Evening Standard debate - video highlights
Evening Standard26.02.08
Click on the links below to watch video highlights of the Evening Standard debate on how London can stay ahead as a great world city featuring Ken Livingstone, Nick Ferrari, Diane Abbott and Lionel Barber.
Clip 4
Crime and Lionel Barber's views - how New York can be used as a model
Clip 8
Taxi question - how can we keep the quality of London taxis with the rising costs of running them?
Clip 10
Close and Mike Green asks about the look of London with the skyscraper plans
Reader views (4)
Ken has done a good job and deserves some credit. He has been prepared to take risks (congestion charge, taxing gas guzzlers)and improved the buses big time. Most people having a moan here probably only have a vague concept of how important public transport is to some Londoners.
Ken courts the square mile whilst retaining the interests of the under privileged in this diverse city. He has been a great mayor and deserves another term. Boris? Nice bloke, funny bloke; I want someone who will take risks and get the job done. Not a comedian.
- Dave Hague, London
Ken's done brilliantly- the transformation of this city since he took charge as ensured London's place as a world class city. There's much to do- mainly the redressing of the balance between east and central/west London with the largest park in Europe for 250 years at the Olympic site and Stratford City- a development the size of Bluewater by the Eurostar terminal. Ken is that rare thing- a politician who says he will do something and does it, I think this is what annoys those who want to drag London down and slag off Londoners.
- Hans Datdodishes, London
Red Ken is a disgrace to this city - this is a city of hard and fast capitalism, his power hungry approach is only destroying London.
Long live anybody other than Ken!
- A Londoner, London, London
It's amazing to see how evil Red Ken can be... well done the Standard for keeping up your campaign, we need rid of him, anything is better that trying to live in one of the worlds greatest capitalist cities with a Socialist mayor.
It makes me cry every time I think of the damage he has done.
- A Londoner, London
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