UK Politics Exposed! Shyam Batra on Corruption, 15-Minute Cities, and Economic Reform
Disruptors
Rob Moore
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🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So is it true you were pulled out of the race for the mayor of London? |
| 0:04.4 | Yeah. You were pulled out. Yeah. You didn't pull out. You were pulled out. |
| 0:08.0 | I was taken out because who took you out? |
| 0:10.2 | Uh, g-l-A. GLA. |
| 0:13.4 | Who are GLA? |
| 0:15.4 | I don't know the guy's name but he was really rude to me. |
| 0:19.1 | But I'll explain to you what happened. |
| 0:20.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.8 | During March this year we were supposed to go and get 10 names from every borough, and that's 330 names, |
| 0:29.3 | and then we also had to go and get the electoral numbers. |
| 0:33.1 | So I went round the boroughs. |
| 0:34.8 | I contacted the councils. |
| 0:36.8 | They said, you have to call the councils |
| 0:38.2 | for the electoral numbers. |
| 0:39.4 | Okay, fine. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm surprised because the parties |
| 0:41.8 | get all of this information one year before but independence you've got seven days right so I decided to |
| 0:48.8 | Contact the councils. Oh, you're not a candidate. I said what do you mean? I've been running since September last year. |
| 0:54.5 | Of course I'm a candidate I've been on. No, you're not a candidate until the 19th of March. |
| 0:58.9 | I said, but that only gives us seven days. Why would we wait for 19th of March? So I went along getting my numbers and |
| 1:07.0 | names and stuff. I got nearly 7,000 names, not 330, out of 33 boroughs, right? |
| 1:13.2 | And then 19 the month comes, I ring up the council. |
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