Faced with a re-run of the 2008 Boris vs. Ken show, London could do with some fresh ideas for the next four years. The Green Party has a track record of getting fresh ideas adopted by both Ken and Boris.

Fresh ideas for Ken

When Ken was Mayor, many of his best ideas actually came from the Greens on the London Assembly. From 2004-8 he needed our votes to get his budget through, so it was Greens who secured:

• A record increase in cycling and walking, including the London Cycle Network and those Legible London maps you can see on posts around London.
• Real action on air pollution, including the Low Emission Zone to keep the most dirty, polluting lorries and vans out of London, and a budget deal to introduce clean buses onto our roads.
• Totally new work to promote food growing and support local food businesses, resulting in the amazing Capital Growth network of 2012 new growing spaces by 2012.

Fresh ideas for Boris

Boris has spent most of his time in office cutting ribbons for schemes he never started, and failing to get behind some of the most innovative ideas for London. Did you know that Greens were behind these schemes?

• I got the Cycle Hire idea on the Transport for London table back in 2007, visiting the similar scheme in Paris and persuading Ken Livingstone to start developing it.
• I helped five communities trying to build permanently affordable co-operative homes get past the brick wall put up by Boris and his housing agency.

• I got the Met Police to release the investigation into the Blair Peach case almost thirty years after the teacher and anti-racism activist was fatally assaulted by a police officer.