Brian Paddick launches online advertising campaign

A news story from the Liberal Democrats about the Mayor of London election campaign:

Liberal Democrat Mayor candidate Brian Paddick has launched an online advertising campaign targeted at voters in London to mark the fourth anniversary of Ken Livingstone’s statement about reducing crime by 50%.

Livingstone said he hoped the massive increase in his portion of council tax would result in crime being reduced by 50% but the British Crime Survey, the most reliable measure of crime trends, shows no reduction in crime at all over the past four years.

Brian Paddick said: “This isn’t a happy anniversary for Ken. Not only has he failed to cut crime by 50% whatever statistics you look at, but one of the issues of most concern to Londoners, knife crime, is worse now than it was four years ago.

“It’s time for action not words. It is time for change in London, and time to take the knives and guns off our streets. That’s why I’m standing to be the next Mayor of London.”

Brian Paddick has over 30 years experience of fighting crime across London with positive results. He has pledged to cut crime by 20%, as measured by the British Crime Survey, if elected as Mayor on 1st May, or he will not stand for re-election.

Brian Paddick added, “Crime is at the top of Londoners’ list of concerns. I have a record of delivering results fighting crime, Ken Livingstone has failed on crime and Boris Johnson is too busy in Oxfordshire to worry about London.”