Today, there are 3 major parties and none of us are enjoying ourselves. The political process today is dominated by career politicians, none of whom seem to relate to the lives of the people that they represent or actually understand their job role. Most politicians today are more interested in furthering their careers than being servants of the people that elected them. The common sense thinking is that the multitude must straighten up and be on their best behaviour when they meet a politician when the truth is that the politician should be on their best behaviour when they meet with the multitude that elected them and gave them power. It is the role of the politician to educate the voters and their constituents on the political possibilities and options that lie before them and to be advocates in defence of their constituency. It is not proper behaviour to represent a constituency whilst speaking of your next career move and using your elected platform as a constituency MP to promote your next career move. This is not acceptable from Boris Johnson or David Lammy. It is unfair for them to use the platform's that they have been given by the voting constituents to unfairly raise their profile for their next job. We do not need a careerist politician in City Hall but a community organiser that can use the Mayoral role to organise London's civil society for the common good. We need a Mayor of London that will use City Hall as a hub for social justice, organising the various communities of London in order to champion tackling the inequality in this city. The Mayoral role is a limited role that largely involves managing the GLA budget but the role offers the opportunity for the Mayor to champion social justice and promote causes. We need a Mayor that will be a champion of London's civil society that can take the fight for equality to big business in the capital. We need a Mayor who could not care less about being a career politician that is willing to put his neck on the line and fight with the multitude to bring an end to the tale of two cities that exists in our capital. We need a Mayor that has come up from grass-roots campaigning and that can bring the issues and social justice movements into the mainstream by using the Mayoral position as a pulpit to pressure the market and the state to inject ethics into their policies and practices. It is well and good that David Lammy would like to be the first black Mayor of London but the multitude are wise enough to understand the issues that arose from the election of the first black President of the US. The problem was that the Presidency was not used as a pulpit for social justice; it was not used to organise the people of America to tackle local issues through community organising. Obama did not build a sustainable social justice movement but instead abandoned campaigners after his election. Although Organising for America was created Obama did not use the Presidency to share a grand community organising vision for social change. In 2016 we must elect a Mayor who does not get swept up in the climatic campaign trail and the election event but a Mayor that continues to organise for London way past the election date. A Mayor that has organised in the streets rather than spending the last 15 years in cozy Westminster. We do not need a Mayor that has been to the finest universities and been financially comfortable for all their adult life; We do not need a Mayor that has never had to work at a minimum wage job or stand in an unemployment line like so many Londoner's; today we need a Mayor of the multitude a community organising Mayor that does not sell the voters short with dreams and promises but works with Londoners to make a fairer, cleaner and happier city. The London Mayoral role was given a great start with our friend Red Ken who was elected as an independent candidate, 2016 must again become the year of the political outsider, the organising Mayor...
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