Hello, please like and subscribe. I am delighted to be joined by Jamie Juskolt, who is currently the Mayor of

the North of Time. He was, of course, the Labour Mayor. What I would say a huge amount of praise from

actually across the political spectrum for what he's achieved in that Mayoralty,

some would have thought then that at the very least, with the new North East,

combined authority being created, the Labour Party would at least shortlist the guy

so that Labour members could vote on him for that particular post, not to be, unfortunately.

So, Jamie, let's firstly, hello, hi. What's happened since is having been barred from standing,

so Labour members have had their democratic rights assert that they weren't allowed to say whether

they wanted you to be the candidate for the North East Mayoralty. You've now resigned from the Labour

Party. You've set up a fund raiser and a go fund me to raise money for it. You initially,

your initial target was 25,000. You said if you get that by the end of August, then you would stand,

but if not, you wouldn't. You manage like two hours and now you're on nearly 88,000, which by the

time this video is at a date would be completely, sorry, this video goes up, would be at a date.

What was that, I mean, firstly, what's your response to that just in terms of how much you've raised

and what that tells you? It's really, I mean, politicians say this, but genuinely,

it's really quite humbly. I'm quite surprised. When Labour first barred me and everybody knows that

was just a terrible sham, they don't do due diligence on right wing candidates, we know that.

And the response immediately was one of outrage from Labour members, and it's notable that Labour

have not published the number of votes in that election, by the way, because I think it's

not going to be really low, because I know that the majority of Labour members are now going to vote

for me as an independent, they've told me. So we've got an ask situation, what we're going to do?

And it was a conversation with my family, when my youngest son is 15, he said,

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