Actually this is all pretty irrelevant. The only significant policy area over which the Mayor of London has real power is transport. In that area, Ken Livingstone has been hugely successful. He has achieved a modal switch away from car use that is unrivalled anywhere in the world, with traffic down by 21% in central London and by 5% in Greater London. Bus travel is up 45% and cycling up 83%. He is not the hard-left extremist conjured up by the rightwing press. He favours business and capitalist investment. He is not at all anti-Jewish, indeed all his policies have been marked by a firm commitment to anti-racism. (He was rude to a reporter who happened to be Jewish, but the Jewishness of the reporter was incidental.) Some of his foreign entanglements have been eccentric, but the Mayor has no responsibility for foreign policy.
