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Thank you all for being here tonight.

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It's really good to see so many faces. I

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just wanted to say that actually a few

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days ago we went out canvasing and it

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was very heartwarming to see such a warm

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community that was so welcoming. You

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know, smiles and and greetings makes a

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bit of a change from where I'm from in

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London where people barely look at you.

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So, thanks again for that and thanks all

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for being here tonight. Uh now our first

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speaker is one of those uh men that

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people rather that uh mothers would

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point to their children and say listen

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if you do your homework correctly this

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is how you'll end up. Uh he's an

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inspiration to to many communities. He

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he went to university did brilliantly

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got a fantastic job and was so good at

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his job in fact that um they offered him

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to go and set up operations in glamorous

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Dubai. uh he did amazingly well and with

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the skills that he gathered from his

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work experience there, he decided to put

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all those um all those valuable skills

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in fact to set up an amazing charity in

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South Africa that provides hot meals for

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vulnerable children who cannot afford to

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go to school and who can't go there

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unless you on an they have no choice

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other than to go on an empty stomach.

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And what MUT has done is set up a

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charity that provides hot meals for lo

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for many children who who would

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otherwise not be able to go to school.

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So I think just for that that's pretty

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inspiring. Um I've in the short time

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that I've known him, I've seen somebody

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who's really dedicated to his community

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and who really wants to to work

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tirelessly for it. So I really do

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believe that Harrow could not be in

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better hands than in those

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often feel welcome.

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Thank you very much for that kind and

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beautiful introduction. Again, ladies

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and gentlemen, uh thank you all for

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being here today. It's an absolute

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pleasure. A lot of familiar faces of uh

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people that work and live in this area

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and people we met over the weekend. So,

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thank you for being here and

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friends. I have been doing a lot of

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reading and research of Harrow. I would

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rather come straight to the punch line.

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A lot of you have been waiting uh for

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some time. Um I've been reading catching

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figures and facts about this

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neighborhood where I live. Uh and I

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wanted to present all that to you. But

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actually while I was sitting here

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escorting people in, I decided not to

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bother with that. I thought that's not

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the best way to talk about Harrow. Um

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there is something that happened to me

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just a few days ago in South Harrow. Um

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a lot of you probably realize we were

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canvasing. A lot of our posters are up

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and down the high street in the local

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shops. Uh we were knocking a lot of

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residential doors uh to invite people

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for this uh very important event. Um and

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I knocked on one particular residential

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street just uh down the corner and uh as

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I was talking to the gentleman in that

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house uh inviting him to our event and

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uh telling him all the benefits that we

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could have with George Galloway as our

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mayor. Um I asked him a very simple

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question. You know, what things can we

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do for you? And he actually laughed.

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Very charming guy. He looked at me and

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he said, "Follow me." Um, he walked me

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through his street, walked me to the,

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uh, high street where his road uh, met.

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face on a daily basis. What can you do

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to solve this?" I was a bit taken back

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cuz I couldn't quite understand what he

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was showing me. What I saw, ladies and

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gentlemen, was a handful of youths just

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standing on the corner. Uh, people that

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live in South Harrow, that work in this

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neighborhood, they know what I'm talking

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about. Again I questioned Mr. Look sir

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you know I don't have much time for

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this. What is it you're showing me? And

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he said keep looking and you you'll see

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what I what my problem

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is. There were maybe five or six youths

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different nationalities no more than 16

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18. And I kept observing them and

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listening to what what's going on. And

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then I saw what was wrong. They were

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actually selling drugs on the

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corner. Uh and I was shocked. Uh, I was

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shocked not because they're selling

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drugs, which is an absolutely disgusting

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evil thing in our society and it

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shouldn't happen anyway, but I was

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shocked because it was happening at

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6:45 at a peak evening time when

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residential people are coming home from

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work when people are walking to the

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corner shops and buying groceries. It

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happened at such a peak time when if you

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know this area, you know, five, six,

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seven, it's a busy time. It's not a

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quite deadbeat time where you will

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expect things like this to happen in the

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corners. No, it wasn't. So, I was quite

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concerned because people were walking

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through them, walking past them, uh were

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ignoring them. And if I looked a little

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bit further, I saw South Har police

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station not more than 100, 200 meters

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away. So, I'm watching these young guys

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doing what they're doing and I'm seeing

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South Har police

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station stones throw away. Don't know

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about you ladies and gentlemen, but for

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me that doesn't make any sense. It's

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absolutely wrong.

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So, as evil as what those children or

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those youths were doing for whatever

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reason it was, I I it brought a lot of

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things home for me and I realized

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there's a lot more problems in our

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society in our communities than one or

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two acts of crime.

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It's the lack of community

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spirit, the lack of respect and love for

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your fellow neighbor. You see, we are

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Londoners of all colors, of all

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different religions. We are here. This

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is our hometown. This is our

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neighborhood.

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And what came home to me, forgive me if

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I'm if I'm going off on one, is just I

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felt very sad to see these things

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happening on a daily basis. What is that

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guy going to tell his children when he

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picks them up from school? And I don't

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want to point him out. That gentleman is

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sitting here. So, thank you very much

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for coming. It wasn't a wasted exercise.

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You showing me what was going on. I

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said, "Good to see you." Um, but then it

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it makes you think. It makes you ask the

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question, what's wrong with our

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communities? Why are we not functioning

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properly? Why is an issue happening on

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the street and you all of you people

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cannot come together as one voice and

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address the issue? Tackle the problem.

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If you can't do anything, at least make

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it a pro. Make it a voice that you can

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speak to the person you've elected, the

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person that is representing you in

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parliament, in local council. At least

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tell them this is what we're facing on a

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daily basis. Not just antisocial

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disorder. A lot of the local shops are

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complaining about lack of parking, lack

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of facilities. A lot of the local shop

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guys said if we have an issue, it takes

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us almost two to three working days just

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to get through to somebody in council

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over the

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phone. So guys, where is the problem?

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What is the problem? We either we put a

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blind eye towards it or we choose to

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ignore it. The problem comes from home

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from grassroots lack of community

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spirit. We you all need to take

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ownership of your area. You need to take

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ownership of where you live. Talking on

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ownership and where you live, I'd just

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like to ask a question. If people can

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just show show me by a raise of hands,

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who knows who their elected member of

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part elected member of GLA is for Haro

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Bread? One hand. No. Good. Anyone

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else?

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Two. That's fantastic. So, we're what 80

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90 if we just round it off. Roughly 100

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people uh are in the room, give and

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take. Um and two people raised their

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hands. So, that's just 2%.

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2% of this burough, 2% of Harrow have an

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idea of the person that's representing

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them in GLA, the candidate. Um, so what

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about the 98% of you? 98% of you either

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you didn't vote, maybe you didn't care,

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or maybe you voted for someone else. But

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here's the problem with politics. If you

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use your vote or you don't use your

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vote, politics is involved in your life

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on a daily basis. you are engaged in the

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way things and the way this city let's

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talk about the burough the way this

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burough is functioned we can just yeah I

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see a few faces there I didn't vote you

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know what I didn't vote for the last

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mayor cuz I wasn't in the country but I

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didn't

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vote but that's my problem and that's my

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that's that's what I'm trying to express

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to

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you there is a person elected by this

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burough by the people that live in this

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burough by the members of this community

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you have a person that you've elected to

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look after you, to deal with your

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issues, to identify the problems that

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you face on a daily basis, but you do

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not know who he is and you can't

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approach him. So, how do you expect to

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turn things around? Very simple thing

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I'm talking about. A lot of the people

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don't even know the local MP that live

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that works them in the area. We're

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talking about a GLA candidate. Again,

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many people don't know what a GLA is.

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This person represents your burough.

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This person is in charge of scrutinizing

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the mayor. This person is in charge of

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asking the mayor, you have 17 billion

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pounds a year budget. How much of that

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are you spending in in in Harrow or in

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Brent? How much of that are we using to

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improve the policing to make it a bit

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more effective to reduce crime? How much

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of that is coming to our burough with

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regards to social housing which we don't

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have enough

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of? Regeneration is a very simple thing

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and a very simple word but there's not

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much of it happening. If you go to Pina,

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you'll see regeneration there. It's a

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beautiful part of Harrow, but it is

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Harrow. You go to Harrow on the hill,

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you'll see a whole different part of

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Harrow. A very glamorous, up market,

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posh part of Harrow, but it is Harrow.

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South Harrow is also Harrow. The whole

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burough is one. So then why are parts of

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it neglected and parts of it ignored and

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parts of it

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cherished? Can anyone please explain

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that to me? Harrow as a council, maybe

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you guys don't know.

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We are the third highest council

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taxpaying burough in this city. The

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third just behind Siri and King um

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Kingston

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upon the third. But then if you look at

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the lifestyle and the comparison of life

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that we have, we don't share the same.

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According to an article independent I

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read, we are the fourth lowest uh

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lifestyle uh living in the city of

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London. So where's the comparison?

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You're paying so much but you're

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receiving so little.

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But again, it all comes down to

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community

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spirit. We unfortunately don't have that

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because we don't want to take ownership

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of it. A simple thing of a vote. You do

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not realize the power of a vote. More

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than telling you who to vote for, where

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to vote. We're trying to make you

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understand to use your vote. Only 38%

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38% of people from Harrow and Brent

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voted. 62% didn't bother voting. Either

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they didn't want to, they didn't

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understand, but irrelevant. You are

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involved. You have someone elected who

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is representing you and your interest.

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But nevertheless, you don't know who you

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can approach to take your direct matters

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to. That's one thing I want you all to

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understand. I am from this area. I've

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lived all my life in Harrow. Um, I met

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George Galloway at the opening launch.

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I'll be very honest with you. I' I've

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just listened to most of his videos.

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like most people here was just a fan but

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nothing else, nothing

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more. Uh after his after the launch

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campaign, I I tried my best to rumage

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through through the crowd and and just

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say hello to him and shake his hand and

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I did. I had the pleasure of meeting

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George and having a chat with him and I

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said, "George, I want to get involved in

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your campaign." And you know what he

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did? He embraced me. He gave me a hug

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and he said, "We need people from London

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to represent London. You're welcome."

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And I got involved. I was sitting

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somewhere in the corner there a few

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months ago and I was sitting and

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standing by side working for our

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community. The way to move forward is to

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get people like you involved. You need

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to get involved. I urge you to get

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involved. I urge you to take ownership

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of your local burough. It's a very

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simple thing. All you have to do is get

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involved. Fight for the re fight for

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your right. If you see there's issues

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with fly tipping, it does affect you

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even if it's two streets away because

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it's your burough. If you see there's

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problems happening with antisocial

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disorder, but it's not outside your

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house, you're wrong because you can see

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it. It happens in your burough. It

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affects you

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directly. We are lacking a beautiful

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community spirit which we once had.

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Because we all feel divided in this

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city, but we are not divided. We are

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one. We are Londoners. This city is mine

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as much as it's yours, as much as it's

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yours. You need to take ownership of

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this. So I urge you all, please, if you

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feel you can make a difference, if you

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feel your neighborhood, your burough

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could do with a bit more assistance, a

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bit more awareness, a bit more policing,

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all you need to do is make a voice. So I

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urge you, if you want to get involved in

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this campaign, if you want to get

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involved in improving your burough, come

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and find me. I'll be at the back

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somewhere. A lot of volunteers have

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already asked me to get on board. If any

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of you here right now want to get on

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board, you can approach me.

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Um, I am standing as the GLA candidate

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for the respect party for Harrow and

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Brent. Uh, I, as I said to you before,

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there are issues here and I would like

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to tackle all those issues if I can, but

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I need your support. I'm not the kind of

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guy you're going to see just a handful

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of months before the election. You'll

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see me walking up and down Harrow and

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Brett every couple of weeks. There is no

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issue that you cannot talk to me about.

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There's no there will never be a

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situation when you can't get hold of me.

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I'm the kind of a guy I'll roll my

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sleeves up and so let's grab the problem

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by the horns and let's try and find a

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solution. This is my working ethics.

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This is my attitude. Not because you

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guys owe me anything or I owe you

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anything. It's because I live in this

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area. I am from this part of town. I've

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lived all my life here. I think I'm a

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handful of guys that can say we've seen

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St. George's Shopping Center and the

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build and erected before our eyes. We

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were very young. We were very excited

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when it was there. But then after

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several years, the antisocial behavior

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that was happening there, we're going to

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take our families over there. So, I've

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decided to stand strong and rise and get

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involved just because I want to improve

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my neighborhood. Not just for me, for my

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friends, for my family, for my

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neighbors, for my town. So, I urge you

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again, please get

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involved. And finishing off, this is

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London. London is a beautiful city. If

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you guys have the pleasure of traveling,

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going anywhere in the world, and you say

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you're from London, everyone's ears. Oh,

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wow. What a great town. What a great

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place to be. It's true. London by far

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and again from my opinion, it's one of

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the most beautiful, magnificent cities

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in the world, if not the

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greatest. And I mean that from my heart

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and I know a lot of you people believe

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that as well. But take ownership of it.

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Understand the value of London lies in

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your hands. The respect lies in your

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hands. Whatever you want to give, you

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can give. Whatever you want, you can

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take back. But you must understand this

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is your London more than mine. It's like

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a mini global city. And for such a

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global city, we need a strong dynamic

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man of global standing. And it's for

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that reason that I believe in George

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Galloway. George Galloway, many of you

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are aware of who he is and and do follow

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him and obviously have an interest and

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that's why you're here. But George

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Galloway is more than what you see on

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YouTube. He's more than what you hear.

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He's a real human being.

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He's someone that understands the value

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of the basic things in life, the respect

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and the principle of getting things

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done. I am standing with George because

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for me there is no greater man. There is

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no out of the other two guys there's no

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one else that can do a better job with

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regards to cleaning and improving our

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city leading London and making sure that

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we do see new regeneration in our

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burough and other parts of the city that

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we do feel the benefits of social uh

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housing afforded to our young new

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families that arising and growing and

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they want to find a place to live of

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their own. This gentleman here has faced

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many hardships and he's always stood

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strong and stood stood firm in his

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vision. He's a man of honor. And if you

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could all just appreciate that someone

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like this is looking to stand as the

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mayor of London to lead this great city,

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I can assure you one thing. A lot of the

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people on the other side of the fence,

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their hearts will be trembling. But

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again, ladies and gentlemen, thank you

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very much for your time. Uh appreciate

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you all for coming. And again, if you do

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feel that you want to get involved, if

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you feel that you can make this city a

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better place, if you feel 2006 May, you

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want to make a big bang, make a big

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noise, make everyone who knows you and

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everyone that sees you, everyone that

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knows there's an election happening in

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London, just say, you know what, we were

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part of that election. We stood up. We

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got involved. We don't know what's

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happening in East London or South

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London, but you know what's happening in

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Harrowin Brent. You know what you did,

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what effort you went through, what

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involvement you did. even if it's just

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leafleting a um a brochure, knocking on

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someone's door, even if it's just

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standing there when we're outside on the

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streets because this is our

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neighborhood, guys. So, please take

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ownership of your house. Take ownership

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of your area cuz you are Londoners. And

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if you cannot understand that, then look

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at me. I was the same as you just a few

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months ago sitting in the audience.

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Thank you very much,

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everyone.

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invested in Harrow. So much so that I'm

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almost tempted to move here. Actually,

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makes it sound fantastic. Um, ladies and

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gentlemen, before we move on to to our

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main speaker, obviously, who's George

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Galloway, I just want to get into a bit

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of the nitty-gritty of the campaign, as

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you know, a campaign is a very costly

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affair. It it takes it it costs

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basically a lot of money. So, we we

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would very much appreciate any form of

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donations. If you could, as small or as

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big as you possibly can, that would be

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fantastic. And at the very back we've

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got the uh donation boxes for that would

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welcome any contributions. You could

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obviously purchase also some of the

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books and have them signed by George at

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the end of this evening and that would

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be also something that we'd very much

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appreciate. Um campaigns cannot be done

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without the funds and without the

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support of voters. So again we'd we'd

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appreciate your help. Uh now we've all

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there we will have many reasons for all

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of us involved in the campaign have many

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reasons to have joined this campaign and

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to support George Galloway's candidacy.

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uh in my case, I've obviously followed

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George for for many many years. And and

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one thing that I found truly inspiring

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is that in the face of total adversity

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of of so so often a hostile media, he

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nevertheless stuck to his guns and stood

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for the oppressed wherever the oppressed

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were. And I think that is completely

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admirable. And as the events are

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unfolding uh this week and and we won't

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go into the details obviously this is

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about London but you would know that

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this is somebody who has always defended

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the the most vulnerable in our

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communities and our societies not just

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absolutely in the UK obviously but

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across the world and I think that for me

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is something that is that is that is

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worthy of of great admiration and this

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is why I chose to to uh join this

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campaign. Now before we start there's

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really very little to say that most of

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you don't know. So ladies and gentlemen

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please George Galloway.

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Thank

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you. Thank you very much. Hafsa brothers

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and sisters, comrades and friends.

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Assalamu

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alaykumah. May the peace and blessings

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of the Lord be upon you. And my thanks

534
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to the South Harrow Baptist Church for

535
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allowing us to have this meeting in this

536
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hall this evening. We are called respect

537
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and we respect all religions. We respect

538
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everybody wherever they came from,

539
00:19:27,919 --> 00:19:35,320
whatever color they are, however they

540
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pray. And as a religious believer

541
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myself, I suppose the first thing I

542
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should say in this church is that if I'm

543
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the mayor, faith and belief and religion

544
00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:53,120
will be honored equally. I'm not

545
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supporting any religion against any

546
00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:59,480
other religion. But I will defend

547
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religion against those who think it

548
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appropriate to trash it.

549
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On the subject of funds, which Hapsa

550
00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:16,280
just raised, it is really vital that you

551
00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:19,520
support us financially because the other

552
00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,039
candidates don't need your financial

553
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,600
support.

554
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The Conservative

555
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,559
candidate Zack

556
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:31,679
Goldsmith married to a

557
00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:35,360
Rothschild is the heir to a 700 million

558
00:20:31,679 --> 00:20:37,000
pound personal fortune. He earns, if

559
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earning is the

560
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word,

561
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£600,000 a month in interest on the

562
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money that his father left him.

563
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I mean no disrespect to him. As a matter

564
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of fact, I quite admire him. I certainly

565
00:20:55,679 --> 00:21:04,120
like him as a person, as an honorable

566
00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:07,679
man. And if you want another blonde, old

567
00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:10,000
Etonian, heir to a personal fortune as

568
00:21:07,679 --> 00:21:13,320
your mayor, you couldn't do better than

569
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:16,720
him. But I think eight years of Boris

570
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:20,080
Johnson has probably persuaded us that

571
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it's time for a change.

572
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The Labor candidate doesn't need your

573
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:28,960
financial support

574
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either because he's being bankrolled by

575
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property developers and building

576
00:21:31,559 --> 00:21:37,760
companies because they can count on him

577
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to administer London in the way that it

578
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was administered in the last eight

579
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years, which is to say in their

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interest, a subject to which I shall

581
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return. Now, Mkhtar said that London was

582
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a global city and I'm certainly a global

583
00:21:55,960 --> 00:22:02,600
man. I had to fight my way in here

584
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:06,640
through two television

585
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:11,240
crews. The first was from Russia Today,

586
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:13,480
seeking to interview me on a case I

587
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:16,960
brought against

588
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GCHQ and the security services. the

589
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judgment on which was delivered this

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morning by the investigatory powers

591
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tribunal on that

592
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subject. I'll give you two minutes on

593
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what it was about only to make a bigger

594
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broader point.

595
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Harold

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Wilson, much

597
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missed, one of the last real Labor prime

598
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ministers.

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Harold Wilson gave an assurance to

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Parliament in

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1966, 49 years ago, that members of

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Parliament would not be subject to

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surveillance by the security services

604
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without his personal express

605
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authorization, except in a national

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emergency, and that he would report to

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the House at the end of the operation in

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which the member of parliament was being

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surveyed. Every single prime minister

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since Harold Wilson has repeated that

611
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assurance. And every home secretary

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since

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1966 has repeated that

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assurance. But today, and I know we have

615
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distinguished lawyers in the room, today

616
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we learned that Mr. Wilson's promise

617
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wasn't worth the paper. It wasn't

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written

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on because in

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fact for

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decades British members of parliament

622
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have been being spied upon by MI5,

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sometimes MI6 and now in modern security

624
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services that if you came to me as you

625
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:12,960
would go to a priest in the confession

626
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:15,440
box to tell me your personal private

627
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,400
business or a problem you're having at

628
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:22,360
work, or a whistle that you want to blow

629
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:25,120
on some malpractice or malfeence

630
00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:27,360
somewhere that the security services

631
00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:32,159
know about it just as quickly as I know

632
00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:35,840
about it and no doubt pass it to the

633
00:24:32,159 --> 00:24:37,600
relevant authority to undermine the

634
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:41,600
issue that we're raising the campaign

635
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that we're planning or whatever. So just

636
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for the record, let me say that I don't

637
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believe that the decision of the

638
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:55,919
tribunal today can be allowed to stand

639
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:58,880
because either Mr. Wilson and all these

640
00:24:55,919 --> 00:25:01,440
prime ministers were lying when they

641
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told us and I sat in parliament for

642
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:07,200
almost 30 years. Either they were lying

643
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:09,400
when they told us that we were not being

644
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:14,080
spied on,

645
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:16,799
bugged, or even worse actually the

646
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:19,679
security services were allowing prime

647
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ministers to state something which

648
00:25:19,679 --> 00:25:26,919
clearly wasn't true. Who will guard the

649
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:29,440
guards is an ancient question first

650
00:25:26,919 --> 00:25:32,880
raised perhaps in Rome, perhaps in

651
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:35,679
Greece. I don't know. But who will guard

652
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:39,120
the guards is a really significant

653
00:25:35,679 --> 00:25:41,760
matter in a democracy and if prime

654
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ministers are being misled by our own

655
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:47,200
security services that's something that

656
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:50,360
we simply can't accept. And then the

657
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:54,640
second interview was with the Pakistani

658
00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:56,799
satellite channel and you heard them uh

659
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:59,279
when you were sitting there and I was

660
00:25:56,799 --> 00:26:01,760
being interviewed ask a question about

661
00:25:59,279 --> 00:26:05,520
London. But the second question was

662
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:08,400
about the extraordinary turn of events

663
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:12,840
which has occurred in occupied Jerusalem

664
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:15,279
in occupied Palestine and besieged

665
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,559
Gaza. I don't want to dwell on that

666
00:26:15,279 --> 00:26:18,520
subject.

667
00:26:16,559 --> 00:26:21,840
because this meeting is about

668
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:23,799
London. But if London is a global city,

669
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:27,600
it definitely needs a global

670
00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:29,480
mayor. And what I can tell you is they

671
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,080
can't vote in

672
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:35,240
Gaza, but if they could vote, they'd be

673
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:38,880
voting for me. They can't vote in

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00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:42,960
Jerusalem or in Ramla, but if they could

675
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:46,159
vote, they'd be voting for me. Why?

676
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:47,000
Because I have stood up through thick

677
00:26:46,159 --> 00:26:50,279
and

678
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:54,520
thin under every

679
00:26:50,279 --> 00:26:58,960
attack for now more than 40

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00:26:54,520 --> 00:27:01,600
years, 42 years to be precise. I have

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00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:04,240
stood up for the Palestinian people in

682
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:08,440
dark days and find and there have been

683
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,440
few of those.

684
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:16,600
My opponent on the other hand, my Labor

685
00:27:13,159 --> 00:27:19,159
opponent Sadi Khan,

686
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:21,320
imagine was pictured last

687
00:27:19,159 --> 00:27:25,320
night swanning

688
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:27,799
around a Labor Friends of Israel

689
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:30,520
reception. I don't know if he

690
00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:33,279
thinks by such

691
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:35,360
things that people who love Israel are

692
00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:37,840
going to vote for a guy called Sadi

693
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:40,279
Khan. I fear he's got a disappointment

694
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,880
coming. if he thinks

695
00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:44,360
that. But I asked the question when I

696
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,760
saw the

697
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:50,960
picture. Why does Israel even have any

698
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:56,000
friends in the Labor Party? How could

699
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:58,799
you be both labor and a friend of a

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00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:01,720
country that is slaughtering people

701
00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:03,480
right this minute in the old city of

702
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:07,360
Jerusalem?

703
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:10,000
Children being cut down by tens of

704
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:12,440
people.

705
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,279
inhale of

706
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,480
bullets. People that that's life's blood

707
00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:21,240
you can watch on

708
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:25,440
Twitter running down the

709
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:27,279
alleyways of the holy city of Jerusalem.

710
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,480
I don't know why Israel has any friends

711
00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:33,200
at all. I certainly can't understand why

712
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:35,600
it has any friends in the Labor Party.

713
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:39,399
And I really can't understand how it

714
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:42,919
could have a friend called Sadi

715
00:28:39,399 --> 00:28:48,320
Khan. But I'll come back perhaps in the

716
00:28:42,919 --> 00:28:52,000
Q&A to other international issues. My

717
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:55,520
brother Mktar made, I think, a powerful

718
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:58,000
opening case, his first public meeting

719
00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:02,720
as the candidate for respect, my running

720
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,960
mate for Harrow and Brent.

721
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:09,080
He made the

722
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:12,559
point about only two of you in this big

723
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:15,279
meeting even knowing who your member of

724
00:29:12,559 --> 00:29:18,000
the Greater London Assembly is. I

725
00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:20,399
promise you if he's elected next May,

726
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,720
everybody will know who he is. Everybody

727
00:29:20,399 --> 00:29:24,720
will know who he is.

728
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:27,120
And far from not being able to get hold

729
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,440
of him, you'll be shutting your door and

730
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:33,320
pretending you're not

731
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:36,320
in because he'll be bothering you that

732
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:39,919
much. Only two of you knew who your

733
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:44,600
member of the GLA was. He was elected

734
00:29:39,919 --> 00:29:47,399
with 70,000 votes out of a total

735
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:50,240
electorate of around

736
00:29:47,399 --> 00:29:53,559
600,000 voters.

737
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:56,000
That means he's eminently

738
00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:56,760
beatable. That means that across these

739
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,480
two

740
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:03,120
burrows, a very small percentage of the

741
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:06,960
people voted for him and an even smaller

742
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:09,679
number even know who he is. And by the

743
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:13,039
end of this campaign, I feel sure that

744
00:30:09,679 --> 00:30:16,559
Mktar will have such prominence on the

745
00:30:13,039 --> 00:30:18,880
streets of Harrow and in Brent that he

746
00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:22,000
stands an excellent chance of being

747
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:26,640
elected. And if he is, he will be a

748
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:30,159
pillar of strength for you and for me in

749
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:35,440
the London Assembly. He also made the

750
00:30:30,159 --> 00:30:39,640
point that only 38% of Londoners voted

751
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:41,960
in the last Mel election. That's why we

752
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:45,440
got Boris

753
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:48,559
Johnson. A joke. Except it's not funny

754
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:52,399
when you elect a joke because the laugh

755
00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:56,720
is on you. He's had a whale of a time

756
00:30:52,399 --> 00:31:00,159
being the mayor of London. You have not.

757
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:02,600
I saw in the newspaper this morning that

758
00:31:00,159 --> 00:31:05,799
the leader of the Harrow

759
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:09,279
Council has pointed out to the

760
00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:12,960
government that not only is Harrow

761
00:31:09,279 --> 00:31:16,559
paying the third highest council tax and

762
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:20,240
has the fourth worst standard of living,

763
00:31:16,559 --> 00:31:22,799
do the maths. Not only that, but by

764
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,360
fiddling the figures, the government is

765
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:29,159
cheating

766
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:32,720
Harrow out of 39 million pounds a

767
00:31:29,159 --> 00:31:37,399
year. 39 million. Imagine what you could

768
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:40,039
do in Harrow with 39 million pounds a

769
00:31:37,399 --> 00:31:42,919
year. Every

770
00:31:40,039 --> 00:31:47,039
year. But I had a second

771
00:31:42,919 --> 00:31:49,600
thought. My second thought was this.

772
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:51,880
Why did the leader of Harrow Council not

773
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:55,640
point this out

774
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:58,640
before? Why did he only now just

775
00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:00,760
discover that the rateayers in this

776
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,720
burough are being

777
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,440
robbed? They're paying the third

778
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:08,640
highest. They are the fourth poorest and

779
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,480
they're 39 million a year out of pocket

780
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,440
because the government's fiddling the

781
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:16,559
figures is biased towards other burers.

782
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:20,720
You said they were dealing drugs on the

783
00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:23,760
street 200 yd from the South Harrow

784
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:27,120
police station. I promise you this, they

785
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:30,399
won't be dealing drugs 200 yd from the

786
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:33,039
Mayfair police station. I mean, they're

787
00:32:30,399 --> 00:32:35,480
probably in the fancy hotels snorting up

788
00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:40,240
their hooters, uh, like

789
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:43,760
Billio, but no street drug dealer 200

790
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:47,000
yards from the Mayfair Police Station or

791
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:50,120
the Kensington and Chelsea police

792
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:53,600
stations would be tolerated for 5

793
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:56,640
minutes. Which leads me to one of my

794
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,159
main campaigning priorities, and it's

795
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:02,279
policing.

796
00:32:58,159 --> 00:33:04,919
My budget would be 17 billion pounds per

797
00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:09,080
year. That's a lot of

798
00:33:04,919 --> 00:33:12,840
money. 17 billion a year. And the

799
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:15,320
greatest component of that budget is the

800
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:17,880
Metropolitan

801
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:21,279
Police. And I'm going to

802
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:23,640
insist if I'm the mayor that the London

803
00:33:21,279 --> 00:33:25,799
police has got to look like

804
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:29,000
London, which it

805
00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:33,159
doesn't. The London police looks like

806
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:38,519
me with a white face and blue

807
00:33:33,159 --> 00:33:42,720
eyes born in this country. But London is

808
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:46,679
53% nonwhite British. Why doesn't the

809
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:50,640
police force reflect that?

810
00:33:46,679 --> 00:33:55,880
McFersonen in the inquiry after the

811
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:59,279
cruel murder that took place in

812
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:02,080
Elam said that the Metropolitan Police

813
00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:02,919
was infested with, and I'm quoting him,

814
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,760
Lord

815
00:34:02,919 --> 00:34:07,000
McFersonen,

816
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,679
institutionalized

817
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,919
racism.

818
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:13,440
Now, it was good that McFersonen pointed

819
00:34:11,919 --> 00:34:16,720
that out.

820
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:18,879
It was good that the chiefs of the

821
00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:21,960
Metropolitan Police said they better do

822
00:34:18,879 --> 00:34:25,040
something about it. And for a little

823
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:28,240
while, recruitment of ethnic minority

824
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:31,200
police officers went up. But it's now

825
00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:36,119
gone down again. And it will soon be

826
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:37,720
below what it was before McFersonen

827
00:34:36,119 --> 00:34:42,159
reported.

828
00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:45,679
Why? Because for all the nice words from

829
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:48,560
the tops in the Metropolitan Police, the

830
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:51,440
canteen culture down below amongst the

831
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:54,079
other officers soon makes ethnic

832
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:57,599
minority police officers decide they're

833
00:34:54,079 --> 00:35:01,760
not welcome on this voyage and they get

834
00:34:57,599 --> 00:35:05,119
off and that has to stop.

835
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:07,839
Just as bad is the point to which I have

836
00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:10,599
just alluded that it's not just the

837
00:35:07,839 --> 00:35:13,400
color of your skin that

838
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:16,520
counts in policing

839
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:20,400
statistics. It's the color of your

840
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:23,359
collar. You see that which is tolerated

841
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:26,280
in South Harrow would not be tolerated

842
00:35:23,359 --> 00:35:29,599
in Kensington and Chelsea. If you call

843
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:32,760
999 in South Harrow, the response times

844
00:35:29,599 --> 00:35:36,079
are nothing like what they would be in

845
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:38,560
Kensington and Chelsea. And as I've

846
00:35:36,079 --> 00:35:41,960
pointed out many times, if you pick

847
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:44,640
somebody's pocket in Liverpool Street

848
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:47,440
Station, you'll be behind bars pretty

849
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,079
damn quick. But if you're one of the

850
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,640
city slickers and

851
00:35:49,079 --> 00:35:55,119
bankers working in the gleaming towers

852
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,920
of the city of London and you pick the

853
00:35:55,119 --> 00:36:02,160
bank's pocket or worse pick the public's

854
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:07,040
pocket by rigging foreign exchange rates

855
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:10,640
or by reckless gambling as if you were

856
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:13,839
in a casino, you'll never be arrested at

857
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:18,560
all. And if you are arrested, you'll

858
00:36:13,839 --> 00:36:18,560
never be sent to jail. In

859
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:27,440
2008, we had a crash caused by reckless,

860
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:30,800
negligent, and criminal activity inside

861
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:34,200
the square mile of London and the police

862
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:37,200
have done nothing about it. So my

863
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:39,920
plan is to merge the city of London

864
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:42,520
police with the metropolitan police.

865
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:45,119
There is no case for having a

866
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:48,000
sweetheart private police force which

867
00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:50,800
effectively is policing the square mile

868
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:54,000
because after all crime rates are going

869
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:56,280
up in the city of London and we need to

870
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:59,760
do something about

871
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:01,440
it. Every day we see an ever more

872
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,720
horrifying statistic. There's a black

873
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:08,760
man sitting in the front row. He's three

874
00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:12,640
times three times more likely to be

875
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:16,000
tasered by the Metropolitan Police than

876
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:18,640
any of the white people sitting here.

877
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,440
Three times more likely to be tasered.

878
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:24,520
If he were found, God

879
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:28,800
forbid, with the cannabis in his

880
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:31,599
pocket, he's twice as likely to be

881
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:34,640
charged rather than cautioned. If he

882
00:37:31,599 --> 00:37:35,480
goes to court, he's twice as likely to

883
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,480
be

884
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:40,320
convicted. And if

885
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:43,280
convicted, God forbid, he's twice as

886
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:45,760
likely to be sent to jail as a white

887
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:48,640
person caught with exactly the same

888
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:51,280
amount of cannabis and exactly the same

889
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:55,800
record of previous convictions. So

890
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:58,000
racism hasn't gone away. and class

891
00:37:55,800 --> 00:38:00,079
discrimination between Kensington and

892
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,440
Chelsea and South Harrow or the Walworth

893
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:04,440
Road or any other area where the working

894
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:08,839
class

895
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:13,720
live the policing is very different

896
00:38:08,839 --> 00:38:15,480
indeed. Now I discovered in my

897
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:20,000
research this

898
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:23,680
week that half of the people of the

899
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:28,680
burough of Harrow are earning less than

900
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:32,320
the London living wage. Half of them

901
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:35,520
50% earning less than the wage that the

902
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:38,480
government and the mayor have decided is

903
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:41,200
the minimum that you can live on in

904
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:45,760
London. and that you should be asked to

905
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:46,839
work for. Well, as the mayor, I can't

906
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:50,200
change

907
00:38:46,839 --> 00:38:53,520
everything. But as the mayor, I can say

908
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:56,880
this. Any employer paying less than the

909
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:59,920
London living wage will not be doing any

910
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:03,040
business with us. They'll not be getting

911
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:06,240
any share of the 17 billion pounds a

912
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:09,839
year that we have to spend. and we will

913
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:12,640
name them and shame them and harass them

914
00:39:09,839 --> 00:39:15,680
until they pay their workers a proper

915
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:20,520
London living wage. That I can promise

916
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:24,079
that I will deliver. Now you're

917
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,079
living you're living

918
00:39:24,599 --> 00:39:29,079
here. Some of you will be owners. Some

919
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:32,560
of you will be

920
00:39:29,079 --> 00:39:34,160
renters. Some of you will be in social

921
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,560
housing.

922
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,640
Many of you will be in the private

923
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,640
rented

924
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:45,800
sector. London last week became

925
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:50,560
officially the most expensive place on

926
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:52,200
earth to rent a house or buy a house.

927
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:55,800
Until the previous

928
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:58,960
week, it was second highest after

929
00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:01,040
Monaco, a place to which I shall return.

930
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:04,119
Not physically. I've never been there.

931
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:07,400
But in the course of my

932
00:40:04,119 --> 00:40:10,000
remarks, last week we became the most

933
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:14,079
expensive. The average price of a house

934
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,079
in London to buy is

935
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,720
£500,000. You need to be earning

936
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:28,640
£77,000 in order to pay for a house at

937
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:30,599
that price. The average rent in London

938
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:34,320
is

939
00:40:30,599 --> 00:40:37,200
£1,600 a month. And we are seeing in the

940
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:40,000
Evening Standard almost nightly, the

941
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:42,720
kind of accommodation that's on offer a

942
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,599
eye watering prices, a bed under the

943
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:50,000
stairs in somebody else's house, a

944
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:54,280
garage turned into a Beiju flat. I'm not

945
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:59,480
making this up. a lock up now a beu

946
00:40:54,280 --> 00:41:02,520
flat. Well, this is a crisis that is

947
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:06,520
socially cleansing

948
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:10,480
London. People are being driven working

949
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:13,520
people. Londoners born bred Londoners. I

950
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:15,440
meet them all the time. Real cocknney

951
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:17,599
who come into London just to walk around

952
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,920
and look at the place they used to live

953
00:41:17,599 --> 00:41:21,240
in, but they can no longer afford to

954
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:24,040
live in it.

955
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:26,119
themselves and so they're out there in

956
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:30,440
Essex or

957
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:33,800
beyond and making day trips into

958
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:36,480
London. This social cleansing has to be

959
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:39,119
reversed. And I give you this promise.

960
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:41,839
If I'm the mayor, the working class will

961
00:41:39,119 --> 00:41:44,000
begin to move back into London. How will

962
00:41:41,839 --> 00:41:48,920
I achieve that?

963
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Well, by many different tools using many

964
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:54,240
different

965
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,240
levers. Let me just deal with the most

966
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:58,800
important

967
00:41:55,240 --> 00:42:02,079
ones. If I'm the mayor, any development

968
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:05,760
in London has to get my permission. Not

969
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:09,280
a bad position to be in, is it?

970
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:12,599
can be rich, they can be powerful, but

971
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:15,440
they need my permission before they can

972
00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:18,640
build. And I'll be acting on your behalf

973
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:22,240
when I say to them that any development

974
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:26,520
that's built in London, 50% of the

975
00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:30,319
housing units will have to be affordable

976
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:33,440
housing. 50%. That was Ken Livingston's

977
00:42:30,319 --> 00:42:37,359
policy. He never actually achieved it

978
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:38,440
but he tried. Boris Johnson's policy was

979
00:42:37,359 --> 00:42:42,720
that

980
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:45,599
25% should be affordable housing but in

981
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:47,720
fact he achieved less than 10%. If I

982
00:42:45,599 --> 00:42:50,720
give you the uh

983
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:52,760
latest fabulous development at Battery

984
00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:56,319
power station

985
00:42:52,760 --> 00:43:00,640
8% of the houses are affordable. Even

986
00:42:56,319 --> 00:43:04,800
worse is their definition of affordable.

987
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:08,480
Boris Johnson now tells people that they

988
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:11,000
have to provide some affordable housing.

989
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:13,280
What's affordable housing? Ask the

990
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:16,200
developer. Well, Boris probably says,

991
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:20,240
"What would you like it to be?" But on

992
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:21,240
paper, he says 80% of the average rent

993
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:26,079
in the

994
00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:28,800
area. This is absurd. affordable to whom

995
00:43:26,079 --> 00:43:33,040
would 80% of the average rents in the

996
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:35,839
area be? So, if I'm the mayor, 50% of

997
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:38,480
all new build will be affordable housing

998
00:43:35,839 --> 00:43:43,200
and affordable housing will be defined

999
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:45,359
as 50% of the average rents in the area.

1000
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:48,720
That's why the property developers are

1001
00:43:45,359 --> 00:43:52,560
not supporting me for mayor. That's why

1002
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:54,960
no building company, no housing magnate

1003
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:58,319
is waiting at the door to give me a

1004
00:43:54,960 --> 00:44:02,160
donation for my meal campaign. They're

1005
00:43:58,319 --> 00:44:04,560
backing the labor guy because they know

1006
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:08,160
that the labor who built this city,

1007
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:10,240
whose parents endured the blitz, who are

1008
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:13,839
responsible for this great and beautiful

1009
00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:16,560
city that we have, will be pushed to the

1010
00:44:13,839 --> 00:44:18,240
margins. Let me give you just one more

1011
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,960
example. I don't have my coat with me.

1012
00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:22,920
I've got a badge in it from the Save

1013
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:26,240
Earls Court

1014
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:29,520
campaign. Earls Court, that beautiful

1015
00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:32,240
iconic art deco building and all the

1016
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,079
land that as far as you can see all

1017
00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:35,480
around

1018
00:44:33,079 --> 00:44:39,079
it has been

1019
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:45,079
perloined for mega

1020
00:44:39,079 --> 00:44:49,119
expensive upper class housing. not at

1021
00:44:45,079 --> 00:44:51,839
500,000 but at 10 times that at the top

1022
00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:54,560
houses worth millions are going to be

1023
00:44:51,839 --> 00:44:56,319
built on the site of the Ellis Court

1024
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,760
campaign and I've been involved in it

1025
00:44:56,319 --> 00:45:00,960
from the beginning indeed the last

1026
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:02,119
speeches I gave in parliament I gave 11

1027
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:05,520
on the same

1028
00:45:02,119 --> 00:45:09,040
night with Jeremy Corbin and John

1029
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:11,200
Macdonald little did I know how eminent

1030
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:14,640
they were about to become the three of

1031
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:16,640
us did a threeman man Philly buster to

1032
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:19,440
talk out the government's business and

1033
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:23,119
try and stop the so-called development

1034
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:26,640
of Eros Court which involves destroying

1035
00:45:23,119 --> 00:45:28,280
engineering works and knocking down

1036
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:33,680
council

1037
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:37,000
housing. Now we only built 78 council

1038
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:40,760
houses in London last year.

1039
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:43,760
78. When I was a kid, we used to build

1040
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:46,960
300,000 council houses in Britain every

1041
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:50,400
year. Last year in London, we built 78

1042
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:53,040
in a city bursting at the seams and

1043
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:56,440
where hundreds of thousands of people

1044
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:58,800
are on the waiting lists of the London

1045
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:01,760
Burus. So, we're not building any

1046
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:04,240
council houses, but to please property

1047
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:07,119
developers in Earl's Court, we're

1048
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:08,880
knocking council houses down and moving

1049
00:46:07,119 --> 00:46:09,800
the people, many of whom have lived

1050
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,800
there for

1051
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:15,000
generations, God knows where, wherever

1052
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:19,720
the wind will take

1053
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:24,240
them. So, my first policy is the 50 and

1054
00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:26,040
50. My second policy is this. Ian Dale

1055
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:29,560
on

1056
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:32,480
LBC nearly cried actually when I said

1057
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:34,200
this on radio not that long ago. He

1058
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,160
said, "Oh, that's very

1059
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,720
radical." I said, "It's me you're

1060
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:41,520
talking

1061
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:44,359
to." I said that in London, hundreds of

1062
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:47,920
thousands, nearly a million, in fact,

1063
00:46:44,359 --> 00:46:48,680
800,000 houses have been bought not to

1064
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:52,640
live

1065
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:55,760
in, not even to rent.

1066
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:58,119
You've heard of buy to let in London.

1067
00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:01,839
We've got buy to

1068
00:46:58,119 --> 00:47:04,160
leave. They buy houses, never live in

1069
00:47:01,839 --> 00:47:07,359
them, never let anybody else live in

1070
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:10,480
them. Why? Because they're just safety

1071
00:47:07,359 --> 00:47:12,119
deposit boxes for their money. Just cash

1072
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,960
boxes. That's all they

1073
00:47:12,119 --> 00:47:16,480
are.

1074
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:18,880
800,000 driving up the price of land,

1075
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,960
driving up the price of houses,

1076
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,800
indirectly driving up the price of

1077
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:25,599
rents.

1078
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:29,359
And all they've bought them for is to

1079
00:47:25,599 --> 00:47:31,920
turn 1 million into 1.5 million over a

1080
00:47:29,359 --> 00:47:35,200
given period of time. And most of them

1081
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:37,079
are foreign buyers. Now, obviously,

1082
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,280
somebody like me has nothing against

1083
00:47:37,079 --> 00:47:40,920
foreigners. I love foreigners. I'm

1084
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:44,720
married to a

1085
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:47,680
foreigner. But we can't have rich people

1086
00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:51,119
moving their hot money to London. We are

1087
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:53,680
the hot money capital of the world.

1088
00:47:51,119 --> 00:47:56,160
More hot monies coming in here and being

1089
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:58,280
salted into property than anywhere else

1090
00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:00,400
in the world, including

1091
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,520
Monaco, which I promise I'm going to

1092
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:06,160
come back

1093
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:10,960
to, than anywhere else in the world. And

1094
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:13,040
they do it to avoid the gaze of their

1095
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:16,160
own governments, of their own police

1096
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:18,960
forces, of their own media, because much

1097
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:21,119
of that hot money is stolen money. Some

1098
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:23,800
of you may have seen a documentary

1099
00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:27,160
recently, a few months ago now, on

1100
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:30,599
television called From Russia with

1101
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:32,920
Cash, where a guy, a Russian guy

1102
00:48:30,599 --> 00:48:35,599
pretended that he was an

1103
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:39,559
oligarch driving, being driven actually

1104
00:48:35,599 --> 00:48:41,599
in a Jaguar with a with a very

1105
00:48:39,559 --> 00:48:43,720
glamorous, she wasn't actually all that

1106
00:48:41,599 --> 00:48:47,680
glamorous,

1107
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:50,240
girlfriend, and they pretended that he

1108
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:52,880
was was a government minister in Russia

1109
00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:55,200
in the health department. And as he

1110
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:57,000
explained on camera to a whole

1111
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,200
succession of estate

1112
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,280
agents, you know, I get a bit of this

1113
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,599
and a bit of that off every deal. And

1114
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:05,440
I've made myself a pile of money and I

1115
00:49:03,599 --> 00:49:07,359
want to put it in London. I want to buy

1116
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:10,640
a house with it, but I never want

1117
00:49:07,359 --> 00:49:13,319
anybody to know that I own it. And every

1118
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:17,760
single one of the estate agents,

1119
00:49:13,319 --> 00:49:20,800
everyone at all levels, £400,000 flat to

1120
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,240
a 14 million pound house, every estate

1121
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:25,200
agent said, "Don't worry about that,

1122
00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:26,720
sir. We do that all the time. We can

1123
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,920
make the arrangements. We'll fix you up

1124
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:31,599
with a lawyer." Very damning, actually.

1125
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,760
I don't know if anyone lost their job or

1126
00:49:31,599 --> 00:49:36,720
was prosecuted over it, but they ought

1127
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:38,400
to have been both.

1128
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:40,839
That's what's happening in London and

1129
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:45,400
that's what's driving the prices ever

1130
00:49:40,839 --> 00:49:49,280
upwards. So here's my

1131
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:52,240
promise. Any house in London that is not

1132
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:55,119
lived in for a year or more without

1133
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:56,040
legitimate excuse, I will compulsorily

1134
00:49:55,119 --> 00:49:58,480
purchase

1135
00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:00,079
it. There's a cheaper way. I could ask

1136
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:02,640
the police not to notice if the

1137
00:50:00,079 --> 00:50:05,440
squatters move in, but I better not

1138
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:07,119
promise that while the camera's running.

1139
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,640
But what we can't have is people

1140
00:50:07,119 --> 00:50:13,839
homeless in London while houses lie

1141
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:16,000
empty just to appreciate capital value

1142
00:50:13,839 --> 00:50:18,240
for their owners. So Ian Dale was right.

1143
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:22,319
That's a pretty radical policy. But then

1144
00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:24,440
you would expect nothing less from me

1145
00:50:22,319 --> 00:50:27,359
and I'll be

1146
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:29,359
campaigning with Jeremy Corbin as the

1147
00:50:27,359 --> 00:50:32,880
leader of the Labor Party, my comrade

1148
00:50:29,359 --> 00:50:34,440
for almost 30 years in parliament.

1149
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:38,640
I'll be

1150
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:42,160
campaigning for a mass drive to build

1151
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:45,119
council houses and against the sale of

1152
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:48,880
housing association houses which Sadi

1153
00:50:45,119 --> 00:50:51,599
Khan I noticed today is supporting. I'm

1154
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:53,760
not I opposed the sale of council houses

1155
00:50:51,599 --> 00:50:56,000
from the beginning when Mrs. Thatcher

1156
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:58,760
brought it in and I'll oppose it as long

1157
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:02,839
as God gives me breath

1158
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:05,520
because many people will always need

1159
00:51:02,839 --> 00:51:07,920
affordable, social, democratically

1160
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:11,079
accountable housing to live in because

1161
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:15,119
they'll never be able to buy at

1162
00:51:11,079 --> 00:51:18,000
£500,000 and climbing. Now, Hapsa's

1163
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:20,960
indicating to me that I've gone on too

1164
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:23,440
long, so I might not get back to Monaco

1165
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,460
until the Q&A. Thank you very much

1166
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:34,520
indeed for

1167
00:51:24,460 --> 00:51:36,559
[Applause]

1168
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,480
coming. Uh ladies and gentlemen, thank

1169
00:51:36,559 --> 00:51:40,400
you very much. Uh just before we move on

1170
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,680
to the Q&A, just wanted to say if you've

1171
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,359
obviously enjoyed what you've heard and

1172
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:45,200
you do want to get involved, other than

1173
00:51:43,359 --> 00:51:47,280
the donations, you're welcome to leave

1174
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,400
your names uh so that we can get in

1175
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:50,160
touch with you and you can help us with

1176
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,680
the leafleting or in any possible way

1177
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:53,680
you can. So that would be very welcome.

1178
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:55,599
Uh so first of all if anyone wants to

1179
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,119
ask a question please stand up and and

1180
00:51:55,599 --> 00:52:00,119
ask a question and I'll hand over the

1181
00:51:57,119 --> 00:52:00,119
mic

1182
00:52:06,559 --> 00:52:13,359
Mr. Gway now is your friend comrade Mr.

1183
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:15,760
Corbin thank you is the Labor party

1184
00:52:13,359 --> 00:52:17,760
leader so is there any chance you can

1185
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:21,520
join him now?

1186
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:24,720
Well, the position I've taken and I will

1187
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:27,040
take it throughout is that I was

1188
00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:30,160
unjustly expelled from the Labor Party

1189
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:33,040
and they have to rescend my expulsion.

1190
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:34,960
I'm not going to ask to get back into a

1191
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:37,920
party I should never have been kicked

1192
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:40,640
out of in the first place. I was 36

1193
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:45,200
years in the Labor Party. I was expelled

1194
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:48,800
in 36 minutes. What symmetry is that?

1195
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:52,800
and I was expelled despite the

1196
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:57,040
appearance at my expulsion of Mr. Foot,

1197
00:52:52,800 --> 00:53:00,000
Mr. Ben, and Mr. Corbin, all of whom

1198
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:05,040
attended the expulsion and pleaded with

1199
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:08,720
the tribunal not to expel me. So, I'm a

1200
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:10,960
labor man. I'm not any other kind ofist.

1201
00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:14,160
I'm not a communist, a Troskyist, an

1202
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:16,160
anarchist, or any otherist. and Labor.

1203
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:19,599
And I'll tell you what, I'm a lot more

1204
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:22,720
Labor than Sadi Khan, my Labor opponent

1205
00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:22,720
in this

1206
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:28,480
election. If I'm elected as mayor, I'm

1207
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:31,119
pretty sure the whole Labor Party will

1208
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:33,839
be begging me to come back, just like

1209
00:53:31,119 --> 00:53:36,839
they did with Ken Livingston.

1210
00:53:33,839 --> 00:53:36,839
Thanks.

1211
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:45,359
Uh, first I'd like to congratulate you

1212
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:48,240
that the roof didn't fall in when you

1213
00:53:45,359 --> 00:53:51,119
came into a church. But no, seriously, I

1214
00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:53,920
like I I support everything you've said.

1215
00:53:51,119 --> 00:53:55,760
Thank you. Um the point I would like to

1216
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:58,720
make and it's particularly uh pertinent

1217
00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:05,000
in so far as there's so many Asians here

1218
00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:08,760
which I um pleased of is I know how much

1219
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:14,720
you've fought against the Iraq

1220
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:18,800
war and now Cameron is trying his best

1221
00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:22,760
to get Britain to bomb Syria.

1222
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:25,839
And I'd just like to make two very quick

1223
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:28,599
points. Ex-F French foreign minister

1224
00:54:25,839 --> 00:54:31,280
Roland Dumas is on

1225
00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:33,160
record of saying that when he visited

1226
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:36,119
London in

1227
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:40,400
2009, he was approached by high British

1228
00:54:36,119 --> 00:54:42,880
officials who told him that Britain was

1229
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:45,200
going to overthrow Assad with use of

1230
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:47,200
mercenaries. That's 2009, at least two

1231
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:50,119
years before the so-called Arab Spring

1232
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:54,400
kicked off. And in

1233
00:54:50,119 --> 00:54:57,960
2001, fourstar general retired

1234
00:54:54,400 --> 00:55:01,200
uh Wesley Clark, ex Supreme Allied

1235
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:04,200
Commander, is on record as saying he

1236
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:07,599
visited the Pentagon shortly after

1237
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:09,760
9/11 to find out what was going on. And

1238
00:55:07,599 --> 00:55:12,559
he was told by a three star serving

1239
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:14,480
general on the Joint Chiefs of Staff

1240
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:16,040
that Britain uh that the United States

1241
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:19,280
was going to attack

1242
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:20,680
Iraq. So he went home and when they

1243
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:23,040
started attacking

1244
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:24,559
Afghanistan, he went back, spoke to the

1245
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:27,280
same general and said, "Are we still

1246
00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:29,119
going to attack Iraq?" And the general

1247
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,960
said, "It's worse than that. We're going

1248
00:55:29,119 --> 00:55:35,000
to take out seven governments in 5

1249
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:38,559
years." And he named them. Iraq, Syria,

1250
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:40,640
Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and

1251
00:55:38,559 --> 00:55:42,640
Iran. Obviously, the time scale has

1252
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:46,880
slipped, but it shows that all these

1253
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:49,680
wars, all they are is regime change, and

1254
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:51,359
I I'll give you the links later on, and

1255
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:54,160
anyone else who wants them, I'll give

1256
00:55:51,359 --> 00:55:57,280
them. So, anyway, good luck with the uh

1257
00:55:54,160 --> 00:56:00,400
I'll be voting for you. Thank you, sir.

1258
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:03,040
Well, uh, Hapsa, it's quite, uh, uncanny

1259
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:05,200
that the gentleman should quote General

1260
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:07,040
Clark, uh, in the way that he did

1261
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:10,079
because my wife and I have just finished

1262
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:11,760
a film called The Killing of Tony Blair.

1263
00:56:10,079 --> 00:56:12,760
It doesn't actually involve me killing

1264
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:16,440
Tony

1265
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:19,200
Blair, though they'd pay for

1266
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,440
that, but it deals with the killings of

1267
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:23,440
Tony

1268
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:26,880
Blair. And General Clark is in the film

1269
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:28,280
saying exactly what you just said. And

1270
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,960
it is

1271
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:34,880
uncanny that though the time scale has

1272
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:38,720
slipped, the targeting is exactly as the

1273
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:40,480
general told Wesley Clark uh back in

1274
00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:43,079
2001.

1275
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:46,480
It would be

1276
00:56:43,079 --> 00:56:49,920
adding disaster upon disaster, would be

1277
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:53,119
pouring petrol upon the flames. If

1278
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:57,319
Britain, after its role in the Iraq war,

1279
00:56:53,119 --> 00:57:00,720
were to now do the same in

1280
00:56:57,319 --> 00:57:02,440
Syria. after that has worked out, in the

1281
00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:04,680
way that that has worked out, how

1282
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:06,880
anyone, never mind a member of

1283
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:11,040
parliament, could think it was a good

1284
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:15,440
idea for Britain to invade another Arab

1285
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:18,119
Muslim country is simply beyond me. But

1286
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:21,119
I have to tell you that it's worse than

1287
00:57:18,119 --> 00:57:23,839
bombing. In a way, everybody's bombing

1288
00:57:21,119 --> 00:57:26,240
Syria now. God knows how there's enough

1289
00:57:23,839 --> 00:57:28,559
airspace for all these airplanes that

1290
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:31,599
are bombing that small country.

1291
00:57:28,559 --> 00:57:33,839
Britain's plan is much worse than that.

1292
00:57:31,599 --> 00:57:37,280
It's not just to bomb Syria, but to

1293
00:57:33,839 --> 00:57:40,880
seize pieces of Syrian territory by

1294
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:44,599
force against the wishes of the Syrian

1295
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:47,680
government and without a United Nations

1296
00:57:44,599 --> 00:57:51,200
resolution to seize parts of Syria and

1297
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:54,319
declare them as no-fly zones, safe

1298
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:58,799
havens, all the old hogwash that we

1299
00:57:54,319 --> 00:58:02,119
heard in the Iraq war uh 15 years ago

1300
00:57:58,799 --> 00:58:06,960
almost now.

1301
00:58:02,119 --> 00:58:09,280
The doing so, if we did, would mean that

1302
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:13,640
a state of war would exist between

1303
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:18,440
Britain and Syria and all its allies,

1304
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:20,720
Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and the Syrian

1305
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:23,680
army. I don't think the Queen's got

1306
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:25,440
enough soldiers for that. Do you? I

1307
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:28,440
don't think the British public would

1308
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:30,200
tolerate the casualties from that. Do

1309
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:34,079
you?

1310
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:36,079
Yet, not just David Cameron is planning

1311
00:58:34,079 --> 00:58:40,240
to put that motion before the House

1312
00:58:36,079 --> 00:58:42,880
perhaps this week, but that some idiots

1313
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:45,040
who call themselves Labor MPs in

1314
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:47,520
defiance of the Labor Conference, in

1315
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,520
defiance of the leader Jeremy Corbin are

1316
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:52,760
planning to vote with the Tories to do

1317
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:55,200
it. I'm almost tempted. I say almost

1318
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:57,839
because I can't really because of the

1319
00:58:55,200 --> 00:59:02,640
blood that will be spilled. I'm almost

1320
00:58:57,839 --> 00:59:06,559
tempted to say go ahead because nothing

1321
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:09,760
is more guaranteed to end an in absolute

1322
00:59:06,559 --> 00:59:13,359
disaster for the war party than this

1323
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:15,920
crazy plan which if anything is even

1324
00:59:13,359 --> 00:59:18,240
more crazy than the invasion of Iraq was

1325
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:22,079
in the first place. Now I was expelled

1326
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:23,599
over the Iraq war. Labor under Jeremy

1327
00:59:22,079 --> 00:59:26,960
Corbin, we're told, though it hasn't

1328
00:59:23,599 --> 00:59:29,040
happened yet, are going to apologize for

1329
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:33,319
the Iraq war. Well, they better

1330
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:33,319
apologize to me at the same time.

1331
00:59:36,079 --> 00:59:38,880
We just have two questions at a time.

1332
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:42,920
And please, can you keep your question

1333
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,920
short and sweet? Thank you very much.

1334
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:52,640
Hi, George. Hi. Um my question is about

1335
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:55,760
uh Sadique Khan. Um I'm a full paid up

1336
00:59:52,640 --> 01:00:00,799
Labour member. Um I actually voted for

1337
00:59:55,760 --> 01:00:03,680
Sadi to keep um Tessa off the uh ballot

1338
01:00:00,799 --> 01:00:06,319
paper basically and hope everyone is

1339
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:10,240
happy about that. My question is why do

1340
01:00:06,319 --> 01:00:13,200
you think that Sadi is doing things like

1341
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:16,000
in regard to housing from someone that

1342
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:19,880
come from humble beginnings lived in a

1343
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:22,960
council house he openly is proud of

1344
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:26,319
that why why do you think he's in the

1345
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:29,920
pockets of the wealthy rather than the

1346
01:00:26,319 --> 01:00:32,720
the anti-esterity movement which Jeremy

1347
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:35,079
Corbyn is leading

1348
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:40,000
well uh he wouldn't be the first uh

1349
01:00:35,079 --> 01:00:42,280
labor figure to go down that path. Uh

1350
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:45,599
Ramsey Macdonald, the first Labour prime

1351
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:48,480
minister, came from much humbler uh

1352
01:00:45,599 --> 01:00:51,480
origins than Sadi Khan or me, though

1353
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:54,400
both Sadi and me came from the same

1354
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:55,880
origins, a child of immigrants, my case

1355
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:59,119
Irish, his case

1356
01:00:55,880 --> 01:01:01,280
Pakistani, and uh was brought up in a

1357
01:00:59,119 --> 01:01:04,319
council house and so on. But Ramsey

1358
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:08,240
Macdonald was an so-called illegitimate

1359
01:01:04,319 --> 01:01:10,920
child uh with a single parent who grew

1360
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:13,280
up on a croft in Scotland in the direest

1361
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:16,079
poverty. But as soon as he saw the

1362
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:19,680
jewels that the daagers jangled in front

1363
01:01:16,079 --> 01:01:24,160
of him, he was a slave to them. It's a

1364
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:28,000
long and dishonorable path that Sadi

1365
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:30,680
Khan is following. Um, I'll tell you

1366
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:33,200
what he's doing and we

1367
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:37,040
intend just like we did in Bethnog Green

1368
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:40,880
and Bo in 2005 to prove him wrong. He

1369
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:43,680
thinks or thought that he had your votes

1370
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:46,000
in his pocket. After all, you're hardly

1371
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:49,359
going to vote for the billionaire

1372
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:52,160
uh Zack Goldmith. So he thought he could

1373
01:01:49,359 --> 01:01:54,799
count on you without trying, without

1374
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:58,880
offering anything at all, and then he

1375
01:01:54,799 --> 01:02:00,799
could go after the rich and the

1376
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:03,040
supporters of Israel and all the

1377
01:02:00,799 --> 01:02:05,559
different groups that he's now uh

1378
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:10,040
cowtowing

1379
01:02:05,559 --> 01:02:13,640
to. He thinks that if he

1380
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:16,480
daily escues labor

1381
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:19,119
values that he can capture votes on the

1382
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:21,680
other side of the aisle. But what about

1383
01:02:19,119 --> 01:02:23,520
the people that believe in labor values?

1384
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:25,599
Why should they vote for somebody who is

1385
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:29,200
openly stating that he doesn't believe

1386
01:02:25,599 --> 01:02:32,319
in labor values? Sadik Khan said that

1387
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:35,680
the economic policy of Jeremy Corbin was

1388
01:02:32,319 --> 01:02:38,160
ridiculous. He said he would not support

1389
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:40,880
raising the rate of income tax for the

1390
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:44,400
top people. He said he would not support

1391
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:46,400
raising corporation tax on the profits

1392
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:50,000
of companies. And I'm definitely going

1393
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:52,880
to come back to Monaco eventually. He

1394
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:55,000
said that Jeremy Corbin and John

1395
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:58,119
Macdonald had encouraged

1396
01:02:55,000 --> 01:03:01,280
terrorism by their stand on

1397
01:02:58,119 --> 01:03:04,880
Ireland in the past and on the Middle

1398
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:07,359
East now. That's a very strong thing to

1399
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:10,160
say when you're the Labor candidate for

1400
01:03:07,359 --> 01:03:12,480
mayor. You're saying of the Labor

1401
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:14,960
candidate for prime minister that he

1402
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:17,520
encouraged terrorism. He denounced them

1403
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:20,880
for not bending and kissing the Queen's

1404
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:23,839
hand and all the attacks daily almost.

1405
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:26,880
He said, "I'm going to be the most pro

1406
01:03:23,839 --> 01:03:28,520
business mayor London has ever had."

1407
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:31,599
Well, I'm going to be the most

1408
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:33,160
pro-worker mayor that London has ever

1409
01:03:31,599 --> 01:03:36,400
had.

1410
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:38,559
business, big business, and the banks

1411
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:41,839
don't need a mayor. They're already

1412
01:03:38,559 --> 01:03:45,280
powerful enough. It's the workers and

1413
01:03:41,839 --> 01:03:48,960
the tenants and those struggling that

1414
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:51,520
need a mayor uh on their side. So, it's

1415
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:54,640
called triangulation. Bill Clinton

1416
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:58,079
invented it that if there's this

1417
01:03:54,640 --> 01:04:00,720
position and that position then

1418
01:03:58,079 --> 01:04:04,000
depending on which of those positions

1419
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:08,000
needs you more than they need and chase

1420
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:09,079
votes there and un king in Bethnog Green

1421
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:14,079
in

1422
01:04:09,079 --> 01:04:17,119
2005 voted for the Iraq war even though

1423
01:04:14,079 --> 01:04:20,079
90% of tower hamlets was against the

1424
01:04:17,119 --> 01:04:21,760
Iraq war because she figured that The

1425
01:04:20,079 --> 01:04:24,960
people of Tower Hamlets had no choice

1426
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:27,520
but to reelect her. And I proved that

1427
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:30,720
wrong by entering the race and defeating

1428
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:32,319
her and wiping out her big Labor

1429
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:36,039
majority. And I intend to do the same

1430
01:04:32,319 --> 01:04:36,039
here in London.

1431
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:46,599
Hello, George. Yes, sir.

1432
01:04:42,319 --> 01:04:49,720
I have been to Syria, Iraq and

1433
01:04:46,599 --> 01:04:52,200
Afghanistan before America destroyed

1434
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:55,359
them. I mean

1435
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:58,880
they George Bush said either you are

1436
01:04:55,359 --> 01:05:02,640
with us or with the terrorist. Now if

1437
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:06,240
this is the policy and Tony Blair gave

1438
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:08,480
his blessing to Bush. So the war

1439
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:11,280
combined together they just trying to

1440
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:13,400
destroy the Islamic countries so that

1441
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:16,720
they can rule

1442
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:20,559
again. British policy was to occupy and

1443
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:23,640
rule. American policy is to destroy and

1444
01:05:20,559 --> 01:05:26,240
put their somebody's man and

1445
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:28,960
watch. So what do you say about this in

1446
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:31,280
politics? Well uh Tony Blair didn't just

1447
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:33,839
give his blessing to Bush. He was

1448
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:36,319
central to the Iraq war. Indeed, in our

1449
01:05:33,839 --> 01:05:40,000
film, we have Nom Chomsky, the great

1450
01:05:36,319 --> 01:05:42,559
American uh intellectual, saying that

1451
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:44,400
without Tony Blair, he doesn't believe

1452
01:05:42,559 --> 01:05:47,599
that George Bush could have pulled this

1453
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:50,079
whole thing off. Therefore, Blair is

1454
01:05:47,599 --> 01:05:54,319
absolutely centrally responsible for

1455
01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:55,640
this uh crime. Yeah. Um there's only one

1456
01:05:54,319 --> 01:05:58,880
thing on

1457
01:05:55,640 --> 01:06:00,799
which I would not disagree with you, but

1458
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:04,319
but raise another raise it from another

1459
01:06:00,799 --> 01:06:06,400
angle. I promise you these people are

1460
01:06:04,319 --> 01:06:07,799
not destroying these countries because

1461
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:10,079
they are

1462
01:06:07,799 --> 01:06:13,440
Islamic. You and I are old enough to

1463
01:06:10,079 --> 01:06:16,880
remember when the United States dropped

1464
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:20,000
more bombs on Vietnam than were dropped

1465
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:22,599
in the entirety of the Second World War.

1466
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:25,760
It's not that they have a particular

1467
01:06:22,599 --> 01:06:28,240
desire to drop bombs on Muslims.

1468
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:30,559
Although, as it happens, almost all the

1469
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:33,799
people on whom bombs are being dropped

1470
01:06:30,559 --> 01:06:36,920
now are Muslim, but not because they're

1471
01:06:33,799 --> 01:06:40,319
Muslim. Because the imperialist

1472
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:43,280
countries cannot accept that they do not

1473
01:06:40,319 --> 01:06:45,440
control the resources and the markets

1474
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:49,039
and the rock the the raw materials and

1475
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:51,440
the commodities of the world. So in

1476
01:06:49,039 --> 01:06:54,599
Vietnam they had to crush it. In Korea

1477
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:57,680
before that they had to crush any

1478
01:06:54,599 --> 01:07:01,359
alternative to their hegman, a word

1479
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:04,559
you'll know uh to their domination uh of

1480
01:07:01,359 --> 01:07:07,119
these uh areas. Don't imagine that

1481
01:07:04,559 --> 01:07:10,000
anybody at Westminster knows anything

1482
01:07:07,119 --> 01:07:12,640
about Islam. You'll hear them talking

1483
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:14,480
about Sunni and Shia if you put a

1484
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:16,960
microphone in front of them and ask them

1485
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:19,839
to define the differences between Sunni

1486
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:22,000
and Shia. None of them could do so.

1487
01:07:19,839 --> 01:07:24,079
They're quite happy if you pray five

1488
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:27,760
times a day. They don't care if you

1489
01:07:24,079 --> 01:07:30,799
fast. They don't care if you perform

1490
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:33,520
Hajj. You can do that if you like. When

1491
01:07:30,799 --> 01:07:35,000
the Sha was running Iran, they were

1492
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:38,400
really

1493
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:41,839
pro-Shia because the Sha was one of

1494
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:44,640
their uh puppets. When Humeni came to

1495
01:07:41,839 --> 01:07:47,520
rule Iran, they hated the Shia and they

1496
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:51,559
suddenly hated the Iranians.

1497
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:54,160
In Iraq, they put a Shia government in

1498
01:07:51,559 --> 01:07:55,960
power. While in Lebanon, they tell us

1499
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:59,200
the Shia

1500
01:07:55,960 --> 01:08:03,440
uh liberation movement, Hezbollah, is

1501
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:06,880
the greatest threat uh to uh life as we

1502
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:08,520
know it. They're hypocrites. It's not a

1503
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:11,680
clash of

1504
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:14,559
civilizations. It's not Christianity

1505
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:16,880
that's making war on the Islamic

1506
01:08:14,559 --> 01:08:19,520
countries. Christians believe in the

1507
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:22,239
prophets, peace be upon them. Bush and

1508
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:24,080
Blair believe in the prophets and how to

1509
01:08:22,239 --> 01:08:27,080
get a bigger piece of them. That's the

1510
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:27,080
reality.

1511
01:08:32,279 --> 01:08:39,199
Mr. My second question is uh if you

1512
01:08:36,319 --> 01:08:42,239
become a mayor of London, how would you

1513
01:08:39,199 --> 01:08:44,080
deal the chel Chelsea barracks

1514
01:08:42,239 --> 01:08:46,799
development?

1515
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:50,480
uh because this is funded by the rich

1516
01:08:46,799 --> 01:08:54,480
mega rich people or powerful people like

1517
01:08:50,480 --> 01:08:57,759
royals powerful royals as well and these

1518
01:08:54,480 --> 01:08:59,759
rich foreigners as well. Well, if I

1519
01:08:57,759 --> 01:09:02,560
could and if Al Jazzer are here, perhaps

1520
01:08:59,759 --> 01:09:06,640
they can take this message back to his

1521
01:09:02,560 --> 01:09:09,600
highness the Amir. I'll build a

1522
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:11,839
fantastic new council house estate on

1523
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:14,799
the Chelsea barracks site. That's what

1524
01:09:11,839 --> 01:09:17,520
we need. And if I could do it, I would

1525
01:09:14,799 --> 01:09:20,719
do it. Of course, I can't because the

1526
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:21,960
land is owned by the Amir ofQatar who

1527
01:09:20,719 --> 01:09:26,159
owns now

1528
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:29,359
18% uh of London, believe it or not,

1529
01:09:26,159 --> 01:09:31,839
including the Camden Lock Market, the

1530
01:09:29,359 --> 01:09:34,080
hippie market. So when you go there to

1531
01:09:31,839 --> 01:09:37,279
buy your cheesecloth shirt, as I'm sure

1532
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:39,239
you do in the summertime, you're putting

1533
01:09:37,279 --> 01:09:42,719
money in the pockets of the Amir

1534
01:09:39,239 --> 01:09:46,000
ofQatar, the Shard, the Chelsea Barrack

1535
01:09:42,719 --> 01:09:49,359
site, Harrods uh and uh much of

1536
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:53,279
Knightsbridge is owned by the the royal

1537
01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:57,360
family of Qatar. I'm banned from Qatar.

1538
01:09:53,279 --> 01:09:59,920
Uh I'm not allowed to go to Qatar. Um,

1539
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:02,239
but not because of my plan to build a

1540
01:09:59,920 --> 01:10:06,239
council house estate on the Chelsea

1541
01:10:02,239 --> 01:10:07,800
site. Uh, but for other reasons. Uh, but

1542
01:10:06,239 --> 01:10:11,040
I'm not going to

1543
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:13,679
banqatar from London. Everybody will be

1544
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:16,840
welcome in London, whether they're

1545
01:10:13,679 --> 01:10:20,400
royals or so-called commoners. And we

1546
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:24,239
welcome investment that will benefit the

1547
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:25,840
people of London. But we can't allow

1548
01:10:24,239 --> 01:10:28,480
this so-called, they call it

1549
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:31,120
gentrification, but if they were gents,

1550
01:10:28,480 --> 01:10:34,560
it would be easier to bear. They're the

1551
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:37,679
least gentlemanly uh uh uh individuals.

1552
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:40,640
We can't allow rich people to buy

1553
01:10:37,679 --> 01:10:43,520
property and then not use it. That's

1554
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:46,400
something over which I have control and

1555
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:46,400
will exercise

1556
01:10:46,679 --> 01:10:50,920
control. Any others?

1557
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:57,520
Hi, George. Um, it's nice to see you.

1558
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:59,920
Hi. Um, I'm a Cockney. Excellent. Born

1559
01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:02,239
uh very close to the stumps in the Oval,

1560
01:10:59,920 --> 01:11:06,120
as was my mother and my grandmother. I'm

1561
01:11:02,239 --> 01:11:11,480
a bit of an exile out here in Harum.

1562
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:14,679
Um, I bought a house with my husband in

1563
01:11:11,480 --> 01:11:17,199
1984 and

1564
01:11:14,679 --> 01:11:19,040
um, we had three children at the time.

1565
01:11:17,199 --> 01:11:22,480
So, it was just with my my husband at

1566
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:24,560
the time and we could afford it. Now,

1567
01:11:22,480 --> 01:11:26,960
just getting back to this housing. Um

1568
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:31,120
now my grown-up children even though one

1569
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:32,640
is a college lecturer none of them have

1570
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:35,040
stand any chance of being able to afford

1571
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:37,600
their own homes even at the affordable

1572
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:41,840
you know we were able to do it just with

1573
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:44,560
his wages at the time and he was newly

1574
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:47,040
out of university so he just had you

1575
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:48,600
know he wasn't you know right up in his

1576
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:51,440
career

1577
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:53,440
path. How are we going to get either

1578
01:11:51,440 --> 01:11:55,760
wages up because we have this minimum

1579
01:11:53,440 --> 01:11:57,760
wage or the living wage which is not a

1580
01:11:55,760 --> 01:12:00,679
living wage. Back then we didn't get any

1581
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:05,120
benefits at all. We were able to do

1582
01:12:00,679 --> 01:12:10,040
this. Um so how how can you get either

1583
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:13,280
because the the cost of housing now

1584
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:16,560
um wages in around London as you said in

1585
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:19,679
Harrow are the lowest. Yeah. What can we

1586
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:22,000
do to address this? There's no because I

1587
01:12:19,679 --> 01:12:24,560
think most of the people here um I've

1588
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:25,679
also got a 16-year-old son. None of his

1589
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:30,320
friends are ever going to be able to

1590
01:12:25,679 --> 01:12:31,719
live in Harrow. No, we have now for the

1591
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:34,120
first

1592
01:12:31,719 --> 01:12:37,960
time people in their

1593
01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:40,800
30s still sleeping in their childhood

1594
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:43,920
bedrooms, living with their parents

1595
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:46,320
because they can't afford to move out.

1596
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:48,719
We have people who had moved out can no

1597
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:52,159
longer afford to live out moving back

1598
01:12:48,719 --> 01:12:55,760
and sleeping on their parents' sofas. We

1599
01:12:52,159 --> 01:13:00,560
have a generation now which by the way

1600
01:12:55,760 --> 01:13:04,159
has for the first time a huge albatross

1601
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:06,640
of student debt around its neck. I never

1602
01:13:04,159 --> 01:13:08,840
was a student. I left school when I was

1603
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:11,920
16 and a half. I went to work. I paid

1604
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:15,360
for the university education of others,

1605
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:17,920
including Tony Blair, who got a grant to

1606
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:20,320
study at Oxford University entirely free

1607
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:22,480
of charge. But now the Blair government

1608
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:26,159
kicked that ladder away from our

1609
01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:28,320
children now. And not only can they not

1610
01:13:26,159 --> 01:13:30,520
get a mortgage, they've already got a

1611
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:33,679
mortgage called their student loan

1612
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:37,040
repayment around their neck. And this is

1613
01:13:33,679 --> 01:13:39,360
a real crisis. And I must tell you

1614
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:42,320
again, I say I like him as an

1615
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:44,960
individual. How can Zach Goldsmith know

1616
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:48,239
anything about that story you've just

1617
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:50,480
told us? He's never had to pay rent.

1618
01:13:48,239 --> 01:13:52,800
He's never had to pay a mortgage. He's

1619
01:13:50,480 --> 01:13:57,080
never had to worry a single moment in

1620
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:59,840
his entire life knowing that every month

1621
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:02,400
£600,000 in interest is going to drop

1622
01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:05,960
into his bank account, leaving the

1623
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:09,600
capital sum of 700 million.

1624
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:10,920
untouched. Now, nice or not, why would

1625
01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:14,520
you elect a

1626
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:18,320
mayor whose life is so different to

1627
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:20,400
yours that he cannot possibly imagine

1628
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:22,360
what you're going through and as you

1629
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:26,880
just described to

1630
01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:28,960
us. All I can do is say that nobody who

1631
01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:31,040
isn't paying the London living wage will

1632
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:35,840
do any business from us. That's a real

1633
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:38,239
threat because in a 17 billion budget,

1634
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:41,120
there's a whole lot of companies earning

1635
01:14:38,239 --> 01:14:42,679
from that budget. I'm not just talking

1636
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:45,679
about the mayor's

1637
01:14:42,679 --> 01:14:47,400
office. I'm saying nobody will do any

1638
01:14:45,679 --> 01:14:50,480
business with

1639
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:53,280
TfL unless they're paying their workers

1640
01:14:50,480 --> 01:14:56,520
the London living wage. No one will do

1641
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:58,640
any business with any part of the London

1642
01:14:56,520 --> 01:15:00,640
mealy unless they're paying their

1643
01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:02,719
workers the London living wage. That

1644
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:05,679
will have the effect of driving up

1645
01:15:02,719 --> 01:15:06,679
wages. Of that I am in no doubt, though

1646
01:15:05,679 --> 01:15:09,520
they'll

1647
01:15:06,679 --> 01:15:11,440
squeal. They'll squeal that we're going

1648
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:13,679
to put them out of business and so on.

1649
01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:15,440
But that's what they did when Labor

1650
01:15:13,679 --> 01:15:17,760
introduced the national minimum wage in

1651
01:15:15,440 --> 01:15:21,600
the first place. and none of them went

1652
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:24,199
out of business as a result of the the

1653
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:27,760
national minimum wage. So, I'll I'll do

1654
01:15:24,199 --> 01:15:30,080
that. I'll push for a drive on council

1655
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:32,440
houses and I'll do the other things on

1656
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:34,560
housing that I

1657
01:15:32,440 --> 01:15:37,520
mentioned. But, you know, the greatest

1658
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:39,400
power the mayor of London has, it's the

1659
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:41,920
power of a

1660
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:45,120
pullpit. And I've got quite a good voice

1661
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:47,520
for a pullpit. There'll be no one in

1662
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:49,840
Britain, never mind in London. There'll

1663
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:53,679
be no one in most parts of the world,

1664
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:56,239
never mind in Britain, who will not know

1665
01:15:53,679 --> 01:15:58,080
the platform on which I've been elected

1666
01:15:56,239 --> 01:16:01,360
and the people with whom I'm doing

1667
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:04,000
battle on your behalf. I think even if

1668
01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:07,360
you don't like me, those of you in this

1669
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:09,520
room already know that that's true. If

1670
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:12,719
Sadi Khan is elected mayor of London,

1671
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:15,650
nobody will notice. If I'm elected,

1672
01:16:12,719 --> 01:16:23,990
mayor of London, everybody will notice.

1673
01:16:15,650 --> 01:16:23,990
[Applause]

1674
01:16:24,159 --> 01:16:30,480
Yes. Salam. Uh I'm from London as well

1675
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:32,640
and uh I'm actually working in central

1676
01:16:30,480 --> 01:16:35,520
London. Uh I have been working there for

1677
01:16:32,640 --> 01:16:37,679
a number of years now. And uh one of the

1678
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:40,239
things which I've really noticed that is

1679
01:16:37,679 --> 01:16:43,520
a major problem particularly for people

1680
01:16:40,239 --> 01:16:46,480
in London and driving around London is

1681
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:49,920
the traffic issue. I have personally

1682
01:16:46,480 --> 01:16:52,560
spoken to uh and know a number of uh

1683
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:55,520
black cab drivers, typical London black

1684
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:58,239
cab drivers and uh they are just one

1685
01:16:55,520 --> 01:17:00,719
example of the people who suffer due to

1686
01:16:58,239 --> 01:17:02,880
uh huge traffic in central London and

1687
01:17:00,719 --> 01:17:04,400
around London in general. uh people

1688
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:06,800
trying to drive from one end of London

1689
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:09,840
to another, not just in central, they

1690
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:12,560
struggle. Wherever you you turn, there's

1691
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:14,640
traffic everywhere. How do you have uh

1692
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:16,800
any kind of main policies to tackle

1693
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:18,800
this? And also, I know you've mentioned

1694
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:20,880
in the past about Uber and these

1695
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:24,159
American companies which are targeting

1696
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:25,440
black cabs and uh British businesses. Uh

1697
01:17:24,159 --> 01:17:27,120
do you have a policy to tackle with

1698
01:17:25,440 --> 01:17:29,600
them? Could you elaborate? Thank you.

1699
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:32,679
Well, if you think my housing policy is

1700
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:36,560
radical, wait till you hear my transport

1701
01:17:32,679 --> 01:17:39,520
policy because that's going to be in a

1702
01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:41,600
way the most radical change of all. Let

1703
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:46,760
me start with Uber.

1704
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:51,239
Uber is Uber represents the American

1705
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:54,320
model of no regulation, burning of red

1706
01:17:51,239 --> 01:17:56,480
tape, absolute privatization, where

1707
01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:59,199
every person is turned into the

1708
01:17:56,480 --> 01:18:02,239
competitor of the other, where no

1709
01:17:59,199 --> 01:18:05,280
communal values exist, where no

1710
01:18:02,239 --> 01:18:07,920
tradition, you know, Markx said in the

1711
01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:09,239
uh communist manifesto in 1848 that

1712
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:12,159
under

1713
01:18:09,239 --> 01:18:15,719
capitalism all that is solid will melt

1714
01:18:12,159 --> 01:18:19,040
into air and all that is sacred will be

1715
01:18:15,719 --> 01:18:22,280
profained. And he was absolutely correct

1716
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:26,040
in both regards. I happen to

1717
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:29,920
believe that our black

1718
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:32,400
cab is something which we're known for

1719
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:34,640
in the world. Just like the beef eaters

1720
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:36,320
at the Tower of London, you wouldn't

1721
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:38,560
knock down the Tower of London and make

1722
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:40,560
it an apartment block for rich people

1723
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:42,960
because it's accepted that it's part of

1724
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:45,440
our heritage. I believe that the black

1725
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:48,800
cabs are part of our heritage. What do

1726
01:18:45,440 --> 01:18:51,320
they represent? They represent a group

1727
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:53,000
of workers, all of them small

1728
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:58,400
businesses,

1729
01:18:53,000 --> 01:19:02,159
25,000 small businesses in London, who

1730
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:03,480
have to prove themselves repeatedly to

1731
01:19:02,159 --> 01:19:07,440
be of good

1732
01:19:03,480 --> 01:19:10,320
character, to be people with no criminal

1733
01:19:07,440 --> 01:19:12,960
convictions of any kind, who are

1734
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:16,400
properly insured, whose vehicles are

1735
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:18,560
properly roadw worthy, and who if they,

1736
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:20,320
god forbid, get you into an accident,

1737
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:22,880
you're going to be at least as secure as

1738
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:25,600
it's possible to be in a well-maintained

1739
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:29,520
and robust motor car. None of that

1740
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:32,080
obtains none of it in Uber. Anybody can

1741
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:34,560
be Uber. Uber claims that they're not a

1742
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:37,199
taxi firm at all. They're just a mobile

1743
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:39,600
phone technology company. Thus, they

1744
01:19:37,199 --> 01:19:42,880
don't pay any tax in Britain, which is

1745
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:44,760
my second objection to them. They're a

1746
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:47,679
technology company based in the

1747
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:50,480
Netherlands where fortuitously it

1748
01:19:47,679 --> 01:19:52,800
happens that technology companies pay

1749
01:19:50,480 --> 01:19:54,719
virtually no tax in the Netherlands

1750
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:59,360
which is why they say they're based

1751
01:19:54,719 --> 01:20:00,840
there. But any one of you can become an

1752
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:04,159
Uber

1753
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:05,679
operator and when I ask for you I don't

1754
01:20:04,159 --> 01:20:07,360
even need to know that it's you that

1755
01:20:05,679 --> 01:20:10,239
came. You could give your phone to

1756
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:12,239
somebody else. You may have no criminal

1757
01:20:10,239 --> 01:20:15,199
convictions. The person you gave the

1758
01:20:12,239 --> 01:20:17,800
phone to may well I don't want my wife

1759
01:20:15,199 --> 01:20:20,800
my children traveling in a car with

1760
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:24,120
somebody whose character has not been

1761
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:26,640
properly checked and cannot be

1762
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:29,400
vouched. Neither can you know how could

1763
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:31,920
you that the car is

1764
01:20:29,400 --> 01:20:34,719
insured and you won't even know what the

1765
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:37,280
price of it is. They say it's cheaper.

1766
01:20:34,719 --> 01:20:39,920
Well, it's cheaper until the rain falls

1767
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:42,560
or the snow falls or there's a traffic

1768
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:44,480
snarl up or there's an emergency

1769
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:47,760
somewhere. Then they have something

1770
01:20:44,480 --> 01:20:50,320
called surge pricing. So the journey

1771
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:53,360
that cost you £10 yesterday might cost

1772
01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:56,560
you £30. In fact, during the recent tube

1773
01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:59,679
strike, it was five times more. A

1774
01:20:56,560 --> 01:21:04,400
journey that cost you10 the day before

1775
01:20:59,679 --> 01:21:08,600
and£10 the day after was £50 on the day

1776
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:13,480
of the railway strike, the tube strike.

1777
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:17,920
So I'm going to ban Uber just

1778
01:21:13,480 --> 01:21:20,880
like many states in the United States

1779
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:23,360
have done and as many states countries

1780
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:26,480
around the world are trying to do. And

1781
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:29,040
if I can't ban them, if the court will

1782
01:21:26,480 --> 01:21:31,600
not allow me to ban them, I'm going to

1783
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:33,520
ensure that they obey the law like the

1784
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:36,400
black cab drivers and like the private

1785
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:38,600
hire drivers have to do. This is not

1786
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:42,000
just an issue between the black cabs and

1787
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:46,159
Uber. The allies are the black cabs and

1788
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:48,960
the private hire companies against Uber.

1789
01:21:46,159 --> 01:21:51,120
And I'm going to be taking quite a

1790
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:53,760
radical stand on that. But my other

1791
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:55,679
policies are even more radical, and some

1792
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:56,840
of you might not like them, but I've

1793
01:21:55,679 --> 01:22:00,239
thought them

1794
01:21:56,840 --> 01:22:02,800
through. There will be no trucks or

1795
01:22:00,239 --> 01:22:05,679
heavy vehicles allowed to drive in

1796
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:07,560
central London, if I'm the mayor,

1797
01:22:05,679 --> 01:22:11,760
between dawn and

1798
01:22:07,560 --> 01:22:14,480
dusk. All deliveries by trucks and heavy

1799
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:18,639
vehicles will have to be made after dusk

1800
01:22:14,480 --> 01:22:21,840
and before dawn. Why? Because 9,000

1801
01:22:18,639 --> 01:22:25,120
people a year in London are dying from

1802
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:28,080
the pollution caused largely by those

1803
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:31,040
heavy vehicles. 9,000 every year are

1804
01:22:28,080 --> 01:22:33,600
dying from the long-term exposure to the

1805
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:36,239
levels of pollution in London. Our air

1806
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:38,719
quality is becoming one of the worst in

1807
01:22:36,239 --> 01:22:41,920
the world. Second, I want to encourage

1808
01:22:38,719 --> 01:22:44,560
London to get on their bikes and cycle.

1809
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:47,600
and cyclists are being knocked down and

1810
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:52,000
killed and maimed by trucks and heavy

1811
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:54,920
vehicles almost every day of the week.

1812
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:58,320
And thirdly, the congestion of which you

1813
01:22:54,920 --> 01:23:00,960
speak w is is largely caused by two

1814
01:22:58,320 --> 01:23:03,080
things. It's caused by the proliferation

1815
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:04,679
of 80,000 Uber

1816
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:09,520
drivers

1817
01:23:04,679 --> 01:23:12,239
and trucks, heavy vehicles moving slowly

1818
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:16,639
in streets that can't accommodate them

1819
01:23:12,239 --> 01:23:20,400
at a time when buses and taxis and

1820
01:23:16,639 --> 01:23:22,800
private cars have to move around. So, of

1821
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:24,880
course, this will have to be negotiated.

1822
01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:27,280
every company will have to negotiate

1823
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:29,920
with its workers that they now have to

1824
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:32,320
deliver in the evening and at night even

1825
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:34,320
through the night whereas before they

1826
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:37,360
were delivering during the day but I

1827
01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:41,600
believe it's necessary to save lives to

1828
01:23:37,360 --> 01:23:46,040
save limbs to save lungs and to save

1829
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:49,440
money for businesses in London that are

1830
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:52,320
affected adversely by the enormous

1831
01:23:49,440 --> 01:23:55,600
levels of congestion that we have on On

1832
01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:57,880
the Harrow Road where I live, not in the

1833
01:23:55,600 --> 01:24:01,040
burough of Harrow, further down in

1834
01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:04,639
Harlesdon, on the Harrow Road, you can

1835
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:08,040
it can take you an hour and a half from

1836
01:24:04,639 --> 01:24:12,199
effectively Paddington to

1837
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:14,480
Harlesen because the congestion is

1838
01:24:12,199 --> 01:24:17,280
simply impossible to believe. I would

1839
01:24:14,480 --> 01:24:18,760
never have believed it before I moved

1840
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:22,560
there.

1841
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:26,239
So there will be more cycling, fewer

1842
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:28,639
trucks, fewer heavy vehicles. Uh

1843
01:24:26,239 --> 01:24:32,239
certainly none of the latter during the

1844
01:24:28,639 --> 01:24:34,040
day. And if I can run Uber out of town,

1845
01:24:32,239 --> 01:24:37,280
I'm going

1846
01:24:34,040 --> 01:24:37,280
to Thank

1847
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:44,800
you. So I've got um three more questions

1848
01:24:42,480 --> 01:24:46,159
lined up. Um please if anyone else has

1849
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:48,320
got one after I think we've got time for

1850
01:24:46,159 --> 01:24:50,239
one more after that. Okay. So please put

1851
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:53,360
your hand up if anyone else has I

1852
01:24:50,239 --> 01:24:55,040
promise to be more brief in my answer.

1853
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:58,480
Okay. So I've got one here and then

1854
01:24:55,040 --> 01:25:00,080
that's closed. So this gentleman

1855
01:24:58,480 --> 01:25:01,600
uh yeah I'd like just make two points

1856
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:03,920
please. First is about pollution and

1857
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:07,120
second about something else pollution.

1858
01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:08,800
Uh five points uh for your policies.

1859
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:10,400
Number one pollution. Number two

1860
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:12,560
pollution. Number three pollution.

1861
01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:15,920
Number four no private cars. And number

1862
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:17,440
five within the M25

1863
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:19,760
uh unless they're electric. can go with

1864
01:25:17,440 --> 01:25:22,320
the first three unless they're electric

1865
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:24,400
or otherwise pollution vetted. That's my

1866
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:26,000
first point. My second point is about

1867
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:28,800
just general stuff. You were saying

1868
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:30,400
earlier uh I noticed uh your colleague

1869
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:32,239
here didn't do it but I think you did it

1870
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:34,480
a bit. You said well you know in a

1871
01:25:32,239 --> 01:25:36,880
certain situation if someone is x y or

1872
01:25:34,480 --> 01:25:39,199
zed in harrow where I've come to a long

1873
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:41,520
time ago I'm originally from Essex. What

1874
01:25:39,199 --> 01:25:43,920
I've learned in the last 15 years is we

1875
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:45,600
don't have although the council says

1876
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:48,800
blah blah blah we don't have that. We

1877
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:51,199
have men, women, and children.

1878
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:52,560
You're talking about ethnic. I'm I don't

1879
01:25:51,199 --> 01:25:55,280
We don't really accept it. When I look

1880
01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:57,120
around, when I go around Har, you see.

1881
01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:59,040
No, it's not. I'm not white. I'm not

1882
01:25:57,120 --> 01:26:01,440
white. I'm a man. And you're a man. This

1883
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:03,120
is a white man. This is not a black man,

1884
01:26:01,440 --> 01:26:04,480
as you said earlier. And you're not a

1885
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:06,159
white man. You're a man. Those are my

1886
01:26:04,480 --> 01:26:08,320
two points. Thank you. Of course, in an

1887
01:26:06,159 --> 01:26:10,400
ideal world, that would be the case. But

1888
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:12,400
it's not an ideal world. As far as the

1889
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:14,560
police are concerned, I'm a white man,

1890
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:19,960
and he's a black man. That's why he's

1891
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:19,960
three times more likely to be No, it's

1892
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:26,560
No, he's a black man and he calls

1893
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:28,159
himself a black man and and more

1894
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:32,480
important Well, don't tell him what he

1895
01:26:28,159 --> 01:26:32,480
should do. Don't

1896
01:26:32,679 --> 01:26:38,560
Don't tell me what I should call myself.

1897
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:41,520
Don't tell me what I should call myself.

1898
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:43,360
Look, listen. You're not God anymore.

1899
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:47,719
No, I'm definitely not God. There's only

1900
01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:47,719
one God and it's definitely not me.

1901
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:51,960
Brothers, brother.

1902
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:57,600
All

1903
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:59,280
right. We're not racist. We pride

1904
01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:02,480
ourselves on being men, women, and

1905
01:26:59,280 --> 01:27:02,480
children, not black. Well, you

1906
01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:08,800
may listen, brother. Nobody's ever

1907
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:11,520
managed to shut me up. And you certainly

1908
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:14,639
won. You certainly won.

1909
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:17,360
You certainly won.

1910
01:27:14,639 --> 01:27:20,360
Let's move on to a more meaningful uh

1911
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:20,360
question.

1912
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:24,040
Sorry.

1913
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:27,840
Uh I will ban them. Yeah. I think

1914
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:30,480
they're they're an infestation. They're

1915
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:32,480
a danger and they're uh demeaning and

1916
01:27:30,480 --> 01:27:34,800
degrading.

1917
01:27:32,480 --> 01:27:38,239
Uh I just wondered what your your views

1918
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:41,520
on the expansion of PRO airport are. I'm

1919
01:27:38,239 --> 01:27:44,400
against it. I think that the levels of

1920
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:47,120
pollution that I referred to are

1921
01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:48,960
directly contributed to by the

1922
01:27:47,120 --> 01:27:51,679
extraordinary amount of aviation going

1923
01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:54,080
in and out of Heathrow. If there's a

1924
01:27:51,679 --> 01:27:56,320
need for a new terminal, that terminal

1925
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:59,040
should be at Gatwick. And we should

1926
01:27:56,320 --> 01:28:02,159
build a high-speed rail link between

1927
01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:04,400
Heathrow and Gatwick. and you won't even

1928
01:28:02,159 --> 01:28:06,880
notice the travel time in a high-speed

1929
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:09,040
rail link will be so short that it will

1930
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:11,600
be just like going from one terminal to

1931
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:14,239
another at present in Heathrow. So I'm

1932
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:17,840
totally against it. Sadik Khan used to

1933
01:28:14,239 --> 01:28:20,159
be strongly in favor of it and now he's

1934
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:23,360
strongly against it. I've always been

1935
01:28:20,159 --> 01:28:26,560
strongly against it.

1936
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:28,880
[Applause]

1937
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:31,280
Hi George. Um, as mayor of London, what

1938
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:33,440
would you do to stop shell companies in

1939
01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:36,080
London from taking trillions of dollars

1940
01:28:33,440 --> 01:28:38,320
away from Africa in corrupted money?

1941
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:40,480
Well, uh, I did mention earlier that

1942
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:43,120
London is the hot money capital of the

1943
01:28:40,480 --> 01:28:46,120
world. It's official. It used to be

1944
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:48,320
Monaco. And here I'm going to grab the

1945
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:53,600
opportunity because when I was speaking

1946
01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:56,000
in the city center uh on Saturday, yeah,

1947
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:57,840
Saturday, me and Mktar and my friends,

1948
01:28:56,000 --> 01:29:00,800
we were out a pop-up meeting. It was a

1949
01:28:57,840 --> 01:29:01,639
fantastic uh event. Some of you may have

1950
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:05,360
been

1951
01:29:01,639 --> 01:29:08,080
there. I asked if there was a top shop

1952
01:29:05,360 --> 01:29:10,239
in the shopping area and then sure

1953
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:12,719
enough, as there is most places, there

1954
01:29:10,239 --> 01:29:16,280
was. which led me to talk about the

1955
01:29:12,719 --> 01:29:20,719
owner of talk shop.

1956
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:22,800
Topshop we always understood was owned

1957
01:29:20,719 --> 01:29:25,280
by a man called Philip Green. Sir

1958
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:29,639
Philillip Green if you don't mind. Made

1959
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:35,040
a night by the Labor government of Tony

1960
01:29:29,639 --> 01:29:37,639
Blair until it became clear that Topshop

1961
01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:41,760
wasn't paying any tax

1962
01:29:37,639 --> 01:29:44,400
here. And when people inquired, how can

1963
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:47,679
a business that's on every high street

1964
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:49,400
in every shopping center and is packed

1965
01:29:47,679 --> 01:29:51,840
doing great

1966
01:29:49,400 --> 01:29:55,840
business, how could it not be paying any

1967
01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:58,480
tax? And Sir Philip Green enlightened

1968
01:29:55,840 --> 01:30:00,960
us. He said, "It's not paying any tax

1969
01:29:58,480 --> 01:30:06,679
because I don't actually own Top Shop.

1970
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:09,600
Mrs. Green owns Top Shop and Mrs. Green

1971
01:30:06,679 --> 01:30:13,199
fortuitously lives in Monaco where they

1972
01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:15,520
don't pay any tax at all. So every time

1973
01:30:13,199 --> 01:30:19,199
you buy something in Topshop, you're

1974
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:22,560
buying Mrs. Green's goods who happens,

1975
01:30:19,199 --> 01:30:25,440
as I say, by stroke of good luck to live

1976
01:30:22,560 --> 01:30:28,880
in Monaco. Now, if you believe that,

1977
01:30:25,440 --> 01:30:31,520
you'll believe anything. These companies

1978
01:30:28,880 --> 01:30:34,520
are deliberately dodging, paying for

1979
01:30:31,520 --> 01:30:34,520
tax.

1980
01:30:34,719 --> 01:30:42,600
Facebook p it was revealed this week4

1981
01:30:38,280 --> 01:30:45,880
£4,000 last year in corporation

1982
01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:49,600
tax where it's got millions tens of

1983
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:53,120
millions of users in Britain and when it

1984
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:57,280
made more than2 billion pounds in profit

1985
01:30:53,120 --> 01:31:01,320
last year but paid only4 £4,000 in tax

1986
01:30:57,280 --> 01:31:03,679
in Britain. If we tolerate this

1987
01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:07,520
corporate thievery for that's what it

1988
01:31:03,679 --> 01:31:09,520
is. It's robbery by the richest people

1989
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:11,679
from the poorest people. We talked about

1990
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:14,719
the 39 million that could have been

1991
01:31:11,679 --> 01:31:17,840
spent here in Harrow on things that you

1992
01:31:14,719 --> 01:31:22,159
vital need but has been cheated from

1993
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:24,960
you. This is direct theft from you. At

1994
01:31:22,159 --> 01:31:27,360
the same time, London is the hot money

1995
01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:30,880
capital of the world. So the foreigners

1996
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:33,840
are either not paying us tax even though

1997
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:35,880
they're working and earning here or

1998
01:31:33,840 --> 01:31:39,360
they're stealing money in their own

1999
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:41,239
countries and salting it here where no

2000
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:46,560
one's going to trouble them where

2001
01:31:41,239 --> 01:31:49,760
regulation is uh wafer thin and where

2002
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:52,639
the toleration of hot money being used

2003
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:56,000
to buy property in London is almost

2004
01:31:52,639 --> 01:31:59,280
absolute. If I'm the mayor, I'll hunt

2005
01:31:56,000 --> 01:32:02,740
them. I'll hunt them in every way that I

2006
01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:06,719
can. You can count on that.

2007
01:32:02,740 --> 01:32:10,440
[Applause]

2008
01:32:06,719 --> 01:32:14,320
I was wondering um he said something

2009
01:32:10,440 --> 01:32:16,000
about he said something about um kids um

2010
01:32:14,320 --> 01:32:17,920
selling drugs. I was wondering what

2011
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:21,040
you're going to do to tackle like youth

2012
01:32:17,920 --> 01:32:24,000
crime and um like for example the NCS

2013
01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:25,440
challenge keeps kids uh out of like

2014
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:27,280
gangs and stuff like that. I was

2015
01:32:25,440 --> 01:32:29,760
wondering what would you do to keep the

2016
01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:32,000
youth off the streets?

2017
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:33,840
Well, I'll tell you what, again, this

2018
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:36,600
might seem counterintuitive and some of

2019
01:32:33,840 --> 01:32:40,199
you might not like it. I was in a

2020
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:43,440
gang. I was in a gang when I was a

2021
01:32:40,199 --> 01:32:45,000
youth and it never did me any harm. What

2022
01:32:43,440 --> 01:32:49,679
do they mean by a

2023
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:52,159
gang? By a gang, they mean a group of

2024
01:32:49,679 --> 01:32:54,159
young boys and girls who are hanging

2025
01:32:52,159 --> 01:32:56,120
around together on the street because

2026
01:32:54,159 --> 01:33:00,000
they've got nowhere else to

2027
01:32:56,120 --> 01:33:03,679
go. And that's why I was in a gang cuz I

2028
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:05,000
had nowhere else to go. I had no money.

2029
01:33:03,679 --> 01:33:07,360
I was very

2030
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:11,040
poor. And so when I came home from

2031
01:33:07,360 --> 01:33:13,400
school, I put on the coolest clothes I

2032
01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:16,159
could steal. No, I mean I could

2033
01:33:13,400 --> 01:33:18,280
find and I went around with my pals in

2034
01:33:16,159 --> 01:33:21,199
the street and they called us a

2035
01:33:18,280 --> 01:33:23,520
gang. But we had nowhere else to go.

2036
01:33:21,199 --> 01:33:25,440
There were no youth clubs, no community

2037
01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:27,199
centers. We couldn't afford to go to the

2038
01:33:25,440 --> 01:33:29,120
pictures. Couldn't afford to go at the

2039
01:33:27,199 --> 01:33:29,800
swimming baths. Couldn't afford to go to

2040
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:33,440
the

2041
01:33:29,800 --> 01:33:36,239
snooker. So what are we going to do? If

2042
01:33:33,440 --> 01:33:39,520
we abandon our young people without

2043
01:33:36,239 --> 01:33:43,040
hope, without facilities, without money,

2044
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:46,320
the devil will find work for idle hands.

2045
01:33:43,040 --> 01:33:47,880
So we need to shift the paradigm here.

2046
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:51,440
We need

2047
01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:53,440
to say through public policy and in

2048
01:33:51,440 --> 01:33:55,520
everything we say and do that young

2049
01:33:53,440 --> 01:33:57,760
people are not just valued, they're the

2050
01:33:55,520 --> 01:34:01,440
future. For goodness sake, we're going

2051
01:33:57,760 --> 01:34:02,880
to be depending on them in years to

2052
01:34:01,440 --> 01:34:04,040
come.

2053
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:07,560
And if

2054
01:34:04,040 --> 01:34:09,760
we develop a society where it's just a

2055
01:34:07,560 --> 01:34:14,040
jungle, what are the young people going

2056
01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:16,800
to do but act often times like

2057
01:34:14,040 --> 01:34:19,280
animals? It's not them that's to blame.

2058
01:34:16,800 --> 01:34:21,280
It's the society and the system that's

2059
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:24,800
to blame. If you don't offer someone a

2060
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:27,520
positive role model, a positive future,

2061
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:29,960
then why should you be surprised if they

2062
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:32,239
start uh

2063
01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:34,400
misbehaving? Why should young people not

2064
01:34:32,239 --> 01:34:35,920
be violent when our government is death

2065
01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:38,239
dealing out death and violence

2066
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:40,320
everywhere around the world? Is it a

2067
01:34:38,239 --> 01:34:42,239
coincidence that in the United States

2068
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:44,239
they're shooting each other in colleges

2069
01:34:42,239 --> 01:34:46,320
and schools because their governments

2070
01:34:44,239 --> 01:34:48,760
going around the world shooting people

2071
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:51,960
every single day? There's a direct

2072
01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:56,320
relationship between the projection of

2073
01:34:51,960 --> 01:34:59,280
violence and so-called strength on the

2074
01:34:56,320 --> 01:35:02,400
part of our societies and how people

2075
01:34:59,280 --> 01:35:05,199
behave within them. Now, I have zero

2076
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:08,320
tolerance for drugs. I have never even

2077
01:35:05,199 --> 01:35:11,040
seen a drug, never mind taken one. I

2078
01:35:08,320 --> 01:35:13,199
have never drunk alcohol in my life. If

2079
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:17,440
I could, frankly, there wouldn't be any

2080
01:35:13,199 --> 01:35:20,440
alcohol, never mind any drugs. But I

2081
01:35:17,440 --> 01:35:23,639
know why people are are smoking

2082
01:35:20,440 --> 01:35:27,120
cannabis. I know why people are taking

2083
01:35:23,639 --> 01:35:29,520
drugs. Because they have no hope of a

2084
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:33,679
better future. So, might as well get out

2085
01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:36,719
of your head and escape that way. That's

2086
01:35:33,679 --> 01:35:38,560
what we've got to change. Of course, we

2087
01:35:36,719 --> 01:35:40,719
must punish people who are carrying

2088
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:43,280
knives and stabbing each other. I'm with

2089
01:35:40,719 --> 01:35:46,320
Lee Jasper. He's one of our comrades who

2090
01:35:43,280 --> 01:35:48,159
wrote very powerfully recently about

2091
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:51,520
something that happened within his

2092
01:35:48,159 --> 01:35:54,320
family with black-on-black violence.

2093
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:57,360
People stabbing each other, gangs

2094
01:35:54,320 --> 01:36:00,320
stabbing each other, black youth killing

2095
01:35:57,360 --> 01:36:03,360
other black youth over the last pair of

2096
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:06,239
trainers on sale in Oxford Street. Of

2097
01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:09,679
course, we have to do everything that we

2098
01:36:06,239 --> 01:36:12,400
can on a multi level from the police to

2099
01:36:09,679 --> 01:36:15,199
the social workers to the families. But

2100
01:36:12,400 --> 01:36:17,600
above all, if the children have no hope,

2101
01:36:15,199 --> 01:36:20,800
don't expect them to behave like those

2102
01:36:17,600 --> 01:36:20,800
of us who do have

2103
01:36:21,160 --> 01:36:30,930
[Applause]

2104
01:36:27,560 --> 01:36:33,560
hope. Um, a question from the black man.

2105
01:36:30,930 --> 01:36:35,679
[Laughter]

2106
01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:38,199
Um, I'm just going to address this real

2107
01:36:35,679 --> 01:36:41,440
quick. Um, there's a

2108
01:36:38,199 --> 01:36:43,679
17.1% pay gap between men and women.

2109
01:36:41,440 --> 01:36:45,679
There's lack of representation in in the

2110
01:36:43,679 --> 01:36:48,000
House of Parliament among working-class

2111
01:36:45,679 --> 01:36:49,520
people. There's a difference between, as

2112
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:50,880
you said, me being stopped on the street

2113
01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:53,080
and white people being stopped on the

2114
01:36:50,880 --> 01:36:55,520
street. There's differences between

2115
01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:56,800
people. Yeah. And we need a mayor of

2116
01:36:55,520 --> 01:36:58,159
London that's going to speak about these

2117
01:36:56,800 --> 01:36:59,440
differences instead of ignore it like

2118
01:36:58,159 --> 01:37:02,000
you just did. So, I'm just going to

2119
01:36:59,440 --> 01:37:04,960
address that point real quick. Um, my

2120
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:08,080
question is in in Bradford, um, you

2121
01:37:04,960 --> 01:37:11,679
dealt with the hosen the Trojan horse

2122
01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:14,400
um, um, scenario and currently I'm a

2123
01:37:11,679 --> 01:37:16,000
youth worker in Shepherd's Bush and, um,

2124
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we're we're currently being asked to be

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part of this prevent strategy. As the

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mayor of London, um, are you planning to

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address that in any way?

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Well, the commissioner of the

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Metropolitan Police is answerable to me

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and answer and I'm answerable to the

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Greater London Authority of which I hope

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Mktar will be an upstanding member and

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I'll be

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requiring from the commissioner that

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London is policed without fear or favor

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and irrespective of the color of the

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face or the collar.

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Now, because I know you, I know that

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you're not just a black man. You're a

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Muslim black man. If the police knew

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that, you'd be even more likely to be

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tasered. You'd be even more likely to be

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01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:06,480
stopped and searched because black and

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Asian people are at least 16 times more

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likely to be stopped and searched than

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01:38:09,760 --> 01:38:15,360
white people. And if they're Muslims, if

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01:38:12,239 --> 01:38:18,080
they look like Muslims, they're even

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01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:20,560
more still even more likely to be

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stopped and searched. I don't know about

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01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:26,760
the tasering. The only figure I've got

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01:38:22,639 --> 01:38:30,000
is for black and white. Now, this is

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01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:32,560
because not just of racist policing,

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01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:37,520
despite the efforts of the top brass,

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which I acknowledge have been uh made.

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It's because we're living in a world,

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01:38:40,480 --> 01:38:45,679
which brings us back right to the very

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01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:47,840
beginning actually of what I had to say.

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We're living in a world that is

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permanently at

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01:38:49,480 --> 01:38:56,719
war. And in this era, it has been

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01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:58,400
permanently at war against Muslim

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01:38:56,719 --> 01:39:02,000
countries.

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And we said, I am now and have been

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since the beginning the vice president

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of the stop the war

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01:39:06,679 --> 01:39:12,960
coalition. We said if you go to war

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01:39:10,719 --> 01:39:15,360
against Muslims abroad, you'll end up at

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01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:18,159
war with Muslims at home. And that's

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01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:21,520
exactly what has happened in the the

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01:39:18,159 --> 01:39:23,199
last conversation I had with Tony Blair,

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01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:25,000
not the last one because that'll be in

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01:39:23,199 --> 01:39:29,520
the H when he's on

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01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:32,719
trial, but the last at this moment that

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01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:33,800
I had with Tony Blair, I said to him

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01:39:32,719 --> 01:39:36,320
three

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01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:38,400
things. First of all, if you and Bush

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01:39:36,320 --> 01:39:41,400
invade Iraq, it was a couple of weeks

2178
01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:44,320
before they did. If you and Bush invade

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01:39:41,400 --> 01:39:46,320
Iraq, there's no al-Qaeda in Iraq now,

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01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:48,960
but there will be hundreds of thousands

2181
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:52,480
of al-Qaeda in Iraq once you have

2182
01:39:48,960 --> 01:39:54,960
invaded them. Secondly, the fall of

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01:39:52,480 --> 01:39:57,480
Baghdad will not be the beginning of the

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01:39:54,960 --> 01:40:00,880
end, but just the end of the

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01:39:57,480 --> 01:40:04,719
beginning. How precient was that? And

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01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:07,920
thirdly, I said you will send extremism

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01:40:04,719 --> 01:40:09,880
cascading around the entire world,

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01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:12,040
including on our own

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01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:15,239
streets. And that

2190
01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:18,600
was entirely accurate

2191
01:40:15,239 --> 01:40:21,800
also. And what we're

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01:40:18,600 --> 01:40:25,199
experiencing every time they crank it

2193
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:28,800
up, they they when they want to go to

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01:40:25,199 --> 01:40:32,080
war, they have to crank up a bogeyman.

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01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:34,800
There has to be a new Hitler somewhere.

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01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:38,800
We've had a long succession of them. I

2197
01:40:34,800 --> 01:40:43,080
mean, the Mai in Sudan predated Hitler

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01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:48,080
by quite some years, but he was

2199
01:40:43,080 --> 01:40:50,960
painted effectively as the new Hitler.

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01:40:48,080 --> 01:40:54,880
We've had Nasser as the new Hitler

2201
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:56,719
because he had the temerity to want his

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01:40:54,880 --> 01:40:59,840
own country to own the Sewish canal

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01:40:56,719 --> 01:41:02,199
running through his country. He was the

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01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:05,159
new Hitler. Arafat was the new

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01:41:02,199 --> 01:41:07,440
Hitler. Saddam was the new

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01:41:05,159 --> 01:41:11,159
Hitler. And now Bashar is the new

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01:41:07,440 --> 01:41:13,840
Hitler. If you're going to pump up the

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01:41:11,159 --> 01:41:16,400
propaganda to make people believe these

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01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:19,520
things and therefore support your war

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01:41:16,400 --> 01:41:23,040
against them, you have to paint them as

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01:41:19,520 --> 01:41:25,520
evil and as a threat. And once you've

2212
01:41:23,040 --> 01:41:28,440
pumped the airwaves and the newspaper

2213
01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:30,960
front pages with that kind of

2214
01:41:28,440 --> 01:41:33,040
rhetoric, are you surprised when an old

2215
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:37,600
man gets stabbed in the back on his way

2216
01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:39,840
to the mosque for the Maghreb prayer?

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01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:42,159
It's not surprising at all. It's not

2218
01:41:39,840 --> 01:41:45,679
surprising that people hate and fear

2219
01:41:42,159 --> 01:41:49,119
Muslims when we've spent the last 15

2220
01:41:45,679 --> 01:41:51,280
years at least telling everyone that we

2221
01:41:49,119 --> 01:41:53,679
had to go to war with this Muslim

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01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:56,320
country after another. And we talked

2223
01:41:53,679 --> 01:42:00,000
about Wesley Clark's prediction. There's

2224
01:41:56,320 --> 01:42:02,880
a war now in every country that Wesley

2225
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:07,040
Clark mentioned except Iran. And we came

2226
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:09,040
pretty news is reading the newspapers.

2227
01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:11,280
How radical do you think a young Muslim

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01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:15,440
in Britain or anywhere in the world

2229
01:42:11,280 --> 01:42:17,639
feels tonight as he watches on the news

2230
01:42:15,440 --> 01:42:19,840
the children being butchered in

2231
01:42:17,639 --> 01:42:20,840
Jerusalem? How radical do you think

2232
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:23,360
they're

2233
01:42:20,840 --> 01:42:26,400
feeling? You think that it just washes

2234
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:29,440
over them in the way that it does many

2235
01:42:26,400 --> 01:42:33,080
others? Apparently, it doesn't. I'm here

2236
01:42:29,440 --> 01:42:36,080
to tell you that. So if you want to

2237
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:39,280
dradicalize Muslims in Britain, you have

2238
01:42:36,080 --> 01:42:41,920
to stop invading and occupying Muslim

2239
01:42:39,280 --> 01:42:44,719
countries, you have to stop propping up

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01:42:41,920 --> 01:42:47,440
dictators in Muslim countries. You have

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01:42:44,719 --> 01:42:49,920
to stop this relationship with Saudi

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01:42:47,440 --> 01:42:52,800
Arabia. My God, they talk about human

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01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:55,520
rights and one party rule and one family

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01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:57,520
rule. They don't like Bashar al-Assad

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01:42:55,520 --> 01:42:59,760
because he's one family rule. I don't

2246
01:42:57,520 --> 01:43:02,080
like one family rule. How come we're so

2247
01:42:59,760 --> 01:43:04,480
much in love with the al-Saud family

2248
01:43:02,080 --> 01:43:07,119
rule that our prime minister will fly

2249
01:43:04,480 --> 01:43:10,000
flags at half mast on the British

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01:43:07,119 --> 01:43:13,119
Parliament to mourn the death of the

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01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:15,679
last tyrant and fly halfway across the

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01:43:13,119 --> 01:43:18,880
world to kiss the nose of the next

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01:43:15,679 --> 01:43:20,639
member of his family that has taken over

2254
01:43:18,880 --> 01:43:23,960
the richest country in the world. We

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01:43:20,639 --> 01:43:27,040
have to stop all that. We have to stop

2256
01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:28,560
backing Israel and start backing the

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01:43:27,040 --> 01:43:30,880
Palestinians.

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01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:33,639
that the ones if you if you said to me

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01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:36,480
you can only do one

2260
01:43:33,639 --> 01:43:37,960
thing what would it be if I could only

2261
01:43:36,480 --> 01:43:41,000
do one

2262
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:44,800
thing I would on behalf of the British

2263
01:43:41,000 --> 01:43:47,600
government on the 100th anniversary

2264
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:49,159
couple of years from now I would reverse

2265
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:52,040
the Balffor

2266
01:43:49,159 --> 01:43:56,239
declaration made in

2267
01:43:52,040 --> 01:43:59,199
1917 I'd say that this declaration was

2268
01:43:56,239 --> 01:44:01,920
an historic mistake

2269
01:43:59,199 --> 01:44:04,000
To promise on behalf of one people to a

2270
01:44:01,920 --> 01:44:06,920
second people the land that belonged to

2271
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:09,960
a third people was a

2272
01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:14,000
gargantuan mistake for which we

2273
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:16,800
apologize. And henceforth our policy is

2274
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:19,679
going to be recognition recognition

2275
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:22,560
recognition of Palestinian rights and

2276
01:44:19,679 --> 01:44:25,040
opposition opposition opposition to what

2277
01:44:22,560 --> 01:44:28,320
Israel is doing to the Palestinians.

2278
01:44:25,040 --> 01:44:28,320
Thank you very much.

2279
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:38,960
Thanks a lot, George, and thank you,

2280
01:44:36,880 --> 01:44:40,800
Harrow. Um, I think we've come to the

2281
01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:42,639
end of this evening. So, uh, there's not

2282
01:44:40,800 --> 01:44:44,239
much else to say other than please, if

2283
01:44:42,639 --> 01:44:46,480
you have enjoyed and if you've liked

2284
01:44:44,239 --> 01:44:48,560
what you heard, please get involved. We

2285
01:44:46,480 --> 01:44:50,159
need all the help we can get. Um, either

2286
01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:52,800
through donations, either through help

2287
01:44:50,159 --> 01:44:54,159
for leafleting or as any possible task

2288
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:56,560
that you could possibly contribute with

2289
01:44:54,159 --> 01:44:58,639
would be very welcome. Um, as I said

2290
01:44:56,560 --> 01:44:59,920
before, uh, George's books are on sale

2291
01:44:58,639 --> 01:45:03,199
at the back. And if you'd like to

2292
01:44:59,920 --> 01:45:03,199
purchase copy, please