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- Okay, big news to report, we are now officially
in second place to be your next mayor of London Paddy Power,
which I think is the biggest betting agency
in the world has just put us in second place
ahead of the conservative candidate,
who is now in third place behind us.
This is super exciting, they are giving us a six to one odds
with a conservative candidate at seven to one
and the incumbent candidate now something like two of nine.
So he's losing some ground on the back of that.
And look, we're super excited.
And let me be honest, we always planned on winning this.
That's the only reason we did it.
We thought long and hard about this,
we realise the ramifications and we still have six months
to go and we know it's gonna get nasty.
But we always plan on doing this to win it
and change this city and change the world.
But, you know, if you had told me three weeks
after announcing that we would be considered
in second place, I would have thought that was
a little optimistic, and a little aggressive.
But boom, it happened and it's all because of you.
You know, if you weren't feeling this,
there's no way that that would be reflected in the bookies
and the bookies is where the real money is that you know,
you can literally lay odds right now.
And we are considered to be in second place.
Now, of course, these are, this is still easy money,
because we are gonna win this race.
And I think what the message here is this,
is that people are tired of being lied to,
they want someone that's gonna tell them the truth,
they want someone who has been speaking the truth
for nine years that even in 2020,
when all of the craziness was happening,
we were trying to get to the truth.
And we were willing to risk everything
to give you the truth.
I was willing to risk my reputation,
they tried to rip it down to risk the business,
the movement I had built for nine years,
because I really believe in freedom of speech.
And I really believe in this city.
I think it's the greatest in the world,
I think the people are the greatest in the world.
And that's what we're gonna do going forward.
And I think that people have spoken and they're tired
of these career politicians with their vested interests,
and their agendas that make no sense to us,
and their agendas that conflict with the science, you know,
and that's why my plans are to get London back to work,
put science first, put our health first,
put our education first, put family first, and to start,
start reacting with a proportional response to this virus,
which means protect the elderly,
protect those most vulnerable.
But let's get everyone else back to work.
And let's use science and science-based decisions.
Let's open up our hospitality venues
that are only responsible for 3% of transmission.
Let's open up our gyms that are only responsible
for 1.7% of transmissions, let's stop the madness.
And I think the people have spoken.
And I honestly believe that when we show the world,
how we can turn London around on 180 degrees
and within months, get the city back to prosperity.
Everyone in the world is gonna say wait a second,
those 9 million people did it, those Brits did it.
Maybe we can do it too, and I think we can lead the way.
I think we can lead cities like New York City
and Los Angeles and Paris and Madrid and Munich.
And I think we will show them the way.
It's gonna take a lot of hard work,
it's gonna take sacrifice,
it's gonna take individual leadership.
But I'm confident we can do this, and I'm so excited.
So I just wanna say thank you so much.
It means the world, I feel humbled, I feel grateful
and I feel empowered, and I also feel like
it's gonna be three years of hard work and service
to the 9 million people here.
I'm here to listen and to serve, period, that's my only job.
And I really think that we can change
so many things for the better.
And we can get a lot of this madness happening right now.
I mean, we're on the first day of lockdown here
in this country and everyone knows there's no point.
Everyone knows we're crushing our economy.
We're crushing the futures of our younger generation.
We just need a leader to step up
and start doing the right things.
And that's what I promised to do
as your next mayor of London.
Next up, we're in number one place.
Let's make that happen before the end of the year,
and let that incumbent know
that he's no longer wanted in this town.
And we're moving into City Hall, all right?
Love you guys, thank you so much.
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Let's do this.
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