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hello good evening and assalam alikum

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everybody thank you very much for being

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here this evening I'd just like to give

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a brief introduction of myself before

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going on to speak about the issues that

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face Brent and Harrow residents and

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these issues face all

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londoners and also I'll be talking about

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why next year's maral election is very

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important now many of you here know me

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quite well but for those of you who

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don't I was born in Brent I was educated

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in Brent and I was bought up here and I

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worked here in

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Brent and I was born to a Muslim family

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who have instilled in me hardworking

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Relentless work ethic and

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also they've given me strong values and

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these two elements have been key to my

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upbringing and they've seen me through

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some very challenging times in my life

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um I've always been inclined towards

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helping people and that's possibly why I

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chose to study a career medicine however

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that all changed when I was 17 years old

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and I became incredibly ill and uh my

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whole life perspective changed and I

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decided to study politics instead and I

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graduated at International politics in

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2009 since 2014 I've been involved more

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in Grassroots campaigns on various

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issues and uh I've been writing my own

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blog as well on political matters and I

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became involved with George Galloway's

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campaign earlier this year in

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summer and I've traveled all across

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London and I've spoken to various people

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from all sections of the

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community and they've all got the same

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concerns that we have here in Brent and

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Harrow and the main concern that always

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keeps coming up the biggest issue is

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housing specifically social and

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affordable housing now many of the

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housing developments in Brent and in

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Harrow are luxury apartments which are

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out of the reach of most ordinary

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londoners most people simply cannot

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afford them and I know there's people

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here tonight who've uh spoken to the

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council about many issues but the

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council just seems disengaged and

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doesn't want to you know address those

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issues adequately they don't talk to

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people they don't consult them properly

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and they just do whatever they want to

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do and they think that people don't have

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a choice but in this may election we do

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have a

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choice uh I know there's people here

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who' run campaigns on local issues like

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parking there's been a big problem about

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the closure of the libraries in Brent

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and the council has done nothing to

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resolve those

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issues we were in walam store with

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George earlier on uh earlier on this

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month actually and uh we came across

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this demonstration where many labor

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members were taking part and they were

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frustrated with the labor

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Council and uh they always said the same

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thing that the labor council is not

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paying attention to our needs and

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they're just riding rough shot over any

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demands that they they have and they're

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not listening to any of the concerns of

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the

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people now this kind of

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disengagement and this kind of uh apathy

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with local communities will be actively

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discouraged in a London for all so we

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won't stand for that if George becomes

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mayor this will not be

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acceptable and

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uh now there's a great deal of anxiety

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among people about the state of the NHS

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about the police and the fire brigade

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and other key essential services that

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are facing severe cuts and uh we were in

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wilon Market earlier on this week and uh

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we spoke to this lady who works for the

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probation service just across the road

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from there and she was telling me how

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the cuts have taken such a toll on the

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probation service that the reoffender

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rate in Brad has absolutely

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skyrocketed now that's not good for

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anyone and the NHS is in such a severely

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bad State at the moment that my illness

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would have cost me my life if it

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happened today it would have cost me my

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life I would not have made it because

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there's not a single accident and

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emergency unit in the whole of Brent and

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that is unacceptable we shouldn't have

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to accept it and the late and great Tony

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Ben once said if you've got the money to

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kill people you've got the money to help

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people now our government seems to have

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plenty of money to go around and bail

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out Bankers it's got plenty of money to

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go around and launch new Wars and launch

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new air strikes in yet another country

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but whenever it comes to the key

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essential Public Services they always

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say oh it's a austerity we've got

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austerity we can't help out we don't

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have the

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funds and these problems are just going

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to multiply and multiply and it's going

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to get worse and

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worse and we we need to make sure

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that these key Public Services get the

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funding they need they're not

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luxury uh optional extras these are

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Necessities we must have them we can't

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live without them we can't do without

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them it's not just an extra that we have

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and uh the government needs to know

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that um the

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ideological ideologically motivated

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slashing of Public Services is what it

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what this is it's not austerity they've

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got plenty of money they're just doing

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it on ideological basis they're

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dismantling the state help for people

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and that's what they're doing and we

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will not tolerate this we will challenge

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this in a London for

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all now another issue of great concern

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at this moment in time is uh the rising

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trend of islamophobia and anti-muslim

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hate attacks and I'm ashamed to say that

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some attacks have taken place in

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Brent which um you know is a real

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concern for myself and many of you here

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this evening

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racism cannot be tolerated in any shape

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or form whether that's islamophobia or

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whether that's anti-Semitism or any

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other kind we will not tolerate that and

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uh we were in uh Tottenham earlier this

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year in

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August and we came across uh leaders of

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the black community who were protesting

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against police brutality and

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institutional racism in the

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police and some of the stories and

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accounts that I heard that day were

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truly harrowing and

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shocking um and many of ended with the

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deaths of innocent people people who

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often had mental health

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issues uh people who had physical

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disabilities these people were shot down

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simply because of the color of their

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skin they weren't given a fair

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chance um this is not acceptable and no

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no one should have to live through that

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these people are still waiting decades

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later for

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justice and in a London for

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all we will give them Justice and we

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will find the perpetrators of these

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primes now I know there are many people

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here today from uh the private higher

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trade and uh they have huge concerns

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about the way that tfl is dealing with

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them and I'm sure George will be

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addressing those later on this evening

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but I'm going to turn now towards uh the

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importance of next May's maral

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election and I'd like to say this that

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in my many conversations with people

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people from all walks of life across

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London one theme has been consistent and

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it's been

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recurring and people are sick and

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tired people are sick and tired of the

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disillusionment that they face the

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apathy that they face from local

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councils and from local government they

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don't feel that there's any hope left

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and that is why we need to make them

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come and get engaged with this campaign

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be interested in this campaign and

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that's my goal over the next 5 months

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I'm going to get as many people who are

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disinterested and disengaged with

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politics interested and engaged with

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politics re-engaged with this campaign

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so there are lots of issues for

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londoners many of

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them the mayor of London can't do

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anything about specifically but it's

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about getting someone like George

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Galloway in power at the top and

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changing the whole perspective of

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government and showing people how it

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should be done this will put pressure on

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local councils and other institutions to

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change their attitude and change their

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behavior because I believe that

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londoners are fed up of paying for the

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crimes of the bankers with austerity

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londoners are fed up of being treated

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like doormats londoners are fed up of

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not having their voices heard in the

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corridors of power and londoners are fed

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up of being treated as some kind of

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ballot F in safe seats where they their

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opinions don't matter it's just one

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party owns that area and that's it

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that's the end of that we're not going

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to hear any more of that I think London

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and londoners deserve

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better and that's where George Galloway

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comes in uh when I met George Galloway

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and I spent time with him in his

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campaign he showed me that politics is

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not a job it's not a career path it's

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not a stepping stone for greater wealth

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or for greater Fame it's a public

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service and I've never met a politician

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who's such a towering figure the world

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over and such a respected figure the

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world over but he's so kind he's so

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humble he's so personable and so

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approachable someone who's ever ready

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and ever willing to help people in need

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ever ready and ever willing to fight for

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those and be the voice of those who are

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voiceless ever ready and ever willing to

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fight for the working classes the disen

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the disenfranchised and the

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oppressed um now I understand there may

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be some of you here who are Labour party

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supporters and feel affinity and loyalty

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towards the labor party but let me say

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this to you George Galloway is not just

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labor he's real labor he's more

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labor George Galloway is more labor than

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the labor candidate himself in fact he's

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more labor than most of Jeremy corin's

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Shadow cabinet and that's a

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fact now I believe that George Galloway

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is the clearest anti-austerity candidate

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in this

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election he's also the most principled

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candidate in this election and I firmly

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believe he's the only candidate who will

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be the voice of the voiceless in the

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city hall just like he's been the voice

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of the voiceless both in and out of

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parliament for

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decades and that's why it's important

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that we get him elected that's why I

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believe that londoners should and will

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support George Galloway for mayor of

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London and that's why Brent and Harrow

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should and will support George Galloway

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for mayor of

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London and that's why I'm proud to stand

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alongside him in this candidacy that's

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why I'm proud to fight for a London for

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all alongside George Galloway this

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evening thank you very much bra