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Ken Livingstone kills the poor

.. | 23.12.2003 12:55 | London

Free entreprise under dynamic mayor Ken Livingstone makes London a world financial centre - by killing the weak.

Before and since his election, Ken Livingstone has stood solidly behind the principle that London's economy is a free market economy, and that this economy is the source of London's prosperity. London is a market society, open to creation of wealth by entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs create wealth for themselves and their investors by harming others, and the weakest suffer the most harm.

The death of an elderly couple in South London after the disconnection of their gas supply illustrates the principle of the free market. The company does not supply gas on the basis of necessity or justice, but to make a profit. No payment, no gas, freeze to death. The company tried to blame the data Protection Act - as if that makes it ethical to cut off the heating for people in their 80's. The company acts according to the principles of the free market, and Ken Livingstone wants those principles to determine the nature of London society.

Not two, but thousands of people die each winter in Britain from cold-related illness. Warm and comfortable housing is available in London, but it is occupied by the rich. The average house price in Kensington and Chelsea is £ 642,483. Ken Livingstone refuses absolutely to redistribute warm housing to those who need it. He finds it morally better, that people should die of the cold in badly-insulated housing, than that the property rights of the rich should be infringed.

Livingstone is an evil man. He believes, like Tony Blair, that the death and suffering of the weak has a moral value - because it contributes to the success of the nation, and the success of London as a financial centre.

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  1. Misuse of language — Mike
  2. Secret Fascists in the Labour Party. — Ilyan
  3. Hey — Animal lib
  4. Ken's penises — John

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