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Shalom to the Muslims busily preparing

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for Ramadan in a couple of days asalamu

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alayum to everyone a big welcome to the

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first in what will be I think hundreds

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and I mean that over the next 11 months

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hundreds of events like this all over

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this great city of

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London I was an animal welfare event in

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nw10 this

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afternoon it was very

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busy and many of the people there knew

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of the launch of this campaign this

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evening and some are

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here but I had five

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conversations in

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particular with with what I call

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traditional

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londoners real all women real perly

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queens they were rhyming

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slang real London

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accents and all five of them five

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separate

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conversations said the same

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thing that the working class are being

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pushed out of

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London that's what they said to me

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and so the first election pledge I'm

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going to make to you this evening is

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that if I the mayor of London the

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working class will be coming back into

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London and will no more be pushed out

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and

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marginalized and I couldn't hear Max all

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that well but I know that you did

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because it's not possible to listen to

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Max and not hear him well but what I

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understood that he was

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saying is the second of my election

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pledges we will no longer tolerate an

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organized crime racket going on in the

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square mile in the city of London in the

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heart of this great capital

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city we will not tolerate it

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morally we will undertake and

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unremitting campaign to bring to book

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those who brought Britain to the brink

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of disaster and who continue to apply

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their wicked trade under our

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noses and as I'm going to point out in

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an open letter I'm going to read to you

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now for the first

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time people who say well the mayor

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doesn't have power to do that

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just you watch just you wait and

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see nobody yet in my life has been able

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to persuade me that I don't have the

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power to take them on that I don't have

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the power to tackle them that I don't

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have the power to Rally millions of

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people against what they're

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doing and in so far as the mayor of

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London is limited in power that's part

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of my project in this period of

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devolution of a parliament in Scotland a

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parliament in Wales a northern

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Powerhouse in the north of England it's

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time that London got its share of the

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power and I'm going to fight for

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it I don't accept that the city of

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London is entitled to build a moot a

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legislative moat around its activities I

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don't accept that the city of London has

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the right to its own pet police force

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the city of London Police they have

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fancy uniforms no doubt they might be

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good at catching pickpockets in

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Liverpool Street

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Station but they failed to notice the

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theft and Mal feance of hundreds of

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Millions millions of pounds over these

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last 7

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years so take notice if I'm the

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mayor and I can do it there'll be no

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more city of London Police the city of

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London Police will merge into a London

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Police Force which looks like London

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which is led by people who look like

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London who treat all londoners the same

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whether they have a white collar or a

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black face that's the kind of police we

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demand here in

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London you're 28 times more likely 28

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times more likely to be stopped and

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searched in London if you're black or

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Muslim why aren't they stopping and

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searching the white color criminals in

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the city of London they'd find far more

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in the pockets of

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those I'm going to deal with the housing

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crisis and in detail that is pushing the

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working class out of London I'm going to

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deal with policing in London I'm going

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to deal with transport in London I'm

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going to deal with the economy and jobs

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in London London and I'm going to deal

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with culture in

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London it's a 17 billion a year

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budget and it's been run for eight years

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by a blonde

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buffoon a

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multi-millionaire

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clown who has achieved nothing for

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ordinary

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londoners and those things he does claim

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to have achieved

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actually were done by Ken Livingston the

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only decent mayor that we've ever had

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here in

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London eight years of Boris the buffoon

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and nothing is coming through the

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pipeline Boris Johnson

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inherited a whole plethora of plans

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projects developments including the

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Olympic games including even the Boris

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bikes the Arcane bikes and which are now

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I see colored red in anticipation of my

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mealy beginning next

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may but Boris after8 years has achieved

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nothing and there's nothing coming

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through that's a problem but it's not an

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insurmountable one it means that I will

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inherit that 17 billion a year budget

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and use it for ordinary londoners right

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from day one I've written this open

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letter which I'd like to read to you

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because it's being released this evening

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and I think it's very important what did

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I do with my

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glasses I need glasses to look for my

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glasses I see the guardian described me

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today as a veteran and

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politician well I'm only

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60 and my likely labor opponent is

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68 maybe we're both

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veterans the difference is she supported

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the war in Iraq with all her might and I

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opposed it with all my

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might she said

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she said she'd throw herself under a bus

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for Tony Blair she really did say

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that as Ken Livingston pointed out well

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we've introduced a lot of buses so she's

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got plenty to choose

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from and as one of the leaders of unite

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just across the road pointed out to me

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we've got many a bus driver that would

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like her to take a leap in front of

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bus sorry she took a tax

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goodness I'm coming on to

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taxes in a big way in a

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moment I don't know if she took a free

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taxi ride I do

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know that Dame Tessa jow to give her our

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full name will do nothing to stop the

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driving out of the working class from

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London I know that she'll do nothing to

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stand up against the party machines to

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be a person of independent mind like Ken

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Livingston was Ken Livingston won an

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election as an independent and I intend

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to win this election as someone outside

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political process the political class I

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don't take orders from anyone and

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neither did Ken the only interests that

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I will be pursuing are the interests of

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ordinary londoners whoever stands

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against them let me read you why I am

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standing for mayor of

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London I have lived in London for almost

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35 years in Black Heath in battery in

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stram in the East End in ladbrook Grove

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and now in

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nw10 three of my four children were born

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in London and all four grew up here my

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first child is now the mother of four

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all born in London like many londoners I

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was not born here but I regard it as my

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home and I think of London as the

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greatest city in the world I was a

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London Member of Parliament for five

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years in Bethel green and bow between

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2005 and and

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2010 and in

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2004 I stood for the European Parliament

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constituency in London and some of my

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comrades are in the hall this evening

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who stood with

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me respect was just 20 weeks

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old and I achieved almost 100,000 votes

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11 years later we have to multiply that

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100,000 500 600

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700,000 is the Target that we have and

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with second preferences from the labor

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candidate in third place that can take

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us over the winning

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line I have been elected to the British

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Parliament six times served there for

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the best part of 30 years and want to

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bring the political experience of nearly

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four decades to bear in fighting for you

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fighting for

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London though London is a great City the

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seventh largest economy in the

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world life is not great for all

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londoners and it is run by and for the

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Metropolitan Elite many of them dripping

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in Gold whilst the majority struggle

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with the High Cost of Living the

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shortage of affordable housing cramped

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and expensive transport

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and Savage Cuts in public services which

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have the support of all three of the

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soall mainstream parties it is time for

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a London for all which will be the theme

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of my campaign we will fight for your

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interests wherever you came from

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whatever color you are however you pray

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or if you don't pray at all we are

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against all racism

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anti-Semitism

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islamophobia and for Unity amongst all

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londoners irrespective of age gender

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color creed ability or

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orientation London's transport will be a

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major issue in the election our policy

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on fairs Staffing levels investment

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disabled access airport expansion will

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attract transport users and providers

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alike financial services are an

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important part of London's economy but

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the interests of the city cannot be

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allowed to blight those of the vast

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majority who have other interests

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London's reputation cannot be allowed to

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be tarnished by the excesses of the city

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Mal feance cannot be allowed free reign

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in the financial heart of the capital

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that's why if I'm elected I will merge

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the city of London Police into a New

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London police force with

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responsibilities to all londoners and

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which looks like London and if the city

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of London Police don't like it I'll send

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the Metropolitan police's serious Fraud

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Office in in numbers to investigate

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their affairs

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the city and other corporate interests

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London will have to do more much more in

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the exercise of their social

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responsibility to The londoners Who live

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and work around them and who provide the

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whole environment in which their

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businesses are thriving we understand

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businesses need to make money even a lot

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of money but with great wealth comes

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great

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responsibility and as mayor I will work

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tirelessly to achieve that I will

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campaign relentlessly for the London

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living wage to take account of the far

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higher cost of living in the capital and

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I give notice now to all those

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businesses doing business with the maral

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and with the London assembly if you're

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not paying your workers the London

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living wage you won't be doing business

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with us any

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longer neither can we allow the

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continuing social cleansing of poor and

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ordinary working people from London

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eyering house prices and back breaking

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rents are driving the life's blood of

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London its people further and further to

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the edge literally and metaphorically

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the average price of houses in London

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sold to firsttime buyers is 7 and a half

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times the average income London has the

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second highest house prices and per

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square meter rent in the world higher

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than New York higher than Hong Kong and

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only Monaco about which more later is

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higher overcrowding in London is is

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almost three times the national average

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a quarter of a million people in London

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are on the council house waiting list

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the rate of house building is half that

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of the

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1960s and a quarter that of the 1930s

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during the

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Depression between

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1998 and

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2011

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85,000 Council houses were were sold in

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London under the right to buy scheme and

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only

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880 were built to replace them 880 new

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Council houses in 15 years whilst

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85,000 Council houses were sold Mrs

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Thatcher committed many crimes against

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us but the sale of council houses was

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the biggest crime that she committed on

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the domestic level and has led to a

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housing crisis all over the country as

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well as in

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London now how about this it's not easy

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to shock

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me

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50,000 families have been shipped out of

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London in an act of social cleansing in

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just the last three years London bers

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bribing people to leave their families

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leave their homes leave the streets in

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which they've grown up in and moved to

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Birmingham or Stoke or elsewhere in the

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north because they simply cannot or will

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not build the

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houses or find the money to subsidize

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their rents any longer and amidst all of

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this we are spending 24 billion a year

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year on housing

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benefit a quarter of the government's

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total budget deficit is being spent on

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housing

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benefit almost half of which ends up in

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the hands of private

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landlords it's

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unbelievable that nine times the figure

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spent on social housing is being spent

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to subsidize private landlords in

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housing

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benefit and guess

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what a quarter of the Tor MPS in the

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last Parliament were private landlords

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which gives you a a clue as to why this

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has been tolerated the annual budget for

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the building of social housing in

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Britain is just

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1.1

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billion half of what it was in the

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previous Parliament one 1.1 billion

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building houses 24 billion spent on

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housing benefit almost half of which

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goes to private landlords virtually no

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council houses are being built fewer

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than 100 per

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year targets for the provision of social

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housing are set ever lower and less and

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less frequently

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achieved can Livingston had a policy

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that

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50% of all development must be

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affordable housing Boris Johnson cut

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that to

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25% in fact it's less than

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10% if I'm the mayor nothing will be

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built in London unless 50% of it is

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social and affordable housing

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London

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properties at the higher end have become

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nothing but a safety deposit box for

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Rich

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foreigners they buy houses to lock up

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their money in the belief that it will

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make a profit far away from The Eyes Of

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The Regulators in their own countries

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far away from prying eyes of all kinds

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in in their own countries and they never

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live in those houses so let me make

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another election

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pledge we will compulsorily purchase any

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house in London that hasn't been lived

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in for one year or

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more a quarter of a million londoners on

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the housing waiting lists Millions

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living in overcrowded housing poorly

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housed are paying so much for the roof

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over their heads in rents and mortgages

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that they have nothing left for life so

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I will tackle the housing crisis as my

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number one

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priority we will compulsorily purchase

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and we have the power to do so any house

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that's been unlived in without a proper

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excuse for one year or more and as I say

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there will be no development given

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planning permission that doesn't include

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50% affordable housing now as a man of

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the world I will work to make London

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more and more a world city seeking out

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investment business and tourism

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especially in those parts of the world I

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know best Russia China Latin America and

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the Arab world world I will fight for

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more power for London and recognition of

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its special status in its National life

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this is the era of devolution which I

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wholly support but I want Devolution for

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London we need to be treated in the new

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constitutional settlement that is slowly

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taking shape with power over health over

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education over tax over business rates

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with real power that will allow a mayor

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of London directly elected and

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accountable to the people to make a real

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difference in the lives of our

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citizens since the

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1960s London has been a cultural capital

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in the world I will work hard to keep us

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right on top cultural workers and cult

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natural spaces will be boosted in my

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maral as will be the burgeoning

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high-tech sector film music games

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theater and Cinema flourishing

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Innovative and ground baking work in

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finance with cryptocurrencies and I've

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recruited the best possible Minister for

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finance and economy in Max will make

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London the crypto currency and alter

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alternative Finance capital of the

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world but tradition matters too take the

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Black Cab For example we have lost our

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telephone

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boxes our pillar

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boxes are now owned by the King of

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Kuwait gives a new meaning to the Royal

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Male we never knew we'd still have a

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royal mail but it would be the King of

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Kuwait who owned it thanks to

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privatization we cannot allow Uber to

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drive out the traditional London cab and

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if I the

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mayor if I'm the

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mayor as I said on the front page of the

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badge the weekly newspaper of the cab

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trade this week I will run Uber out of

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town if I can and if I can't yes if I

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can't I will make sure that they start

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to obey the law the law which black cabs

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and mini cab firms are forced to obey

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but which Uber is shredding in front of

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our eyes why do I feel so strongly about

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this

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issue well it's not just because there's

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25,000 cab drivers with a vote in the

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election

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every one of them with a husband or a

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wife and children and parents and

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brothers and sisters though I'd be a

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pretty stupid politician if I denied

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that that had any part in this it's not

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just because none of the mainstream

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parties will stand up for the law-

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abiding taxpaying mini cab and black cab

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owners and drivers and none of them will

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it's not just because my own son-in-law

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is three years into the knowledge on a

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bike that I had to buy him and runs the

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risk of finishing the knowledge and the

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trade being finished before he gets here

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though that also occupies my mind I

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don't know what I'm going to do with

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that motorbike if he Chucks it is

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because of this the Uber

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represents exactly the kind of no tax

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unregulated cutthoat open private

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capitalism that we're against in every

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other

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form they're supposed to have a

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landline they don't have even a landline

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try foring them they don't have one

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they're not supposed to have meters in

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the car but many of them do they're

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supposed to be insured but many of them

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are not and as the independent showed

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this week in fact no it's not a lie no

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it's not a lie the the independent you

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can you can come in later you can come

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in later you can Hackle you can Hackle

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but but you're only doing my job for me

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I'm telling you the the

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independent all right sit down now and

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I'll let you speak

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later this is the fact as The

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Independent Newspaper revealed in an

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investigation this very week forging

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insurance for Uber in is easier than

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falling off a log and many of them have

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done so they have no a cab driver is

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forced to buy a certain kind of vehicle

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costing £40,000 an Uber driver can turn

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up in any kind of vehicle a cab driver

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has to show that he's a person of good

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character who's thoroughly checked his

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driving records thoroughly checked his

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personal behavior is Thoroughly checked

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he's stopped on the street by a

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transport for London officials his car

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is checked the cleanliness is checked

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none of that is true because Uber

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represents the kind of capitalism that

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Johnson and Cameron represent and the

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ends up the ends

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up ends up like Alton Towers ends up

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like Alton Towers you see red tape

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health and safety the usual targets of

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the right wing are there to protect the

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public and the public will always be

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protected if I am the mayor of

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[Applause]

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London and I have thought for a long

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time that way too little has been done

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to remember the sacrifices of londoners

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when this country stood alone with

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Hitler and fascism at the channel ports

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and the blitz raining down upon us I'm

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one of those who does believe this was

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our finest hour so if I am the mayor

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every year there will be a Battle of

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Britain weekend a mix of solemnity and

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fun 1940s Street parties dressing up air

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shows exhibitions film and music of the

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era a recreation of the spirit of the

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blitz I believe this will bring all

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londoners together wherever they came

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from and however newly they arrived it

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will remind the young of a defining

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moment in the history of this country

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and of London and remind newcomers of

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the greatness of the London

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they are now an equal part of I hope you

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will support my campaign and that of my

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respect colleagues standing for the

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London assembly which will be elected on

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the same day few know anything at all

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about the London assembly members now if

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respect gets a foothold at City Hall you

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can be sure that will change we will

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occupy City Hall and we will open it for

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the people a London for all a London for

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all its people thank you very much

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indeed for coming to this launch today