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Hi everybody, as I said before, we want you to get in contact because we are nothing without your views
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So go to gbnews.com slash your say and get your questions in for Ask the Five
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No limits, apparently. But thank you for your messages so far. Now it's time for our next debate and it is the delightful Trey
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Yes, I'm going to be talking about my beautiful city of London. So last time I spoke about London, I said we had more chance of seeing Lord Lucan than seeing Bobby's on the beat
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And sadly, the actual stat is true. In the last year, we have lost 1,460 officers
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That's in one year. That is a fact. Yes, we're told that knife crime is down
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That's great. And murders are down. And that's great as well. But what isn't great is that us Londoners don't feel safe
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I know a lot of women in London don't feel safe. Certainly when my wife goes out, she doesn't feel safe
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I have to come and get her all the time. The problem is, is if there are no bobbies on the beat
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There is no visibility and there's no deterrence. See, because policing isn't all about stats
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It's about confidence. And the standard Londoners expect from our mayor are sadly being let down
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This is my city, a city that I absolutely love, and this isn't good enough
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Totally agree, Trey. Totally agree. As a born and bred Londoner, I know Rene is the same
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It is lacking in serious leadership, and this is one of the greatest cities in the world
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but it should be the greatest city in the world and it is failing on so many accounts to protect women
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particularly protect women So the question has to be then why this man who I think has single destroyed London over his last what is it three tenures in that post
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why do people keep voting him back in? Well, I wouldn't say it was even single-handedly
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I think there was actually quite a few politicians that contributed to the destruction of London, if I'm being honest
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with you, René, but I do think he's been a massive contributor because it has got so much worse
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since he took over. So much worse. But, you know, we spaff all of our money up
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on stupid stuff like rebranding the Overground, which nobody asked for to woke train lines. Who cares
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It's just a train. I want the trains to work. Using the fireworks display
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to give across these ideological left-wing messages. Why don't you just have a firework display
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I think one of the issues for me a little bit is, I get it, central government's also responsible, obviously
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for giving them the budget, but I don't see him fighting to allocate budgets away from the stuff that you've said
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to police and so people generally feel safe. I mean, another thing, a lot of my Middle East friends
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don't come anymore. I mean, that represents billions and billions into the London economy, you know
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On the policing thing, very interesting. The Tories claim, the City Hall Conservatives claim
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there was millions of pounds set aside. That could be used immediately for the Metropolitan Police
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They expect Siddharth Khan will use it during an election year so he can win re-election instead
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That's a claim for the Conservative Party. I'm sure the Mayor would refute that claim. But if it's true, it does say a lot about who he is
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I do think we have... I'm going to... Sorry, well, jump it in. I do think we have one of the rare situations on Saturday 5
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so just mark this down in your diary, everybody. We all agreed with Trey. Well, apart from Kai
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We often agree. I don't think Kai has heard from Kai yet. Kai? But we are going to hear from Kai now
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You're going to hear enough from me. Kai, tell us what you're going to talk about tonight
