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average house price here in London.
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£486,000.
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That is so much higher.
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Nearly £300,000.
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The national average in the UK, your pay increases by 1% every year.
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Housing prices go up by nearly 8% a year.
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How can you keep up with that?
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You just can't.
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And we need a better solution.
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So I want to get your thoughts right now.
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Please type in and tell me, do you personally struggle to afford to pay rent in the city?
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And why do you personally struggle to buy an affordable home?
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And why do you believe that?
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Our key workers.
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I'm talking about our teachers, our nurses, our firefighters, our police.
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Do you think that they deserve to have affordable housing in the city?
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Answer me this question.
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Has the current mayor of London failed in his promises to build affordable homes?
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And finally, I want you to tell me, Do you think we need new leadership?
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Do you think we need new policies?
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Do you think we need to take a London in a new direction?
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So please type in your thoughts and answers on whatever platform you're watching this on before and after.
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I want to hear that.
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And, man my screens lighting up with all of your answers.
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Here again, I really appreciate you being here on these broadcasts.
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I appreciate you sharing this video even right now with your friends and family so they can join us.
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Everyone needs to know these numbers.
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If you're on by the data, then the politicians, they can't talk over you.
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Then you know when they're telling you the truth and when they're lying to you, Roz bars on Instagram says quote love that this is a born American checking the English folks.
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All right, I Look, I appreciate you saying that's the truth.
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Is is that I've lived in this city for 20 years.
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I feel like a Londoner.
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I've been a British citizen for 13 years.
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My kids were born here.
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They're British.
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I plan on being buried in the city.
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So although they accent my trick, you I am a Londoner born and bred.
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Don't get that confused.
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And I look forward to taking this city in a new direction.
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The truth is, this city has always been enriched by the people that immigrated to this place.
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including the Romans, the Saxons, the Vikings and so many other people from all over Europe and all over the world.
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It makes us stronger.
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So I appreciate that.
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Frost on Instagram says Brian for mayor.
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I appreciate that.
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Andrew Acosta says the same thing.
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Brian for Mayor, as does Nikki Vincent.
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I appreciate your sentiment, Nori Maria on Instagram says Brian quote.
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You're full of energy.
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We need you and you're ready to change London.
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I appreciate that And your usage on Instagram says quote, I love London and so do I.
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And you know, a lot of people say, Brian, what does the energy come from like?
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I'll be honest with you.
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I don't even know the last three months since I announced my plans become your mayor.
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I've got energy I never knew, You know, I always had a lot of energy doing London real, but now I feel that there's this extra source and I think it's because I feel like I'm finally living my life's purpose to make a major change in a major city and really served nine million people.
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But I got so much energy I could barely sleep at night.
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I'm just always thinking of ways that we could make this city better.
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So I appreciate you noticing right on housing.
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We've got Zik Stroh fitness on Instagram, saying Quote all the politicians Dio is say what the people want to hear, but the actions are nil, and I appreciate you pointing that out, and that's the truth.
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And that's why we have to go back and and find out what they said on.
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Like I said, our current mayor of London promised to build 80,000 houses per year.
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This year he built 1600.
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All right, I mean, you can see the track record there and again, they tell you what they wanna hear, then they don't deliver, and that's unacceptable.
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Dominic on YouTube says quote, It makes it very difficult for those in the arts from working class backgrounds to keep their heads above water in a city they need to be in to progress.
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Their careers.
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Dominic, I couldn't agree with you more.
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The reason I love London is because of the great culture of this city, and that comes from people in the arts.
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It comes from independent entrepreneurs.
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It comes from people all around the world, and if they can't afford to live here, then we don't have a great city anymore.
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So we have to address this problem.
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It's so important.
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Christina Valentin on Instagram says quote.
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I'm a nurse.
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We don't just need affordable housing.
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We need housing that we fully own, not just 5% or 30%.
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It's a great point.
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Christina and I couldn't agree with you more.
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We have to have affordable housing toe by and to rent.
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We need to give people the option.
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But how can you do this, Valentina?
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If the average house price is £465,000 it's ridiculous.
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We need Mawr affordable housing, and I'm gonna show you exactly how we do that.
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Next.
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We've got the Joel Dio on instagram and says, Quote, Nice dude, Good structure.
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I'm glad you're keeping things transparent.
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I appreciate you and again I'm here hopefully to teach you things every single week that you can use to make intelligent decisions.
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And again, I want you to make your own decisions.
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So this is information for you.
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Tell me, Do you agree?
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Do you don't agree?
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Make your own decision and then use your votes to get someone in power who's gonna act in your interests.
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That's what a democracy is all about.
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Let's make it happen.
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Ah, few other points from, uh, social coming in right now.
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Jason on Instagram says quote.
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I personally struggle to see how Sadiq Khan could improve this city.
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Jason, you know, you said it.
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I do as well.
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I struggle to see how another three years of this guy is gonna do anybody any good.
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So the one way to show that is to vote that's on May 6th.
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Wandering and heels.
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Great name on Instagram says quote.
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Sadiq Khan is the worst mayor we have ever had.
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Knife crime has never been so bad in the UK Sadiq Khan has also ruined the city's public transportation system.
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Unquote, you said it so well.
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The last two episodes I've had here on riel deal.
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We've discussed exactly that.
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Last week we spoke very seriously and soberly about knife crime and how it Zagat into nightmare proportions.
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And before that, we talked about the mayor's continued failings when it comes to transport for London and bankrupting that entity.
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I appreciate your thoughts and I promised to solve those as soon as I get into office.
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Uh, sim 2.0 on I G says quote, how can you do better than Sadiq?
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Honestly, how can I do any worse?
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Seriously, how can anyone do any worse than what this man has done?
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Um, it's so easy.
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And I'm gonna show you what we could do on housing with knife crime.
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Outlined it last week with TfL.
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Val, I outlined it before that.
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The truth is, is I have detailed policies on exactly what I will do is your next mayor of London.
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You go to Brian for mayor dot London off all the candidates currently running for mayor, my policies are more detailed, and yet I started later than them.
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And I don't have, uh, a party with thousands of members and hundreds of millions of pounds and financing.
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And yet my policies arm or detailed and, quite frankly, better than theirs.
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So, yeah, just go on my website.
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I'll show you exactly how, But I appreciate you asking me.
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Let's hold our politicians to task.
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Definitely.
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Also, I can operate outside of their system.
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There is no one telling me what to dio except for me and you telling me what to dio.
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It's beautiful.
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It's the way politics should work.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way anymore.
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Ah, couple ask questions before I finish off the tally.
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Albu on Instagram says quote.
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People are afraid they can't do anything.
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It is horrible.
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What's going on?
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Your rights?
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Uh, next we have a Hani Makris on Instagram and says, Quote, take away the congestion charge.
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Get London working again.
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I couldn't agree with you.
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Part of my get London back toe work policy is removing the congestion charge for six months on a congestion charge holiday and dropping business rates to zero for the next six months.
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We have to do it right now to get London back toe work.
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We've got George PAbbott on YouTube that says, quote key workers, NHS, police and fire services deserve better pay.
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I'd like to see a government that values the public sector.
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I'd like to see your thoughts, and I appreciate that We appreciate key workers.
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They are essential and they need housing solutions.
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Otherwise, what are we gonna do is a city.
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We've got to find affordable housing.
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Otherwise, we have no teachers.
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We have no nurses.
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We have no firefighters.
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We have no police, which means we have no city.
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So we've got to look out for these people.
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And it all starts with affordable housing.
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While while my wife while we were my wife.