Can't agree with Terry K.  I was born in London, and was there throughout the openly corrupt Horace Cutler [Tory GLC leader] years; the supposed "Loony Left" excesses of a few zealots on local councils -largely invented by the Tory Press, though it's quite true that there were a few idiots who set themselves up for it- were insignificant compared to the "Rabid Right" ones that followed when the Conservatives began their long campaign to make Socialism illegal.   I moved north (to the then "Peoples' Republic of South Yorkshire") round about the time Ken took over.  I was very impressed by his "Fare's Fair" policy; it worked extremely well, until -like the Public Transport policy in Sheffield- Thatcher made it illegal because it was an example of Socialism, and it worked.  Livingstone is, like all successful politicians, a man with an eye to the main chance; I'd trust him sooner than I would Tony Blair, however.  Good luck to him.

Malcolm