Here are some of the background stories featured in the video (and others too):
Mayor's BNP outburst at Phillips: London's mayor has accused the head of the UK's race watchdog of "pandering to the right" so much that "soon he'll be joining the BNP" - BBC
Mayor is suspended over Nazi jibe: London's mayor has been suspended from office on full pay for four weeks for comparing a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard - BBC
Attacked gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell: "Unburdened by diplomatic sensitivities, the mayor compared a Jewish journalist to a "Nazi concentration camp guard", called civil rights campaigner Peter Tatchell "an Islamaphobe" and admitted: "I just long for the day I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lampposts." Livingstone is an arrogant bully. After so many years at the top, he is starting to breathe his own exhaust. His self-regard is becoming self-destructive. What began as a light whiff of dodgy dealings by one of his apparatchiks has rapidly developed into a stench of sleaze at City Hall." - Jeff Randall in The Telegraph
Investigative journalist attacked: After Martin Bright (a married father) had proved Ken Livingstone to be drinking alcohol at 10am, Ken Livingstone attacked Martin Bright as "like a 40-year-old virgin still living with his parents." Source: Guardian.
Attacks on Andrew Gilligan: "Livingstone would seek to divert attention from those uncomfortable facts [on alleged corruption], and those unanswerable questions, by fanning a giant dust-cloud towards his accusers. So I have been accused by the mayor of politically motivated smears, of fraud, of racism, even, quite literally at one point, of murder (of David Kelly, of course - do keep up)." - Gilligan himself writing for The Guardian's Comment is free
Whistleblower is smeared: "A former key adviser to Ken Livingstone today tells how he and others breached the strict rules governing political campaigning, including raising money from donors for the Mayor of London's election campaign. The claims have prompted a ferocious rebuttal from the mayor's office, which yesterday described Atma Singh, 47, Livingstone's policy adviser on Asian affairs between 2001 and 2007, as an 'embittered ex-employee' who was 'removed' from his job." - Observer
No answers, just smears: "There are also allegations that his London Development Agency made grants to dubious businesses linked to Lee Jasper, a close adviser, a charge that Mr Livingstone dismisses as a smear." - Economist
Smearing The Evening Standard because of its investigations into Livingstone's crony, Lee Jasper: "Livingstone accuses the paper of a "dirty racist campaign" against Jasper." - Guardian
Attacked US Ambassador as a "crook": "Mr Livingstone's style also draws ire. He is truculent, calling the American ambassador to London a “chiselling little crook” for not making embassy officials pay the congestion charge." - Economist
Harassment and bullying of staff: Detailed by Atma Singh in The Times
Watch Ken Livingstone 'lose it' during a General Assembly session:
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