“When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.”

— Ken Livingstone

Criticising Londoners who drive 4x4s in an interview with GMTV (broadcast 23 May 2004), as quoted in "Drivers of 4X4s in London are idiots, says Livingstone" by Ross Lydall in Evening Standard (21 May 2004)

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