The Guardian reports that London Mayoral Candidate Ken Livingstone has provoked fresh controversy, after telling an audience: "Hang a banker a week until the others improve."
The British Bankers' Association rounded on the comments, made at an after dinner speech to the Electrical Contractors' Association on Wednesday evening, and reported in Friday's Sun. The paper said the Labour mayoral candidate was criticising the finance sector's failure to contribute to securing Britain's future at the time.
The British Bankers' Association hit back at the mayoral candidate's latest broadside against the industry. Chief executive Angela Knight said: "If Mr Livingstone intends to make London hostile to business – and if he is considering stringing up a fair proportion of his electorate – he is going the right way about it."
A spokesperson for Livingstone insisted it was simply a joke. Livingstone made his comments a week after stating in an interview that a gay banker would not be enticed to leave London to work in Dubai because he could "get his penis cut off", as he highlighted the English capital as a key financial centre...
Read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/17/ken-livingstone-hang-bankers-speech?newsfeed=true
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