In a way you are able to say 'Proud to be a Londoner' deep from you heart. A London that truly represents you.
Well, let's ask first what makes not to be proud to be a Londoner. Let's identify what are those and how to get rid of or lessen the, in a way that what left out eventually is for you to say 'I'm proud to be a Londoner'!
Clean Air
Primary source of bad air in London is the petrol and diesel vehicles. We make City of London fully electric, car buses, everything with immediate effect, diesel, petrol all banned. Secondly, Hackney, Islington, Camden moved top fully clean transport with the next 4 years, coming consecutive years other boroughs moved to fully clean transport, in 10-25 years all boroughs of London, no diesel, petrol fully banned. There will be transport vehicles to help delivery vehicles transit during this period. Wood stoves, wood burning stoves of any kind completely banned. All public transport clean transport. This will not just make London clean but also quieter, much more liveable place!
More Green Look
We want lash green looks everywhere we go. This is gives the feeling of calm. Enough trees on London that when you look at from space, it looks greenish, not greyish. There should be trees next to pavements, you should never far away from a tree couple of walk away. Some trees might block view or sunlight to a flat, we should plant trees in a way that does not obstruct view. There also should be fruit trees in parks as this gives the feeling of escape especially for children.
Congestion
London famous for double decker buses. What London lack for us tramways, we could introduce double decker trams to places that ease congestion, such as from Clapham to Peckham, to Tower Hamlets and to Islington. Tram also gives London sense of beauty. As more kinds of traffic there is the better. With tramways more people can be carried, does not stop as often, travel time shorter, and much cheaper to run it as it take the space of couple of double decker buses with only one driver. This is must be the thinking behind Docklands Light Railway with no driver behind but only in Limehouse, there is tram but only in Croydon, we might extend these types of clean travel to the rest of London. We will of course introduce other types of travel as to make travel time shorter.
Pressure Valve
Londoners work hard, live hard with that too much pressure built up sometimes they need to release that, how about we give Londoners that pressure valve, so that they escape the city within the city. There is London Marathon, we introduce more and there will be Tour de London, Mountain racing London, Motorbike racing, … and even for those thrill seekers Car street racing, and now the Thames river clean again swimming Marathons on the river possible, and lots of other city wide sports. Nobody will ever be bored in London. They no longer need escape to Ibiza, Spain, for that 2 weeks each year.
Ban Sale of Smoke and Alcohol under the age of 25
London and Londoners unlike other. Must be unique and should unique and have laws and regulations represents that uniqueness. We are a city of clean, healthy and energetic. That's is why we will ban sale of alcohol, cigarettes to anyone under the age of 25. Londoners drinks responsibly and to enjoy. We would not want to see a teenager at 2am in the morning, with a bottle on her hand every night each night instead what we would like to see is her having fun with her friends dancing with music, and not waking up with a headache in the morning.
Ultra Mega cities
London is a mega city, but not the only city in Britain, there is Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol. What we do is built high speed trains between those cities, so from Manchester to London travel time becomes just under 2 hours. London people can go to Manchester to do business come back on the same day with no tiring. By connecting mega cities to other mega cities shorter and faster we turn mega cities into ultra mega cities. Talent, business, ideas can travel much faster, better and as a result benefit each city immensely.
Thames River
This river is what gives the London reason to exist, as without it there would be no London. In 1800's people used to swim in the Thames, go fishing in the Thames. Can we achieve that again? Imagine that! Imagine Thames being that clean. Now I'm sure with only that most Londoners would be able to say 'I am proud to be a Londoner!' Make the Thames River clean again! For that a new regulations, no more waste into the Thames River, not a single from any connecting pond, branch, canals anywhere, waste it somewhere else. Thames river will be clean super clean, this is a top priority. Beautiful fish, aquatic life will be introduced to the river, they will live happily, the river will be so clean you can see the water through at some places. There will be occasionally waste grabber boats, cleaning those plastic bags, bottles, and litter, we do not even wanna see a single litter on and around the river! That clean!
Transparency & Honesty
Londoners always complain about too much public spending. Maybe would be the only city that will have transparency on every penny it spends on the city, on the Mayors, and each borough's website, every penny spent will be publicly available and any complains will be recorded. This will not just introduce transparency but also trust and a say where the public money spent on. They no longer will need to wait yearly or quarterly reports, they can see it immediately. Any visits mayor does, conversations, time & money spend, during working hours will be recorded and will be publicly available on a website depending on the nature immediately, yearly, 5 yearly and everything up to 20 years.
A Mayor that truly represents London
Every single politician come to power is boring and not liked. Ken Livingstone what did he do in his entire 2 terms? One big legacy comes on top Congestion Zone, this actually made inner London much liveable place. Then come Boris Johnson, don't think he had any legacy, maybe London was going though times. But later Sadiq Khan, we yet to see any he had. The next mayor of London needs to bring about those changes. Truly a Londoner not a politician, not looking for a career. connects with Londoners, understand them, sometimes share supper with them, knocks onto their door in advance of course, for a cuppa, listen to them, and to their problem by heart.
Ability to Grow Food at Home
It's fun to have chicken, quail, rabbit at your back garden, herbs, vegetables cultivating fresh daily but the thing is these farms, create smell might upset your neighbour, harbour bacteria if not cleaned properly, and vegetables might bring unwanted bugs, and insects. But every resident should have freedom to grow vegetables and herbs at home. And this is why we introduce a licence, that each resident pay and renewed yearly, it is very low like the fishing licence. This licence especially required in residential areas. The licence fee paid so that Occasionally an officer might patrol you to check on your produce time to time, advice you on how grow cleanly, without receiving complaints from your neighbours. There are courses on how to grow cleanly, and how deal with insects and pets.
Health of the Nation
Clean air, clean food, clean water must be the priority for Londoners. We removed diesel and petrol cars and planted trees, made the air cleaner. It is time for water, this is rivers, ponds, tab water. We already cleaned the Thames made it swimabel. Now can me make the tab water drinkable? At least much pleasant? We can certainly work on that. Bottled water can be less plastic? But the top priority is food. We in London decided to have our own regulation & safety when it comes to food, which means less sugar in drinks, less saturated fat, and less toxic ingredients, we want to see healthy Londoners, that's why the golden triangle is for, clean air, food, and water!
Protecting Wealth of its residents
London are very expensive for people, The food, travel, utilities. London borough can do help towards that. What we call minimum standard of living. We encourage work and working, and helping people finding their talent, abilities. There instances will happen in peoples life where there are unable to pay for basic necessities such electricity and gas, electricity which they need before they climb the next ladder. This is why 1kw-5kW electricity per month is free of charge for any London residents depending on the type of . If they were unable to pay for their bills, they can wait another 1 months to get that free electricity, it is same for gas for not that necessary and for internet, any mobile network will have 1GB free per month.
Protecting the minds of children and young alike
Young are the cements in a building, if the young grow healthy and strong the city is healthy and strong. The young is the most important group of people for the Mayor. The young always get ignored, since they can't vote, investment on them, takes time a lot time to get results. But Mayor does not think about his term but London and the future of which is the young.
The young must get the best access to education possible. GCSE Maths, Physics, English, is compulsory for all the young. And London Education Board give bursaries to London residents to do their education.
Religious Texts
Religion should not poison the mind of the young. Therefore Bible, Quran and Torah has classification chapters. This classified Bibles will be called London version, it will be classified as PG, 18, and 15 years of age, depending on the chapters. For Quran, with the help of London Muslim Council, it will be certified for chapters. So Quran 12 means, that people under the age of 12 can read that book safely. We want our young not to be expose their mindset to stories such as all babies died at birth, stones poured these are 21 age bracket stories. For Torah is the same.
Rainy Days no Longer Feel Rainy
There is no 3 days pass that does not rain in London. How about me make that feature of London. With many trees, streets looks less wetty, with easy transport links, you get to your destination much quicker. And new kind of improvements purely adding to uniqueness of London. Now, all new roads and pavements no longer has made of asphalt or concrete but special material that absorb rain, much better, so your street looks much drier. As soon as rains over the street begin to look drier. With improvements like this, this is is the kind of city that does not fight with things that has not control over, but it integrate itself with it.
London Investments Council
There are so many people with ideas. Only if they had little bit of funding. LIC job is to analyse where investments needed, and invest in people. This can be investing as equity, small sum, or loan on low interest. An example could include, an entrepreneur decides that an laundry shop needed in his area, he does persuade the LIC panel saying that mostly students or temp workers live in his area and they do not have washing machine at home, upon his presentation of his idea, LIC decides whether to invest or and type of investment. Panel members go to the area and see themselves, opens a mutual bank account, buys material needed from their own supplier. LIC can even decides if entrepreneur needs funding skills and need to go to do some eduction. LIC has extensive chain of contacts from wholesale to business people, they are able to help people or their investments better.
Peace peace peace
When someone mentions London anywhere in the world immediately, trust, honesty, integrity and peace comes to mind. Trust because politicians represents their people and keep their word. Honesty as London the most transparent city in the world when it comes to public spending. Integrity, automatically comes after trust and honesty and these resulted Peace as the subject of the paragraph, Londoners earned the respect in the world to have a voice! When they say peace it gets listened. Londoners are educated, well mannered, and because of that some of best things happens in London when it comes to peace. It had the largest protest when it comes to wars. Londoners creates alliances with other friendly cities in turn becomes a force on peace. Londoners do not desire support a government that to attack a country unless it gets attacked itself or approved by the UN.
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