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well I believe the evening standard

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hustings which was televised live on the

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television station london live and very

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widely reported with a packed attendance

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of 750 people others couldn't get in

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changed everything in the london mayoral

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race it had been the tactic particularly

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of the Labour candidate said he can to

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pretend that I wasn't in this election

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and without the kind of budget that the

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big parties have without the party

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machine it was difficult for me to as it

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were break up from anonymity but my

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experience is that invariably when

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people know that I'm in this race they

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either automatically declare their

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support for me or at the very least

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indicate that they are prepared to

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consider voting for me so my number one

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tactic is to let people know that I'm

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actually a candidate in the race and I

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think the hustings was a major

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breakthrough in that regard and there

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are others coming up there are other big

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hustings across London and even in the

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media on LBC on BBC London and so on and

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I think that people know that I've

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certainly got the measure of Sadiq Khan

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I think people know that he's second

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third maybe even fourth best candidate

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in this race but that's only truly

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exposed when he's up against me because

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I have got much more experience than him

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and indeed more experience than all the

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other candidates put together I've been

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elected to Parliament six times in two

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countries and SAT there for almost 30

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years and I was prominent in politics

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even before I entered the house of

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commons almost 30 years ago so I feel

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that my task is to up my profile as a

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mayoral candidate there are hundreds of

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thousands of people in London that

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support the politics that I represent

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and the way I do business but many of

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them don't yet know that I'm a candidate

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but there's more than 90 days to go at

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the time of

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speaking I'm about to bring my heavy

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electoral artillery onto the field my

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traditional open-top double-decker bus

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with big powerful stadium-style speakers

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and so over the next few weeks frankly

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there won't be many left in London who

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don't know that I'm standing and

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everyone in London is going to get a

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booklet sent by the authority you have

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to pay 10,000 pounds to get in that book

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and I'm paying it and that booklet will

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go to every single household in London

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with my picture and my platform what I'm

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standing for in the mayoral election

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race that too is a piece of heavy

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artillery so it's getting closer I'm

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already the third favorite at the

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bookmakers miles ahead of all the other

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minor candidates and closing on the big

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to the big two are not that big Zac

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Goldsmith is very tall but as a

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political figure he's not that big and

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said he can well about whom least said

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the better and the real labour man in

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this race labor with a small L I spent

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decades in the labour party and was

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expelled by Tony Blair because of my

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role as a leader of the anti-war

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movement and everything I said in that

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movement turned out to be correct and

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everything that Mr Blair said turned out

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to be false except where it was a

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deliberate falsehood and my film which

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is coming out before the mayoral

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elections the killings of Tony Blair

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that's going to make quite a splash too

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I can promise you so between now and may

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the 5th the task is to reach as many

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people in London as possible to tell

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them I'm standing and to tell them what

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I'm standing on what I'm standing for

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and Sadiq Khan was in a cold sweat last

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night I mean literally a cold sweat he

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was tense anxious nervous didn't engage

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with me

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even respond to the criticisms I made of

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him because there isn't much of a

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response that can be mustered I'm the

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candidate in this election that is close

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to jeremy corbyn with whom i sat for

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nearly 30 years in Parliament I

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represent the ideas that carbon one the

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Labour leadership election on and can is

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opposed to virtually every single one of

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those ideas every single one of those

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values and can is a part of the coup

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against carbon and everybody knows it he

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doesn't make any effort to conceal it

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and if he were to be elected mayor in

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May the very first thing he would do is

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demand the resignation of jeremy corbyn

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as leader probably privately for the

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first few days but increasingly publicly

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that's their game they intend to

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overthrow jeremy corbyn very quickly

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after the elections in me I on the other

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hand if I'm the mayor I'll strengthen

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Corbin's hand very considerably because

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I will have won an election on exactly

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the same kind of policies that he won

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the Labour leadership elections on so on

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all the issues transport crime policing

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development poverty housing above all

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the social cleansing of London of

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ordinary working people on average or

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even below average earnings being driven

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out of the city right to the edge and

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then off the edge on these issues I'm

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the person who is proposing real labour

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politics as an answer to those crises

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you can go to my website and read about

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them all Galloway 2016 London you can

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find everything I'm saying about all of

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these issues there and we're coming to a

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place near you either on top of an

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open-top bus or to a full-dress meeting

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I hope you'll engage with us and George

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Galloway I'm standing from

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of London