well I believe the evening standard
hustings which was televised live on the
television station london live and very
widely reported with a packed attendance
of 750 people others couldn't get in
changed everything in the london mayoral
race it had been the tactic particularly
of the Labour candidate said he can to
pretend that I wasn't in this election
and without the kind of budget that the
big parties have without the party
machine it was difficult for me to as it
were break up from anonymity but my
experience is that invariably when
people know that I'm in this race they
either automatically declare their
support for me or at the very least
indicate that they are prepared to
consider voting for me so my number one
tactic is to let people know that I'm
actually a candidate in the race and I
think the hustings was a major
breakthrough in that regard and there
are others coming up there are other big
hustings across London and even in the
media on LBC on BBC London and so on and
I think that people know that I've
certainly got the measure of Sadiq Khan
I think people know that he's second
third maybe even fourth best candidate
in this race but that's only truly
exposed when he's up against me because
I have got much more experience than him
and indeed more experience than all the
other candidates put together I've been
elected to Parliament six times in two
countries and SAT there for almost 30
years and I was prominent in politics
even before I entered the house of
commons almost 30 years ago so I feel
that my task is to up my profile as a
mayoral candidate there are hundreds of
thousands of people in London that
support the politics that I represent
and the way I do business but many of
them don't yet know that I'm a candidate
but there's more than 90 days to go at
the time of
speaking I'm about to bring my heavy
electoral artillery onto the field my
traditional open-top double-decker bus
with big powerful stadium-style speakers
and so over the next few weeks frankly
there won't be many left in London who
don't know that I'm standing and
everyone in London is going to get a
booklet sent by the authority you have
to pay 10,000 pounds to get in that book
and I'm paying it and that booklet will
go to every single household in London
with my picture and my platform what I'm
standing for in the mayoral election
race that too is a piece of heavy
artillery so it's getting closer I'm
already the third favorite at the
bookmakers miles ahead of all the other
minor candidates and closing on the big
to the big two are not that big Zac
Goldsmith is very tall but as a
political figure he's not that big and
said he can well about whom least said
the better and the real labour man in
this race labor with a small L I spent
decades in the labour party and was
expelled by Tony Blair because of my
role as a leader of the anti-war
movement and everything I said in that
movement turned out to be correct and
everything that Mr Blair said turned out
to be false except where it was a
deliberate falsehood and my film which
is coming out before the mayoral
elections the killings of Tony Blair
that's going to make quite a splash too
I can promise you so between now and may
the 5th the task is to reach as many
people in London as possible to tell
them I'm standing and to tell them what
I'm standing on what I'm standing for
and Sadiq Khan was in a cold sweat last
night I mean literally a cold sweat he
was tense anxious nervous didn't engage
with me
even respond to the criticisms I made of
him because there isn't much of a
response that can be mustered I'm the
candidate in this election that is close
to jeremy corbyn with whom i sat for
nearly 30 years in Parliament I
represent the ideas that carbon one the
Labour leadership election on and can is
opposed to virtually every single one of
those ideas every single one of those
values and can is a part of the coup
against carbon and everybody knows it he
doesn't make any effort to conceal it
and if he were to be elected mayor in
May the very first thing he would do is
demand the resignation of jeremy corbyn
as leader probably privately for the
first few days but increasingly publicly
that's their game they intend to
overthrow jeremy corbyn very quickly
after the elections in me I on the other
hand if I'm the mayor I'll strengthen
Corbin's hand very considerably because
I will have won an election on exactly
the same kind of policies that he won
the Labour leadership elections on so on
all the issues transport crime policing
development poverty housing above all
the social cleansing of London of
ordinary working people on average or
even below average earnings being driven
out of the city right to the edge and
then off the edge on these issues I'm
the person who is proposing real labour
politics as an answer to those crises
you can go to my website and read about
them all Galloway 2016 London you can
find everything I'm saying about all of
these issues there and we're coming to a
place near you either on top of an
open-top bus or to a full-dress meeting
I hope you'll engage with us and George
Galloway I'm standing from
of London