Violence: Ken hits at rap, film and Mrs T

Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, a film Ken Livingstone has highlighted as glorifying violence
13 April 2012

Ken Livingstone launched a vitriolic tirade against violent TV, films, gangsta rap and Margaret Thatcher yesterday - blaming them all for making Britain violent.

The London mayor claimed hit TV series 24 'seems to justify torture' - and also laid into Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster film Kill Bill.

Mr Livingstone said the film 'simply glorifies violence rather than showing people that use their brain power to achieve their goal'.

The Thatcher years 'helped create a generation of people whose children did not have a moral code', he claimed.

He also said some rap music was behind the current spate of violence and society's moral breakdown.

Mr Livingstone's tirade came at City Hall in London, where he called for metal detectors to be installed in all schools to stop youth knife crime.

'It would be expensive but action is needed because the current knife culture involves youngsters carrying knives because they do not believe the consequences,' he said.

A Greater London Authority Lib Dem spokesman said: 'Mr Livingstone's comments on culture are just him going off on one again.'

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