- You know, I'm just walking home here
after a long day at "London Real", doing what I love,
which is creating incredible content and conversations
that hopefully, you know, change the world
or make someone's life better.
And I just wanting to express my gratitude
for the incredible support we've had after announcing
that we plan on being your next mayor of London.
This is something we thought long and hard about,
and three weeks ago we announced,
and honestly the reception has just been,
it's just blown us away.
And it's been such an honour and a privilege
to go out there and be your representative,
and to go out there and be your next mayor,
and really put together a lot of really thoughtful,
detailed policy work to make this city,
you know, world-class again.
Let's be honest, we're not having our best moments
here in London, but we've got everything here
to be the greatest city in the world.
I still believe this is the greatest city in the world,
and I wanna show the world how great we are.
The people are resilient, they have fortitude,
they have that indomitable spirit
that Winston Churchill spoke of.
And I'm so proud to be British,
I'm so proud to be a Londoner,
even if I don't have the accent, you know,
and I'm so proud to be able to finally serve this city
that has given me so much.
It's where my two sons were born, it's where I live,
and it's where I plan on being buried.
And it's just such an honour and privilege to be able
to come to work every day,
and work for the last nine years on my show,
my life, called "London Real",
and now in six months to serve as your next mayor of London
and finally do it for the people, you know,
to really serve the 9 million citizens here and to listen
and to serve and execute on ways to make their lives better.
And I'm not saying it's going to be easy,
and it's gonna take everybody working together.
It's going to take sacrifice, it's going to take leadership.
Each one of us is gonna need to step up and be a leader
because I believe we're all leaders.
From a 10 year old kid to an 80 year old woman,
to someone who's disabled or who's similar,
who's a teacher or someone who's a CEO.
You know, we're all leaders, really,
and if we can just get up every day and lead our lives
in the best way and stick to a programme,
and stick to a process and fight the temptations,
and step up and do the right thing,
man, we could have the greatest city in the world.
And we can show the world what it looks like
to get back to normal, to get London back to work,
to put our science first, and our health first,
and our education first.
I honestly think we could show those New Yorkers
or those Californians what time it is, you know,
and they would be like,
man, how come we can't get it together
like those Londoners are doing?
I think we could show all those cities in Europe exactly
how a world-class city behaves.
We could make Paris, and Madrid, and Barcelona,
and Milan jealous of the way we handle ourselves up here.
And that's what I wanna do,
I wanna give us back our respect, our pride, our confidence,
as Londoners, as the greatest people in the world.
And I just wanting to take a moment and just say thank you
for all the confidence you've placed in me,
for all the great messages of support.
I walk the streets and people come up to me and say,
"Brian, I'm supporting you, I'm voting for you,
I appreciate you."
And it just means everything to me.
And I'm just grateful that I finally can be of service
and I'm gonna have to put my whole life aside
for a few years and put the show aside for a few years,
but it's worth it.
It's worth it to have this opportunity
to give something back the city that I love.
So that's it, just wanted to take a second out
and say, thank you.
Leave your comments below,
tell me what you think or just take this video,
and hopefully it just gives you something, you know.
I'm just super grateful, I'm super honoured to, like I said,
be the your next mayor and I'm excited
for the whole process.
So again, hope you're having an incredible day,
stay positive through this lockdown.
I know it's hard, I know it's challenging,
but we're gonna find a way through,
and together we are gonna take London in a new direction
and we're gonna make this place
a world-class city once again.
I promise you, I promise you,
we're gonna have that back.
That pride, that fortitude, that indomitable spirit,
we got it and we're going to make it happen.
So thank you, I appreciate you,
have a great evening wherever you are.