Well, I don’t feel any need to support Ken Livingstone because the aim of my first comment was to point out young Gimlet’s error.
If I lived in London – which I don’t – then I would probably vote for Lindsay German on the first preference and then switch to Ken for my second. I say probably because there are a lot of things that Ken has done that I don’t like, such as cuddling up to the City.
That aside, my original point still stands – all council groups elect or re-elect their leader after every election, so what happened 30+ years ago in London was quite normal.
Gimlet, not for the first, was simply repeating an old Tory line that didn’t work then and won’t now.





