Brian Paddick in running to become LibDem Mayoral Candidate

[secretlondon]

Paddick is the only actual candidate on that list - I feel sorry for the other two who are pretty much unknowns making up the numbers.

 

[tim]

All this rubbing his little lamp, and yet, for once, the genii of the Urban pantomime has failed to make an appearance.

If we all wish really hard, perhaps he'll appear in person to explain explain his policies.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Heh I wouldn't hold your breath, I imagine he's got a great deal of work ahead of him although that said holding an online hustings on U75 would be a news story...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

You are Brian Paddick's political advisors. The suggestion is put to you that your candidate should appear online on Urban75 to answer questions. Your response is....

 

[mauvais]

What's the inverted commas doing in that posting?

What's?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

You are Brian Paddick's political advisors. The suggestion is put to you that your candidate should appear online on Urban75 to answer questions. Your response is....

Well quite but then all I said was it would be a news story not a real possibility...although I can imagine a selected group of constructive posters, a new forum-which the only those posters have posting rights in- for the hustings and the Ed online moderating is one way to do it.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Paddick 'was undercover Lib Dem'

Brian Paddick has said he is relieved to have joined the Lib Dem ranks after a career in the "authoritarian" police.

The former Metropolitan police deputy assistant commissioner said he had been "a police officer working undercover - as an undercover Liberal Democrat".


Mr Paddick is one of three Lib Dems vying for the chance to take on Ken Livingstone in May's London elections.


Barrister Chamali Fernando and former deputy party president Fiyaz Mughal also spoke at the mayoral hustings.


Speaking at a party conference fringe event in Brighton, Mr Paddick attacked the targeting of stop and search on people from ethnic minorities, and said police officers, not community support officers should be deployed in London's difficult inner city areas.

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