Go Go Sian!!! We are fed up with Livingstons Face!!!! Yours is much prettier!!!!! BTW I hope if you win you will do something about the way Council Homes are dispersed!!!! Should go to the people who were born in this country first before going to immigrants from other country's!!!! The cost of the housing market also needs to come down and a cap put on the value of homes depending on area!!!!

Hi, i'm going to vote for the Greens as i did last time round because i believe in what they are trying to achieve and what they stand for!! I hope Sian wins but as she has stated the other parties get all the limelight!!!! I have a question, why does the current Mayor and PM care more about the Olympics than the publics safety? Surely our safety is more important! How much is being spent on the Olympics? This could and should be spent on safer transport especially after the suicide attacks in London!! Forget the Olympics and remember the People!!!! Forget about the Cash this event would bring and think about our safety first!! Greed is just way too far ahead of any other issues in this World and that is where the problems lie!!!

I've just voted for you and posted my ballot paper. Good luck Sian!

Another wasted red-green campain. If only we had a green-green party.

I see that Ken's friends the London billionaires got 15% richer last year, partly thanks to him.

Did the low-waged and the unemployed get 15% richer? No, they got to live in the world's most expensive city. But we're 'umbly grateful. Anyfink we can do to 'elp the rich get richer, guvnor. We knows our place.

Vote 1 - Green 2 - Labour 3- billionairel

Sian I think you're the only candidate out there with any sense, your heart is in the right place and your policies may only be aspirations but one has to have goals.. I have watched the news eager to see you on the campaign trail but have also noticed the distinct bias in the reports.
I realise what you are saying about using the second vote for Ken but I don't know if I can quite bring myself to do that.. can't I just vote for you twice?! :)
As for the crap comments posted about dole scroungers, I bet none of them have ever tried bringing up children as a single parent whilst trying to go to college to improve job prospects and chances of a career only to find yourself blocked at every stage by government policies used to massage the unemployment figures, in order to get the pittance given out as benefit.. designer clothes my arse!!! I'd like to see that person survive on jobseekers allowance and bring up a hungry teenage son and try to keep on a further education course whilst holding down part time work, so as to hopefully get a decent job somewhere in the future?

Thank you for deleting my earlier comment; nothing like open debate and this is nothing like ....

what silly comments some people post! Well done Sian for pointing out such important things. I had no idea about the voting system or the influence the green AMs have had and i read 2 papers most days...

@ Grahame Priest

By your definition, every single major candidate's manifesto contains aspirations, rather than policies. Take transport as an example. Every candidate says a lot, and yet very little, on it. Boris doesn’t know how much his vaunted Routemasters would cost. Paddick's page on transport is a long series of, "We wills," without any plans to back them up. As for Ken, I’ll quote his section on the Tube:

“Over the next four years among the improvements that will be introduced are:
• Start constructing Crossrail, linking Heathrow to the West End, the City
and Canary Wharf and the Thames Gateway
• New trains on the Victoria Line with better accessibility, audio
announcements and ventilation and an increased service on the line
• Air conditioning on new trains on the Circle, District, Metropolitan,
Hammersmith and City lines, and air cooling on the Piccadilly line
• Refurbished District Line trains with enhanced CCTV and better information
• 30% addition to capacity on the Jubilee Line with higher service frequencies
• New seventh car to increase capacity on all Hammersmith and City trains
• 25 per cent of stations to have step free access
• Major schemes to provide more space for passengers at Kings Cross St
Pancras, Paddington, West Ham, and Shepherds Bush, with work underway
at Highbury and Islington, Finsbury Park, Tottenham Court Road, Bank,
Vauxhall, Bond Street and Victoria.
• New Olympic station at Stratford Regional, and new station at
Wood Lane.”

Again, no estimates of cost, no detailed plans for implementation. Manifestos seem to be thin on detail in this campaign. If you object to that, then fine - I’d agree that they need more detailed explanation. But surely it’s unfair to hold that against any one particular candidate?

As for the policy suggestions – interesting as they are, do they actually fall in the remit of the Mayor? ASBOs, at least, were bought in by the Home Office, and presumably rest with them.

Nice of you to offer them for free, though…:)

Forget these silly wishy, washy green issues which are just another method used to extract even more taxes from us. Lets scrap the expensive Congestion charge which victimises the less well off, vote for a candidate that comes from London, cares about London and will work for London.

That person is Gerrard Batten of the UK Independence Party.

Vote Sian 1 Ken 2

London Strategic Voter has come to the same conclusion at www.strategicvoter.org.uk

The site gives you ward-by-ward information on how the 2004 London elections went in the ward where you live - and contains information that may surprise you about how many people in your area oppose both New Labour and the Tories, and share the view that a better, more democratic political choice is needed. In 2004, across London, 47% of people voted for parties other than Tory or New Labour.

Well done Sian, lets get a good green vote out on May the 1st. It has an effect on local elections around the country, where people see you standing up to buisness as usual grey parties represented by Boris/Ken/Paddick.

Am I the only one that thinks sian is Hot? :D

FAO Grahame Priest:
"Make notionally 'unemployed' people work for their benefits in recycling centres sorting out our rubbish for us.... ...people who say they can't find work when 800,000 Eastern Europeans seem to have no difficulty whatsoever."

Those 800,000 people **have already been trained by someone else**.
And, as they are only here temporarily, they are willing to accept *lower standards of living* (e.g. shared accommodation) than permanent residents, in order to send money 'home'.

NO COMPANY is willing reduce profits by wasting money on TRAINING indigenous Britons (of any 'race') when they can instead hire foreigners who were trained by someone else.

As for your idea of forcing the unemployed to work at recycling centres - HOW are you going to get them to the sites?
Cost neutral? You're having a laugh!

Want to stop people 'loafing about' on welfare?
You need to TRAIN them to give them marketable skills.

But would you ever agree to stump up the taxes to do that?
Or to force private sector companies to train and employ Britons?

Both ideas would, after all, cost money - whereas demonising the unemployed IS 'cost neutral'.

People like Derek (above) are exactly what's wrong with the world. If we really want to help the less well off, we should decrease the amount of pollution we're causing! Londoners, even the less well off, have a quality of life a thousand times better than others, especially in poorer countries. In fact, people are starving to death right next to fields of grain which they're forbidden to eat because it's sent to the UK to feed animals instead! And people here have the nerve to complain about congestion charges when they're lucky enough to even have a car. If it's that important then just cut down on some luxuries which you no doubt spend your money on.

Why can't we just appreciate things and stop complaining? If you have clothes, a roof over your head and food in your stomach then you're well off.

We should stop being so selfish and start thinking about the world we're ruining... I mean what's the point in having kids when we don't care about the world they, or their children, will have to live in?

It's time that those in power had some heart as well as intellect. Good Luck Sian!