What I Believe

There is a central element to why I am standing as a candidate. I will make it my mission to put myself out of a job, and push central government and Parliament to shut down the useless and expensive binge that is London Government.

As Mayor, I can only lead by example, and 'dodo' myself out of existence by showing where these powers should truly lie.

So I will create a greater role for Council leaders in developing policy across London, and take less of an executive role to become more of a round table chairman.

I will go back to the drawing board with Transport for London. If it is to survive - if - then it has to be utterly accountable to local residents and their elected representatives, rather than act as their master.

Ken Livingstone has reverted to type. People who thought of him as a William Tell against Blair now find he's a Robin Hood gone wrong.

It is time to restore decent practices inside the system as it stands. I pledge to end both direct and indirect funding and proxy support for Ken's red friends and PC brigade.

I promise to treat Londoners with respect regardless of who they are. I believe in equality of individuals, not so-called 'positive' discrimination.

I also believe in transparency. Let mistakes be seen so that government can be trusted.

I believe that under New Labour, you and I are being taxed beyond what is reasonable. As co-author of the Bumper Book of Government Waste, I was horrified by New Labour's grab-and-squander attitude to our money.

I pledge therefore to slice back Livingstone's bursting junket machine of advisers and press gurus.

I will ditch the Congestion Tax. Let's call it what is is. It's a tax, not a charge.

I will also slash the advertising budget. How ridiculous that a Londoner has to sit through three lengthy cinema ads costing millions he or she has paid for whenever they go to the cinema for a feature film.