You don’t need me to tell you that too much of our housing is unaffordable, or that our air is grotesquely polluted, or our streets unsafe. Instead you need someone like me to sort these things out.
Not quite as bad as Jess Phillips’ quotes yesterday, but this second sentence doesn’t follow from the first. Odd.
And again, the answers are not rocket science. It is obvious that we need to build far more houses and flats — not just gimcrack boxes, but homes we can be proud of. We need more police on the streets — immediately.
So he’s standing on the same policies as everyone else.
I am proud of not being a professional politician. I have been able to apply the lessons I learnt as the deputy governor of a war-torn province in Iraq, as the founder of a charity in Afghanistan, and, back here in Britain, as the flooding minister and prisons minister, and as a member of Parliament.
Interesting…
It didn’t matter whether I was clearing 30,000 truck-loads of garbage out of the old city of Kabul, or whether I was introducing the plastic bag tax or reducing violence in an East London prison — I learned how to understand the problem clearly, grasp the solution, and then have the energy and determination to drive it through.
Oh, it was just the lead up to a cringeworthy covering letter for a job application.
In all seriousness though - his approach to campaigning will probably cut through reasonably well in this race, particularly with the Standard able to give him reams of columns every weekday.
