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Recently, we've heard reports that the prime minister is considering canceling the upcoming elections on this just isn't the election for Mayor of London.
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This is also the election for councils throughout the country, in counties and in cities.
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This is our basic human right, our democratic right to choose our leaders that represent our interests and make sure they represent those interests moving forward.
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Let me ask you a question.
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Are you happy with every single decision that your elected leader has made in the last 12 months?
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Well, if not, you should be allowed to choose new leaders or toe hold the current leaders accountable to now aligned to your decision process.
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This is the purpose of a democracy, and when you hijack the democracy and postpone it, then you ruin everything that this country was built on.
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And let's quickly remember they've already done this before.
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In May of last year, they postponed the elections for a year, which means the current mayor of London shouldn't be in office right now because no one voted him into this five year term he's currently experiencing.
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No one agreed that he could have an extra year, but they just decided that they were going to postpone elections.
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It's not fair now.
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I understand there's issues of safety that we have to consider.
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Maybe people can't come out and congregate and elect in a normal way.
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So then we have to consider a postal voting system, but that's already been ruled out by our prime minister, he says.
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That's not gonna happen as well.
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And so you've got to ask yourself what's going on with this two party system?
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Why aren't they allowing us to choose our leaders and hold them accountable?
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When you have non fixed terms, which is what we're seeing now or you don't have free and fair elections?
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Then why would these people represent our interests?
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This has to stop now, which is why I've created a petition that's gonna go in from a parliament, and we're going to demand that we have free and fair elections here on May 6th.
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No exceptions.
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If it can't be done in person, let's do it in a postal manner.
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So click the link below.
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Let me get your signature on that way, this will have to be debated in Parliament and weaken demand our basic human rights and our rights as a democracy.
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This is so important.
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I can't stress this enough.
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Um, if they postpone this, it means that they're gonna be able to make more and more decisions that aren't in our interests.
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I believe in democracy, and I believe it works.
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I believe that the people know what's right and we choose the best leaders.
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But when you take that away from us, well, it's no longer a democracy.
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It's not free, and it's not fair and it's not acceptable.
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So please click the link below.
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Let me get your signature.
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Let's make sure they do not hijack this election.
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Let's make sure they don't take away our right to choose.
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This determines our future, our health, our livelihood, our Children's futures, their education.
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It's all riding on this now.
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This is the one point in history not to postpone elections.
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Click the link.
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Give me your signature.
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Share this video with someone who needs to see it.
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Give me your comments below, but we have to make sure this does not happen.
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We need a democratic process.
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Your vote matters.
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Your choice matters.
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Let's get leaders that represent the voices of the people.
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We must do this and we must move forward.