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- So our current and soon to be ex-mayor announced today
job cuts and a slash of his climate budget in half
because of his continual fiscal irresponsibility.
Now, this would normally be a surprise,
but why should we be surprised that a career politician
who's never run a business in his life could actually be
fiscally responsible with the city.
And now, over the next two years,
the Greater London Authority is expected
to lose 493 million pounds due to his leadership,
and these cuts are reportedly just a drop in the bucket.
Now, if this was a one-off case,
maybe we could cut him some slack, but it's not,
because this is a serial case of fiscal irresponsibility.
Let's take transport for London, 9.56 billion pounds,
he has lost over the past four years.
It's gone bust twice now.
And he goes cap in hand to the government asking
and demanding bailouts from them,
and another 30 billion pounds he recently asked for,
the bulk of that to cover his failings
when it comes to building housing
that this city desperately needs.
And that's the problem we have, again,
with a career politician, with his vested interest,
because he doesn't know how important it is
to balance a budget.
Now, I'm in the business world,
and where I come from you either balance your budget
or you get eliminated.
That's how it works.
But in his world, if you don't,
they just tax the citizens,
or he goes and complains to the national government
and asks for billions and billions of pounds
to bail out the city because he knows they will.
So he never intends to run this fiscally responsible,
and who pays?
You and I pay,
and lower and middle income earners are
the ones that pay more over time when they are taxed,
and so this has to stop now.
And one of the senior members
of the city hall membership says
that we can no longer trust this man,
because when we give him money,
he fails to deliver.
We need new leadership, we need new blood.
We need someone with business experience,
and we need to get away from this two-party system
because they just bounce the ball back and forth
to each other and end up costing the citizens of this city
and the taxpayers more and more money.
No more bailouts, no more billion dollar bills
that are being sent to the government from you.
Let's make our current and soon to be ex-mayor history.
When I come in, we're gonna change this.
First of all, we're gonna get this city back to work,
and we're gonna start making real revenues based on
the incredible business that this city can do.
This city is the economic engine for the entire country,
25% to 50% of business and tax revenues come
from this place.
When this shuts down,
which are current and soon to be ex-mayor has lobbied for,
then why is he surprised when there's no money
to balance his budgets?
I'm gonna get London back to work.
I'm gonna empower business leaders.
I'm gonna make a congestion charge holiday,
slash those rates.
I'm gonna make a business rates holiday
and slash those rates
and do anything possible to get people
back into this city spending,
so we can get this back on track.
That's gonna solve all of our other problems.
It's gonna solve our issues
with mental health, with physical health,
and it's going to be the way forward,
but it can't happen with these current crop of politicians
because they are stuck in old ways of thinking.
They are stuck in this tax and spend mentality,
and they are just used to going back
and being fiscally irresponsible, not balancing budgets.
And that's gonna stop on May 7th when we go into city hall,
and we start running this place like a business.
London has so much potential to make so much more money
and get so much more in tax revenues,
if it was run properly,
and that's what I promise to do
as your next mayor of London.
Please leave me your comments below.
I am here to serve the 9 million citizens in this city,
and that's what I will do as your mayor.
I will not point my finger at the government.
I will not complain to COVID,
but I will solve these problems,
and that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna do it together.
We're gonna take London in a new direction
and make this city world-class once again.
I promise.
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