I'm George Gallery and I'm running for
mayor of London
2016 but I'm recording this message to
my friends in the
upd whose demonstration today I'd very
much like to have been on but
unfortunately clashes with the making of
not one not two but three television
programs to cover my Christmas and New
Year uh RT Sputnik uh program so I can't
be with you and I can't make a very long
film because well that will try the
patience of the many of you that I hope
have turned up for the demonstration
today I want to say that I'm entirely on
the side of those who drive for a living
I don't myself drive for a living but I
do a lot of driving and I have done in
London for well over 30 years and I'm
well aware of the pressures of
congestion and the pressures of unfair
competition that are afflicting the
lives and driving down the wages and the
living standards of members of your
union I understand that up to 30 drivers
a day are joining the union and I hope
that that continues and if there's
anything I can do to help that happen uh
you only have to ask me now the mayor of
London has a lot of power in the
transport field and I'm going to make
very very significant changes to how
things are organized if I become the
mayor next me first of all a very large
number of the six figure earning top
Wallas at tfl are going to have to get
on their bikes luckily there's a lot of
new cycle highways they're going to have
to get on their bikes and look for other
jobs because I believe that tfl is not
only incompetent but is arguably corrupt
in the way that it has organized
transport in London over these last
years I'm going to be investigating the
activities of Transport for London very
very closely indeed and with a very
sharp microscopic eye so the first thing
that's going to happen is that a lot of
tfl top uh top wellers are going to be
on their bikes the second thing that's
going to happen is the Uber with I
believe tfl and the tourist are in a
corrupt relationship will also be told
to get out of town now that might not be
something I can achieve overnight and
while I'm trying to do it I'll certainly
be fighting for the rights of the
workers the drivers that work for Uber
because I'm with the workers whoever
their employer is but Uber is a dagger
at heart not just of the London taxi
trade the Black Cab trade it's a dagger
at the heart of properly organized
regulator private hire taxi firms also
because Uber makes everybody anybody a
driver anyone with an app can be a
driver wherever they came from whenever
they came they might not know even their
own Street in London and we know nothing
of their character we know nothing of
their criminal record we know nothing
about their insurance we know nothing
about the state of their vehicle and
that's simply unacceptable so I'm with
the alliance between the black cabs and
the private har firms in repelling Uber
from London and I'm going to use my
determination and all the brains that I
can hire in a new tfl
that about now of course we have far too
many cars on the streets of tfl have
proliferated the number of Uber drivers
by something like
90,000 over the last couple of years
this is potentially disastrous for the
lives for the lungs for the limbs of
londoners but also for those legitimate
drivers and legitimate companies who
trying to earn a living and wages have
fallen by something like 40% since uba
arrived in to there's much much else
that I could say but this video is
already getting very long it's time that
you and I had a meeting to discuss these
things in more detail uh and I'm sure
that we'll try to do that before the
election of course I'm looking for your
support in me because if Tweedle D or
Tweedle dump get the job don't expect
anything to change if you want change
you have to choose it you have to vote
for it so I'm for a London for all not
just those dripping in Gold not just
those who are dripping gold into the
coffers of our main political parties
I'm a real
independent years top in British
politics A Member of Parliament trust me
I say what I mean and I mean what I say
I say I'm with you and I wish you every
success in today's demonstration thanks
very much indeed