Straight To The Point

From the article on the BBC:-

London Mayor Ken Livingstone is to face a charge of bringing his office into disrepute over comments he made to a Jewish journalist.

The mayor was caught on tape comparing the reporter to a "concentration camp guard", outside a party in February.

Okay, it wasn't the politest things he could have said, but what happened to freedom of expression? There are (at the last count) approximately 10 billion things more important going on in the world. And how much is this costing anyway? And who is "the Standards Board of England"?