Livingstone's Stooges Smear Again.

Ken Livingstone's response to the rising tide of sleaze revelations concerning his channeling of funds to various racial grievence mongers is to get a racial grievance monger who receives finds from the mayors office to pen an attack on Boris Johnson. Michael Eboda is the editorial director of the 'Ethnic Media Group' which receives at least £38000 of taxpayer's money from Livingstone (there are probably far more indirect subsidies from advertising), a fact he neglects to mention in his Guardian piece.

I was going to do a complete fisking of Eboda's smear piece, but it scarcely needs it, the smears are so transparent that anyone could see through them. Apparently someone shouted "Fuck off back to Uganda, you cunt" at the Yazz monster, in a room that Boris Johnson was in, so therefore even though Johnson didn't say anything of that nature it proves that he is a racist. Ken Livingstone actually does tell ethnic minorities to go home if they disagree with him, as the Jewish-Iraq Reuben brothers found out when they had a planning disagreement with the mayor who told them, “They should go back to Iran and try their luck with the ayatollahs, if they don’t like the planning regime or my approach.”.

I would say that this demonstrated some Chutzpah on the part of Team Ken, but I suppose throwing a Yiddish word in there would send them crazy.

The lack of self awareness on Ebola Eboda's part gets worse though. After castigating the audience's racist resposnses to him and Yazz (which oddly enough the recordings of the debate didn't pick up) he provides a bit more context.

And it was towards her that this particular volley of abuse was fired after, in response to a question from a saner member of the audience, she had had the temerity to suggest that there might, in certain circumstances, be a case for affirmative action to be employed.

The crowd seemed to get even more upset when I agreed with Yasmin. And I went further, to say that Britain had actually been practising positive discrimination for decades, but that the beneficiaries had, by and large, been white men; so why shouldn't we level the playing field?

So the crowd's supposed outburst of abusiveness, which wasn't picked up by the racist recording equipment, was in response to him and Yazz advocating racist recruiting policies. If the thin skinned, corrupt, alcoholic, antisemitic, totalitarian mayor of London is going to conduct a smear campaign he really should look for allies who are at least competent enough to fool readers of Comment is Free.