Hva er det med Londons borgermester? Onsdag ba han to entreprenører pelle seg tilbake til Iran og prøve seg hos ayatollahene. Reuben-brødrene er jøder av irakisk bakgrunn. De har bodd i Storbritannia i 40 år. Da han ble bedt om en forkarlng svarte Livingstone med å be iranerne om unnskyldning!

Ken Livingstone yesterday intensified a feud with two billionaire businessmen involved in the consortium behind London’s planned Olympic City. After telling the developers David and Simon Reuben they should “go back to Iran and try their luck with the ayatollahs” if they did not like his policies, he told the London assembly the brothers were a destabilising force in the Olympic project, and could land taxpayers with a £700m bill.
His “advice” was criticised as not only rude but wrong: the brothers are not Iranian but were born in India of Iraqi Jewish parents. Challenged yesterday, the mayor said: “I would offer a complete apology to the people of Iran to the suggestion that they may be linked … to the Reuben brothers.” He said deadlines for planning applications were already being missed, adding: “We welcome good honest people who work hard. We are not interested in taking on any asset-stripper that comes along in a smash-and-grab raid and gets anything they want from this city and puts nothing back in.”

Livingstone ble nylig idømt disiplinærstraff for å ha kalt en jødisk reporter for en konsentrasjonsleirvakt. Guardian skriver at han snart bør følge mottoet på sin egen hjemmeside: Slutt å mobbe.