- I made a list I came all the way up to Enfield to listen.
- My personal opinion, I think more officers on the street
isn't going to help do anything.
- [Brian] Okay tell me why?
- Because even if more people apply for it,
I personally have applied for the Met myself as well
I got turned away personally because of my tattoos.
- No problem
That was
- You probably don't have the budget either.
- Coming from a, a suburban area, myself
people don't like seeing the many officers on the street.
They get more annoyed about it.
People that are involved with crime,
my areas full of crime, people in gangs. I mean
- But, what if they were trained with the communities?,
you know what if they had more time?, more budget?
- I think more opportunities for the young people.
- Yeah I agree, that's why
- More than cause they see the police as a threat.
They see, as you know, there has been police crime
against the community, I guess, public as well.
Lately, especially that's the only thing
that's going all around the news.
So I don't think that's going to be of any help.
- Okay
- To be honest, So I think more to include them into society
like more like youth clubs,
apprenticeships that they can apply for.
People that have no other opportunity,
I think the only opportunity for them is gang life
they need to be supported with other opportunities
saying, look you don't need to do this.
You can apply for this.
You can do this.
We're supporting you, we're supporting you with this
you've got more opportunities.
- That's what the,
and that's what this focus for communities is supposed to do
250 community centres where they can actually
see these options and apprenticeships.
Look I know what you're saying about police okay.
And I spoke with this lives online charity
and kids on the street and I spoke with police officers
and they both admit they both need to do things differently.
The police right now they don't have much budget.
They can't train these young officers
they don't pay very well
as you probably know when you went to apply,
they pay horribly.
They don't hire from the community
and they actually don't they don't treat
the citizens very respectfully
and they're not trained with the communities.
I talked to one police officer
he said, we used to train the new officers
with the communities all together on a weekend.
And they would literally see how to treat people
how not to treat people.
The people in Croydon said
they're disrespectful with stop and search.
They said, we understand you have to do it
and it keeps us safe, but don't do some disrespectfully.
And the police officers, okay
they said, they'll give me two days more a month training
and I'll train these officers to be more respectful.
So I understand a lot of people look at the police
and they don't do it right.
But they, they, they just need more support
and I think more budget and more training
and I think they can do a better job.
And they need to be held accountable
and they should have people representing their communities
like you.
And they should be forced
to have people in Croydon, who live in Croydon
police the people in Croydon.
That's why I think you need both approaches.
And, but right now, everyone says there's no money
so, let's just last time talk about the money.
TFL is going bankrupt
and London's running at a profit right now,
Does that make any sense?
- London itself is going bankrupt.
- London well, yeah okay but if you look at like
if you look at the city of London, the financial centre
the property in central London,
they're making a lot of money by right now.
Okay last year has been a struggle
but it's going to be back.
So how come TFL's going bankrupt but,
Canary Wharf the city of London, where I used to work
is making massive amount of money it doesn't make sense.
- Exactly my question.
- So that's why I think you need something
called an infrastructure tax.
So look at the O2 arena
and all the buildings around there.
The only reason they exist is
because the Jubilee extension line went in right
probably cost TFL a couple billion.
Did they ever get paid for that?
No, but tens of billions of pounds
working by these developers.
So I'm going to incorporate something called
the infrastructure tax.
It's 3% on any gain they see from their building
if they're within 500 metres of a tube stop that's it
above and beyond normal gains.
And they give that back to the police
for hiring more officers like you, I hope.
And for also investing in communities
that can be billions of pounds.
So then TFL doesn't run bankrupt
which means you don't have to have these ridiculous
congestion charge extensions
and US charge extensions and LTN's
I'm going to do LTN's next
don't talk about LTN's everyone will get angry about that.
So again, I see a business solution here,
but it doesn't make sense.
But London's making a lot of money
and then TFL is being backed up
and we're told there's not enough police
to keep our kids safe,
we should be embarrassed about this.
- Not just that but the thing is
how are they making that amount of money?
When every other small business that you
probably see here we're all going bankrupt.
- Right, yeah.
- So what, what, what can we do about that?
- Well part of the problem
obviously are these progressive tax
so any flat tax hurts everybody.
- Tax is a big problem.
- So even the mayor,
the mayor is supposed to be a labour guy.
He says, oh, I'm sorry
it's a regressive tax,
he just increased council taxes, right.
He just increased and extended
the congestion charge and OTNs.
It's this flat rate
so if you make minimum wage
or you're struggling it takes a big chunk of your income.
And he's like, yeah, I know.
And it's like, well, what are you doing for these people?
So again, why not tax these big corporations
that are making the money out there?
I used to work for a corporation
we've already spoken with some of the developers
and they said, we're not happy about this
but we're willing to have this conversation
because what they do now is they wait,
they find out a tube stops going to be built there
and they buy up all the land and then develop it,
that doesn't sound fair to me.
So I think the corporations can pay a bigger percentage
but I'm also pro-business
I want to allow everybody to jump in back to work.
I think if we're all employed then everybody wins.
The current mayor isn't pro-business right now.
- Yeah I agree.
- So it's like those four things
and also affordable housing.
He hasn't built any houses in five years.
He promised 80 new thousand homes per year,
he's built 12,000 new homes.
So I worked with his top architect in London
it's called Modular Homes I just dropped my manifesto
I'll show you what they look like.
These are homes
that you actually design actually in a factory
you can make a free three bedroom, four bedroom,
five bedroom, and then you can literally construct them
in weeks on TFL land.
And this is the site,
I've got to find my housing process in Hackney Wick
where we've scoped out what these buildings look like.
It's called it's Modular Housing, they're four stories tall
you can design them they're really nice on the inside
they're about a hundred thousand pounds each.
And this is actually built on TFL land
in Hackney Wick to where we already own the lands.
They can construct this within a few weeks
you custom design in the factory
it comes out it's super green
and people can have these beautiful houses to live in.
As opposed these politicians, they just keep talking
about building housing, it's like it frustrates me
the more I learn about the system.
Of course yeah,
affordable housing which will help everybody's housing.
Everyone in London struggles,
I'm going to build 50,000 new homes by Christmas
no one believes me
but I know exactly where I'm going to put them
in every borough as well.
They can literally spring up
even in bad areas where you see disused areas
that turn to like gang crime,
we can build beautiful houses.
So those are the things that one person can care about.
I believe I got some really good solutions
like my team spent eight months researching this.
It is our manifesto by the way, we just drop this
it's on our website you've never seen this before.
- Do you have a spare one we can take?
- Yeah, were just printing them right now,
I'll give you the website link
this is literally my last one, all my notes are on.
Well, we just dropped it today, but it's like 48 pages
and it goes into like exact detail
what we want to do.
Some people said it's the best manifesto they've ever seen.
So
- To be honest, I was quite confused
because I keep seeing on Instagram
sponsored hashtag Brian for Mayor.
How many times I even have conversations with my sister
saying I'm not quite sure about his manifesto
cause it's not quite out there yet.
I don't know who he is,
I don't know where he came from,
I don't know.
I didn't know anything about you to be honest,
even though you've got a lot of sponsored adverts
you've got a lot of information on your Instagram.
I didn't know this much in detail
so I am glad I got to meet you.
- I'm glad I got to meet you too.
- I'm glad as well.
- What and what did you learn from those videos?
Like you just didn't know what I was doing.
Did you learn anything from those
or was I just walking around London?
- I just knew more about you I knew
okay he's running for mayor,
but I didn't know what exactly he wants to do for London.
Now that I do
I think I may have changed my mind for the voting.
- Oh oh, you weren't sure about me before?
- I wasn't
- Why? Tell me be honest
- Because I didn't know much about you.
I mean, not everyone would get to meet you in person
like I did.
- That's true.
- So not everyone's going to be able to
change their mind like I did as well.
So I think, what I impose, I know I've got no right to sorry
but if you, I don't know if you're ready to do this
but more like interviews like this
and post it on your Instagram
so people from the public have questions like me,
you know, more realistic questions
and if they can get the answers to their questions.
I probably asked you questions that they wanted to know.
- Definitely.
- So if they could know the answers to that as well
I think more people would be on your side to be honest.
- That's really good advice, I appreciate it.
And I know it isn't
that's why we're kind of out here filming this stuff
And I love talking to people like you.
I honestly think if I could spend 20 minutes
with every Londoner and give you this document
I think everyone would vote for me,
I really do because then they get to see like
we're really passionate about this, actually
so this isn't just a bus it's actually a digital battle bus
and I have a studio in the back
and I just live stream for an hour and 12 minutes
my voice is almost gone.
And I answer questions from Instagram
and YouTube and I presented this whole manifesto and stuff
and a lot of this information is on the website.
But if you didn't know, than that's my fault
because I haven't communicated directly to you.
So I'm glad I got the chance.
- It may have been my fault
because with other stuff
I have to get time to research anything about it, so.
- But I mean, that means some I need to do my job better
because you need to know what about.
So last thing is I got all these digital networks
I want to take it to city hall
I want to be live streaming from city hall every day
taking questions.
I think politicians should be on Instagram
like really on Instagram, and actually answering questions.
But now, nowadays they don't know
- Another point about that I did really liked the fact
that you're so active on your Instagram
because it makes you more relatable because the current
anyone, any politician right now,
it's like they're up there
We're here, we have no idea what they're doing.
Right. Right now, you're like here with us
we, we know who you are
We see what you're doing
We know where you're going
you're meeting everyone,
you're more relatable than any other politician out there
I can just say that.
- Well, that's good. It makes me really happy.
And I agree I see the current politicians
in every picture on Instagram
so it's like a photo op, like a press release
You don't get to know what that really like.
I've been told I shouldn't post somethings on Instagram,
sometimes I post me hitting a, punching bag
and people are making fun of me, but that's okay
you know that's me.
- It makes you more likeable.
- It's, it's like it's real.
So I appreciate you saying that actually you made my day
by saying that so.
But I agree I think our politicians
need to be more transparent.
So I'm trying to here
I've been to every single borough in London
we driven this bus 4,000 miles through London,
because I come out here and talk to people.
Not everyone is as nice as you, but some people,
I like your hard questions too you know.
- Thank you
- Makes me know what I need to do.
So, anyways we're going to get this lady a copy of this
but in the link, in the meantime,
is Brian for Mayor, our website,
and then manifesto's right at the top.