Ken Livingstone is a tosser.

That’s no news to anyone. The former mayor of London, erstwhile radical and all round plonker, ‘Red Ken’, has a long and consistent history of being a total plonker. Long because he’s too old and is now a living advertisement for just the kind of involuntary euthanasia that people protest about, and consistent because he has consistently been wrong in virtually everything he’s ever done. The GLC was disbanded after his years at the helm because he is insufferable.

But what Ken has never been very good at is apologising. Nor at understanding that a simple but sincere apology at the time of offence is worth all the retrospective retractions in the world.

Years ago Ken was pissed off with a journalist on his doorstep and likened him to a Nazi. The journalist was Jewish, his family holocaust survivors and Ken knew both of those facts. He refused to apologise. The matter went to inquests, expensive and unnecessary, and Ken refused. Such fucking arrogance is sufficient to reinstate capital punishment. That and driving at 35 in the fast lane.

So yesterday, Ken is appointed by great mate, Jeremy Corbyn, another ‘red’ and overt anti-semite, to head up the Labour Review on the Trident missile renewal. A big bone of contention. The Scottish Nationalists and the Red Labourites don’t want to renew our nuclear capability. Because they’re all pacifists. Which you can tell because pacifists don’t know how to apologise.

The more normal Labourites agree with ‘the nuclear deterrent’ because otherwise we’re a vulnerable nation. Though granted, the world’s in a very peaceful place at the moment.

In an argument, Ken stated, with all due sarcasm, that opponent on the committee, Kevan Jones, obviously needed ‘psychiatric help’ for his views on Trident. Sadly, Kevan Jones has a history of depression and psychiatric episodes. Oh dear.

Ken refused to apologise, for a change, until Corbyn himself forced a reluctant apology. And a reluctant apology is worth…

The Labour party is in enough trouble without adding Ken into the already rather inflammable mix.

Jonah Lomu has died. If not the best, certainly the most spectacular rugby player ever to step on a field. And by all accounts a total mensch. 40 years old. What a terrible thing.

Happy but sad Thursday

A xxxx