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UKIP calls for abolition of the Standards Board
UKIP holds no brief for Ken Livingstone, the high spending mayor of London.
However, the decision of the Standards Board to suspend him from office for a month is a perversion of democracy.
UKIP believes Mr Livingstone's comments to the journalist were insulting and boorish. If nothing else, simple good manners should have led him to apologise.
Mr Livingstone high handedly chose not to do so. That is a reflection on his judgement, his decency, and his character.
But UKIP deplores the intervention of the unelected Standards Board quango. This government body costs the taxpayers money which could be better spent elsewhere - by the taxpayers themselves.
UKIP also notes that the Board's remit extends only to local government. If the Board was convened every time an MP or a government minister made an offensive remark, we suspect it would be very busy indeed.
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