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Ken Livingstone joins 2012 Mayoral race from Croydon

4:27pm Tuesday 1st June 2010 in Local news By Kirsty Whalley

Ken Livingstone talks to shoppers in North End Ken Livingstone talks to shoppers in North End

Ken Livingstone announced he would be campaigning to be Labour’s 2012 mayoral candidate, from Croydon today.

The first elected London Mayor, who served between 2000 and 2008 before he was ousted by Boris Johnson, said he would campaign on keeping down public transport fares.

He said under Boris Johnson, transport fares had risen by a third.

If elected, he also pledged to ditch “wasteful” schemes such as the new Routemaster bus and the floating airport in the Thames Estuary.

Mr Livingstone said his overriding reason for wanting to be elected Mayor was to protect Londoners from the recession and “the effects of the government’s policies”.

Mr Livingstone will be campaigning against Oona King, the only other Labour candidate to throw her hat in the ring.

Labour hopefuls have until June 18 to put their names forward.

The winner will be announced on September 22.

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Comments(6)

mmj1 says...
12:44pm Wed 2 Jun 10

'He said under Boris Johnson, transport fares had risen by a third.'
Maybe my memory is going. Didn't fares more than double under Ken?

Scoffer is right about Ken dishing out taxpayers money to political projects run by friends of his.

The cost of City Hall has fallen by a considerable ammount now Ken has gone.

We don't want you back Ken. He is worse than Mandleson. Like a vampire he just won't slink away and die.

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Qvondore Noire says...
1:51pm Wed 2 Jun 10

Ethnic minority funded projects have diminished under johnson, this is racism at work, so perhaps it would be better if ken was returned as mayor

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GR-London says...
10:26pm Wed 2 Jun 10

Anyone who believes a word that comes out of Livingstone's mouth, or votes for him, need their heads examined. Livingstone is a tyrant and dictator who believes he has a right to take the money out of your pocket and take your freedom away.

Even if he did get public transport costs down, he would stitch us up in every other way possible. The man is a tax and spend nightmare.

London is a better place without him.

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reality-bites says...
12:09am Thu 3 Jun 10

Maybe he terrorist kidnapping funding buddy Hugo Chavez has put him up to it!.

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mcblount says...
12:45pm Thu 3 Jun 10

I travelled on London Overground yesterday and there were no facilities for children in pushchairs or disabled people.

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Angela M says...
5:09pm Fri 4 Jun 10

I only noticed the fare hike a few weeks back. I use an auto-topup Oyster card to get to work on the tram and bus. It used to cost £9 a week - the tram followed shortly by the bus counted as one journey (90p). Now they count as separate journeys (and the fare has gone up to £1.20), so my transport costs have more than doubled (£24 per week)!

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