I am a firefighter in the London Fire Brigade, a job I have done for
the past 23 years.
I work at Wandsworth Fire Station and currently I am the Fire Brigades
Union representative for the Fire Station. I have been involved with
my union, the FBU, for all my career, until recently representing all
6000 London firefighters.
I am 45 and live in Brixton. I wasn't born in London but I am a Londoner now.
I was there at the formation of RESPECT in 2004 when we were born from
the massive anti-war movement. I was on the officers' committee of Stop
the War Coalition at the time.
I am the national chair of RESPECT and have been for the past three years.
Because of my job I am particularly interested in the public services
we as Londoners get.
I believe we deserve the best. I also believe that people that provide
public services – for instance teachers, council and transport workers
as well as those in the NHS and emergency services should not be taken
for granted or priced out of our city.
Alongside public services I am passionate about anti-racism and
building a fairer London for all.
I don't think that London should be only for the rich... very often it
feels like that.
Affordable housing and transport, and the gun and knife murders of our
young people are issues that we will make a priority on the GLA when
elected.
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I shook up the US Senate, and we have a chance to shake up the London Assembly on 1 May. By standing for the London Assembly I want to turn the spotlight on what it does. Most people haven't a clue what the Assembly is or what it does. How can you have democracy when that situation prevails?
Londoners need a powerful voice on the Assembly. Even my enemies would concede that I am a powerful voice.
This is an election about many things – it is about the kind of London we want to live in, I'm proud of the rich and tolerant cultural mix that is our city, and I'm determined to defend it from the nasty right wing coalition that is emerging in this election.
I am for narrowing the obscene gap between rich and poor. In my constituency some of the poorest people in Britain live literally in the shadow of the City of London – the richest square mile on earth.
This is also an election about candidates' records. I have no hesitation in saying that I am one of the leaders of the anti-war movement in Britain. Everything I said about the disastrous war in Iraq turned out to be right, and everything Tony Blair and Gordon Brown said turned out to be wrong.
This wasn't a mistake over a few percent on the expenditure of a minor government ministry. It has cost a million lives.
As I told the truth about the war, so I will tell the truth in the London Assembly. And it will save you money too! As an MP I will only get a third of the salary of other Assembly members and that will be donated to political campaigns.
This is a serious election for London. I'm calling on progressive Londoners to vote for Ken Livingstone against Boris Johnson for mayor, and to vote to put me and my fellow Respect candidates into the Assembly.
I'll support Ken when he's in the right, but hold him to account when he's wrong. |
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