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good evening everyone thank you all for

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coming tonight uh it's really good to be

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here in Tottenham um I think it's a

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great time to be here and I think it's

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it's particularly good because obviously

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on top of George we have a really really

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good panel speakers what I would refer

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to personally as solid sisters women who

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work timly for our communities who've

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always put the interest of of our

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communities at the Forefront and who've

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spoken entirety worked for them so so um

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I did mention I did joke to Zita when I

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first saw I said there is something for

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somebody who chairs these kind of events

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that is so annoying it's when you have

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fantastic speakers such as these that

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their CVS are so impressive you just

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simply can't say it all in one way you

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just have to read it so I'm afraid I'm

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going to have to read the whole list of

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their achievements and it's pretty

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impressive um our first speaker is an

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award-winning Community human rights and

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Trade union activist and campaigner

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she's also a poet spoken word artist

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writer visual artist and curator she's

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the co-founder and National co-chair of

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black activists Rising against Cuts

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Barack UK and is elected to the TU race

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relations commit committee public and

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Commercial Services Union national

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executive she's also PCS group vice

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president and an actor NEC member she's

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a founding member of a number of anti-

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austerity and race and other equality

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campaigns organizations she founded the

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roots culture cult identity art

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exhibition to showcase the talents of

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young black and migrant artists facing

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double discrimination in the labor

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market and institutional racism in the

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art sector her art is used in

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illustrations political campaigns

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example the TU psc's and has been

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featured in a broad range of exhibitions

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she was commissioned by the TU to design

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the artwork for their Steven Lawrence

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Center fundraising appeal she's

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described as a political poet and a Grio

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of the struggle and was a finalist and

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one of the People's Choice poets in the

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mon monolog extreme oh monolog extreme

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spoken word context her new book of

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poetry will be published by Hansa

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publishing she's the winner of the

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positive role model for race at the

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national diversity Awards she was listed

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by the afro news as one of the top

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African and Caribbean women of the year

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she is one of 14 women campaigners

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featured in the book here we stand women

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changing the world which this year one

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of the BR Rose's award for radical

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publish yeah yeah she WR to various

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journals which has included the voice

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and the Morning Star ladies and

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Gentlemen please welcome Z

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hobber Gooding everyone it's really good

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to be here this evening as a not to

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myself now to cut down when somebody

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says they wanted

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introd say they less text um it's really

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good to be here um I want to start by

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talking a bit about my organization bar

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UK and what we do and why we do it and

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barck is a national campaign group and

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so we have um barck structures in

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various cities across the UK and um we

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set up barck in 2010 when we knew the

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cuts were going to have a clear

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disproportionate impact on black

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communities we used black in the

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political sense to Encompass um all

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people from the African and Asian

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diasporas um and we campaign against the

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disproportionate impact of cuts and

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austerity on black workers black

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communities and black service users but

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we also campaign against Injustice and

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racism and what we've found since 2010

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is actually uh racism and Injustice has

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deepened you know um as we go along so

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we constantly ask for support and help

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in individual cases in Collective cases

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in um you know Community campaigns for

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people that have never had to to run a

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campaign because of the the impact on

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them um austerity and cuts have had a

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clear disproportionate impact on black

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communities the cuts of the public

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sector employment and the KnockOn impact

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on the voluntary sector because funding

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cuts um uh have taken place meaning that

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a lot of black organizations anti-racist

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organizations or specialist

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organizations black and migrant

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communities women and all other all

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sorts of other equality groups have had

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to close their doors in the last uh five

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years because their their funding has

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been slashed down to nothing you know

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they've gone from running an

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organization with paid workers to only

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having volunteers to having to run the

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organization out of their front room and

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finally close their doors and in my bar

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in New we've heard that new monitoring

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um uh group it's a longstanding

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anti-racist group that supports victims

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of um you know police hatred and also

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race hatred um is as um coming to a

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point where they're going to have to

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close their doors and it's a horrendous

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situation it means that we're not

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actually monitoring or knowing exactly

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the extent of um race cases that are

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taking place race hatred of cases that

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are taking place or police uh

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victimization um because those

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organizations they they they not just

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provided you know monitored but they

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also provided a Lifeline to a lot of um

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uh families and communities who come to

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them for

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help and um the cuts of the public

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sector have had a particular impact on

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um black communities because it's the

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largest employment area of black people

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and the voluntary sector is another

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large area so it's not just users of the

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voluntary sector but the employees in

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the voluntary sector and the reason for

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that is because of the Discrimination in

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the private sector meaning they couldn't

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even get a foot in the door you know on

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the ladder to um build careers after um

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the scarman report the riot of brickton

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there were um what was considered at the

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time you know stronger equality policies

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put in place in the public sector which

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meant it was a more attractive option

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for black workers is somewhere where

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they could apply for work so the cuts

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that happening to the public sector

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having a particular impact on black

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communities but particularly black women

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because they've got a double whammy of

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gender and race discrimination they're

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two of the groups in the employ in

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public sector employment who are the

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hardest hereit so if you're a black

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woman and you're also the breadwinner of

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the family your main income is coming in

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because your partner other members of

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the family are in low paid work um on

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zero hour contracts and temporary

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contracts you may be relying on that

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income that's coming in from the public

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sector worker and to give you an example

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in some London um Burrows where um black

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women made up around 8% of the workforce

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they made up 20 to 30 to 40% of the

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redundancy so you can see the clear

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disproportionate impact and there's a

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knock on impact on young black people

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because as the slashing jobs making

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people redundant making us work longer

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to get our pensions it means that young

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people are going to be virtually middle

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age before they can even get a job in

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the first place is the jobs are not

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there for them apart from these very

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temporary jobs and zero hour contracts

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which you can see employeers are really

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exploiting at the moment and if you look

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at some of the um like like fast food

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and Care Industries and look at who's

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working in those jobs it's black and

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migrant workers that are impacted on

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that and what that means for young

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people is that they can't start to um

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build a future of life even if they go

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to university if they can handle the

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triple tuition fees the slashing of EMA

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and everything else that's happened

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they're coming back to live with

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families they can't afford to get a

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mortgage in any shape of for they can

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barely afford to rent from the private

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sector there's no um social housing

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being built if you look at what happened

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with the Olympics Legacy you know before

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the Olympics they knocked the tower

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blocks down because they said in the

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area you know they weren't good

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environments to live in they're now

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creating them again with Penthouse

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Suites for rich people and you know

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they're private they're not they're not

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creating social housing so young black

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people are really being hit left right

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and Center by the car the slashing or

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VMA was a particular issue for um black

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students because was a Lifeline for some

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um poor and and and also obviously white

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um students as well from poor and

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deprived communities because it could

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mean the difference between them having

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their bus fair and their lunch money and

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being able to buy a book or two you know

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for their for their studies or not and

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the tripling of tuition fees means that

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they they're creating an education

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system that's for the rich and Elite and

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is not for everybody I believe education

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should be free and it should be for

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everybody and a few days ago I was here

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in Tottenham we marked the fourth

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anniversary of the shooting of Mark

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Dugen and his family are still fighting

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for justice and barck supports a lot of

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family Justice campaigns and those

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families literally have to put their

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lives on hold to fight for justice it

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means that somebody in that family at

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least one person has to literally give

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up work give up whatever they were doing

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in their lives and the family can't

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mourn because until you've got answers

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and you've got closure there's no way

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that you can mourn so families are

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fighting and then the cuts to legal aid

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mean that they can't even you know

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pursue their case in the courts because

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they're not getting any funding for that

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they can't work because they're having

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to campaign so where's the money

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supposed to come from and on top of that

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the Discrimination that we face in the

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workplace which is deepening under

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austerity it's Amplified by austerity

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you can't a lot of people can't go to

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employment tribunal because they've inod

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fees so employers know this and they you

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know they take advantage of that I think

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yes we can get away with discriminating

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because how are they going to challenge

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it in the courts if they can't afford it

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employees will come with a team of

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lawyers a team of barristers and then

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you'll have an individual if they're not

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in a unionized environment you know

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where they're represented by the union

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they're supposed to Face all of that

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it's very intimidating let alone having

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to face the cost of the the fees um and

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we shouldn't forget that you know the

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the riots that happened or uprisings

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happened here in Tottenham and other

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areas they were as a result of yet

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another young black man's life being

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taken there's a series of young black

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men killed at the hands of the state um

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and if you look up where those um riots

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took place looking at London in

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particular they happened in the most

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deprived areas of the London in fact of

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the whole country they were areas that

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were officially declared deprived and

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they were the areas that had the highest

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take up of EMA before it was Slash and

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the highest take up of free School meals

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meaning that they were very poor areas

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but what we s after the riot so clearly

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there are going to be areas that were

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disproportionately black and migrant

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communities living there because of the

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Discrimination we face in society and in

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the labor market it means we're more

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likely to live in the poorest area where

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there's more social housing because of

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that discrimination um and what we saw

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is an emergency debate in Parliament

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where young black people would demonized

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and called every name under the sun and

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also black mothers were blamed and said

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they're not spending enough time with

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their children it's their fault that

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their children did this absolutely

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disgraceful um Behavior by politicians

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not of course

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George um in Parliament and that was

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across the political Spectrum it was

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across parties demonizing young people

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in this way and if you look at the

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prison sentences that the C the

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sentences the young people got they were

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disproportionate to the crime there was

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um a place for example that was broken

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into already and somebody went in there

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and took two scoops of ice cream they

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got two years so you imagine then if

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they took a third scoop of ice cream

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they would have to go to prison for 3

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years um there was somebody who received

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a stolen item A friend gave it to her as

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a gift and she also received a sentence

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they opened the courts you know extended

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hours in the evening so they could rush

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through these cases but the vast

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majority of them were overturned on

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appeal that's where the young people had

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the support and the networks to have

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somebody come in Pro boner lawyer to

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come and um represent them so it's a

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horrendous State of Affairs and we know

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that um when um austerity hits if you

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look through history racism increases

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and we've seen an increase in the um far

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right the edl Britain first and what

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that's done together with politicians

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demonizing migrant communities and black

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communities scapegoating uh migrants and

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scare mongr so they can shift the blame

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of austerity away from themselves and

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onto migrant communities um is that

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that's

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empowered ordinary people who hold

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racist views who may have held it back

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before because they know there's laws

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there's you know there's policies they

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didn't feel safe before confident to

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express it to be so bold to express

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their racist views you know that kind of

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language that my mother's generation

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coming from the Caribbean her you know

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go back to where you come from go to the

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Jungle you monkey you're hearing all of

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that kind of horrendous language

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happening again because people feel well

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we're backed up by a far RI we're backed

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up by ukip we're backed up by government

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policies you've got the Immigration Act

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that was introduced and supported by all

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the political parties with the exception

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of a very small handful of MPS that

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actually it seeks to create an aart tied

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state in the UK and I saw things saying

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that I'm out of time so I just wanted to

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conclude by saying I think this meeting

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is really important I'm not going to say

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anything about David Lamy there was a

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lot said about him at the the video we H

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from Mark Davin I know because I've done

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lots of meetings in Tottenham before

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that communities here are not very happy

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with um him and um you know how he's

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engaged with black and migrant and poor

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and priv communities um but we need

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somebody that's run in London that

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actually is engaged with our issues

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acknowledges our issues understands them

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but more importantly acts upon what we

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say is a concern to us thank you

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bra thank you very much Z I think and I

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understand that that CV that very

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impressive CV uh just before we move on

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to our next speaker can I just sort of

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mention a bit of the nitty-gritty about

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all this obviously know we're running a

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campaign and campaigns are incredibly

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costly Affairs uh we're not a rich

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outfit and everything is coming out of

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our pocket so if I could actually ask

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for at any point any of you could make

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donations however big or small that

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would be very very welcome i' appreciate

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that um our next I think well um we

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often describe London as being a very

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diverse Capital which obviously it is

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and it includes numerous communities I

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think that not only should we be

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speaking about the issues of our

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communities but it's also important now

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to understand the full history of our

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the numerous communities that actually

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make up London and so our next speaker

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is has a very interesting uh CV once

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again I'll have to read it out because

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it is very impressive she was she's a

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Jewish consult specializing in the

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practice of law as resistance

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reparations legal specialist and

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internationally acclaimed reparation

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list she serves as co- Vice chair of

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Parco panafrican reparations Coalition

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in Europe co-founder of the Global

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African people's Parliament

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as well as co-founder of the African

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reparations transnational community of

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practice she's also a member of the

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first August emancipation day African

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people's reparations March organizing

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committee as a result of Esther's

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Community engaged reparations scholar

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activism she's currently undertaking PhD

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action research in history at the UN

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University of Chichester on the history

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of the UK contingent and the

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international social movement for

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African reparations isma based in the UK

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which recovers the history of African

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and African diaspora reparations store

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advocacy and other forms of activism in

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the UK from 1700 to the present day

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ladies and Gentlemen please welcome

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Esther

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[Music]

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San greetings all and thank you for

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inviting me to share a few words by way

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of a message in terms of your bid to be

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mayor of London well if you do become

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mayor of London you've already made a

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particular pledge that you will

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establish a museum for the slave trade

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as you tweeted as a down payment on

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reparations due so I'll use that tweet

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to introduce what it is that I'm going

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to be sharing um well I'm a reparation

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and basically that means a reparations

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activist and campaigner and many people

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have mistaken view about what

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reparations is about it essentially

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means all the efforts we make all the

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measures we need to adopt and engag in

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to repair the

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injustices and Legacies of enslavement

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and colonization and neoc colonization

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as they are impacting on the descendants

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of oppressed peoples today and in

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particular I'm speaking as a member of

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the African Heritage Community who is

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seeking National self-determination here

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in Britain and also as a key member of

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the isar which is the international

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social movement for African reparations

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on Saturday just passed throughout

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London we had a March from Windler

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Square in bricksville to the houses of

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Parliament and we had this march on the

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1st of August which is Iman ation day

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it's commemorated as emancipation day in

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the British colonized or former

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colonized Caribbean and other former

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colonies of Britain in Africa now this

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date commemorates the day

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supposedly when enslaved peoples in the

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Caribbean in the Americas and in Africa

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were

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emancipated and uh a piece of

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legislation was passed the abolition of

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slavery act in the British houses of

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Parliament but some of you may have seen

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a program a series of programs that was

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on BBC to recently Britain's forgotten

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slave owners and it talks about on the

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abolition of enslavement that rather

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than the ins slaved who had been

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deprived not only of our wealth and our

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labor but our sovereignty our humanity

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and an attempt to Denice our dignity it

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wasn't them that were compensated on

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So-Cal abolition it was the enslavers

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and that money went into building up

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Britain and in fact London as well and

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so even the uh beneficiaries of some of

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that money are found in officers such as

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even the prime minister of this country

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whose family received compensation for

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uh loss of human chattle in the enslave

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that really introduces the context to

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what the reparations movement means for

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all of us in London and not for the

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people of African descent this is a

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movement that is really seeking to

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educate The Wider population as well as

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to what reparations are about why there

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is a need for reparations and how we as

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African peoples are articulating the

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goals of the reparations movement and so

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we recognize the United Nations

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framework on a right to a remedy and

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reparations which recognizes that

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reparations includes five main measures

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restitution

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Rehabilitation compensation satisfaction

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and guarantees of

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non-repetition what the March that we

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had on Saturday demonstrates and in fact

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George was on the March uh is that there

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is an independently organizing emerging

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self-determined African Heritage

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Community that speaks for itself has its

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own leaders has its own structures and

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it's these structures that we need you

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to recognize whilst You are bidding to

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become the mayor and especially if you

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are successful why this is important is

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because for a long time we have been

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misrepresented we've had black officials

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elected who have often been selected and

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chosen for us and we're told that they

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are our leaders what we have now and

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this March demonstrates is that people

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from the African Heritage Community are

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organizing to assert our own voice

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around the very issues that many of us

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in this room will be concerned about

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austerity is a key issue but for us

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austerity is centuries old it's not a

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new thing and we've never ever recovered

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from that the migrant crisis that we

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here talking about why is it many of our

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brothers and sisters from our motherland

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our continent of Africa are literally

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dying to come to Europe it is because of

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the ongoing effect of enslavement and

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colonialism as they are impacting and

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whereby our countries are becoming

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unviable and states unviable and that's

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having a KnockOn effect in terms of us

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here in Europe so for those of us in

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London we have to recognize London being

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a financial center and capital and also

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Al the fact that many of us of African

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Heritage are part of this community that

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is global that is now relinking again

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and asserting ourselves as a people so

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00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:45,559
some of the key demands that we would

551
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:48,360
really have is that you first engage

552
00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:50,760
with our autonomous structures that are

553
00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:53,159
actually about building African agency

554
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:56,000
and autonomy around the political

555
00:22:53,159 --> 00:22:58,000
direction that we see one such emerging

556
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,039
structure is the global African people's

557
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,159
Parliament

558
00:22:59,039 --> 00:23:03,960
we do not Proclaim to represent all

559
00:23:01,159 --> 00:23:07,000
African people but a specific group of

560
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:10,039
us who are saying that we are actually

561
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:13,679
need to assert ourselves as a community

562
00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:15,720
that is Seeking a form of uh autonomy

563
00:23:13,679 --> 00:23:18,640
cultural and political autonomy in

564
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:21,080
Britain we're not talking about uh uh

565
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:23,760
you know in terms of land because we

566
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:26,360
connect to our mother land but certainly

567
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:29,200
in terms of the institutions that we

568
00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:32,520
require in order to repair heal and

569
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:34,480
restore ourselves and Tackle many of the

570
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:38,440
maladies and injustices that we're

571
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:40,039
facing today such as arobic racism and

572
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,840
other forms of

573
00:23:40,039 --> 00:23:45,480
discrimination another key area that I

574
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:48,400
think would be important uh that we

575
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:52,279
would have your support on is uh

576
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:55,600
pledging your cause and pledging support

577
00:23:52,279 --> 00:23:58,039
to the petition and the campaign that we

578
00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,559
used as a mobilizing tool for the 1 of

579
00:23:58,039 --> 00:24:04,320
August March and that is to stop the

580
00:24:00,559 --> 00:24:07,559
mangi we charge genocide ecocide

581
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:10,840
petition what we were doing is we were

582
00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:14,679
saying to the British State uh by way of

583
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:17,960
the petition that we are uh requesting

584
00:24:14,679 --> 00:24:21,840
of this current government to cease and

585
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:24,679
desist from their acts in complicity in

586
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:27,640
actually continuing the mangamy and

587
00:24:24,679 --> 00:24:31,600
mangi is a term that we use it's a key

588
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:35,520
swah term ter that means African Hela of

589
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:38,399
chattle colonial and neocolonial HS of

590
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:41,159
enslavement so the um it's important for

591
00:24:38,399 --> 00:24:43,000
you to support that the third one and

592
00:24:41,159 --> 00:24:45,720
you could sign our petition the third

593
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:48,720
one is that we are very much interested

594
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,679
in decolonization in Britain and in that

595
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,840
regard we are very much in support of

596
00:24:50,679 --> 00:24:56,799
the emerging nationalist strug struggles

597
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:59,440
of the Scots and the Irish the Welsh as

598
00:24:56,799 --> 00:25:02,159
well where we can find common cause we

599
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:04,520
would also ask you to support uh

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00:25:02,159 --> 00:25:07,200
national mangamia awareness month which

601
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,760
is the month of August and to give

602
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:12,880
recognition to our first of August uh

603
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:15,520
emancipation day March uh so those are

604
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:18,159
the key points that I think as an

605
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,919
African Heritage Community we would be

606
00:25:18,159 --> 00:25:23,919
looking for your support and we would

607
00:25:20,919 --> 00:25:27,480
want to have a dialogue actually about

608
00:25:23,919 --> 00:25:31,080
how best you if you were to become may

609
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:34,600
could engage in actions uh that would be

610
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:36,679
repated so we are not really keen on a

611
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,279
museum of the slave trade because that's

612
00:25:36,679 --> 00:25:42,200
not really what we want to show and so

613
00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:44,679
we recognize the initiative however and

614
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:47,480
we invite you to continue that dialogue

615
00:25:44,679 --> 00:25:50,760
with us around what measures would be

616
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:54,000
right for our community as well and we

617
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:56,799
finally we would ask you to support our

618
00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,000
campaign to set up an all party

619
00:25:56,799 --> 00:26:03,240
parliamentary Commission of inquiry for

620
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:06,080
truth and reparatory Justice which would

621
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:08,520
be a way of also involving the wider

622
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:11,399
British public in the dialogue on

623
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,399
discourse and information around the

624
00:26:11,399 --> 00:26:15,440
legacies of enslavement and how it's

625
00:26:13,399 --> 00:26:17,679
impacting on African Heritage

626
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:20,600
communities and all communities in

627
00:26:17,679 --> 00:26:20,600
London thank

628
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,000
you thank you very much Esther I think

629
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,360
uh in a week uh when the Prime Minister

630
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,559
actually described migrants as a swarm

631
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:37,559
coming into invade Britain I think it

632
00:26:35,559 --> 00:26:39,640
shows that your points are still very

633
00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:41,960
pertinent there's very much there's a

634
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,440
lot still to do when it comes to racial

635
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,520
relations in this country um our next

636
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,000
speaker see I don't think needs any

637
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,520
introduction he's he's our next mayor of

638
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:54,080
London basically ladies and gentlemen

639
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,080
George Galloway thank

640
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,960
you

641
00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:06,640
Brothers brothers and sisters comrades

642
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:09,279
and friends thank you uh for that

643
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:12,440
welcome thank you for coming on this

644
00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:16,279
very warm evening

645
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:19,760
indoors and thank you haa as a very

646
00:27:16,279 --> 00:27:24,760
powerful and high achieving woman

647
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:28,760
yourself for assembling this platform of

648
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:31,279
powerful and high achieving women

649
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:35,600
uh I feel like a

650
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:38,000
minority uh in many respects uh on this

651
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:42,120
platform this evening I was explaining

652
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:45,919
to my sisters uh on the platform that

653
00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:49,760
when I went to the reparations March uh

654
00:27:45,919 --> 00:27:54,120
on Saturday I felt like a minority uh

655
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:58,279
just like they feel uh like a minority

656
00:27:54,120 --> 00:28:04,640
most of the political events that they

657
00:27:58,279 --> 00:28:07,519
attend it's good for me to be uh in this

658
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:12,000
situation I uh I'm

659
00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:15,279
self-evidently not a woman neither am I

660
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:17,320
black neither African nor Asian though

661
00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:21,000
the voice

662
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:25,399
newspaper 3 years ago elected me

663
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:28,159
appointed me as the best black leader in

664
00:28:25,399 --> 00:28:31,799
Britain an Accolade of which I'm

665
00:28:28,159 --> 00:28:34,840
extremely proud I was in fact in uh

666
00:28:31,799 --> 00:28:38,240
Indonesia about to be married when I got

667
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:41,039
the Google alert uh about that I was

668
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:44,360
very uh proud of it though it was

669
00:28:41,039 --> 00:28:48,039
probably as much to do uh with people's

670
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:51,200
attitude to some of the so-called black

671
00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:56,399
leadership that uh I was up against in

672
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:58,640
the poll about whom one of whom at least

673
00:28:56,399 --> 00:29:02,200
more later

674
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:06,440
um and I was described in Glasgow by a

675
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:09,880
Pakistani comrade of mine

676
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:11,840
thus George is a white man but he's got

677
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:15,039
a black

678
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:18,760
heart I think I know what he

679
00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:21,919
meant and the best I can

680
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:26,039
claim as a

681
00:29:21,919 --> 00:29:30,279
Scottish Catholic of Irish extraction

682
00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:33,519
growing up in Scotland uh I have faced

683
00:29:30,279 --> 00:29:35,480
as that Community has faced to some

684
00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:38,240
extent still

685
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:42,799
faces bigotry and

686
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:46,120
discrimination in jobs and in many other

687
00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:50,279
respects but my main reason for the

688
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:53,200
politics I have that brings me into the

689
00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:56,200
closest possible contact with the

690
00:29:53,200 --> 00:30:00,840
political forces represented here on the

691
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:03,559
platform is that as someone of Irish

692
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,559
immigrant background I really really

693
00:30:03,559 --> 00:30:08,480
hate

694
00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:11,559
colonialism I really really hate

695
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:15,120
Empire when I came home and told my

696
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:16,960
Irish grandfather when I was at school

697
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,480
that the teacher had said that Britain

698
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:23,600
had an Empire so vast that upon it the

699
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:26,240
Sun never set he answered that's because

700
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:32,279
God would never trust the British in the

701
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:35,480
dark and I never had cause to doubt that

702
00:30:32,279 --> 00:30:38,519
neither then or

703
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:41,679
since so because I hate

704
00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:45,279
colonialism because I hate

705
00:30:41,679 --> 00:30:48,240
supremacism because I hate the idea that

706
00:30:45,279 --> 00:30:52,320
any person or group of persons can

707
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:55,240
consider themselves Superior to others

708
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:58,240
and thus entitled to travel to their

709
00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:01,760
countries kill them and steal their

710
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:05,960
things that brings me into the closest

711
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:09,480
possible connection with the people here

712
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:11,440
gathered in Tottenham this evening of

713
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:14,399
all colors and

714
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:19,440
backgrounds and I think that in a

715
00:31:14,399 --> 00:31:23,240
political life now of more than 40 years

716
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:26,000
I can say without fear or favor that of

717
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:29,159
all the candidates running for mayor of

718
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:32,600
London I'm the one that has for

719
00:31:29,159 --> 00:31:36,960
colonialism racism which of course is

720
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:39,919
the foundation of colonialism more than

721
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:44,000
any other certainly more

722
00:31:39,919 --> 00:31:46,720
than the likely successful

723
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:50,279
candidates I mean no disrespect at least

724
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:53,080
not in this regard to the others who are

725
00:31:50,279 --> 00:31:54,760
running but my opponents are virtually

726
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:58,360
certain to

727
00:31:54,760 --> 00:32:00,320
be Dame Tessa jel

728
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,159
standing for

729
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,559
labor a

730
00:32:02,159 --> 00:32:08,919
blairite who said that she would throw

731
00:32:04,559 --> 00:32:08,919
herself under a bus for Tony

732
00:32:09,919 --> 00:32:15,720
Blair as as

733
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:18,200
uh as K Livingston pointed out to me

734
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,159
well we've introduced a lot of new buses

735
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,720
in

736
00:32:19,159 --> 00:32:22,600
London and I have been since Christmas

737
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,080
Eve

738
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,960
1973 a member of the transport and

739
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,799
general workers union now unite and

740
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:32,679
they've got a lot of members over there

741
00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:38,000
with brand new buses so Tessa are still

742
00:32:32,679 --> 00:32:42,960
time a supporter of War a protier for

743
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:46,039
War as the labor candidate imagine

744
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:49,559
imagine and my likely conservative

745
00:32:46,039 --> 00:32:51,440
opponent the richest man ever to run for

746
00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:54,679
political office in the whole history of

747
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:56,840
this country and that's saying something

748
00:32:54,679 --> 00:33:00,480
Zack

749
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:02,880
Goldsmith these are my two principal

750
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:05,159
opponents almost certainly according to

751
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,760
all the pundits all the polls and all

752
00:33:05,159 --> 00:33:08,080
the

753
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,120
bookmakers the latter point being the

754
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,799
most important

755
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:15,240
one so in a

756
00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:19,080
race a three horse

757
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:20,399
race between me Dame Tessa and

758
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,919
billionaire

759
00:33:20,399 --> 00:33:27,799
Zach I think my position is a fairly

760
00:33:23,919 --> 00:33:31,200
clear one and people have a fairly clear

761
00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:34,720
choice to make now a lot of people

762
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:37,760
criticized me and Esther just did from a

763
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:41,639
different standpoint for the statement I

764
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:45,720
made on Saturday at WRA Square via

765
00:33:41,639 --> 00:33:49,120
Twitter that I felt there should be a

766
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:52,880
museum of the slave trade here in London

767
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:55,159
a lot of white people said why should

768
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:59,919
people who didn't commit

769
00:33:55,159 --> 00:34:03,320
crimes pay money to people who didn't

770
00:33:59,919 --> 00:34:06,519
suffer them well that's wrong on all

771
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:09,560
counts of course Esther I'm ready for

772
00:34:06,519 --> 00:34:13,079
dialogue and if there is no

773
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:17,320
appetite for the museum I had in mind as

774
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:20,760
a down payment of reparations due of

775
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:24,520
course I'm ready to look at that

776
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:26,440
again but here's how the idea came to

777
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:29,359
me quite

778
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:32,280
rightly AB absolutely

779
00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:36,040
rightly in many parts of the

780
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:40,320
world there are museums to the

781
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:44,960
Holocaust to which all visitors are

782
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:48,119
taken to which due reverence is paid no

783
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,079
wonder one of the greatest crimes in

784
00:34:48,119 --> 00:34:51,760
human

785
00:34:49,079 --> 00:34:53,599
history in which millions of

786
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,320
people

787
00:34:53,599 --> 00:35:02,040
perished in a

788
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:06,760
genocidal fash fist exter

789
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:08,760
policy so why not a museum to the slave

790
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:14,520
trade which of

791
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:17,920
course itself arguably is an even bigger

792
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:20,040
crime certainly one that lasted far

793
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,680
longer and

794
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:24,119
affected

795
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,240
affected even more

796
00:35:24,119 --> 00:35:28,560
people the

797
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:31,640
genocide of the

798
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:35,359
Holocaust of the 1930s and

799
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:40,880
40s is rightly

800
00:35:35,359 --> 00:35:43,200
elevated to a very high level of public

801
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:46,560
Consciousness and the museums to the

802
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:49,000
Holocaust are an important part of

803
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:51,280
developing that

804
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,960
Consciousness but there is no such

805
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:59,359
Museum in

806
00:35:52,960 --> 00:36:02,200
Britain to the Holocaust of slavery

807
00:35:59,359 --> 00:36:03,800
and I feel that there should be I feel

808
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,599
that school children from all over

809
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:10,400
Britain should be brought to London to

810
00:36:06,599 --> 00:36:13,000
visit a museum which tells them that it

811
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,599
isn't true that you didn't

812
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,599
benefit from

813
00:36:15,599 --> 00:36:22,400
slavery the wealth of this

814
00:36:18,599 --> 00:36:24,440
country in Glasgow in Bristol and most

815
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:29,560
importantly in

816
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,560
London was profoundly

817
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:36,680
developed because of the slave trade and

818
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:40,520
you need to know it you need to know all

819
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:45,160
of us who are not the

820
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:49,880
children of the slaves need to know that

821
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:53,800
we did benefit of course my grandparents

822
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,800
didn't benefit as much as David

823
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:58,240
Camerons but it isn't true that we

824
00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:01,680
didn't benefit

825
00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:04,240
because the national wealth of

826
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,760
Britain is

827
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:07,800
profoundly

828
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:12,560
built on a

829
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:16,240
trade which involved white people going

830
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:19,560
to countries full of black people and

831
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:24,160
literally stealing not just their things

832
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:28,200
but the people themselves chaining them

833
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,880
in the HS of ships sailing them across

834
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:34,400
the

835
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:38,319
seas and putting them to work in the

836
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:40,640
fields as human beasts of

837
00:37:38,319 --> 00:37:42,720
burden and I

838
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:47,359
saw the

839
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:49,800
documentaries to which Esther has

840
00:37:47,359 --> 00:37:50,880
referred and I I've got to tell you even

841
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,880
for

842
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:56,200
me it came as a

843
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:58,480
shock the

844
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:02,960
systemization the

845
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:06,480
Le I have X number of cows I have X

846
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:08,960
number of sheep I have X number of pigs

847
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:12,480
and I have X number of

848
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:16,200
slaves and the depreciation of the

849
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:18,119
slaves is clearly marked the arithmetic

850
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:21,880
is

851
00:38:18,119 --> 00:38:25,319
there so and so the slave is been with

852
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:27,760
me for X years he has no

853
00:38:25,319 --> 00:38:30,079
children he's getting on he's got a bit

854
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,400
of arthritis

855
00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:34,920
therefore we'll mark them

856
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:39,040
down in terms of

857
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:42,800
asset to such and such a

858
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:46,400
price and the point is as Esther said

859
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:47,839
when this Abomination was abolished the

860
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,319
people who were

861
00:38:47,839 --> 00:38:51,800
compensated were not the slaves but the

862
00:38:50,319 --> 00:38:56,200
slave

863
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:58,640
owners the slave owners were

864
00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:01,440
compensated for for giving

865
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:04,200
up an

866
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:06,520
abominable

867
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:11,280
satanic

868
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:12,880
practice of enslaving other human

869
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:15,240
beings

870
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:20,040
unashamedly unembarrassed

871
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:24,839
well I'm ashamed even though I was not

872
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:28,240
there and had no slaves I'm ashamed and

873
00:39:24,839 --> 00:39:30,640
I believe our country has to make

874
00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:33,240
reparation not to the slave owners in

875
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:37,000
fact let's take it back from the slave

876
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:40,880
owners and give it to the children of

877
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:44,160
the slaves of course how this reparation

878
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:46,760
is arranged to whom it is paid what is

879
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:49,599
the Quantum are all

880
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,760
matters Way Beyond the powers of the

881
00:39:49,599 --> 00:39:54,200
mayor of

882
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:58,319
London but one of the most important

883
00:39:54,200 --> 00:40:00,920
powers of the mayor of London especially

884
00:39:58,319 --> 00:40:04,400
mean is that it is a

885
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:08,079
Pulpit it is a Pulpit to send messages

886
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:10,560
to London to Britain and to the world

887
00:40:08,079 --> 00:40:14,319
and I believe that that's a message that

888
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,319
needs to be

889
00:40:14,599 --> 00:40:20,000
sent

890
00:40:16,839 --> 00:40:25,160
zeta's powerful

891
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,160
description of what Britain is today

892
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:33,400
like is a applicable of course as she

893
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:33,400
herself said to all

894
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:39,720
communities my friends are here from

895
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:41,480
Bradford I until you take a walk on the

896
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:45,119
Mean Streets of Bradford where

897
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:46,599
unemployment is 50% where unemployment

898
00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:50,680
amongst young

899
00:40:46,599 --> 00:40:50,680
people is the absolute

900
00:40:50,839 --> 00:40:56,240
Norm where chicken and chips is $199

901
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:59,839
plus a can of

902
00:40:56,240 --> 00:41:03,800
Coke where the only

903
00:40:59,839 --> 00:41:03,800
economy in many of the

904
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:12,160
worlds is not an economy we would like

905
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:14,400
to highlight or

906
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,640
illuminate but it's the

907
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:20,440
same in Clyde

908
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:24,960
Bank where all the people are

909
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:26,319
white it's the same on the Walworth Road

910
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,880
I don't know if you saw the evening

911
00:41:26,319 --> 00:41:32,240
standard yesterday about the 10 worst

912
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:34,280
places to live in Britain nine of them

913
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:36,839
are in

914
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,680
London one of the reasons Esther why I

915
00:41:36,839 --> 00:41:39,960
can't go with you down the path of

916
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,760
Scottish

917
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:46,880
nationalism if you'll forgive

918
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:50,640
me is the idea that Scotland needs to be

919
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:55,599
free of London like London streets were

920
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:57,760
paved with gold like we were all Zach

921
00:41:55,599 --> 00:42:02,000
goldsmiths actually there are are more

922
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:03,480
poor people within a 5 m radius of the

923
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,680
houses of

924
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:08,079
Parliament than there are in the Hall of

925
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,880
Scotland and in the Hall of Wales and in

926
00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:10,960
the whole of the north of Ireland all

927
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:14,200
put

928
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:16,480
together it is a

929
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,640
liive that

930
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:21,440
londoners are

931
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:26,119
somehow living at

932
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:29,520
large was people in other parts of this

933
00:42:26,119 --> 00:42:33,280
country are suffering as a result we are

934
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:36,880
all suffering nine out of 10 of the

935
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:38,359
worst places to live in Britain our

936
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,599
London

937
00:42:38,359 --> 00:42:43,240
Brothers including this

938
00:42:41,599 --> 00:42:45,839
one

939
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:50,000
so my message

940
00:42:45,839 --> 00:42:51,680
is we need a London for all not just

941
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,000
those dripping in

942
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:57,720
Gold there are

943
00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:01,079
some numerically there are many

944
00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:04,480
as a proportion there are some londoners

945
00:43:01,079 --> 00:43:08,119
living well but most

946
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:13,079
londoners are finding the cost of

947
00:43:08,119 --> 00:43:16,440
housing of transport of living here in

948
00:43:13,079 --> 00:43:18,720
London an increasingly crushing

949
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:22,839
burden so much

950
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:25,839
so that the workers are leaving the

951
00:43:22,839 --> 00:43:30,960
city I meet them all the

952
00:43:25,839 --> 00:43:33,400
time working workers East Enders cocky

953
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:37,079
real londoners whose families have been

954
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:41,160
here for hundreds of years and who now

955
00:43:37,079 --> 00:43:43,359
come in here to visit to walk around the

956
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:45,480
London that they and their families

957
00:43:43,359 --> 00:43:49,960
lived in because they can no longer

958
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:55,079
afford to live here and how could they

959
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:57,760
with the ey watering rats and house

960
00:43:55,079 --> 00:44:01,839
prices that exist here

961
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:04,280
and for a variety of reasons many of

962
00:44:01,839 --> 00:44:05,839
them

963
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,800
illicit

964
00:44:05,839 --> 00:44:11,800
elicit one of the reasons why house

965
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:14,200
prices are as they are is because

966
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:18,599
hundreds of thousands of houses have

967
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:22,119
been built in London not to be lived in

968
00:44:18,599 --> 00:44:25,319
but to be safety deposit

969
00:44:22,119 --> 00:44:29,440
boxes for criminal

970
00:44:25,319 --> 00:44:32,280
money dirty money money of which we are

971
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:36,160
the Dirty Money capital of the world

972
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:39,079
even Cameron and Johnson have now

973
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:42,839
acknowledged it though when I first

974
00:44:39,079 --> 00:44:45,359
alleged it they said it wasn't

975
00:44:42,839 --> 00:44:50,359
true but it is

976
00:44:45,359 --> 00:44:51,960
true houses are bought off the Page by

977
00:44:50,359 --> 00:44:54,480
people in

978
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:58,760
Kazakhstan people in Singapore in

979
00:44:54,480 --> 00:45:01,839
Malaysia in China in Russia and many

980
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:04,920
other places money that they have

981
00:45:01,839 --> 00:45:07,319
literally stolen from their own

982
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:10,760
countries they can't keep it in cash

983
00:45:07,319 --> 00:45:14,640
under the bed cuz the police might find

984
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:18,599
it the price might expose it so what's

985
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:22,119
the best thing to do Buy in

986
00:45:18,599 --> 00:45:25,640
London and that's why one of my most

987
00:45:22,119 --> 00:45:30,440
important pledges is this if I'm the

988
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:33,319
mayor any house in London un lived in

989
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:36,559
for more than one year without

990
00:45:33,319 --> 00:45:39,920
justifiable reason will be compulsorily

991
00:45:36,559 --> 00:45:43,210
purchased by me as the mayor of London

992
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:47,640
and will be L to other

993
00:45:43,210 --> 00:45:50,160
[Applause]

994
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,880
people social hous did you see the

995
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:57,319
diagram again in the evening stand of

996
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:59,200
this week of the building plan around B

997
00:45:57,319 --> 00:46:02,680
SE power

998
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:04,480
station they were

999
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:07,960
obliged

1000
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:10,720
to make some of the houses that they're

1001
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:14,200
building there Malaysian company by the

1002
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:16,040
way they were obliged to include some

1003
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:18,920
affordable housing

1004
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:21,079
though what I've seen of the rents I'm

1005
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:24,720
not sure to whom they would be

1006
00:46:21,079 --> 00:46:27,160
affordable but in any case if you look

1007
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:29,400
at the plan I mean talk about about

1008
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:31,920
being on the wrong side of the

1009
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:34,440
tracks there's the power

1010
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:36,680
station there's all the lovely

1011
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:38,880
facilities there's all the lovely

1012
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:43,440
unaffordable

1013
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:48,760
houses and like a kind of shanty town

1014
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:52,960
attached at the very back are the tiny

1015
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:57,520
7% proportion of soal affordable

1016
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:58,599
houses this under a mayor who promised

1017
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,240
that

1018
00:46:58,599 --> 00:47:04,960
25% of all housing developments in

1019
00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:09,160
London would be affordable

1020
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:13,000
houses it's 7% at the batter SE site

1021
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:15,680
it's 0% in many other

1022
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:21,319
sites well if I'm the

1023
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:24,280
mayor 50% one half of all new build in

1024
00:47:21,319 --> 00:47:26,920
London will be affordable houses and

1025
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,040
affordable housing will be defined not

1026
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:32,559
not as

1027
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:36,359
80% of average rents but as 50% of

1028
00:47:32,559 --> 00:47:40,400
average rents and that's just two of the

1029
00:47:36,359 --> 00:47:43,839
ways that I intend to deal with London's

1030
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,280
housing crisis um it's not just my

1031
00:47:43,839 --> 00:47:46,720
friends who are being told they're out

1032
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,079
of time it's even

1033
00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:52,599
me so I'm going to just deal with one

1034
00:47:49,079 --> 00:47:54,400
other issue and in Q&A perhaps we'll

1035
00:47:52,599 --> 00:47:58,240
develop

1036
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:59,920
more I want to deal with the question

1037
00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:02,200
which is of course

1038
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:05,960
important here in

1039
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:07,880
Tottenham even more than it is

1040
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,760
elsewhere I don't know if the police

1041
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:12,800
have anyone in the

1042
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:16,000
room I see that they're outside and I'm

1043
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:18,040
grateful for it and what I'm about to

1044
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:23,119
say does not

1045
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:25,359
mean that I have any animous at all

1046
00:48:23,119 --> 00:48:28,400
towards the Metropolitan Police I got to

1047
00:48:25,359 --> 00:48:30,839
tell you that in 35 years in London my

1048
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:34,079
experiences with the Metropolitan Police

1049
00:48:30,839 --> 00:48:36,920
have been with one exception absolutely

1050
00:48:34,079 --> 00:48:38,760
first class the one exception being when

1051
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:41,839
a senior commander in the anti-terrorism

1052
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:44,079
squad slept in my bed whilst I was out

1053
00:48:41,839 --> 00:48:47,920
of the country without my knowledge or

1054
00:48:44,079 --> 00:48:50,640
permission but that's another

1055
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:54,520
matter he was in the bed with someone

1056
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:54,520
but not someone in my

1057
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:01,559
family but his DNA is

1058
00:48:58,359 --> 00:49:03,960
there but my

1059
00:49:01,559 --> 00:49:05,119
experience of the Metropolitan Police

1060
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:10,000
has

1061
00:49:05,119 --> 00:49:13,880
been a good one but then I'm

1062
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:19,000
wiped with blue eyes and for most of the

1063
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:22,000
35 years I've been relatively well known

1064
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:24,200
and for almost 30 years of it I've been

1065
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:26,839
a member of parliament so if my

1066
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:28,280
experience with them is not good what

1067
00:49:26,839 --> 00:49:31,640
would the rest of it what would everyone

1068
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:36,559
else's experience be but my point is I

1069
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:40,640
come at this not with any sense of

1070
00:49:36,559 --> 00:49:43,280
animals because we need the

1071
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:44,520
police if we had a pro the reason

1072
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,160
they're here tonight is because some

1073
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:48,799
people threaten us with a problem if we

1074
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:51,640
have a problem we need

1075
00:49:48,799 --> 00:49:53,040
them if our houses God forbid are broken

1076
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,640
into tonight we'll need to call them

1077
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:59,040
there's nobody else to

1078
00:49:55,640 --> 00:50:00,240
call I have no hatred at all for the

1079
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,599
Metropolitan

1080
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:05,119
Police if I'm the mayor I'll be in

1081
00:50:02,599 --> 00:50:06,839
charge of the Metropolitan Police they

1082
00:50:05,119 --> 00:50:09,599
will find

1083
00:50:06,839 --> 00:50:12,119
me in terms of their

1084
00:50:09,599 --> 00:50:14,920
resources in terms of

1085
00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:17,119
their ability to do their

1086
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:21,440
job a

1087
00:50:17,119 --> 00:50:24,559
friend but I cannot tolerate

1088
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,640
racism I'm for the police but I'm

1089
00:50:24,559 --> 00:50:30,079
Against

1090
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:32,599
Racism and the racism that still exists

1091
00:50:30,079 --> 00:50:34,880
in the metropolitan police and indeed we

1092
00:50:32,599 --> 00:50:37,799
discover from a survey this

1093
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:41,400
week even the Dorset

1094
00:50:37,799 --> 00:50:44,799
police in Dorset there are

1095
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,799
2,200 black

1096
00:50:45,079 --> 00:50:53,480
people but those 2,200 black people are

1097
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:55,000
17 times more likely to have been

1098
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:59,400
stopped and

1099
00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:03,160
searched in the last 12 months inors

1100
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:05,200
it so if you're black indors it you

1101
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,559
might as well step out on the street

1102
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:09,079
with your hands

1103
00:51:06,559 --> 00:51:11,599
up you might as well

1104
00:51:09,079 --> 00:51:16,200
say before I go any further do you want

1105
00:51:11,599 --> 00:51:17,920
to stop and search me indors

1106
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:20,599
it

1107
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:23,160
now we cannot have

1108
00:51:20,599 --> 00:51:27,280
this we cannot

1109
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:29,960
have discriminatory policing

1110
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:34,160
we have to police everybody the

1111
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:36,880
same whatever color their skin is

1112
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:39,599
whatever color their color

1113
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:43,640
is because you

1114
00:51:39,599 --> 00:51:46,440
see the biggest criminals in London are

1115
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,960
white people with white colors they're

1116
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:50,839
called

1117
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:53,280
Bankers they're called

1118
00:51:50,839 --> 00:51:57,119
Bankers

1119
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:58,200
they if you want a charge sheet

1120
00:51:57,119 --> 00:52:00,960
well this

1121
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:03,839
one is not just as long as your arm it's

1122
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:09,960
as long as the square mile

1123
00:52:03,839 --> 00:52:11,280
itself one guy went to prison this week

1124
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,599
but he was just a

1125
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:17,160
Trader where us to

1126
00:52:13,599 --> 00:52:22,000
believe that this one guy decided

1127
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:25,480
himself to fix the lior rate

1128
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:28,240
illegally for his own profit and for the

1129
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,520
profit of the bank

1130
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:32,440
but nobody

1131
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:34,559
knew those above him didn't

1132
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:38,440
know they didn't

1133
00:52:34,559 --> 00:52:41,240
realize that their profits were booming

1134
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:43,119
because their staff were

1135
00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:45,760
rigging a

1136
00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:48,480
market well I don't believe

1137
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:51,520
that and we can have a situation where

1138
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:54,400
the banks are too big to fail and the

1139
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:57,760
bankers are too big to

1140
00:52:54,400 --> 00:53:02,000
jail I want to see

1141
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:05,920
the heads of these Banks doing the per

1142
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:08,079
walk I want to see them in

1143
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:11,960
handcuffs because

1144
00:53:08,079 --> 00:53:13,000
until they do the P walk until they're

1145
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:15,720
in the

1146
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:17,960
handcuffs why would they

1147
00:53:15,720 --> 00:53:20,839
stop one

1148
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:25,440
person since

1149
00:53:20,839 --> 00:53:29,880
2008 has gone to jail and that was this

1150
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:31,520
week now as I put it of the city of

1151
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:34,119
London

1152
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:35,880
Police if you pick somebody's pocket in

1153
00:53:34,119 --> 00:53:37,599
Liverpool Street Station you'll be

1154
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:41,640
picked up pretty damn quick and you'll

1155
00:53:37,599 --> 00:53:42,960
be behind bars but if you steal Millions

1156
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:47,040
tens of

1157
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:49,000
millions from the public cuz if the

1158
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:51,480
banks are too big to fail all the theft

1159
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:53,680
is from the public because the public

1160
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:57,559
have to bail out the bank that's been

1161
00:53:53,680 --> 00:54:00,839
destroyed by the thieves yes

1162
00:53:57,559 --> 00:54:04,599
then your chances of going to jail were

1163
00:54:00,839 --> 00:54:07,200
until this week zero and are now

1164
00:54:04,599 --> 00:54:11,480
precisely one

1165
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:15,960
so we can't have policing different in

1166
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:17,680
the W Warth Road on Seven Sisters Road

1167
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:21,760
and in thread needle

1168
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:25,040
Street we can't have response times in

1169
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:28,839
Hamstead through which I've just driven

1170
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:31,559
a very beautiful it is two we can't have

1171
00:54:28,839 --> 00:54:32,359
different response times there than we

1172
00:54:31,559 --> 00:54:35,119
have in

1173
00:54:32,359 --> 00:54:38,559
totam because that's

1174
00:54:35,119 --> 00:54:41,440
discrimination and if it happens I want

1175
00:54:38,559 --> 00:54:44,680
to know from the commissioner who may or

1176
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:48,880
may not still be Mr Hogan

1177
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:50,240
how whoever he or she is they'll have to

1178
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,920
answer to

1179
00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:55,920
me

1180
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:57,280
about racist policing about incompetent

1181
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,640
policing

1182
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:02,680
about discriminatory

1183
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:05,040
policing as I said they can count on me

1184
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:06,000
when it comes to numbers when it comes

1185
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:09,400
to

1186
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:13,119
resources although I'm going to rent out

1187
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:15,480
those water cannon that Boris Johnson

1188
00:55:13,119 --> 00:55:17,400
bought and I'm going to allow those that

1189
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:21,599
rent them out to hunt Boris Johnson up

1190
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:24,520
and down the streets of uh of

1191
00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:27,720
Mayfair and see if they can find him and

1192
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:30,720
try and wash his uh mouth out I should

1193
00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:33,480
stop now because the person who's really

1194
00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:35,520
in charge is indicating ferociously that

1195
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:37,280
I've spoken for too long I'm really

1196
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:39,960
grateful that you all came I'm grateful

1197
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:42,039
to my friends for sharing this platform

1198
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:44,550
and I'm ready to answer any question

1199
00:55:42,039 --> 00:55:50,439
that you have thank you

1200
00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:50,439
[Applause]

1201
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:55,240
very thank you very much George um

1202
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:57,039
before I hand over to the floor uh these

1203
00:55:55,240 --> 00:56:00,599
are a couple of questions that were sent

1204
00:55:57,039 --> 00:56:02,599
to us so from viewers no doubt um so

1205
00:56:00,599 --> 00:56:04,280
this is a good one in light of recent

1206
00:56:02,599 --> 00:56:07,920
events there was a tube strike due to

1207
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:11,280
Boris Johnson uh plan for 24-Hour tubes

1208
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:13,240
how do you plan to deal with this well

1209
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:15,559
as I said I've been a trade unionist

1210
00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:19,640
since Christmas Eve of 1973 that's a

1211
00:56:15,559 --> 00:56:20,559
long time ago I am a part of the Trade

1212
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:24,079
union

1213
00:56:20,559 --> 00:56:25,720
movement I know the trade unions in a

1214
00:56:24,079 --> 00:56:28,760
way that Boris Johnson nor Zack

1215
00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:34,599
Goldsmith more frankly Dame Tess ever

1216
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:37,480
could and I'll be a better person in

1217
00:56:34,599 --> 00:56:39,880
negotiating with them than any of the

1218
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:42,440
others that's not to say everything the

1219
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:44,200
trade unions ask for they'll get how

1220
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:46,640
could that be because the mayor has to

1221
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:48,799
represent everybody not just the

1222
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:54,359
producers but the

1223
00:56:48,799 --> 00:56:57,119
consumers but the crime of Johnson whose

1224
00:56:54,359 --> 00:57:00,640
mayorship is petering out

1225
00:56:57,119 --> 00:57:03,000
in a rather pathetic

1226
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:06,319
disarray is that he made the

1227
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:08,200
announcement about the nighttime TR

1228
00:57:06,319 --> 00:57:12,799
without any consultation with the people

1229
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:15,440
who have to work it now any fool knoweth

1230
00:57:12,799 --> 00:57:17,920
that that's asking for trouble it's

1231
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:21,599
asking for trouble with any Workforce

1232
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:24,160
let alone one that thank God is one of

1233
00:57:21,599 --> 00:57:26,839
the last trade unionized organized

1234
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:30,799
workforces in the country

1235
00:57:26,839 --> 00:57:33,359
which leads me to believe that he did it

1236
00:57:30,799 --> 00:57:36,680
deliberately that he wanted to pick a

1237
00:57:33,359 --> 00:57:41,680
fight with the uh trade

1238
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:43,319
unions because by now he thought he'd be

1239
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:46,720
the leader of the

1240
00:57:43,319 --> 00:57:48,960
opposition the one person even more

1241
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:51,480
unhappy than Ed Miland about the result

1242
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:54,480
of the general election in May was Boris

1243
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:57,760
Johnson who did all of this in order to

1244
00:57:54,480 --> 00:58:00,000
be back in Parliament and in po position

1245
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,480
to be the leader of the conservative

1246
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:04,520
party I'm glad to say all that's in

1247
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:06,920
disarray now so I'm in favor of the

1248
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:09,640
night so is the

1249
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:12,880
rmt so is

1250
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:15,440
a I wonder if they know even what these

1251
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:18,480
initials

1252
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:20,880
mean but there has to be negotiated

1253
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:24,440
everything has to be negotiated and for

1254
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:26,480
many changes in London for example no

1255
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,760
trucks or heavy Vehicles will be allowed

1256
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:30,720
in

1257
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:33,559
London during the night uh during the

1258
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:36,240
day if I'm the mayor they'll all have to

1259
00:58:33,559 --> 00:58:37,960
work and deliver during the night but

1260
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:41,559
that has to be

1261
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:44,359
negotiated because our air pollution our

1262
00:58:41,559 --> 00:58:46,839
road traffic accidents our

1263
00:58:44,359 --> 00:58:49,920
congestion and the number of cyclists

1264
00:58:46,839 --> 00:58:52,480
who are being killed and maed is such

1265
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:56,760
that we can't have trucks and heavy

1266
00:58:52,480 --> 00:59:00,039
vehicles in London during the day

1267
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:03,359
that's my policy but I recognize that I

1268
00:59:00,039 --> 00:59:06,799
will have to negotiate it with those who

1269
00:59:03,359 --> 00:59:08,520
have a stake in that as indeed the

1270
00:59:06,799 --> 00:59:10,599
companies who employ the workers who are

1271
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:13,200
currently driving during the day will

1272
00:59:10,599 --> 00:59:17,400
have to negotiate with their staff about

1273
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:20,920
it everything has to be consulted and

1274
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:23,520
negotiated and I've been Consulting and

1275
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:27,400
negotiating all of my

1276
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:29,559
life and now if anyone a has a question

1277
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:31,960
please be my guest please stand up and

1278
00:59:29,559 --> 00:59:31,960
and give it

1279
00:59:33,319 --> 00:59:37,680
a ask

1280
00:59:38,359 --> 00:59:44,359
mayor as

1281
00:59:41,559 --> 00:59:47,440
May prime minister

1282
00:59:44,359 --> 00:59:48,960
conserv thank you well I'll fight the

1283
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:51,640
conservative prime

1284
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:55,280
minister uh I'll fight

1285
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:56,720
him as much as I can with the powers of

1286
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:59,400
the maril

1287
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:00,960
and I'll fight him with the power that

1288
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:04,319
God gave me in my

1289
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:06,559
voice and I think of all the candidates

1290
01:00:04,319 --> 01:00:10,880
that will be running for this office I

1291
01:00:06,559 --> 01:00:15,319
have the most powerful voice I have the

1292
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:20,000
clearest uh intentions and I have the

1293
01:00:15,319 --> 01:00:22,359
clearest alternative program and if and

1294
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:27,319
as we're in a

1295
01:00:22,359 --> 01:00:29,400
Church Catholic Church at that I pray

1296
01:00:27,319 --> 01:00:32,039
that Jeremy Corbin is elected as the

1297
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,039
labor

1298
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:42,359
leader I'll work with

1299
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:45,160
him he on one side of the river and me

1300
01:00:42,359 --> 01:00:48,920
on the other side of the river we will

1301
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:51,400
try to organize people into Mass

1302
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:53,039
opposition to the crimes of the

1303
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:55,520
conservative prime minister and

1304
01:00:53,039 --> 01:00:58,880
Chancellor one of which was committed

1305
01:00:55,520 --> 01:01:01,559
again this very week1 billion of public

1306
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:04,119
money was stolen from us this week by

1307
01:01:01,559 --> 01:01:06,200
George Osborne for the benefit of the

1308
01:01:04,119 --> 01:01:09,359
hedge funds and the Tory donors in the

1309
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:11,280
city selling our shares in the Royal

1310
01:01:09,359 --> 01:01:15,000
Bank of Scotland at a

1311
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:16,599
loss if if the mayor of this bur did

1312
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:20,160
that he'd be in

1313
01:01:16,599 --> 01:01:24,000
jail if any one of us did that with our

1314
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:26,920
employer resources we'd be in jail

1315
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:31,599
Osborne did it brazenly it's a crime

1316
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:34,520
it's the theft of 1 billion 1.1 billion

1317
01:01:31,599 --> 01:01:34,520
of course he did take

1318
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:40,160
advice from rth

1319
01:01:37,599 --> 01:01:42,440
child they were his

1320
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:44,480
advisers well Zach is married to one of

1321
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:46,640
the Rothchilds he could have given him

1322
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:48,440
the advice for nothing but why get it

1323
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:51,680
for nothing if you can pay big public

1324
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:54,160
money for it Rothchild was paid to

1325
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:58,760
advise the chancellor now's a good time

1326
01:01:54,160 --> 01:02:00,599
to lose 1.1 B million pounds of public

1327
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:03,559
money of course there were other

1328
01:02:00,599 --> 01:02:08,279
advisers not just Roth Jones Goldman

1329
01:02:03,559 --> 01:02:10,920
Sachs also got paid for giving the same

1330
01:02:08,279 --> 01:02:13,279
advice these people are

1331
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:16,319
criminals and if I'm the

1332
01:02:13,279 --> 01:02:19,880
mayor I'll use every breath that God

1333
01:02:16,319 --> 01:02:22,200
gives me to persuade londoners in their

1334
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:25,400
millions of that

1335
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:27,039
fact and if Jeremy is the leader of the

1336
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,720
opposition

1337
01:02:27,039 --> 01:02:31,920
I think we'll have quite a concert party

1338
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:31,920
don't

1339
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:44,720
you the question I

1340
01:02:45,319 --> 01:02:48,200
like are

1341
01:02:46,670 --> 01:02:52,440
[Music]

1342
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:58,279
you the mayor candidate that is pledging

1343
01:02:52,440 --> 01:03:01,599
support to the African Comm course of

1344
01:02:58,279 --> 01:03:06,480
reparations we take it that that is your

1345
01:03:01,599 --> 01:03:08,680
position you and the second uh Point

1346
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:10,920
relating to some of the things you said

1347
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:14,119
is also you will take it by your

1348
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:16,559
position is going to be one of

1349
01:03:14,119 --> 01:03:19,079
dialogue with our communities on each

1350
01:03:16,559 --> 01:03:22,480
and every issue this is

1351
01:03:19,079 --> 01:03:25,559
critical because in relation to the the

1352
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:28,400
issue about the museum it's not that you

1353
01:03:25,559 --> 01:03:31,000
know we are saying that a museum may not

1354
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:33,240
be useful to us but the point about it

1355
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:35,799
is that our communities don't want a

1356
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:38,799
situation where people outside are

1357
01:03:35,799 --> 01:03:40,920
deciding for us what is good for us and

1358
01:03:38,799 --> 01:03:42,960
therefore it has to be a matter of

1359
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:46,240
consultation and this for me also

1360
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:49,039
relates to the issue of Scottish

1361
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:51,839
independence that the right of every

1362
01:03:49,039 --> 01:03:53,920
people to selfdetermination has to be

1363
01:03:51,839 --> 01:03:56,119
respected and it's love how many poor

1364
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:58,559
people are in London and how many poor

1365
01:03:56,119 --> 01:04:01,720
Scotland is about the fact that every

1366
01:03:58,559 --> 01:04:02,760
people must have the right to to

1367
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,960
selfdetermination

1368
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:06,559
including the right to be independent

1369
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:08,720
and if that were to happen from the

1370
01:04:06,559 --> 01:04:10,960
perspective of our African Heritage

1371
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:14,160
communities then the power of the

1372
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:16,400
British Empire that we still feel will

1373
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:19,200
will will begin to be divided and that

1374
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:21,720
that is a critical point for us so so in

1375
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:24,680
all of this it has to be recognized that

1376
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:27,599
every people have their positions and we

1377
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:30,520
should work through

1378
01:04:27,599 --> 01:04:32,480
consensus by dialogue is that your

1379
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:35,240
position well the Scottish people

1380
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:37,039
already have the right of

1381
01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:39,440
self-determination unlike the people of

1382
01:04:37,039 --> 01:04:42,599
the north of Ireland unlike the people

1383
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:44,720
of Palestine unlike many other colonized

1384
01:04:42,599 --> 01:04:46,839
people the Scottish people have the

1385
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:50,160
right of self-determination indeed just

1386
01:04:46,839 --> 01:04:51,960
last September they exercised it the

1387
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:54,960
right of self-determination is the right

1388
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:59,400
to decide whether to be an independent

1389
01:04:54,960 --> 01:05:02,680
state or whether to continue with other

1390
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:05,160
nations in a multinational State and

1391
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:06,480
that's what the Scottish people decided

1392
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:09,640
that's

1393
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:12,200
self-determination now I happen to agree

1394
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:14,680
with the decision that they made last

1395
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:16,920
September but they made it clearly

1396
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:18,279
whether I agree with it or not and with

1397
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:21,119
respect brother whether you agree with

1398
01:05:18,279 --> 01:05:23,520
it or not I can't speak for your people

1399
01:05:21,119 --> 01:05:26,920
you can't speak for mine mine already

1400
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:29,599
spoke they already voted and they voted

1401
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:33,599
no and I think they were right to do so

1402
01:05:29,599 --> 01:05:35,039
precisely because there are more poor

1403
01:05:33,599 --> 01:05:37,640
people in London than there are in

1404
01:05:35,039 --> 01:05:40,160
Scotland that it is a lie that the

1405
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:42,200
reason for poverty in Scotland is

1406
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:43,119
because of the people of England that's

1407
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:46,119
just a

1408
01:05:43,119 --> 01:05:50,000
lie and I'm therefore glad that they

1409
01:05:46,119 --> 01:05:52,200
rejected that lie you're not in first

1410
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:54,559
place to me on hatred of the British

1411
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:57,640
Empire I hope I made that clear in quite

1412
01:05:54,559 --> 01:06:00,400
a long opening

1413
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:05,640
address but I don't believe that the

1414
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:10,799
role of Empire will be weakened by 5

1415
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:15,880
million Scots leaving the British state

1416
01:06:10,799 --> 01:06:17,359
in fact far from being a colony Scotland

1417
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:20,599
was a

1418
01:06:17,359 --> 01:06:22,319
colonizer as anyone from the Empire

1419
01:06:20,599 --> 01:06:27,480
knows the

1420
01:06:22,319 --> 01:06:30,799
Kil the bad pipes and the Scott flag

1421
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:33,920
swirled over every killing field that

1422
01:06:30,799 --> 01:06:38,039
the British Empire was ever involved in

1423
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:39,359
in fact Scotland founded colonies before

1424
01:06:38,039 --> 01:06:42,039
England

1425
01:06:39,359 --> 01:06:45,200
did ala was

1426
01:06:42,039 --> 01:06:49,119
colonized by Scotland 100 years before

1427
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:53,640
the British State even came into

1428
01:06:49,119 --> 01:06:58,039
existence so I hate colonies I hate

1429
01:06:53,640 --> 01:07:01,079
Empire whether Scotland England America

1430
01:06:58,039 --> 01:07:02,839
Britain or any other power is the

1431
01:07:01,079 --> 01:07:07,920
colonizing

1432
01:07:02,839 --> 01:07:11,720
power and so in answer to your first

1433
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:12,920
question as I said in my opening address

1434
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:17,480
I want

1435
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:18,760
dialogue and I'm ready to negotiate this

1436
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:22,319
or any other

1437
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:25,079
matter with the communities

1438
01:07:22,319 --> 01:07:27,720
affected but I must tell you that the

1439
01:07:25,079 --> 01:07:30,119
principle reason for the museum on

1440
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:33,960
slavery is not for

1441
01:07:30,119 --> 01:07:36,839
you it's for people like me it's people

1442
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:39,359
who look like me black people don't need

1443
01:07:36,839 --> 01:07:42,559
to know about slavery they were the

1444
01:07:39,359 --> 01:07:48,000
victims of it it's white people that

1445
01:07:42,559 --> 01:07:51,319
need to make school trips to a m Museum

1446
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:55,000
on slavery because listen I'm a radio

1447
01:07:51,319 --> 01:07:57,119
host for seven years I had a talk show

1448
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:59,880
on Friday and Saturday nights on talk

1449
01:07:57,119 --> 01:08:02,359
sport some of you will have listened and

1450
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:07,960
between you and me next week I'm about

1451
01:08:02,359 --> 01:08:07,960
to start as a radio talk show host

1452
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:15,920
again I've got to tell you n out of 10

1453
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:19,880
white callers on this subject and I've

1454
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:23,480
been raising on the radio for a decade n

1455
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:26,759
out of 10 10 white colors are against my

1456
01:08:23,480 --> 01:08:29,159
policy of reparation which is a support

1457
01:08:26,759 --> 01:08:31,560
to your policy of

1458
01:08:29,159 --> 01:08:34,319
reparation Esther was on my television

1459
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:38,920
show she educated me about the need for

1460
01:08:34,319 --> 01:08:43,480
reparation and how it could take

1461
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:45,560
shape and that's my policy whether 100%

1462
01:08:43,480 --> 01:08:48,199
of all white people are against it or

1463
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:50,679
not as Martin Luther King said some

1464
01:08:48,199 --> 01:08:53,279
people support things because they're

1465
01:08:50,679 --> 01:08:55,960
popular some people support things

1466
01:08:53,279 --> 01:08:58,239
because they're profitable I I support

1467
01:08:55,960 --> 01:09:01,080
things because they're right whether

1468
01:08:58,239 --> 01:09:04,440
they're popular or profitable and I

1469
01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:08,880
support reparations because it's right

1470
01:09:04,440 --> 01:09:13,040
and I'll defend it with my voice with my

1471
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:16,000
pen with my heart anyway and I will be

1472
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:18,920
doing it again from next week on the

1473
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:20,080
radio but don't imagine that it's a

1474
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:23,040
popular

1475
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:25,960
policy it's a very unpopular policy I'm

1476
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:28,679
pledging myself to here one of the

1477
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:29,759
things one of the gifts that God gave me

1478
01:09:28,679 --> 01:09:31,600
is the

1479
01:09:29,759 --> 01:09:34,480
ability

1480
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:36,799
consistently to make things that were

1481
01:09:34,480 --> 01:09:40,199
unpopular

1482
01:09:36,799 --> 01:09:43,799
popular when I started in

1483
01:09:40,199 --> 01:09:45,960
1975 popularizing the Palestinian cause

1484
01:09:43,799 --> 01:09:48,920
in Britain you could have fitted all the

1485
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:50,600
supporters of the PLO in this room just

1486
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:53,960
before we got

1487
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:56,000
arrested but now we are millions and I

1488
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:59,760
played a part in that

1489
01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:01,880
I'm quite good at persuading people and

1490
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:06,280
whether I persuade them or not there's

1491
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:06,280
the flag there's one of the one of the

1492
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:15,600
Milli whether whether I persuade them or

1493
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:19,400
not it won't stop me from saying what I

1494
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:22,280
believe to be right and I hope to do it

1495
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:25,360
as the mayor I'll tell you

1496
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:27,360
frankly if I'm the mayor both of the

1497
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:30,080
these women will be in important

1498
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:33,600
positions in London because we need to

1499
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:36,960
hear from them and they need to educate

1500
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:40,000
us as both of them in their own way for

1501
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:40,000
me already

1502
01:10:40,420 --> 01:10:46,810
[Applause]

1503
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:56,360
have George um I'm also um Catholic of

1504
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:59,280
virs descent um and I'm from tot Bor and

1505
01:10:56,360 --> 01:11:01,800
bra and I just completely overwhelmed

1506
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:04,830
and so proud of the work you do for the

1507
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:07,890
Palestinian um

1508
01:11:04,830 --> 01:11:07,890
[Applause]

1509
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:14,320
calls do you think becoming may can Aid

1510
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:15,679
the cause or would it give you anything

1511
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:17,520
any more leeway to do anything think

1512
01:11:15,679 --> 01:11:19,920
about the pl of the

1513
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:24,040
Palestinians well thank you uh first of

1514
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:26,000
all for uh what you said um I'm not

1515
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:30,679
running for mayor

1516
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:33,920
for the Palestinians I've spent 40 years

1517
01:11:30,679 --> 01:11:36,679
uh in that cause uh I I've done my bit

1518
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:38,679
and I'll continue to do my bit but the

1519
01:11:36,679 --> 01:11:42,040
the mayor of London is not the foreign

1520
01:11:38,679 --> 01:11:45,080
secretary it's not the pop he's not the

1521
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:49,480
Prime Minister he's the mayor of London

1522
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:53,560
and there are very clear limits to their

1523
01:11:49,480 --> 01:11:57,000
uh powers to the powers of the maral so

1524
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:59,679
I will not be

1525
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:03,480
uh trying to make London an Israel free

1526
01:11:59,679 --> 01:12:06,280
zone I will not I will not try to make

1527
01:12:03,480 --> 01:12:10,239
London and Israel free

1528
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:13,320
zone but I will use the pull pit that I

1529
01:12:10,239 --> 01:12:16,120
have as the mayor to speak up for

1530
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:18,239
justice in London in Britain and

1531
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:21,440
everywhere in the world and of course

1532
01:12:18,239 --> 01:12:24,320
the Palestinian cause is a part uh of

1533
01:12:21,440 --> 01:12:26,440
that but everyone will be welcome in

1534
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:31,120
London except

1535
01:12:26,440 --> 01:12:35,000
criminals and the uh communities all the

1536
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:38,560
communities in London uh have an equal

1537
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:41,719
and valid right to be respected and to

1538
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:44,080
be represented uh by the mayor and

1539
01:12:41,719 --> 01:12:47,280
that's what I'll try to do cool thank

1540
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:49,480
[Applause]

1541
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:51,960
you I just like to know throughout the

1542
01:12:49,480 --> 01:12:54,440
80s um many will remember that there was

1543
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:56,600
always always a protest outside South

1544
01:12:54,440 --> 01:12:58,639
Africa sometimes there 100 people

1545
01:12:56,600 --> 01:13:00,480
sometimes there five people uh but what

1546
01:12:58,639 --> 01:13:03,480
it indicated basically is that London

1547
01:13:00,480 --> 01:13:05,760
and its all diversity actually made uh A

1548
01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:07,560
Part South Africa feel unwelcome and I

1549
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:10,440
think that even if George doesn't will

1550
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:12,080
not make London an Israel free zone I

1551
01:13:10,440 --> 01:13:14,000
think londoners who are rejecting

1552
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:17,120
Israeli policies will probably probably

1553
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:20,120
make that felt um uh anyone else please

1554
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:22,199
s you

1555
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:25,639
oh

1556
01:13:22,199 --> 01:13:28,880
um stop in terms of stop and search it

1557
01:13:25,639 --> 01:13:29,960
seems like a lot of police don't seem to

1558
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:32,840
understand the difference between what

1559
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:36,120
is legal and lawful in in in terms of

1560
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:38,120
stuff resarch so maybe um you can get to

1561
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:40,080
a point where you where they can start

1562
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:41,600
to be educated in terms of what that is

1563
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:44,040
because they seem to be taking a lot of

1564
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:47,679
Liberties through their ignorance and

1565
01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:51,600
also that point of um police by consent

1566
01:13:47,679 --> 01:13:55,639
maybe someone can Define that term of

1567
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:57,800
what it really means yeah well the the

1568
01:13:55,639 --> 01:14:00,800
reality is that almost everybody who is

1569
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:02,080
stopped in searge finds it an extremely

1570
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:04,760
negative

1571
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:07,760
experience and that alienates them from

1572
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:11,760
the police which is precisely the

1573
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:14,520
opposite of what a police force in a

1574
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:17,920
democratic country needs to have

1575
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:20,000
happening in a democratic country the

1576
01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:24,320
people need to feel that the police are

1577
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:25,920
for them not an occupation force on them

1578
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:28,440
and every time there is a stop and

1579
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:31,480
search there is a further deepening

1580
01:14:28,440 --> 01:14:35,440
alienation and when it's abundantly

1581
01:14:31,480 --> 01:14:37,199
obvious that discrimination is at play

1582
01:14:35,440 --> 01:14:41,480
that someone like

1583
01:14:37,199 --> 01:14:44,120
me is 17 times less likely to be stopped

1584
01:14:41,480 --> 01:14:47,040
in search than someone who looks like

1585
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:50,800
the brother there or other brothers and

1586
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:52,040
sisters here that's a recipe for trouble

1587
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:54,760
and I can't believe that the

1588
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:56,679
commissioner doesn't know that but if he

1589
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:59,719
does doesn't know it you'll know it

1590
01:14:56,679 --> 01:15:02,440
pretty quickly if I'm the M we have more

1591
01:14:59,719 --> 01:15:05,440
slavery in the world now we've ever had

1592
01:15:02,440 --> 01:15:05,440
plan

1593
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:25,920
one you know they areed and yet they are

1594
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:28,840
the Bigg

1595
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:34,800
slavery from the

1596
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:38,000
this on the issue of the katar royal

1597
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:42,520
family uh they own far more even sir

1598
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:46,360
than you Adam Bri oh they own The Shard

1599
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:47,760
they own the Camden lock Market imagine

1600
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:50,080
though I don't imagine many of them

1601
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:56,400
would ever go

1602
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:59,719
there uh they own 18% of London and

1603
01:15:56,400 --> 01:16:03,920
uh they twoo are welcome their

1604
01:15:59,719 --> 01:16:06,639
investment in London is welcome I can't

1605
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:11,639
tell anybody that they can't come to

1606
01:16:06,639 --> 01:16:14,920
London and buy assets but I can insist

1607
01:16:11,639 --> 01:16:18,480
that those assets are productive and

1608
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:21,080
that they are for the purposes as stated

1609
01:16:18,480 --> 01:16:23,639
so that for example

1610
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:26,120
if the houses that are to be built on

1611
01:16:23,639 --> 01:16:28,800
the Chelsea barracks

1612
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:31,760
are being bought not to be lived in but

1613
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:34,600
merely to appreciate well the same will

1614
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:36,920
go for them I see someone's filming this

1615
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:40,719
maybe they're from the C royal family

1616
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:44,280
let me let me choose my words

1617
01:16:40,719 --> 01:16:46,520
carefully if you're buying multi-million

1618
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:49,120
pound Assets in London and you're not

1619
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:51,800
living in them you're merely buying them

1620
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:55,080
so that the asset will appreciate I will

1621
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:58,000
compulsorily purchase you whether it's

1622
01:16:55,080 --> 01:17:00,639
number one nights Bridge or whether it's

1623
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:03,719
the Chelsea Barracks or whether it's the

1624
01:17:00,639 --> 01:17:07,719
batter sea power station I'll use our

1625
01:17:03,719 --> 01:17:11,960
powers to compulsorily purchase your

1626
01:17:07,719 --> 01:17:15,040
property uh if you do not live in

1627
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:17,159
it the katar royal

1628
01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:21,679
family is

1629
01:17:17,159 --> 01:17:25,440
responsible for slave labor in the

1630
01:17:21,679 --> 01:17:28,000
construction of World Cup facilities

1631
01:17:25,440 --> 01:17:32,000
the only mitigating thing I'd

1632
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:33,120
say is that they are employing less

1633
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:36,040
slave

1634
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:40,120
labor than some of their

1635
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:42,400
neighbors theq royal family is a

1636
01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:44,719
dictatorship the only thing I can see in

1637
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:47,159
mitigation is it's less of a

1638
01:17:44,719 --> 01:17:51,159
dictatorship than some of its

1639
01:17:47,159 --> 01:17:56,840
neighbors I'm against all Kings all

1640
01:17:51,159 --> 01:17:56,840
emirs all dictators in all countries

1641
01:18:43,100 --> 01:18:46,199
[Music]

1642
01:18:55,600 --> 01:19:02,760
I'm right the may as if I know say

1643
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:06,600
yeah and to them getting

1644
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:10,600
jied well uh um first of all I'm very

1645
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:13,000
happy to hear a fellow Scottish uh

1646
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:14,960
accent uh which I could probably place

1647
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:16,960
down to the exact street on the south

1648
01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:20,040
side of

1649
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:24,080
Glasgow I'm joking I'm

1650
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:27,239
joking um I've been way too long to but

1651
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:31,560
I want I want good

1652
01:19:27,239 --> 01:19:33,320
um the last speech I gave in Parliament

1653
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:37,960
as a member of parliament I was a member

1654
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:40,120
for almost 28 years elected six times

1655
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:41,760
the last speech I gave in fact I gave 12

1656
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:46,600
speeches in the same night 12

1657
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:49,400
interventions was on the subject of the

1658
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:52,840
disposal of Transport for London

1659
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:55,800
property at Earl's Court where social

1660
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:59,320
housing was being destroyed in order to

1661
01:19:55,800 --> 01:20:01,199
allow tfl to sell valuable public land

1662
01:19:59,320 --> 01:20:04,239
for private

1663
01:20:01,199 --> 01:20:08,040
development and it's already now

1664
01:20:04,239 --> 01:20:11,800
underway and I'm only too aware that in

1665
01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:15,360
Tottenham and in many other parts uh of

1666
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:17,719
of London this valuable public land

1667
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:20,600
which could and should be used for

1668
01:20:17,719 --> 01:20:23,520
social housing never mind affordable

1669
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:26,320
rents I'm in favor of affordable rents

1670
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:28,600
but I'm more in favor of social Housing

1671
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:30,679
Council housing what's wrong with

1672
01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:35,800
Council

1673
01:20:30,679 --> 01:20:38,520
housing the London B should be freed to

1674
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:40,760
borrow money to build houses for the

1675
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:42,920
people that desperately need them here

1676
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:46,199
that'll put building workers to work

1677
01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:49,040
will provide roofs for people families

1678
01:20:46,199 --> 01:20:52,760
who need them and keep communities that

1679
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:55,679
are here here and not driven ever

1680
01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:57,920
further uh to the edge

1681
01:20:55,679 --> 01:21:03,840
so I don't have

1682
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:04,520
power to force the government to relax

1683
01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:08,280
the

1684
01:21:04,520 --> 01:21:11,719
rules on the borrowers about their

1685
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:15,320
ability to borrow and build but I will

1686
01:21:11,719 --> 01:21:18,360
endlessly prosze I will endlessly I'll

1687
01:21:15,320 --> 01:21:22,120
make the government ministers lives a

1688
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:24,080
misery until that social housing is

1689
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:26,719
being built in London and workingclass

1690
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:29,320
people are being moved back into the

1691
01:21:26,719 --> 01:21:32,080
city instead of out of the city you know

1692
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:36,120
that 30,000 families in London have been

1693
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:38,600
shipped out as far as Stoke by London

1694
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:41,880
bars who can't afford to home to house

1695
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:46,440
them and have given the money to go and

1696
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:49,120
live in Stoke I mean have you seen

1697
01:21:46,440 --> 01:21:52,320
stoke

1698
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:55,560
the the ethnic cleansing or social

1699
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:59,560
cleansing of London is underway

1700
01:21:55,560 --> 01:22:03,280
and we have to reverse it now I lived in

1701
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:05,600
a slum when I was born with an outside

1702
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:08,400
toilet the seat was always warm we

1703
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:11,600
shared it with five other families I

1704
01:22:08,400 --> 01:22:12,719
lived in an attic in fact and when I was

1705
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:17,000
5 years

1706
01:22:12,719 --> 01:22:19,760
old the utterly transformative act took

1707
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:22,560
place the our slum was knocked down and

1708
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:25,719
a brand spanking new Council house with

1709
01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:29,360
an inside toilet and a bath and a Garden

1710
01:22:25,719 --> 01:22:33,040
was provided to us it was utterly

1711
01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:34,719
lifechanging not just for us but for a

1712
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:37,920
whole generation of hundreds of

1713
01:22:34,719 --> 01:22:40,719
thousands of people were involved in the

1714
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:43,159
postwar slum clearance and Council house

1715
01:22:40,719 --> 01:22:46,560
building in Britain what's wrong with

1716
01:22:43,159 --> 01:22:50,719
that why would we not want to do

1717
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:54,199
that even under the touris under H

1718
01:22:50,719 --> 01:22:55,960
McMillan Britain was building 300,000

1719
01:22:54,199 --> 01:22:58,400
count houses a

1720
01:22:55,960 --> 01:23:02,000
year do you know how many Council houses

1721
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:03,840
were built in London last year in the

1722
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:06,440
whole of London a city of 8 million

1723
01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:09,440
people 70

1724
01:23:06,440 --> 01:23:09,440
70

1725
01:23:09,719 --> 01:23:15,520
70 that's that's enough for us here in

1726
01:23:12,480 --> 01:23:20,199
this room in the Hall of London in the

1727
01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:26,040
Hall of last year that's the real

1728
01:23:20,199 --> 01:23:27,760
Scandal I was almost imprisoned in dumi

1729
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:32,280
in

1730
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:34,880
1980 for refusing to allow our Council

1731
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:37,840
in dande to sell Council houses they

1732
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:41,679
sent three High Court judges to hold an

1733
01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:44,800
inquiry on pain of imprisonment of me as

1734
01:23:41,679 --> 01:23:47,040
the labor organizer in the city

1735
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:50,199
forbidding our counselors to sell our

1736
01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:54,199
houses and I said then

1737
01:23:50,199 --> 01:23:58,080
what 35 years later everyone surely must

1738
01:23:54,199 --> 01:24:00,800
AC said that these Council houses are

1739
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:04,520
public property you

1740
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:06,760
cannot cut a price in half and sell it

1741
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:09,159
to an individual who happens to be the

1742
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:11,679
tenant at this particular time

1743
01:24:09,159 --> 01:24:14,800
particularly when you're not going to

1744
01:24:11,679 --> 01:24:17,320
allow the council even to use the money

1745
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:19,639
to build new Council houses to replace

1746
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:22,480
the stock that you're selling off the

1747
01:24:19,639 --> 01:24:25,280
Tories under thater committed many

1748
01:24:22,480 --> 01:24:28,440
crimes but one of the most

1749
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:34,000
significant was the sale of council

1750
01:24:28,440 --> 01:24:38,080
houses it has led to the mass problem of

1751
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:41,040
overcrowding of homelessness of private

1752
01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:44,920
rack renting many of whom are MPS by the

1753
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:47,800
way 25% of Tor MPS are private landlords

1754
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:51,080
no wonder there's so much in favor of

1755
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:53,280
the private rented sector yes we are

1756
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:56,920
spending 20

1757
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:58,600
times the the money on the public

1758
01:24:56,920 --> 01:25:01,880
subsidy of private

1759
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:04,440
landlords through housing benefit than

1760
01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:08,880
we are on building social houses 20

1761
01:25:04,440 --> 01:25:12,080
times in London 20 times more we give to

1762
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:14,280
private landlords than we do on building

1763
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:18,520
social housing that's what needs to

1764
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:21,960
change now the mayor can change that all

1765
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:22,719
of that even any of that on his own or

1766
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:25,400
her

1767
01:25:22,719 --> 01:25:26,440
own but as I hope you're already getting

1768
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:29,800
the

1769
01:25:26,440 --> 01:25:34,159
message I'm quite a good campaigner I'm

1770
01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:36,400
quite a strong voice and me and Jeremy

1771
01:25:34,159 --> 01:25:39,040
Corbin my goodness we'll have them

1772
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:39,040
shaking in their

1773
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:50,840
shoes and that um

1774
01:25:48,239 --> 01:25:53,320
justly I was born

1775
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:56,320
in I was born

1776
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:56,320
in

1777
01:26:04,679 --> 01:26:11,800
and since then just after 2010 I've seen

1778
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:17,320
social and you know

1779
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:25,840
what nurseries areas it's like a two

1780
01:26:22,360 --> 01:26:27,600
tier system open in the capital and the

1781
01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:29,600
rich are getting richer and the poor

1782
01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:31,760
getting poor and it's only a matter of

1783
01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:33,560
time before no more Working Class People

1784
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:36,080
are going to be L and working inside of

1785
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:37,639
London and we need to GP that back and

1786
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:40,320
get it back and get it working again

1787
01:26:37,639 --> 01:26:40,320
London is for

1788
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:49,679
everybody apologize it's the lady before

1789
01:26:53,239 --> 01:27:00,000
you as well just wanted to ask I

1790
01:26:57,320 --> 01:27:03,239
missed what is your

1791
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:06,360
strategy mention

1792
01:27:03,239 --> 01:27:06,360
AAL we

1793
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:14,320
have people education

1794
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:17,320
train do you have a

1795
01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:17,320
particular

1796
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:22,199
forur um and then the last question for

1797
01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:25,520
the

1798
01:27:22,199 --> 01:27:27,320
gentleman um

1799
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:30,199
housing is going to be probably your

1800
01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:32,360
biggest issue yeah and it's continually

1801
01:27:30,199 --> 01:27:34,159
arising and it's what the guy was saying

1802
01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:36,400
about the cleansing what you're saying

1803
01:27:34,159 --> 01:27:40,800
about cleansing

1804
01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:41,840
um L is like it's one private private

1805
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:44,239
sector

1806
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:46,360
rent there's nothing

1807
01:27:44,239 --> 01:27:50,719
else

1808
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:54,960
and social housing is the solution to

1809
01:27:50,719 --> 01:27:58,280
bringing back some kind of legality

1810
01:27:54,960 --> 01:28:01,400
here uh we need Council houses or some

1811
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:05,920
kind of low rent social healthy uh we

1812
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:08,880
also need some kind of uh some kind of

1813
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:10,960
project uh that you have to tell us

1814
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:13,400
exactly how you going to build those

1815
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:19,119
houses what exactly are you going to do

1816
01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:21,960
to create some kind of council housing

1817
01:28:19,119 --> 01:28:24,800
low cost rental project I mean how's it

1818
01:28:21,960 --> 01:28:29,800
going how you going to achieve it

1819
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:33,560
okay and this is this is to me for me

1820
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:38,679
you have any chance of making a against

1821
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:41,679
the OD which up up every

1822
01:28:38,679 --> 01:28:41,679
um

1823
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:51,639
hoping housing issue and if you don't

1824
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:54,760
come up to a ro solid housing proposal

1825
01:28:51,639 --> 01:28:56,320
which you say I'm going to be mayor and

1826
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:59,719
this is what I'm going to

1827
01:28:56,320 --> 01:29:02,719
do and I and this is going to be my

1828
01:28:59,719 --> 01:29:02,719
primary

1829
01:29:03,119 --> 01:29:10,760
uh it's got to be some kind it has to be

1830
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:13,520
some it's got to be in stone basically

1831
01:29:10,760 --> 01:29:17,119
well yeah it won't be in a headstone

1832
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:20,040
like Ed millan's uh headone something

1833
01:29:17,119 --> 01:29:23,159
like that uh but uh I I appreciate what

1834
01:29:20,040 --> 01:29:25,480
you said and the Spirit uh in which you

1835
01:29:23,159 --> 01:29:26,600
offer it unfortunately the mayor can't

1836
01:29:25,480 --> 01:29:30,040
build

1837
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:32,400
houses that power lies with the

1838
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:34,719
BS incidentally I think there's far too

1839
01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:38,040
many burs but that's another matter I'm

1840
01:29:34,719 --> 01:29:40,800
not sure we need 32 burs I'm not sure we

1841
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:44,480
need 32 Chief Executives not sure we

1842
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:48,560
need 32 Council headquarters but that's

1843
01:29:44,480 --> 01:29:51,239
another matter the mayor has the

1844
01:29:48,560 --> 01:29:54,119
power to compulsory

1845
01:29:51,239 --> 01:29:55,719
purchase the mayor has the power to

1846
01:29:54,119 --> 01:29:58,560
Grant planning

1847
01:29:55,719 --> 01:30:01,080
permission all I can do is say to

1848
01:29:58,560 --> 01:30:03,920
developers and I'm saying it now on

1849
01:30:01,080 --> 01:30:05,040
camera don't bother coming to me for

1850
01:30:03,920 --> 01:30:08,360
planning

1851
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:10,960
permission unless 50% of your homes are

1852
01:30:08,360 --> 01:30:13,159
affordable homes you will not be given

1853
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:15,320
permission now they say the rightwing

1854
01:30:13,159 --> 01:30:19,320
say Zach Goldsmith says well the

1855
01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:21,760
developers will simply not build I don't

1856
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:24,840
believe that but if that's the case that

1857
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:28,080
will merely make stronger

1858
01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:31,000
my case your case that actually social

1859
01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:33,800
housing is what's necessary not private

1860
01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:38,480
development even with 50% affordable

1861
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:43,600
homes uh within them all I can do is

1862
01:30:38,480 --> 01:30:46,440
find allies in the Bas on the opposition

1863
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:49,760
benches in the media and amongst the

1864
01:30:46,440 --> 01:30:52,440
public to build an Unstoppable case for

1865
01:30:49,760 --> 01:30:56,760
social housing which is

1866
01:30:52,440 --> 01:31:00,000
underway even Jeremy Corbin's right-wing

1867
01:30:56,760 --> 01:31:02,679
opposition are now saying we need social

1868
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:05,040
housing BS need to be given the power to

1869
01:31:02,679 --> 01:31:06,679
borrow to build social housing well

1870
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:09,199
they'll need to say it a bit

1871
01:31:06,679 --> 01:31:11,600
louder and they'll need to do something

1872
01:31:09,199 --> 01:31:13,920
about it but that's what is necessary

1873
01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:18,600
that's the only solution because what

1874
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:20,520
the friend from uh Tyrone pointed out

1875
01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:23,040
very better than I could have expressed

1876
01:31:20,520 --> 01:31:25,360
I'm not going to repeat it it is what I

1877
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:27,920
said earlier but he said it more

1878
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:30,719
succinctly that workingclass people

1879
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:31,880
black and white young and old are being

1880
01:31:30,719 --> 01:31:37,800
driven out of

1881
01:31:31,880 --> 01:31:42,920
London by the scale of house prices and

1882
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:44,280
rents and that equates to Social and

1883
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:47,920
ethnic

1884
01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:51,280
cleansing and the

1885
01:31:47,920 --> 01:31:55,920
gentrification even of to

1886
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:55,920
imagine sorry no disrespect

1887
01:31:56,719 --> 01:32:01,840
yeah the

1888
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:03,119
gentrification of one part of London

1889
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:06,040
after

1890
01:32:03,119 --> 01:32:10,600
another is

1891
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:12,719
actually even robbing those parts of the

1892
01:32:10,600 --> 01:32:16,760
reason why people moved into them in the

1893
01:32:12,719 --> 01:32:20,639
first place my friend there with the

1894
01:32:16,760 --> 01:32:23,080
sling car from Bo used to be a regular

1895
01:32:20,639 --> 01:32:24,960
color on talk sport when I had a show

1896
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:28,159
there was a comrade of mine when I was

1897
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:30,400
the MP there she's one of the main

1898
01:32:28,159 --> 01:32:33,280
campaigners in London for social housing

1899
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:36,040
against the transfer of social housing

1900
01:32:33,280 --> 01:32:38,679
to these so-called arms length

1901
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:42,159
management organizations the Almos and

1902
01:32:38,679 --> 01:32:44,880
the privatization of public housing uh

1903
01:32:42,159 --> 01:32:48,080
stock she's from Tower hamlets she'll

1904
01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:50,800
tell you the reason people wanted to

1905
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:54,560
live in and around Brick

1906
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:56,960
Lane in and around Beth green was

1907
01:32:54,560 --> 01:32:59,800
because of the character of bricklane

1908
01:32:56,960 --> 01:33:02,239
and Beth green but the more you gentrify

1909
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:04,199
it the less of that character it has

1910
01:33:02,239 --> 01:33:06,800
until eventually the only people living

1911
01:33:04,199 --> 01:33:06,800
there are the

1912
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:12,320
Gentry living amongst each

1913
01:33:09,400 --> 01:33:15,760
other and living in what is

1914
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:19,360
effectively a Living Museum and that's

1915
01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:22,560
happened already in Brooklyn and it's

1916
01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:25,560
happening in many other parts of London

1917
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:28,520
so we have to stop it the mayor has

1918
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:31,400
planning Powers strategic planning

1919
01:33:28,520 --> 01:33:34,520
powers and I'll use them and I'll use

1920
01:33:31,400 --> 01:33:36,760
the pullit that the mayor would give me

1921
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:39,040
to try to build the Coalition that is

1922
01:33:36,760 --> 01:33:41,480
necessary to ensure either that this

1923
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:45,320
government or the next one which I hope

1924
01:33:41,480 --> 01:33:50,719
will be led by Jeremy Corbin will

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unleash a wave of social house building

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at least as good as the Tory prime

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minister how MC used to be I mean how

1928
01:33:55,000 --> 01:34:01,560
revolutionary can you get my aspiration

1929
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:04,560
is to build as many Council houses as

1930
01:34:01,560 --> 01:34:06,880
Harold McMillan used to build how's that

1931
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for shrunken

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ambition it's now the most revolutionary

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01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:15,280
demand that you can uh

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make the first of the three questions

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was I've now

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01:34:16,960 --> 01:34:23,880
forgotten you youth so the youth

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01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:27,239
services are being decimated in in

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London and that's before the current

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round of cuts make their way through the

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local Authority system that's just on

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01:34:32,719 --> 01:34:38,199
the cuts already being implemented I

1942
01:34:36,119 --> 01:34:40,560
don't know the situation here in this

1943
01:34:38,199 --> 01:34:43,159
bar but I know it in other parts of the

1944
01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:44,119
country and I know it in East London

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very

1946
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well I'm going to argue that we need to

1947
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restore the EMA that Zeta talked about

1948
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the mayor doesn't have power to restore

1949
01:34:55,440 --> 01:35:03,400
it but the mayor plus the barus plus the

1950
01:35:00,600 --> 01:35:05,960
universities universities have big funds

1951
01:35:03,400 --> 01:35:09,880
for ensuring

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01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:12,440
plurality uh ethnic and class plurality

1953
01:35:09,880 --> 01:35:14,320
well the best way to ensure ethnic and

1954
01:35:12,440 --> 01:35:16,840
class plurality coming through into the

1955
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:18,560
universities is to make sure that kids

1956
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are able to stay on a school in order to

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01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:24,199
go to the university and education

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maintenance allowance is a key part of

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that on that I think I'll have some

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01:35:27,760 --> 01:35:35,560
success I'll encourage the

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BS not to come I mean it's so

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self-evidently

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counterproductive to in a

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recession in periods of Economic

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retrenchment and

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austerity to be turning more and more

1967
01:35:49,679 --> 01:35:55,639
young people out on the street where the

1968
01:35:52,440 --> 01:35:56,880
devil can find work for their Idle Hands

1969
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it's not

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even simple policing and economic

1971
01:36:00,480 --> 01:36:06,320
sense a stitch in time saves nine the

1972
01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:07,800
absence of that Stitch is going to be

1973
01:36:06,320 --> 01:36:10,560
far more

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expensive than the Stitch itself would

1975
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have

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been or you don't need to be Einstein to

1977
01:36:14,080 --> 01:36:20,920
work out that if young people have no

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01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:24,119
proper jobs no proper

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Services no youth facilities knowwhere

1980
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to go then trouble can be the

1981
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:38,000
only logical result so Youth Services is

1982
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the last thing you should be

1983
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:45,159
cutting there is one thing I can do that

1984
01:36:42,159 --> 01:36:47,320
might be able to provide substantial

1985
01:36:45,159 --> 01:36:49,960
resources it's a bit late in the evening

1986
01:36:47,320 --> 01:36:51,400
to go into it in detail now but let me

1987
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:55,080
sketch it

1988
01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:58,560
quickly I'm going to put the 17 billion

1989
01:36:55,080 --> 01:36:59,880
a year mayor's budget onto something

1990
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called the

1991
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blockchain which is the mayor's

1992
01:37:02,159 --> 01:37:07,360
blockchain you can go uh onto the web

1993
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:10,920
and check it

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out what that means essentially is that

1995
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that 17 billion will be available in

1996
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real time to anyone who wishes to

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observe

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it that's is to say if I take Zeta and

1999
01:37:22,159 --> 01:37:28,159
Esther which I want out three times a

2000
01:37:25,400 --> 01:37:30,719
week for a Chinese

2001
01:37:28,159 --> 01:37:32,239
Takeaway to thank them for the advice

2002
01:37:30,719 --> 01:37:36,159
that they're giving me you'll know about

2003
01:37:32,239 --> 01:37:37,480
it just as soon as my card has cleared

2004
01:37:36,159 --> 01:37:40,040
in the Chinese

2005
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Takeaway and you'll be able to say in

2006
01:37:40,040 --> 01:37:45,400
real time that's the third time this

2007
01:37:42,199 --> 01:37:47,719
week you've taken that a Chinese takeway

2008
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is it not about Time youed Restaurant

2009
01:37:47,719 --> 01:37:56,080
not about TR to somewhere

2010
01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:57,880
better but serious L that

2011
01:37:56,080 --> 01:38:01,040
system will

2012
01:37:57,880 --> 01:38:02,719
be transparent to you on much more

2013
01:38:01,040 --> 01:38:06,280
important things than Chinese Takeaway

2014
01:38:02,719 --> 01:38:09,719
bills you'll be able to see who I'm

2015
01:38:06,280 --> 01:38:11,159
spending millions of pounds with and

2016
01:38:09,719 --> 01:38:12,960
you'll be able to say why are you

2017
01:38:11,159 --> 01:38:15,159
spending that millions of pounds with

2018
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:19,280
them you'd get far better value for

2019
01:38:15,159 --> 01:38:22,000
money with them I'm suspicious of that

2020
01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:24,639
transaction why did you make it we'll

2021
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:28,679
have an entire unit responding to the

2022
01:38:24,639 --> 01:38:30,159
public daily hourly in fact I think it's

2023
01:38:28,679 --> 01:38:32,639
I think it's refreshed every three

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01:38:30,159 --> 01:38:36,880
minutes three

2025
01:38:32,639 --> 01:38:39,880
minutes you'll be able to transparently

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01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:43,800
observe exactly how that 17 billion

2027
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:47,119
budget is spent and it's our estimation

2028
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:49,280
based on excellent young people in the

2029
01:38:47,119 --> 01:38:52,719
financial technology sector which we

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01:38:49,280 --> 01:38:53,960
have uh around in sh ditch and elsewhere

2031
01:38:52,719 --> 01:38:56,080
in London

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who are developing this for

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01:38:56,080 --> 01:39:02,159
me we think we'll

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01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:06,040
save almost 1 billion pounds a year from

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01:39:02,159 --> 01:39:09,480
that blockchain technology through

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01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:13,040
public scrutiny and suggestion at least

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01:39:09,480 --> 01:39:16,719
900 million we think we will save and

2038
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we'll put that 900 million to use

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01:39:16,719 --> 01:39:25,440
principally for services towards young

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01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:25,440
people that's it thank you very much