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to continue but right now I've get one

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of the big characters I suppose not just

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of London politics but of British

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politics but he's working towards uh the

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biggest uh uh piece of pie which is to

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be mayor of London and I'll bringing you

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all the interviews with as many of the

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prospective mayor candidates as I can

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we've spoken to sadik Khan from labor

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Zack Goldsmith from the conservative

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ukps Peter Whittle Shan Barry from the

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greens and Caroline pgeon yesterday for

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the liberal Democrats and as I say now

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we have Mr George away from the respect

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party who wants to be mayor of London

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how are you George I'm very good I

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thought you handled that last call about

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alcoholism very very well I'm a

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non-drinker lifelong non- Drinker you

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never drunk never in my life nor my

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father before me but I do know and it's

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one of the reasons why I'm glad my

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father taught me the way he did I do

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know the devastation that alcohol brings

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to many people's lives yeah I suppose

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one of the things that we should start

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with perhaps you and I is we're talking

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about Devastation when I walk and I take

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my walk so I can make my phone calls to

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people uh from here down to hurn or

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Liverpool Street or whatever I see the

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numbers of people who are homeless on

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our streets just did a piece with Tom

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bitman about places being built you want

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to be mayor of London do you recognize

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that there is a crisis and it is a big

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problem for London it's the biggest

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crisis facing the milal facing the

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government not just the people that are

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literally sleeping on the streets though

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heav knows there are thousands of those

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but the people who are sleeping on other

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people's floors people sleeping on their

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sofas cuz somebody else is on the floor

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uh people I was going to call them kids

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but I'm talking about 35y old men and

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women living still with their parents at

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home with no chance of getting a house

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in the area where their parents their

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extended family are living and thus

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being pushed further and further to the

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edge what would you do uh well I'd have

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a crash housing build uh house building

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uh program when we were bankrupt after

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the second world war we built 250,000

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Council houses a year last year in

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London we built 81 81 in a city where

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hundreds of thousands of people are on

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the waiting list but of course that's

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going to take time there are things that

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can be done now there are hundreds of

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thousands maybe 800,000 houses in London

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that weren't bought as houses at all but

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just as safety deposit boxes

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empty hot money

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from has already LED tax on I'm going to

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land tax them and I'm going to

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compulsorily purchase them if that

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doesn't work so any house that's been

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empty for more than a year without good

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excuse will be compulsorily purchased by

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me if I'm the mayor and that'll soon get

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them on their toes I think they'll soon

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realize with that combination of tax and

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compulsory purchase that uh that game is

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over that that show is over the part is

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finished and we can't have people hiding

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their money in London in houses in which

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nobody lives let's talk transport uh and

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Broad Strokes here of course hopefully

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we get you back in all the candidates

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and we able to press a little more uh

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but transport okay 1% uh it's going up

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by the rate of inflation we're supposed

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to be grateful for that more people I

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think 18 times this year the transport

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Network reached record numbers so people

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are using it it costs a bit though

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doesn't it well we've got the most

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expensive public transport in the world

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as well as the highest rents and the

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highest house prices in the entire world

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bar none but before I say something

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about that in that walk that you take

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down to hbor you're of course breathing

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in polluted air that nearly 10,000

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people a year in London are dying from

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and so one of the things I'm going to

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tackle is The Chronic congestion here

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caused by too many cars too many of them

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licensed uh private hire uh taxes that

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tfl has been handing out licenses left

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right and Center to every Tom Dick and

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Harry uh nearly 100,000 power to stop

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yeah we do tfl can stop it and they must

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put a cap on the number of private hard

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cabs but I'm going to ban trucks and

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heavy vehicles from inner London between

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Dawn and dusk that's to save the lives

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of cyclists the limbs of cyclists and

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the lungs of everybody still the way

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that food gets moved around still way we

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move things has to be done in the

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evening and through the night London

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will have to become a 24-hour city with

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a 24-hour tube and 24-hour deliveries

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you planning on sitting Mr May if you

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are elected around a table with the

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unions yes and I think I'm in a very

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good position to deal with the unions

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I've been a union man all of my life and

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when it comes to the 24-hour tube we've

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got to get agreement the rmt is in favor

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of the 24-hour tube they

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just not in favor of being made to walk

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the plank uh over it you have to take

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your people with you you have to take

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your employees with you if if the London

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BBC Radio London management came in here

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now and said Eddie you're you're so good

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I'm going to extend your show by 3 hours

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you're going to have to sit here for

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double the time you might say well all

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right but what's on the table for it

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what am I getting in terms of time off

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what am I get in terms of extra money

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you have no idea how close you are dude

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you have no idea there you go the thing

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is that you know you and sadik are quite

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similar in that you come with a history

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are you worried that in any way shape or

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form that history might hinder your

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opportunity of becoming mayor of London

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and really not you know London is such a

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Cosmopolitan place with 53% of the

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population being from the minorities the

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minorities are the majority in London I

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have solid support in all of those

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communities and as a labor and Union man

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I've got solid support amongst the

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working class whatever color they are uh

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so on my team I've got former Dockers

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former printers not least because I was

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on the picket lines with both of them in

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the 1980s I was kicked by a police horse

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down at whopping and carried off in an

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ambulance I picketed there every

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Saturday night printers ex printers now

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right behind me as are many of the

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Dockers many of the Ford motor workers

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from dagam so I can reach the minority

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communities I can reach the working

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class from all communities

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what and B say about you do you think uh

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well I I won a sensational Victory there

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as you know in 2005 I took a seat off

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one of Mr Blair's most famous uh uh MPS

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King uh and it was about the war was it

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with that play a part do you think yeah

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because in what's happening now I almost

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said which war because I I've almost

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forgotten now we've been in so many

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since and we're about to go into some

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more I'm just that play out in London

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politics I mean this election is not

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just about the length of the

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pedestrianization of Oxford Street

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though that's important it may it may be

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about whether or not you believe that we

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should have uh get rid of pedicabs it

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may be should we have the psycho Super

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Highway you see London politics means

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that people will vote for you depending

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on what matters to them yeah it's but

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but what War and Peace of course matters

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to everybody not least because of the

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terrorist threat which our Perpetual War

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has conjured forth as I predicted that

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it would including on your radio show

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and so the danger that faces people in

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London is one of the issues in this

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election and I will be the best man to

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protect londoners because I know where

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this terrorism is coming from I know why

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it's coming and I know how to tackle it

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and how to face it so everything's

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important Petty cabs uh Uber the length

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of the pedestrianization of Ox Street

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how did how did you get here tonight I

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came back car cuz I'm going on to the

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East End afterwards so are you a bus a

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tube user you ride a bike here in London

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all of the above my wife I can't imagine

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you riding a bik oh I'll show you the

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pictures not that I'll show I'll show

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you the pictures my wife is from

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Amsterdam she's my cycling adviser

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Amsterdam's very big on cycling we're

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really that's why I'm bringing in the

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truck and heavy vehicle plan to save the

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cyclists George we'll talk again coming

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towards May the four but I would like

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you uh to do what I've asked everybody

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to do to give me 30 seconds now and why

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George Galloway

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uh should be the next mayor of London

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well London needs a leader not a reader

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I'll employ other people to do the

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reading the policy wonking what London

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needs is a champion for the majority

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this city is exceptionally rich but it

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has to be a London for all not just for

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those dripping in Gold I've got more

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experience than all the other candidates

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put together almost 30 years in

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Parliament and prominent in politics

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even before going into Parliament I

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think a big figure is what London needs

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George Galloway thank you very much as

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the respect parties George Galloway

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stating his claim for mayor of London of

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course those elections Happ May the 4th