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Brian Paddick will have a civil partnership
2008-04-20 13:50:00 The Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London is to ‘tie the knot’ with his boyfriend. Brian Paddick told the Pink Paper of his civil partnership plans in an interview published yesterday. The 49-year-old was until May last year the most senior out gay policeman in the country in his former role as Deputy Assistant Commissioner of ...
Vote For Brian Paddick
2008-04-09 00:47:00 as the new Mayor of London. (Yes, believe it or not, there are other people running for Mayor.)
By: DREWspective
London Mayor - Magic our Boris! (12 point lead).
2008-03-17 15:03:00 A YouGov poll for today's Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson to be extending his lead over Red Ken in the London Mayoral race. Boris is now polling about 49% of the population of London (no jokes please), Ken is on 37% (he's been polling the whole of London for quite a while) and Brian Paddick is dragging arse on 12%.Meanwhile Ken is having problems with Porsche. From the Guardian:The row between Porsche and the mayor of London intensified last night when Ken Livingstone called on the luxury car manufacturer to abandon its legal challenge to a new £25 polluters' charge, claiming it did not have the support of Londoners.This is going to be a very bad year for Labour.
By: Daily Referendum
Is LibDem mayoral hopeful Brian Paddick a victim of gun crime?
2007-11-17 10:37:00 LibDem mayoral hopeful Brian Paddick has not been very complimentary of his former boss Sir Ian Blair. In a Daily Telegraph interview, the former deputy assistant police commissioner claimed that commissioner Blair is far too palsy-walsy with Gordon Brown's government. Brian is not pulling his punches, saying: "If there's a perception that their chief is aligned to a political party that undermines the rank and file officers. "His position is unsustainable. I think he should resign." Wow, Sir Ian should have taken notice of the famous quote by Jimmy Durante: "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."Brian also believes that Blair is wrong to support Labour's proposals for ID cards and increasing the 28-day detention period. He claims that he felt pressured into backing Tony Blair's failed attempt to introduce a 90-day detention limit: "His [Sir Ian Blair's] office said 'you are a deputy assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police and as su...
By: Daily Referendum
Brian Paddick is the Liberal Democrat candidate for London mayor.
2007-11-13 08:36:00 Former deputy assistant commissioner for the Metropolitan police Brian Paddick, was the United Kingdom's most senior openly gay police officer. Today Brian has been named as the Liberal Democrat candidate for London mayor. Born on 24 April 1958 in Balham in London, Brian was educated at Tooting Bec Grammar School and Queen's College Oxford (to name a few). In December 2003 the Mail on Sunday apologised and paid damages to Brian after they published a story by his former partner, James Renolleau, that Commander Paddick had used cannabis.On being selected for the Libdem Mayoral candidate Brian said: "less crime, better transport, cleaner air and fewer Londoners living in poverty" was crucial for London. In a interview with Pink News Brian set out some of his priorities if elected mayor. He said that illegal drugs were "dangerous and harmful and it is better if people live without them", but he would not be afraid of adopting a "radical solution if it's fully thought through, if it...
By: Daily Referendum
I'm Backing Brian Paddick
2007-10-20 15:37:00 I am very pleased that Brian Paddick, the former Lambeth police commander, is a Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor.I hope he will be selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate.Brian Paddick is realistic about the hopelessness of our current drugs policy.We cannot keep spending finite police resources on prosecuting those in possession of cannabis.There is a concern over the mental health effects of cannabis, which I share.Yet due to low morale and low pay, the British police are stretched to the limit.We don’t need our police filling in paperwork because they’ve arrested a youth smoking a joint.We need them policing clubland at weekends, chasing joyriders and arresting serious offenders.Just consider how few rapes are prosecuted in this country.According to a BBC news story a few months ago, only 5% of rapes result in a convictionPublic rallies took place in Lambeth after Paddick was transferred after a press outcry.Ken Livingstone has been a decent Mayor of London, yet...
By: Newsjiffy
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