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I have just seen this fantastic story which all started at my old primary school, Halstow Primary on Halstow Road, Greenwich. When a class of pupils at the school all released balloons with letters attached to them one of the letters came to land near the office of Sectary of State for Education, Michael Gove MP who wrote back to the schoolboy.

I remember doing a similar exercise, writing a note and attaching it to a helium balloon before letting it fly off from the playground!

Hat Tip - Guido Fawkes -  and Henry Nicholls

After launching his Crime & Policing Manifesto on Monday 2nd April 2012, Boris Johnson, Conservative Candidate for Mayor of London and I visited Sydenham to talk to local shoppers and shop keepers about their views on London.

As Mayor, Boris has helped small shop keepers in Lewisham with the use of his Outer London Fund, which helped business in Catford. Whilst Boris was visiting Sydenham he popped into a number of shops as well as buy a coffee.

Boris told me what he had achieved with Policing in his time as Mayor of London:

"I am proud of the work of the Met in the last four years because in the teeth of a grim recession and against the background of rising unemployment they have continued to bring crime down almost 11 per cent overall with the Tube 20 per cent safer, the buses 30 per cent safer, robberies on buses down by almost a half, and the murder rate down by a quarter.

We have made great progress over the last few years.
We have secured the funding to keep police numbers high. I am putting an extra 1,000 police officers on our streets and I will maintain that through the remainder of the CSR period.
We have put more officers out on patrol with thousands more every year as a result of single patrol.
We are continuing to bring crime down and now I want a mandate from Londoners to bring it down further to bolster our Safer Neighbourhood Teams and to make London one of the safest big cities on earth.’"

 

Since 2008 Mayor of London Boris Johnson has succeed in freezing City Halls share of Council tax, whilst the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone managed to put up City Hall's share by 152%. Boris Johnson careful management of City Hall finances has resulted in a saving of £445.05 for each household in Greenwich and Lewisham.

 

 

Video from - www.youtube.com/backboris2012

Today is the last chance to vote in a competition deciding the winner in a competition to make a Boris Backing 2 minute film. - Vote here

The final four are shortlisted on the BackBoris2012 Website, the ideas in the films are both orginal and cleaver.

I really like the second Video for the camera work and simple message but its up to you, so go ahead and vote!

Once voting closes the winning filmmaker will get the chance to make a campaign video with Boris Johnson.