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Thursday 26 April 2012

GLA Assembly and Mayor of London

Mandy Richards Labour GLA Assembly candidate for Havering and Redbridge and Ken Livingstone for Mayor of London A 7% cut in fares and freeze in 2013. Ken will reduce Oyster fares from £1.35 to £1.20. Reversing Boris Johnson’s Police cuts and restoring Sergeants to Safer Neighbourhood Teams. Boris Johnson has admitted cutting 1,700 police officers, even though serious crime such as robbery, burglaries and rape have risen and knife crime has risen every year that he has been in office Supporting young Londoners through the reintroduction of the Education Maintenance Allowance scrapped by the Tories and Lib Dems in government

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  1. Ken Livingstone

    “I want to be Mayor for one overriding reason: if I am elected my focus will be to do everything I can to protect Londoners from the recession and the effects of the Government's policies.”

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  2. Elected Office:

    2000-2008, Mayor of London

    1987-2001, Member of Parliament for Brent East

    1981-1986, Leader of the Greater London Council, GLC member for Paddington

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  3. Mandy Richards Labour Candidate for Havering and Redbridge

    Background in teaching, youth work, journalism and community activism.

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  4. Mandy Richards

    ''London’s communities are seeing a reversal of fortune with increased poverty and inequality as the raft of Conservative cuts hit working families and the most vulnerable hardest.

    Having lived and worked across London for over fifteen years as a teacher, journalist, Labour activist and Youth Worker, I’m keenly aware of how current Government policy is impacting locally on community policing, local business, transport costs, housing, education and healthcare.''

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  5. The latest unemployment figures show that young people in Redbridge are finding it harder than ever to find jobs. In the Ilford North and Ilford South constituencies alone, almost 1700 young people are without jobs.

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  6. Sadly Ken Livingstone didn’t take Mayor of London from Boris Johnson and Mandy Richards didn’t take Havering and Redbridge although 49,386 votes (34.84% up 13.30%) against Roger Evans (Tory) 53,285 (37.59%, down 10.08%) wasn’t a bad result.

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  7. Having said that the Tories and Liberal took a hammering in council elections across the rest of Britain as Labour gained over 820 seats and the Tories lost over 400 and the Lib-Dems lost over 330. The Labour Party won 38% of the vote, the Conservatives 31% and the Lib-Dems 16%, other parties took 15% with the smaller parties and independent candidates performing well.

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  8. Labour gained control of Birmingham, Cardiff, Carlisle, Derby, Glasgow, Plymouth and Southampton and the Liberal-Democrats lost control of Cambridge, a good day for Labour and a bad one for the Tories and Liberal coalition.

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