so great seeing enjoy and Europe and
first first thing I wanna watch is and
why after Bradford West did you decide
to run for mariaclement actually I
decided I wanted to be mayor of london
before the position actually existed I
think that the job is so big so powerful
and so important that it's an honor to
run for it I've lived in London for
almost 35 years my children have been
born here grown up here go to school
even my grandchildren are born here and
growing up and going to school here so I
really feel that this is the greatest
city in the world but it's not great for
everybody in it it's considerably
greater for people that boris johnson
represents the rich and the powerful
those as i put it dripping in bolt but
for the rest it's a bit of a struggle
and of course if you are in a wonderful
city but you don't have the means to
enjoy it to have proper housing but then
it to get from A to B on a decent public
transport system within it then it will
begin to lose its luster a little and it
interesting and proposal emain was that
if Diana Baur won the nomination you
wouldn't have stood I just wondered why
that why that was because diana baur is
a friend of mine a comrade of mine for
well over 30 years if Labour had
selected her and they would have been
wise to do so it would have been
ridiculous for me to run against them I
wouldn't have been able to look her in
the eye and do that so immediately are
quite a time before labor chose it
scanned the day that if she well the
nominee I wouldn't be in the field
but she went out early and they've
chosen instead someone who frankly is
not for stature I just wondering as well
because city can't he nominated Jeremy
Coleman and so did Diane Abbott so what
separates the tube in your opinion well
I knew that Sadiq Khan would do exactly
what he has done that's why we know him
as mr. flip-flop he nominated Jeremy
Corbyn but he didn't vote for him he
publicly announced on LBC radio that he
would refuse to serve in his shadow
cabinet and within a week I think maybe
eight days of being selected as the
label nominee for mayor he laid into
both Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonald in
the most virulent Jones creating several
very painful rods for their back in the
future and an indication of his own
conduct visa V them in the future he
tells us every day usually in the most
unlikely places that he is not Ken
Livingstone well actually definitely
isn't getting suspect yes right-wing
newspapers of all kinds but he tells us
every day that he's not going to be
jeremy corbyn's man in London that he's
going to stand up to Jeremy Corbyn that
on some very powerful and important
issues he agrees with Boris Johnson
rather than Jeremy Corbyn and John
Rudolph for example the so-called robin
hood tax on financial transactions in
the city which would raise a gigantic
amount of revenue hundreds of billions
of pounds that could be available to a
Labour government for a social projects
public infrastructure and so on he's
opposed to it and he's going to defend
the city against Jeremy Corbyn and John
McDonald on the robin hood tax that the
most vile thing that he did within eight
days of being so they
he accused Jeremy Corbyn of encouraging
anti-semitism and terrorism because of
his stand for Palestinian rights and for
Irish rights more historically and he
threw in John McDonald too so he set the
hair running from the Labour mayoral
candidate that the Labour leader and
labour shadow chancellor were
anti-semitic encouragers of terrorism
doesn't get much more serious than that
I joked to the time what you have to do
to get expelled out of the Labour Party
nowadays wasn't like that in my time yes
I want to say you expelled because of
your position on Iraq yes and if ever I
stand has been vindicated my stand on
Iraq is not now contestant by any
serious person and you always hope
principles before you know it you Korean
port always follow her I never I never
regarded politics is being a career and
now by the grace of God than by hard
work and some good luck I don't actually
depend on politics I don't depend on
anyone else and genuinely an independent
plus I could walk away from standing for
political office and so on and live a
very very good life and therefore that
makes me a free man they call me a
maverick but the definition of a
maverick is merely a beast that isn't
owned by anyone well I'll own up to I'm
not owned by anyone I'm free to take the
decision that I think are correct to say
what I believe it and believe what I say
got really high and social media
statistics and you've got over I think
it's almost twice as many as all the
other candidates Twitter followers
spotlights for all of the h one of the
difficult parts of your campaign my
virtual funds and also members so how
are you planning to get around that so
you can well I think that's an accurate
summary I have around 1 million
followers on social media that's a very
very big reach and can make up for a
lack of funds and a lack of members lack
of a party machine to a certain extent
our campaign is actually growing in
terms of numbers and will very soon have
an open top double-decker bus specially
decorated for the campaign on the
streets of London with me a well-known
recognizable figure standing on top with
a megaphone or proper microphone is that
the same bus that useful it's not
because that bus is not London proofed
because of the ken livingstone's
emissions policy a bus that is as dirty
and its exhaust as that one cannot come
into London so we've swapped it for
another there is London proof and it
will be a joy to behold and thus
hundreds of thousands or millions
actually move over the next 90 or days
we'll see this bus get the message and
know that I am standing front is a
problem I'm basically paying for this
campaign myself but again that's
beginning to gather momentum so we've
got the bus we've got headquarters but
very high social media profile and
crucially the public hustings are now
beginning and the most important one is
next wednesday the evening standard
London's main newspaper covered live on
television and on radio
a debate between whom and Sadiq Khan and
zac goldsmith how do you think that's
quite cool so I intend to take command
of all those proceedings just touching
on democracy and also the hosting you
weren't actually allowed to take part in
the London School of Economics postings
juice the other day and so was an
independent candidate and a few others
absolutes how do you think democracy
could be improved and what do you think
today well the others are scared to
debate with me and that's why where they
can the muscle the organizers into
trying to refuse me that's arguably
illegal under the representation of the
people's act certainly will be once we
get close up to the polls but evening
standard's too big to muscle and
therefore they've told them to get lost
I'm appeared and the third favorite and
the bookmakers by a very very long way
25 to 1 for me 152 14 you get yet you
get of all people are on a platform in
the London School of Economics I say of
all people though of course Colonel
Gaddafi's son was also given a platform
at the London School of Economics though
that may have had something to do with
the donation of millions of pounds by
the dictator to the LSE maybe about
promised the LSE are a bum oh my god
place on the hustings many so I just
wanted how are you going to tackle the
housing crisis and how how does your
policies for the housing crisis separate
you from the other candidates actually
is that well Sadiq Khan has received a
hundred thousand pounds of donations
from property and developers so that
probably tells you something about his
policy towards the housing crisis no
property developer would ever dream of
donating any money to my campaign
because life's going to get much tougher
for property developers if I'm the mayor
the mayor has the power to decide
whether a development can go ahead or
not so I'm very clear about it unless a
development has fifty percent affordable
housing and the definition of affordable
for me is that the rent should be fifty
percent of the prevailing rates in the
area as opposed to eighty percent under
Boris Johnson's definition of
affordability and Zac Goldsmith won't
even make a definition of course when
you're the heir to a 700 million pounds
personal trust fund you don't have to
worry about affordability very much I'm
going to compulsorily purchase anyhow
that's left empty in London for a year
or more without a good excuse without a
valid excuse because hundreds of
thousands of houses in London have been
bought not as houses at all but as cash
deposit boxes safety deposit boxes
usually a foreigners sometimes crooked
bringing their money here and parking in
property in London with no intention
whatsoever of living in it or even
renting out anyone else just to allow it
to continually appreciate in capital
value that driver drives up Reds drives
up prices and means that fewer and fewer
launderers can dream of getting hours in
the place that their parents were born
or the place that they live at that they
work and have to live although the
otherwise commute long distances on
inadequate public transport it's a
crisis people are being pushed to the
periphery and even outside I mean there
are people who were living in London but
we're not live in South End or other
places on the course and you have to
travel into London to what can we need
them to travel into London to work
otherwise London would seize up I'm
going to fight for Berlin style rent
controls I've got all kinds of policies
to deal with this the most important
message to Londoners
is trust you know me you know what I
stand for you know how I do my work do
you think I'll deal with this crisis
more decisively in your interest or do
you think the others will I think just
ask that question is do answer how do
you had any donations or from property
developers or I had no donations from
anybody nevermind property developers I
my friends are running this campaign
ourselves using our own resources I
wouldn't accept any donations from any
property developed I wasn't an expensive
cheat Sadiq Khan was an expenses sheet
I'm not a tax dodger Zac Goldsmith was a
tax dodger an on Dom pretending that he
actually didn't even live here but after
brought over a decade for over a decade
so if you're looking for a politician
who's not like the rest you've come to
the right place it was a certain company
that made a lot of money of the two
strikes beaver and a the largest taxi
firm in the world well that doesn't own
any taxis so what is your plans Tony a
nap don't you know it's only a telefona
I well first of all on the tube
structure by me Boris Johnson cause
these two strikes the workers in the
London Underground are in favor of the
light tube but they have to be
negotiated with you have to take your
workers with you you can't just see I'm
going to dramatically change your life
but I'm not even gonna negotiate it with
you if I was the mayor of course with my
long background in the trade union
movement and that kind of rambow
management would not happen I'd be able
to take the workforce and the union's
with me I'm gonna run uber out of town
if I can there are many places trying to
do that in New Jersey in
parts of California in Delhi in many
parts of the world and in Paris right
now the streets are clogged with
protesting taxi drivers protesting about
uber this multinational tax dodging us
50 billion dollar corporation that is
seeking to destroy all competition all
regulation all standards in order to
establish hegemony in the private hire
field and if they ever achieved that
then they could charge what they like
and they could pay their workers what
they like and if you want to deliver
yourself into that good night then you
really you really ought to think twice
oh you can see and help this small
medium large entrance well sandy can
boasts daily that you'll be the most
pro-business mayor that London's ever
had that's a more pro-business than
Boris Johnson get your head round up for
a minute it's the Labour candidate
trying to out fine yes that one right if
I'm if I'm the mayor I'll be the most
pro-worker now that there's ever been
and that's pretty big difference between
us business doesn't need a mayor rich
and powerful people don't need a mere
they're already rich and powerful
they've already got Tory government with
David Cameron George Osborne running it
how much more does business need it's
the workers that neat it's the tenants
that need it's the people struggling to
pay a mortgage and living in a community
whose public services are being
ruthlessly slashed and burned in the
name of austerity so all this hogwash
about business just leaves me cold i'm
interested in small business and i want
to address for example the ludicrous
situation we have that shops and small
businesses are going out of business
because if you stop outside that door
for two minutes you're caught on a
camera and fined for having done so this
is driving businesses out of business
the black cab trade are all small
businesses 25,000 small businesses by
our policy toward juba and the cheering
up of all standards and regulation
there's 25,000 businesses rapidly going
out of business I'm in favor of
developing small and medium-sized
enterprises but big business and the
bank's they're already powerful enough
they don't need it they don't need a
mayor in their corner thank you for a
really interesting policy regarding
these type studies for this city well I
don't want to give everything away
certainly not too early but my finance
and economics czar in the parlance is
Max Keiser the shock economist who knows
more about business and finance them
almost anybody else in the world is the
leading broadcaster on this subject
across the whole world it's the
most-watched broadcaster in the world in
fact and and he's working on some some
schemes by which we will ensure that
people like Starbucks Amazon and Google
do pay some of their share because you
can't leave that we know though to
Osborne and Cameron or in bed with
Google the closeness of their
relationship with Google is a national
international scandal and the EU itself
is now raising that point I mean for
example who picks up the trash who
supplies the water who supplies the
power who supplies the sewer underneath
who provides the environment in which
these companies are working and if the
answer to that is us the public realm
well maybe we'll have to do something in
terms of child
in those regards if I give the local
starbucks a thousand pound a week bill
for collecting their trash that might be
a wake-up call from it wake up and smell
the coffee yeah another major issue I
fall under this certainly in terms of
health is Heathrow expansion hmm I just
wanted what your opinion is of that on
what your policy is towards ether
expansion I'm against it and I've always
been against it unlike sadhika was no
against it but actually until a few
months ago was very strongly in favor of
it indeed was in the government that was
pushing and this again indicates the
complete lack of principle on the part
of the Labour candidate and rather
alarmingly he sounds as evangelical
against it as he sounded when he was in
favor of it so either he's had some
dumbass seen conversion or more likely
he's decided that this is what he has to
say in order to get elected London's air
quality is already disastrously bad it's
illegal in many parts of London in in
those parts of London children are dying
as a result and we can't have it we
can't have it anymore and london gatwick
sounds london ish to me we can build a
high-speed environmentally-friendly real
link between a throw and Gatwick and
nobody'll notice the difference how are
you are going to track get businesses to
paint from London well if they don't be
they won't be doing any work for us and
by the time I came to office the London
living wage would be properly defined as
ten pounds an hour so if your workers
are not receiving at least ten pounds an
hour don't bother are applying for a
contract with us and if you've got one
with us it will be ended as soon as it's
legally possible to do so and workers
will keep their tips in London as
opposed to having their employer
killing them in restaurants and bars and
so on which happens widespread hundreds
of thousands of workers are affected by
this I'll refuse to end check off for
the payment of trade union dues even
though the government has passed
legislation to bring that but I'm happy
to fight that on their behalf workers
will get a good deal with me and having
spent my whole life at the in the
working class movement I think there are
many people know that on the transport
thing and I don't know if you're aware
i'm going to give free transport for all
students in London so school students
college students university students
long travel free on London Transport if
I'm the man just touching on the free
transform obviously a lot of Londoners
wonder how are you going to pay for it
well max keiser who as I say will be
running the finance and economic side of
things and he's a big pioneer of
cryptocurrency and he has an idea every
day of how we could use the Milty to
make people's lives better easier many
cases cheaper for example everyone who
sends money abroad which in the case of
London think of all the minority ethnic
communities there are people sending
right now money home to their old father
in Nigeria or their mother in Ireland or
their sister in Poland or mothers and
fathers are sending money to their kid
on a gap year somewhere who can't get
back to England because he or she needs
money if they do that are sending it
through western union or western union
if they can afford it because it will
cost you to send two thousand pounds
through western union will cost you
nearly a hundred pounds in feet and if
you're doing that regularly that becomes
a serious amount of money that you have
lost or more likely for the poorer
people they're transferring money
through dodgy money
spare our businesses which go bust all
the money never arrives we're going to
do it through moisture technology
through the city hall which will become
effective layer people's bank so we've
got lots of ideas like that that's using
the oyster card the oyster will become
your world you have no idea the things
you're going to be able to do with the
oyster card if I become mayor but it's
another of the things I don't want to
give you see every time I come up with a
policy sadiq can't steals it and calls
it his own so I'm waiting till nearer to
the election to put some of these things
on the table but people will be excited
when they see them it's not tenable you
know what to have a rush hour in the
21st century there is no reason why
people have to be at their desk at 9am
they can in many cases work from home as
I myself do it many many Londoners do
and you can plan your journey into work
especially on a 24-hour city where
there's a bike tube and so on you can
plan your working game your employer and
negotiate changes to your working day to
avoid a crush like I don't have you been
at the transport system in the rush hour
but a sardine is very lucky on the
London Underground compared to the
passengers that are paying top dollar
for it we've got the most expensive tube
in the entire world and yet the space a
premium times is very very difficult to
get so we stagger the day we give key
workers police officers fire services
ambulance workers teachers who can't
afford that this is the point you see
they can't afford to live in London but
they have to work in one and we need
them to work in London so if we can't
provide the housing the short term
inside the mickeys
and cheaper for them to travel I just
wanted what your plans are for cheap
fares well this is another of my
policies that said he can't stall you
see the dangers I was the first to say
that there would be no increases during
my mayoral term which is a four-year
time because there's been forty percent
of increase already in the last eight
years under Boris Johnson whilst
inflation has been practically at zero
so there's been enough increases in
firms I don't believe TFLs figures and
I'm going to save double what Sadiq Khan
says he can save we estimate the 1
billion pounds and savings can be made
in the existing budget of course I'll be
fighting for greater powers and greater
budgets for London if we have to koofers
up if we have to I'd rather do that and
make specific concessions to specific
groups then if I have to choose then
freezing the fares for everybody so to
that extent I'm prepared to be flexible
if we simply can't make the savings that
will fund the freeze then I think my
policy of allowing students to go free
police fire ambulance workers teachers
key hospital workers to go free is a
better use of their resource just
touching on racism and discrimination in
general seems to be an issue within the
actual police forces soon I just one is
how we how are you going to tackle that
issue well the Commissioner will not
look forward to his Monday morning
meetings with me because I'll be asking
him to extend the Metropolitan Police
Force is colorblind and I don't just
mean blind to the color of people's skin
I mean blind to the color of their short
color if you pick somebody spot
in Liverpool Street Station you'll be
under arrest very quickly but if you
pick the bank's pocket of millions you
have virtually no chance of coming under
arrest or are being convicted you know
if you steal 25 pounds you're a thief if
you steal 250,000 pounds you're an
embezzler if you steal 25 million pounds
you're a corporation and that has to
stop so I'll back the police I'll fight
for them I'll fight for the resources
I'll fight for the equipment including
firearms that they need but I won't put
up with racism and I will grow up with
prejudice or discrimination of any kind
and the police will know that finally
the last question of montage is why
should we limit or for you they'll make
a difference if either of the others are
elected London will go to sleep for four
years they are the most boring duet that
anyone has ever seen run for important
political office in London the only
difference between them is that Zac
Goldsmith is extremely tall and Sadiq
Khan is extremely small but in every
other respect they are Tweedledee and
Tweedledum and they've got nothing to
offer the mass of Londoners the millions
all of their policies are tailored
towards what we call the one percent the
people already dripping in gold I'll be
the opposite if I'm the mayor it will be
exciting be exciting for me it will be
exciting for London they'll never be a
dull moment that I can crunch okay
thanks very much George all the best