Ministry for Breakdowns
Ken Livingstone: the next chapter
The Evening Standard has iced the cake of its hate campaign against Ken Livingstone by posting a rather sombre picture of the crestfallen ex-mayor cleaning out his office. And whilst it's not unusual to see Red Ken looking more than a little disgruntled, it must be said that he looks particularly distraught in this instance. Perhaps he's not taking the electoral defeat too well?
The most disturbing aspect of the image, though, is the fact that Mr Livingstone is holding a Thomas the Tank Engine toy railway set in his hands. Nobody has managed to elaborate on whether or not the set has some kind of sentimental value to Mr. Livingstone, but it does confirm some of the suspicions that Westmonster had concerning the old mayor's antics whilst he was in office.
In fact, it must be said that the most surprising thing about seeing Mr. Livingstone with such an object is that it isn't really surprising at all. Londoners have often mentioned the manic cackle that had echoed over The Thames upon an evening whilst Mr. Livingstone was in office. We can now assume that it was the sound of delirium that overcame him whilst bashing Percy into the Fat Controller (which he apparently adorned with a foppish blond wig) in an attempt to relieve any on-the-job stress that he was under.
Many are curious as to what Mr Livingstone will get up to now that his days in office is over. There have been some reports that he is thinking about writing a book detailing his adventures in the mayoral office, others are a little mundane and concentrate on his desire to do some gardening or simply to go on vacation.
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