All the main prospective candidates running for Mayor are focusing on housing. Given that house values have rocketed over the last few years and priced out most first time buyers it is understandable. However, rather than address that issue, they just talk about building more and more. By and large such properties would not be much cheaper to buy or rent because, under present policies, if Corporations keep buying and not renting properties and demand keeps on growing, due to a projected mushrooming of population (largely through immigration), we shall see prices keep rising for many years to come.

PROTECT OUR GREEN SPACES

The problem of simply building more properties rather than better population control in London, including ensuring jobs and housing is available outside the Capital to accommodate people, is a recipe for disaster. Valuable Green spaces are being built upon, sufficient parking spaces are being ignored by the Mayor, and services are under strain as no-one really wants to pay for the necessary infrastructure.

Rather, we need a Mayor who will focus on protecting our existing Quality of Life instead of letting it all slide away in a fit of mass house building.

Furthermore, the two candidates representing the Labour and Conservative parties are career politicians. Who will represent the ordinary Londoner?

In the course of promoting our prospective Mayoral candidate, Upkar Singh Rai, we found that only one other candidate stood out as an non-establishment/anti-elitist figure, Mr Kane Khan of the newly formed Friends Party.

Euro-sceptic and opposed to career politicians, Kane Khan is appealing to the Capital’s voters to back the ‘outsider’. He will be adopting our slogan of ‘Protecting the Quality of Life of Londoners’. The NLP has therefore decided to withdraw our Mayoral candidate in support of Kane Khan. We shall throw our weight behind his campaign to be elected Mayor of London and report on his policies and activities in due course.

The NLP will however be standing Upkar Singh Rai for the GLA constituency of Ealing & Hillingdon. We are presently leafleting the area. We need your help to raise the funds to stand, print flyers and place adverts. Can you help?

If you can leaflet please contact natliberal@aol.com.

If you can donate to Upkar’s campaign this can be made via http://nationalliberal.org/the-party-organisation/donate, transfer to the Bank of Scotland, NLP, 12-11-03, 06186181, cheques to the NLP mailed to the National Liberal Party, PO Box 4217, Hornchurch, Essex RM12 4PJ, or you by pledge (£100 plus) to the Sponsorship Fund by e-mailing natliberal@aol.com.

Upkar will be the Quality of Life candidate for Ealing & Hillingdon. He is presently running a campaign In support of local shopkeepers and the self-employed in the area. He will be expanding his campaign to Clean & Secure the streets by providing public toilets, more cleaners, and better local policing and surveillance to counter anti-social behaviour.

If you can leaflet please contact natliberal@aol.com.

If you can donate to Upkar’s campaign can be made via http://nationalliberal.org/the-party-organisation/donate, transfer to the Bank of Scotland, NLP, 12-11-03, 06186181, cheques to the NLP mailed to the National Liberal Party, PO Box 4217, Hornchurch, Essex RM12 4PJ, or you by pledge (£100 plus) to the Sponsorship Fund by e-mailing natliberal@aol.com.

http://nationalliberal.org/ natliberal@aol.com