back a proposal to pay for travel to immigration offices for people whose asylum application has been rejected.
Mr Livingstone said he could foresee legal problems with doing this but had an idea for a way around it if he is re-elected on May 1.
He proposed using money from a controversial deal he signed with a Venezuelan oil company in February last year in return for providing expertise from Greater London Authority officials.
The Labour mayor said: “(Mr Chavez) has given us £14 million that allows people on benefits to get half-price travel on the bus.
“I would ask him if he is prepared to amend the scheme to cover failed asylum seekers.
Mr Livingstone was speaking alongside his principal election rivals Boris Johnson, Brian Paddick and Sian Berry at an “accountability assembly organised by London Citizens, an alliance of 100 grassroots community groups in the capital.
AAG
this is classic loony labour at its best.
how the hell red ken can expect to win an election with this proposal is anyones guess as well as the £25 a day london congestion charge
had ken had a snifter or two of the falling down water before he made this statement?
these sort of statements prove beyond doubt that ken is a liability like his labour masters and its time to kick red ken out of office and kick labour out of power at the next general election.
KEN Livingstone has come up with an incredible election strategy - give asylum seekers cut-price bus travel.
He revealed the vote-losing plan to give immigrants Oyster cards with discounts during a London Mayor debate.
He pledged he will seek to use funds provided by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to subsidise public transport for failed asylum seekers.
All four leading candidates in the London mayoral election were last night asked to back a proposal to pay for travel to immigration offices for people whose asylum application has been rejected.
Mr Livingstone said he could foresee legal problems with doing this but had an idea for a way around it if he is re-elected on May 1.
He proposed using money from a controversial deal he signed with a Venezuelan oil company in February last year in return for providing expertise from Greater London Authority officials.
The Labour mayor said: “(Mr Chavez) has given us £14 million that allows people on benefits to get half-price travel on the bus.
“I would ask him if he is prepared to amend the scheme to cover failed asylum seekers.
Mr Livingstone was speaking alongside his principal election rivals Boris Johnson, Brian Paddick and Sian Berry at an “accountability assembly organised by London Citizens, an alliance of 100 grassroots community groups in the capital.
AAG
this is classic loony labour at its best.
how the hell red ken can expect to win an election with this proposal is anyones guess as well as the £25 a day london congestion charge
had ken had a snifter or two of the falling down water before he made this statement?
these sort of statements prove beyond doubt that ken is a liability like his labour masters and its time to kick red ken out of office and kick labour out of power at the next general election.
