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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.
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I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
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My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.
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Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
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