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I'm George Gallery and I'm running for

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mayor of London

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2016 but I'm recording this message to

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my friends in the

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upd whose demonstration today I'd very

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much like to have been on but

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unfortunately clashes with the making of

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not one not two but three television

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programs to cover my Christmas and New

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Year uh RT Sputnik uh program so I can't

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be with you and I can't make a very long

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film because well that will try the

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patience of the many of you that I hope

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have turned up for the demonstration

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today I want to say that I'm entirely on

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the side of those who drive for a living

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I don't myself drive for a living but I

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do a lot of driving and I have done in

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London for well over 30 years and I'm

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well aware of the pressures of

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congestion and the pressures of unfair

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competition that are afflicting the

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lives and driving down the wages and the

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living standards of members of your

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union I understand that up to 30 drivers

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a day are joining the union and I hope

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that that continues and if there's

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anything I can do to help that happen uh

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you only have to ask me now the mayor of

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London has a lot of power in the

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transport field and I'm going to make

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very very significant changes to how

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things are organized if I become the

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mayor next me first of all a very large

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number of the six figure earning top

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Wallas at tfl are going to have to get

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on their bikes luckily there's a lot of

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new cycle highways they're going to have

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to get on their bikes and look for other

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jobs because I believe that tfl is not

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only incompetent but is arguably corrupt

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in the way that it has organized

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transport in London over these last

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years I'm going to be investigating the

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activities of Transport for London very

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very closely indeed and with a very

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sharp microscopic eye so the first thing

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that's going to happen is that a lot of

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tfl top uh top wellers are going to be

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on their bikes the second thing that's

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going to happen is the Uber with I

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believe tfl and the tourist are in a

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corrupt relationship will also be told

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to get out of town now that might not be

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something I can achieve overnight and

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while I'm trying to do it I'll certainly

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be fighting for the rights of the

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workers the drivers that work for Uber

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because I'm with the workers whoever

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their employer is but Uber is a dagger

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at heart not just of the London taxi

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trade the Black Cab trade it's a dagger

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at the heart of properly organized

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regulator private hire taxi firms also

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because Uber makes everybody anybody a

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driver anyone with an app can be a

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driver wherever they came from whenever

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they came they might not know even their

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own Street in London and we know nothing

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of their character we know nothing of

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their criminal record we know nothing

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about their insurance we know nothing

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about the state of their vehicle and

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that's simply unacceptable so I'm with

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the alliance between the black cabs and

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the private har firms in repelling Uber

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from London and I'm going to use my

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determination and all the brains that I

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can hire in a new tfl

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that about now of course we have far too

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many cars on the streets of tfl have

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proliferated the number of Uber drivers

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by something like

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90,000 over the last couple of years

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this is potentially disastrous for the

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lives for the lungs for the limbs of

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londoners but also for those legitimate

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drivers and legitimate companies who

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trying to earn a living and wages have

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fallen by something like 40% since uba

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arrived in to there's much much else

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that I could say but this video is

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already getting very long it's time that

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you and I had a meeting to discuss these

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things in more detail uh and I'm sure

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that we'll try to do that before the

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election of course I'm looking for your

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support in me because if Tweedle D or

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Tweedle dump get the job don't expect

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anything to change if you want change

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you have to choose it you have to vote

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for it so I'm for a London for all not

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just those dripping in Gold not just

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those who are dripping gold into the

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coffers of our main political parties

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I'm a real

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independent years top in British

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politics A Member of Parliament trust me

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I say what I mean and I mean what I say

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I say I'm with you and I wish you every

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success in today's demonstration thanks

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very much indeed