#0499* – Winston McKenzie Wants Another UKIP Mayoral Bid!
Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 21/05/2011
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At least he has the nouse to start early!!
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McKenzie makes another bid for London mayor
PERSERVERANCE: Winston McKenzie
HAVING LOST several election bids, ex-boxer Winston McKenzie embodies the spirit of age-old saying, if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.The maverick politician has set his eye – again – on running for London’s mayoral elections, but wants to run as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate in 2012.“The rumours are true. I am definitely looking to be nominated as a candidate,” McKenzie told The Voice.Having run unsuccessfully in 2008 for a similar post within the Conservative party, he left the Tories and ran as an independent. McKenzie said he was not happy with the “shabby” way he claimed the party treated him as the party put forward current mayor Boris Johnson.However, McKenzie feels that 2012 could be his year with UKIP.The south Londoner said he is deeply unhappy with the manner in which current Mayor of London has conducted himself in the role.McKenzie said his two main gripes with Johnson relate to ‘broken promises,’ citing Johnson’s failure to reach out to the wider community and make the battle against gun and knife crime a priority.Some critics may question the credibility of a man who has joined all the main political parties, and even once started his own party, since starting out with Labour in the 1980s. But McKenzie says he is a man of the people.“I go wherever I can get the best deal for the people, particularly the poor and disaffected,” McKenzie said. “I am tired of our black youth in particular becoming disenfranchised by successive underperforming governments.”
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