I’ve been trying to get across to UKIP voters and sympathisers that voting UKIP as your first choice in these elections will not return Ken to London. If you vote for Boris 2nd and me 1st then this will still keep Ken out.

Today I went round many of the major taxi ranks campaigning and even got invited in for a cup of tea at several of the local stops. An overwhelmingly positive response to UKIP from all.

Vote UKIP without fear of Ken

I speak to a lot of voters who, quite rightly, are scared of Ken Livingstone becoming London Mayor again. They say I would vote for UKIP but if I do I’m helping Ken win. Well I can tell you in these London Elections this is not the case.  This is because of the way you vote for your Mayoral Candidate. Under the London voting system you can vote with your heart first and with your head second. If I don’t win as Mayor then all my votes go to Boris. That is why I’m telling voters to vote Webb first and Boris second. Send a message to Cameron’s Conservatives by voting UKIP first and stop Ken in London by putting Boris second.

Voting Tory gives you a Green

The second part of the London Elections is voting for your 25 London Assembly members to hold the Mayor to account. The Yellow Paper for your local Assembly Candidate which compromises 14 members in total and is voted on in the same way as the General Election. The Orange Paper which adds an additional 11 members voted for by proportional representation.

Your first vote on the Yellow Paper is for your “Super Constituency” Candidate. Parties that do well on this though are at a huge disadvantage on the  Orange Paper, or “London Assembly List”.

This is why I am urging all Conservatives to vote for UKIP on the Orange Paper. As the Conservatives will almost certainly win Super Constituencies on the Yellow Paper, Conservative votes cast on the Orange become practically worthless. If Conservatives want to keep Labour, Lib Dems or the Greens away from the Assembly then they must vote for UKIP.

If you spot me and my team out and about please tweet me on @UKIPWebb4London

I have had great fun travelling all over London meeting Londoners from Pimlico to Dagenham and Croydon to Sutton.

Ken’s comments show his total lack of understanding on how the city operates and exactly how devastating affect recent EU regulations will have on Britain’s financial services industry. The financial services industry is a truly global one. As with any industry that operates in a global market place City Firms will simply move to where it is cheapest to operate and where they can maximise their profits. The latest round of EU regulations will have a significant impact on the cost of doing business in the city and as has already happened many companies have moved the operating base overseas.

Ignore for a moment the fact that this is the UK’s most profitable industry contributing more than £50billion pound to the treasury each year in taxes. Look also beyond the headline grabbing bonuses of one or two of the top bankers; because for every banker who receives such a bonus there are two or three hundred other people working in that sector that actually have fairly modest incomes, the secretaries, the IT staff the people in the mail room and there are many more who indirectly owe their living to the success of the city; the sandwich seller, pub and restaurant staff, cabbies and the list goes on.

When, and it is when not if, these ‘bankers’ head-off to other parts of the world there will be several hundred thousand people who are left holding nothing more than their P45s.

It is clear from Kens comment that he doesn’t really have anything to add to the debate; only UKIP is prepared to take on the EU and try and save The City.

This latest issue regarding the Olympic tickets is just another example of the contempt our politicians have towards the British public. Firstly we were told that these games would cost each of less than the price of  ‘walnut whip’  when all said and done the final bill is likely to be in excess of £45billion,  a budget that would allow fine dining for a large family rather than a chocolate snack.  There is not a print firm out there that would have turned down a contact like this. Even if there was not a single company that could have done the whole job it could easily have been split based on the different venues, spreading the work amongst a number of different companies.

This is not the only occasion on which a lucrative contract has gone overseas rather than be awarded to a UK based company; another recent example was with Bombardier in Derby.  

It is my view that as many of the contracts as possible should have been awarded to local companies; it is outrageous that Londoners are good enough to bear the cost but it seems we are not even to be considered when it comes to sharing the profits

Yesterday I met with the residents of Ealing Park Lodge in Perivale who have just been informed that their homes are to be demolished to make way for HS2.

They are understandably upset but to make matters worse they now find themselves in a state limbo and are unable to make any plans for the future because although they have been informed that their homes will be subject to a compulsory purchase order it has not yet been issued.

But along with the loss of hundreds of homes along its route HS2 is likely to result in many hundreds of job losses as well. When the EU Transport committee first started planning this many years ago they could not predict the level of development that would take place alongside London’s railways in former rail yards.

Whilst those economic impact assessments that have been carried out concentrate on the completed project none seem to take into account the disruption to businesses in London while the work is being done.

Whilst we are being told that the starting price of £33billion will save a full twenty three minutes off the journey time from London to Birmingham, what seems to be ignored is that rather than bringing jobs to London it is more likely to bring commuters from Birmingham thus increasing the competition for jobs in London and making it harder for Londoners to find work.