- My name is Brian Rose, and I am your next Mayor of London.
And today is a special day,
because today we are presenting
our manifesto for the future.
Come on, give this up!
(crowd cheering)
Manifesto for the future!
Right?
This is a detailed 48 page document
of exactly what it's gonna take
to take London in a new direction.
We couldn't be more excited.
Me and my team have spent the last eight months
researching every detail of this city.
And we've come up with a plan to change everything.
We are going to rebuild London's economy.
We're gonna put 10,000 new officers on the street.
I'm going to abolish the congestion charge until 2022.
And I'm gonna build 50,000 new, affordable homes.
It's all in here, and it's been costed down to the pound.
You've never seen a manifesto like this
from any of the parties out there
because no one's done the hard work,
and no one has really put in the time
to find out what the problems are in this city
and how to fix them.
But it's not just me and my team.
I've had help from senior members of the House of Lords,
senior members in the Metropolitan Police Department,
senior members of TFL.
I've had help from architects, from scientists,
doctors, entrepreneurs,
Nobel prize winners has helped me create this manifesto.
And it literally is a roadmap out of many of the problems
we currently face in London.
And things are dire here.
We're really struggling with issues.
And I have a plan to do
the four things that Londoners care about.
First of all, we're gonna rebuild the economy.
To do that we need to abolish the congestion charge.
Get as many people into London, as soon as possible,
and kickstart our business.
We have to zero out business rates.
Entrepreneurs are struggling right now.
We've gotta get 'em a chance
to get their businesses back up and running.
But, then, we're gonna have the great celebration.
Thirty-one days of street fairs and music festivals.
Twenty million people coming safely into London
to show the world that London is back.
We innovate, and we're gonna show off
the best of our technology, our music, our fashion,
our innovation in our industry.
And we are going to bring back the economy.
It could be our best year ever.
We couldn't be more excited
about rebuilding London's economy.
But, next, we're gonna make our streets safe.
Ten thousand new police officers on the street.
But not just that, better trained officers,
a fully digitised police force.
But that's not enough.
Our communities are struggling right now.
There's no money going into the community centres.
And the Mayor says there's none left.
I disagree with him.
We're going straight to corporate.
So, I'm gonna put 100,000,000 pounds
directly into 250 community centres
and give these young people something to do after school.
I'm talking about entrepreneurship, health, and wellness.
This is real money going into our communities
that's gonna help solve our problem with crime.
Next, it's transport.
We have to rethink LTNs completely.
These are poorly thought out,
and these are trying to raise
millions of pounds of revenue from our citizens
during the time of one of the worst recessions ever.
It's intolerable.
Also, we have to really completely rethink TFL.
TFL should be run like a business, not like a charity.
And right now, it's being bankrupted
by the current Mayor of London.
I know how to run TFL at a profit.
I'm gonna use something called an infrastructure levy
that's gonna raise billions of pounds.
And it's also gonna pay
for these police officers on the street,
which is gonna cost 300,000,000 pounds per year.
Lastly, we're gonna stop talking about building homes
and we're going to start building homes.
Fifty thousand new modular homes
I will build by Christmas this year.
Yes, you heard me correct. Christmas this year.
That's four times as many homes
as your current Mayor has built in five years,
I will deliver in five months.
And I've got the architects with the plans.
We know exactly where these homes are going.
Modular technology. It's green.
It's affordable, less than 100,000 per home.
We're gonna make this happen,
and the details are in here as well.
And it goes on, and on, and on.
I talk about digitising London. Free broadband for all.
But not just that, getting the devices
in the children's hands so they can use this digitization.
I was in Lewisham the other day,
37% of the children are living in poverty.
How can they get access to the digital technology they need?
I will solve that problem.
Bt it's not just that, I will fight for freedom of speech.
Many of you know,
last year I put my whole business on the line
fighting for freedom of speech.
And, as your next Mayor,
I will push this forward in a digital sense,
and a real world,
to make sure you have the right to protest,
you have the right to speak your mind.
And, finally, when it comes to green initiatives,
they are baked all in my policies.
From my digitization,
to what I'm doing with traffic on the streets.
And, also, my plans to have mobile recharging
of electric vehicles.
It's all in this manifesto.
And, again, we couldn't be more proud.
You can download your copy right now
at brianformayor.london\manifesto.
We're gonna be printing these out
and distributing them in the streets.
And, again, we couldn't be more proud.
This manifesto is better than anything you've seen.
I've had senior level people in politics
that says it's the best one they've ever seen in their life,
because all the details are here.
It's congruent with who we are as a team.
It's congruent with who I am as your next Mayor of London.
These things will change London if they're implemented.
And I'm confident if every citizen
has a copy of this in their hands,
we will have a landslide victory on May 6.
I'm confident of that fact,
'cause this proves we are the best candidate out there
by a factor of 10.
And, let's be honest, London needs a new voice.
It needs fresh ideas and an independent perspective.
We're tired of the two party system.
They sign off on each other's failures.
Every four years, you get an illusion of choice.
We have to stop that.
There's no innovation in that system.
We are innovating.
Look at this beautiful bus. Look at our digital platforms.
We are constantly streaming to you.
We are digitally transparent.
This is the new wave of politics.
And we will take all of our digital networks
with us to city hall.
And we will change the game of the way London is led.
I want to take this city that I love so dearly,
a city that's given me everything.
My children were born here.
I'm a citizen in this country.
I plan on being buried in this great city.
We are gonna take the city in a new direction.
Here are the ideas, the detailed ideas,
the costing, all of the logos is in here.
Everything you need to know
about what we're going to do with London is here.
All we need for you is to read it,
and then join us on May 6.
We're gonna pull off the greatest upset
in British political history.
We're gonna take London in a new direction.
And I can't wait to rebuild this economy,
build those homes, stop all this knife crime on the streets,
and finally run TFL like a business.
It's gonna change our lives.
It's gonna make London the greatest city in the world.
It's gonna show the world what a great city looks like,
and how we bounce back from a year of tragedy
into the future.
And that's where I want to take London.
So, again, thank you so very much.
This is our manifesto for the future.
And we are so proud of this document.
We're so proud of the policies.
We're so proud of how we're gonna take London
to the next direction.
We need your help on May 6.
We need you to vote.
We need you to tell your friends about this.
Share this video, share this manifesto,
and tell them there is an independent voice with fresh ideas
that wants to take London in a new direction.
We'll see you on May 6th.
Let's make history.
Let's go!
(crowd cheering)
Come on!
Whoo!
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