Ken Livingstone made the brave choice of going on This Week to make a film explaining why “my friend Hugo Chavez” wasn’t responsible for the economic misery that has been wrought upon Venezuela and it’s all America’s fault instead.
Talking Chavez and #Venezuela and US sanctions in his film for #bbctwhttps://t.co/g5N726Wjoe
— BBC This Week (@bbcthisweek) February 1, 2019
One Twitter comment … Andrew Neil could have been having the same conversation with many of the far left politicians including Jeremy Corbyn. It is very frustrating to see someone who when faced with facts and not rhetoric just refuse to believe what is put in front of them. This is the weakness of the far left and should be exploited more.
They think that if they say something then we will all believe what they say. They are just unreconstructed flat earthers but it is frightening that they could be close to being our government.
Back to last night : It’s almost worth watching just for Ken’s opening line of “Remember me? I used to be Mayor of London”…
Predictably, Ken’s bogus arguments were completely torn apart by Andrew Neil afterwards, with a hapless Livingstone reduced to saying: “I don’t know, I’m a retired pensioner, I don’t have staff providing the information”.
His only defence after that was that the Venezuelan ambassador had told him it was true.
At least he wasn’t quoting the anti-Semitic historical revisionist ‘UN rapporteur’ that Chris Williamson is so keen on…
Brillo then did the public service of explaining to Ken some of the real reasons why Venezuela is a basket case, including decades of self-enriching dictatorship, random confiscation of private property, price controls, and putting a loyalist army General in charge of the national oil company.
As ghastly as it is to watch Ken Livingstone being torn apart, it’s important to remember that he sacked John MCDonell for fiscal incompetence. But now backs him to tear our country down. Stop this madness. @bbcthisweek
— frances Barber#FBPE (@francesbarber13) February 1, 2019
As ghastly as it is to watch Ken Livingstone being torn apart, it’s important to remember that he sacked John MCDonell for fiscal incompetence. But now backs him to tear our country down. Stop this madness. @bbcthisweek
— frances Barber#FBPE (@francesbarber13) February 1, 2019
Ken’s probably wishing he’d stayed in retirement…
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