PorFavor wrote:
I find that deeply offensive. What gives you the right to diagnose someone online? Or to assume that if they act like an arsehole they are mentally ill?
Whatever the cause, it's sad to see, but he's not exactly been reticent in commenting on others health over the last few years, and there's been plenty of discussion online already about his decline.
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Only John McDonnell, Mr Livingstone's former colleague on the Greater London Council, seems to have got the measure of the man.
The de facto Deputy Leader is furious at the long leash given to Mr Livingstone and has been expressing his concern about the mental health of the man once famed for the sharpness of his political brain. Within Mr Corbyn's inner circle, speculation has mounted as to the reasons for Mr Livingstone's apparent increasingly slurred and repetitive delivery.
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I missed that (the last quote). Of course, John McDonnell isn't a medical bod, but he presumably is in a position to note any obvious changes in Ken Livingstone's behaviour.[/quote]
Livingstone and McDonnell loathe one another since the former sacked the latter for being too extreme. At the GLC