Labour in
Lewisham say Vote Ken and Len on 1st
May
Labour
Mayor Sir Steve Bullock with Len
Duvall
Labour in
Lewisham are urging local people to get out and vote for Ken
Livingstone for Mayor and Len Duvall as the Assembly Member for
Greenwich and Lewisham.
Deputy Mayor
Heidi Alexander says she’s voting for Ken and Len
because:
"I will be
voting for Ken because he's the best person for the job. He says
what he thinks and has a track record of delivering on Londoner's
priorities. He has transformed bus services in London and has given
us local police teams which are dedicated to tackling crime in our
own neighbourhoods.
I think
London's a more vibrant place than it was 10 years ago and believe
Ken has played a big role in this - think about Trafalgar Square
and the improvements that have been made there. I also believe Ken
has shown real leadership in tackling problems like affordable
housing and climate change. Ken's the man - vote for him on
Thursday."
Ken's
commitments for a new term:
-
Continue investing to transform London's
transport system - continue improving bus services, modernise the
Tube, build Crossrail and improve London rail services through
London Overground to raise service and safety standards, while
holding down fares
-
Continue the six per cent reduction in crime
each year - add a further 1,000 police over the next year to
London's existing record police numbers and maintain a dedicated
police team in every neighbourhood
-
Safeguard the policy that 50 per cent of new
homes should be cheaper homes to buy and homes at affordable rents;
build a minimum fifty thousand new affordable homes in the next
three years
-
Introduce 24 hour operation of the Freedom
Pass - giving older and disabled Londoners free travel before 9am
and throughout the day
-
Extend the student travel discount to Oyster
One Day Travelcards; maintain free travel for under-18s on the
buses
-
A £25 a day charge for high carbon-emitting
gas guzzlers to enter the central London congestion zone and no
charge for the greenest cars, with a London-wide Low Emission Zone
to keep the worst polluting lorries out of
London
-
Maintain good community relations - continue
to reduce racist attacks, down more than fifty per cent over eight
years
-
Youth centres for our young people - a £78m
programme to set up youth centres and improve youth services
throughout London to provide safe facilities outside school
hours
To find out
more about Ken’s policies click here
Keep
the BNP out
The BNP only
need another 5,000 votes to get a seat on the London Assembly, and
a say in how your money is spent across London. Labour in Lewisham
want to keep extremist parties out of City Hall and so are
campaigning hard to beat the Nazis.
Bellingham
Labour Councillor Alan Hall, Chair of Labour Group,
says:
“Every vote
counts in this election: not only will it be close between Ken and
the Tory candidate, but whilst no one’s looking the BNP can sneak
through the back door with just a few thousand votes. The Financial
Times have predicted in polls that the BNP can get on the London
Assembly, let’s make sure that the diversity and tolerance of
Londoners isn’t put at risk by the Nazi BNP.”
Keep
the joker Boris out
Boris
Johnson isn’t serious about running London. He’s never run any
large organisation – except for the right-wing Spectator journal
(with about 20 staff). Whilst Boris was the editor of the Spectator
he allowed his columnist Taki to publish these offensive musing
about the New Years shooting of two black girls in
Birmingham:
"Only a moron would
not surmise that what politically-correct newspapers refer to as
'disaffected young people' are black thugs, sons of black thugs and
grandsons of black thugs ... West Indians were allowed to immigrate
after the war, multiply like flies, and then the great state
apparatus took over the care of their multiplications. The "Rivers
of Blood "speech by Enoch was prophetic as well as true, and look
what the bullshitters of the time did to the great
man."
Boris didn’t
sack Taki.
As Polly Toynbee says in Tuesday’s
Guardian:
“When Londoners vote on Thursday, surely it's
a no-brainer? Here is an effete and frivolous Tory only doing it
for fun and fame. Never known for passionate commitment to anything
but himself, his strongly rightwing views are contemptuously
ignorant of all social policies: we know this from his writings.
His bewilderingly few policies are to stop Ken's requirement that
developers include 50% affordable housing in new building projects;
to replace bendy buses at a cost he cannot name; to abandon local
policing; to cut costs; and ... well, that's it. Or there is
Ken.”
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On
May 1st, Vote for Ken Livingstone, Len Duvall and the
Labour Party
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