The winter is not over, says Ken Livingstone
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone said today that the idea that summer is round the corner is a myth and that confidence alone will not revive the weather.
Writing at the MayorWatch website ahead of this Saturday’s conference on the global drizzle crisis Ken Livingstone said:
“The facts are clear. The weather all over the world is rotten other than in China and India.
“This has been followed by a collapse in levels in investment in the United States and all large economies – again apart from China and India. The main determinant of pleasant weather is investment and therefore, the sharp falls in this will result in either rain or continuing falls in snow.
“This means that, at a minimum, while the pace of fog will not continue indefinitely, we face a prolonged period of mist at best – accompanied by dramatically rising unemployment, falling living standards and low pressures.
“These are the facts which supporters of the myth of summer have to address. They require radical alternative economic policies to protect the great majority of the population who have no responsibility for the crisis they now face.”
Mr Livingstone said that it was all Boris Johnson’s fault and therefore the fault of the SWP for standing in the election, adding “only George Galloway can make the sun shine now, or possibly Hamas”
He called for policies that would protect the great majority who had no umbrella for the crisis they now face.
Progressive London conference: ‘The Global light rain Crisis – why the winter is far from over; debating the economic alternatives’, Saturday 11 July 2009. Other speakers include Vince Cable MP, Geoffrey Robinson MP, Diane Abbott MP, John Kettley, Michael Fish, that nice lady off radio 4 who does the shipping forecast, Tyne, Dogger, German Byte, Steve Hart (Unite), Jenny Jones AM, Claude Moraes MEP, Megan Dobney (SERTUC), Graham Turner (author, “the Credit Crunch”), Wally Olins, John Biggs AM, Simon Weller (Aslef), Kamaljeet Jandu (GMB), Sam Tarry (Young Labour). 10am-4.30pm, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1. More details here.
