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Ken Livingstone's office denies being brought into disrepute
24 Feb 2006
Members of London Mayor Ken Livingstone's office today hit back at claims by the Adjudication Panel for England that they have been brought into disrepute. The three-man unelected panel today announced that Mr Livingstone would be suspended for four weeks following comments he made to a journalist which were "unnecessarily insensitive".
However, Brenda Shuttleworth, Mr Livingstone's secretary, said that no harm had been done to her reputation. "It was Mr Livingstone who said what he said, not me," she told DeadBrain's reporter, whose religious persuasion is uncertain. "If people think he said the wrong thing then they'll blame him, not his staff. It wasn't a speech, we didn't write it for him."
Greg Mullet, one of the people responsible for changing the Mayor's light bulbs and watering his newts, confirmed that he did not feel he had been brought into disrepute either. "I mean granted, I'm not in his office every day, but I'm still part of the team and I don't think my friends are going to stop speaking to me just because of something the Mayor said," he added.
DeadBrain's political editor, Douglas Ramsbottom, tonight approached Mr Livingstone for a comment as he was leaving his bathroom at home, but left the premises after being reminded insensitively of the "huge, bulging boil" on his nose and being likened to one of Stalin's henchmen. He has yet to decide whether or not to take legal action, but one of the Russian dictator's descendents said that he felt he had been brought into disrepute by being associated with DeadBrain.
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