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dear brothers and sisters comrades and

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assalam May the peace and blessings of

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the Lord be on all of you and can I

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begin by thanking the St Gabriel's

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Church for the use of their Splendid

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Hall which if you haven't been outside

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for a little while you probably want to

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stay in here because it's nice and warm

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in here and increasing ly bitterly cold

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outside we were worried about holding a

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meeting this close to Christmas after

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the schools had broken up and we worried

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about the attendance but it's uh great

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relief and pleasure for me to look on

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this packed Church Hall this

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evening I don't know who the member of

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the greater London assembly for Haro and

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Brent is

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I've seen his name but I have no idea

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what he is or what he does or what he's

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ever

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done but what I'm certain of is that

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akib Mahmud can do a better job than him

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absolutely certain of

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that I'm certain that his voice his

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youth his energy his intellect his

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eloquence would be a terrific addition

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to the greater l London assembly which

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is a very important body about which

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nobody knows anything at all I will give

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2020 to anyone in this room that can

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name five members of the greater London

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assembly any

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takers I thought

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not because this is a

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parliament like the Scottish Parliament

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like the Welsh Parliament if you ask

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anyone in Scotland or in Wales to name

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five members of the Scottish Parliament

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or the Welsh assembly you'd be snowed

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under you'd be broke if you were giving

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out 20 notes in exchange for that but

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nobody any meeting any Gathering that I

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have made that challenge to is able to

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name five four three even two members of

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the greater London assembly and we have

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to change that

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London is being short changed in the

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greater London assembly but the members

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of it are not short changed at all they

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earn the same salary as a member of

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parliament in Westminster they have the

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same expenses they have the same

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Staffing levels yet no one knows any of

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them or what any of them does and the

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reason for that is they don't do

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anything at all their primary purpose

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purpose is to hold the directly elected

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mayor to account but Boris Johnson

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treats them with absolute contempt and

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they accept it because deep inside they

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know that that's all that they

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deserve Boris Johnson Controls a budget

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of18 billion a year and he's been in for

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eight years that means around 150

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billion pounds has been spent by Boris

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Johnson and where is it you see any

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results you see any evidence of it yes

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he G is sorry yes he has gone is well

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he's big on Israel and I'll come back to

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that point in fact let me briefly segue

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into a few words on the international

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situation before returning to London and

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the role of the

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mayor I learned

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yesterday that David Cameron is about to

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send a huge British Ground Force into

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Libya what could go

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wrong what could go

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wrong and when I asked the person who

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told me who's in a position to

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know but will the parliament vote for

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that they told me the parliament doesn't

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need to vote for it it was tucked away

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in the small print of the motion which

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they passed two weeks ago to begin

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bombing Syria and in that small print it

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says that British forces will tackle

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Isis wherever the government thinks they

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need to be tackled and they're going to

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use that small print to

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justify yet another British Invasion of

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yet another Muslim country what could go

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wrong

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456 British soldiers were killed and

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thousands were disabled in the war in

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Afghanistan which is reported today has

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turned into a complete route a complete

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shambles Helman

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Province where hundreds of British

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soldiers gave their life's

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blood uncountable

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numbers gave their limbs their Futures

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fighting in Helman province is about to

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fall to the Taliban from whom the

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British forces took

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it the puppet regime in cabul will

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shortly remember remember you heard it

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here be clambering on to helicopters to

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escape to the countries that put them in

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power the Afghan war has been a complete

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bloody disaster which has caused us

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hundreds of billions of pounds imagine

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never mind the banks will come to them

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hundreds of billions and the blood of

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thousands of our servicemen either

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killed or wounded has been expended for

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absolutely

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nothing and our prime

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minister this one the last one and the

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one before that who told us solemnly at

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the dispatch box every

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week the names and the ranks of the

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fallen and promised that they would

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never forget

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them I promise you have long AO go

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forgotten them indeed I played this put

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this to the test once I asked the Prime

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privately just after he had announced

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the names of five British soldiers who

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had been killed the previous week in

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Afghanistan he just in toned their

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names and told us that he would never

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forget them I asked him half an hour

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later do you remember the name of one of

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those soldiers you have just said you

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will never forget and he couldn't name

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one of

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them I had

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stricken mother and father at a meeting

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I addressed once near

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Manchester who were ashen-faced

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trembling as they told us

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in the meeting in the

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Q&A that their 19-year-old son had just

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been buried having been killed in

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Afghanistan and the father told

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me that his son had been buried with a

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picture of her majesty the queen in his

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top pocket and I told him I'm sorry to

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break this news to you the queen is not

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carrying a picture of your son in her

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top pocket these people are sending our

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sons somebody else's sons of course

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Never Their Own Sons to die for

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nothing and we're about to do it all

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again in

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Libya and it won't go any better in

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Libya than it went in Afghanistan than

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it went in Iraq it won't go any better

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and who in this country told them more

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than than

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me what a disaster this would all turn

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out to be Jack straw currently in the

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robing room waiting for his red hermine

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coat the police don't get to him

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first announced in

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2002 that the British soldiers would be

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Christmas and I told told him the

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British soldiers will not be home 10

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hence and he

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laughed oh how he laughed he invited the

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whole house to

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laugh but more than 10 Christmases hence

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the war is still raging and the people

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that we supposedly went there to defeat

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are on the verge of

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now the person who told me about the

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Libya

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Invasion I asked

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them is labor going to support

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this and they told me well Corbin will

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oppose it but Hillary Ben will support

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it and Maria Eagle the defense Shadow

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defense spokesperson will support it and

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we'll have again the grotesque spectacle

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of Jeremy Corbin sitting here Hillary

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Ben sitting there and Maria Eagle

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sitting there with the two of them

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cheering for the invasion of Libya and

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poor Jeremy sat in the middle deserted

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spokespeople now I have sat in

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Parliament for almost 30 years

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usually right next to Jeremy Corbin he's

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my friend he's my co he's my

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comrade and for nearly 40

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years I've marched alongside him against

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war against cuts for all the good

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causes but I tell you this until he rids

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himself of

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these Trojan hor es sitting alongside

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him he will forever be prey to ambush

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from either side and the Tories will

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cheer as they cheered Hillary

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Ben as he spoke in favor of Britain

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launching attacks on Syria the Tories

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will cheer and real labor people will

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weep and it's for those real labor

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people that that I'm standing in this

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election because I'm

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opposed by one of that group one of the

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Hillary Ben Maria Eagle group those who

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support Jeremy Corbin as the Rope

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supports the hanging man and at the end

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when the Rope supports the hanging man

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the hanged man is dead and that's what

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these people are up to

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and I for one will not be a party to it

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so anybody who thinks that by voting for

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sadik Khan I'm not going to waste much

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air on Zack Goldsmith the multi-

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billionaire blonde old daytonian

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Champion we've already had enough of

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those haven't we eight years of Boris

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Johnson why would you why would you

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volunteer for another 4

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years Zach Goldsmith

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earns

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£450,000 a month in

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interest on the trust fund that his

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father left him it's nice work if you

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can get

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it I'm not sure you'd call it

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work but what can he possibly know about

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the lives of people in Brent

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what could he possibly know about

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struggling to meet a rent about

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struggling to meet a mortgage about

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having to go for an interview for a job

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about sending off dozens hundreds of

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applications for a job how could he

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possibly know anything about living life

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on minimum wages or just over them how

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could he possibly know about the costs

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of getting on the tube of getting on the

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bus he can't possibly know about any of

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these things and he doesn't know he's a

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decent enough

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person but if you want another trust

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fund

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multi-millionaire blonde Tory mayor well

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you've got one on the ballot paper I'm

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not going to waste any more time on him

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but my main

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opponent and the opponent in front of

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whom if I come in the first ballot I'll

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be elected as the mayor because most of

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those who will vote for labor will put

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me as their second preference what else

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are they going to do they can't vote for

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Zach Goldsmith as their second

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preference

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surely his name is sadik Khan you won't

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know

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him nobody knows

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him he he's a cipher he's a desiccated

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calculating

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machine who doesn't have beliefs and

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seek to persuade you of them he wants to

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know what are your beliefs and he'll

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pretend that he supports them too the

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problem with that is tomorrow night in a

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very different area with a very

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different crowd the same thing will

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happen and as Malcolm X famously said if

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you don't stand for

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anything you'll fall for everything and

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that's exactly the man that I am up

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against he

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is Mr flip

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flop flip flop was invented for

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him he nominated Jeremy Corbin and then

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he voted against

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him he nominated Jeremy Corbin voted

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against him then announced that he would

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not take a place in Corbin's Shadow

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cabinet when he was selected as the

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labor candidate the first thing that he

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did was give two interviews to those

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well-known friends of Laban the Jewish

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Chronicle and the mail on

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Sunday and in those

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interviews he accused Jeremy Corp

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and John McDonald of encouraging

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anti-Semitism of encouraging terrorism

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why because they stood up for the

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Palestinian people under attack in Gaza

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well I stood up for them too and I'm

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proud of Jeremy Corbin and John McDonald

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for standing up for them too the

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Palestinian people are not the

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terrorists they're the victims of

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terrorism and it's incumbent on

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everybody to stand up with the victims

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of terrorism and not with the

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terrorists

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themselves sadik Khan told the Jewish

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Chronicle that if elected he will lead a

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trade delegation to Tel Aviv to boost

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trading relations between Britain and

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Israel I will not if I'm the mayor I

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will not

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when Mr Modi the

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murderer prime minister of India came

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here a few weeks ago me and akib and my

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wife and my friends here we were stood

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outside in the cold at Downing Street

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and at Wembley protesting against the

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presence of Modi in London and sadik

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Khan was inside Downing Street and

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inside Wembley welcoming Modi if Modi

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comes back to London he will not be

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received by me the doors of City Hall

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will be closed in his face whatever that

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costs me in votes I say it because I

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believe it and I say what I mean and I

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mean what I say and if you know anything

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about me you know that that at least is

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true even if you don't agree with me you

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know that I believe in what I'm saying

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and that I'll do what I say I'm afraid

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you will not be able to say that about

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sadik Khan he was in favor as a minister

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of further development that he as soon

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as he became a candidate for mayor he

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was equally vehemently against further

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development at he flip flop flip flop

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according to whomsoever he is talking

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and that way lies disaster because if no

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one can believe what you say then all

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you are doing is deepening the sense of

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disillusionment and even rage the akib

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talked about in his address there are

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too many liars in politics already too

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many liars in Parliament already too

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many fools at City Hall already it's

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time for a change and we represent that

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change with your support we can do it

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now let me

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turn to that1 18 billion a year that the

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mayor has to spend that's more than the

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budget of some small countries by the

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way and yet it's being spent year after

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year after year none of us know anything

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about it none of us know what it's being

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spent on whether we're getting value for

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money or even frankly looking around

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where it could possibly POS have gone

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well let me deal with the three main

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areas though there are more there are

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three main areas and what we intend to

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do I'm sorry to say that the first thing

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I have to talk about is the

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police I'm not against the police I've

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often had to use

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them when I was

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attacked by a supporter of Israel in the

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Street not very far from here not 10

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minutes drive from

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here I had to depend on the police and

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they performed magnificently and I've

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been in London for almost 35 years and

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every almost every interaction I've had

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with the Metropolitan Police has been a

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positive one but then I'm white with

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blue eyes and for most of the time I've

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been in London I've been a prominent

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person

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my experiences with the Metropolitan

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Police are not the

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same as the majority of people in the

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minority communities in London and don't

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forget never forget that 53% of London

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now are minorities the minorities are

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the majority and that's going to grow

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and grow it's not going to

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change but we have a police force that

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doesn't look like London which isn't LED

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by people who look like London and many

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parts of London regard the police as an

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occupying Army rather than a consensual

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policing organization working for

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them and there are many reasons for that

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and they keep on

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coming we'll be very

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lucky if there is no backlash to what

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happened in North London just a couple

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of weeks ago less than two weeks ago we

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yet again a young black man was shot

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dead by the police I can't say too much

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the cameras are rolling and the police

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officer is under arrest he was first

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suspended and then put under arrest I

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can't say much more though I know much

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more about what happened but I can't say

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this once again a young black man was

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shot dead slain and and then

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slandered the spin immediately spun

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around the entire media that the young

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man had come out of the car

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firing and had to be shot

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dead but there was no

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gun he didn't come out firing cuz there

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was no

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gun these are the tales that we hear

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almost every time we heard in the mark

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Dugen case in Tottenham that led to

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widespread

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riots throughout London and other

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cities and this is just not acceptable

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we had it in the case of John Charles de

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menzes the Brazilian

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electrician who got five bullets in his

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brain from a police officer lying on top

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of him who had completely immobilized

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him

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and instead of handcuffing him he fired

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five bullets into his head why because

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he looked like a Muslim who might be

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intent on

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terrorism but he wasn't a Muslim he

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wasn't an Asian he had nothing to do

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with terrorism but he was shot dead and

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then slandered you remember they told us

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that he jumped the

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barrier that he'd been running down the

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stairs that he failed to stop that all

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the police's efforts to apprehend him

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failed none of those things were

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true and the CCTV film miraculously went

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missing until it was impossible any

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longer to conceal the truth the police

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had made yet another gigantic

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blunder now I I'm here to tell you if I

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had been in that car and I had got out

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of that car they wouldn't have shot me

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dead well maybe in my case they would

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but people who look like

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me would not have been shot down dead

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but he was shot down dead and that's cuz

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he was young and black that's the truth

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of it and this is

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recognized by the leadership of the

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Metropolitan

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Police by the commissioner himself

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and right back to the mcferson inquiry

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after the cruel

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murder that took place what it's now

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almost 20 years

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ago the Lawrence

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case was such a

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landmark that the police had to

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concede that the force was riddled with

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institutionalized racism and I'm bound

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to tell you you it's not any better now

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the number of officers from Minority

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communities began to rise after the

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reforms in the mcferson inquiry but it

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has begun to fall again the number of

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ethnic minority police officers is not

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going up it's going down and that helps

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to butress the feeling in minority

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communities that the police are not for

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them that the police are policing them

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not for them and the stop and search

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statistics are of course

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staggering you are 10 20 26 times more

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likely to be stopped and searched in

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London if you look like him than if you

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look like me now I'll be a friend to the

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police I'll support them on wages I'll

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support them on equipment I'll support

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them on fighting terrorism I'll help

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them fight

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terrorism I know where the terrorism is

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coming from I know what it's about I'm

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in the best position of all the

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candidates to understand the terrorist

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threat that we face but I will not

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tolerate racist policing I will not

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tolerate racist police officers and I

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want to know every Monday morning from

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the commissioner what progress is being

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made on policing

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London blind to the color of the face of

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the person or blind to the color of

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their shirt

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color what do I mean by that well if you

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pick somebody's pocket in Liverpool

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Street Station you'll be behind bars

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very quickly but if you're a banker who

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picks the bank's pocket of 10 15 20

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million your chances of being arrested

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convicted and imprisoned are virtually

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zero only one person has gone to prison

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for the crash and The Reckless

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negligence and criminality that caused

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it and the appeal court today cut his

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prison sentence to 11 years for rigging

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the liore rate but he was just a pat Say

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in any case we're asked to believe that

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an official of his rank was deciding of

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his own volution to boost the bank's

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profits by rigging the foreign currency

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exchange rates but that nobody higher up

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in the bank knew anything about it

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gov we didn't know my Lord the our

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underlings were doing this we just

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pocketed the money

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so I'm being signaled by my boss at the

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back of the room that I'm going on too

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long so let me quickly address two

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additional points the police is one

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thing transport is the other

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thing

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tfl is supposed to stand for transport

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for London though most people think

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these initials mean something else

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they are ruining transport in London

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they are filling our

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streets with tens scores of

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thousands of new private hire Uber

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drivers almost

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100,000 new so-called taxi

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drivers have been put onto the

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streets we don't know anything about our

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are we don't know if they're insured we

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don't know if they're Crooks and some of

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them obviously

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are we don't know what will happen if

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you're in an accident in their car

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whether you'll be covered whether

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they're

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covered and the streets are absolutely

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log

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jammed pumping such pollution into our

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air that more than 9,000 people Li last

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year

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died directly as a result of breathing

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the polluted air that this congestion is

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producing so I'm on

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record and I'll say it

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again if I'm the mayor I'll run Uber out

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of town I'll support the Black Cab trade

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and the legitimate private

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hire cab

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drivers and I'll work for a rational

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solution to the critical problem of

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congestion in London which is

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economically and in health terms ruinous

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I'm going to ban heavy vehicles and

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trucks from Central London between Dawn

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and dusk because these heavy vehicles

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are killing

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cyclists almost every week they're

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certainly killing or maming cyclists

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every week and when you get stuck behind

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one and we were today in hden stuck

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behind

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three stuck behind two and one coming

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towards us and they couldn't get past

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each other so huge well they one of them

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was a motor car transporter carrying

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dozens of other

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cars this cannot go on we have the most

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most expensive tube fairs in the world

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the most expensive bus fairs in the

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world we have the highest rate rents in

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the rented housing sector in the world

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we have the highest house prices in the

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world yet our wages are stagnant or in

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real terms

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falling that's the truth workingclass

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people are being driven out of

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London by house prices

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and house rents that simply cannot be

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afforded now the mayor has a lot of

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powers in all of these

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regards I think you

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know by this stage in what I'm saying or

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you already know if you watch me on

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YouTube or listen to me on talk sport or

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on LBC if youve followed my work over

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decades you

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know that I'm a I'm a pretty tough guy

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and the bosses of Transport for London

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and the commissioner of the Metropolitan

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Police are really going to hate

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me the property speculators are really

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going to hate me they already hate me

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that's why they're pouring money into

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the election campaigns of my

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rivals well no property developer is

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funding my campaign why would they

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because life's going to be hell for them

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if I become the mayor the commissioner

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of the Metropolitan Police is probably

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praying daily that I don't become the

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mayor because life's going to get a lot

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more difficult for him if I become the

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mayor and the Chiefs uh of tfl uh also

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so I've now defied my boss for long

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enough and spoken for long enough thanks

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for coming and I'm ready to take any

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questions thank you