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Jackie: Hello, this is London Life with me, Jackie Dalton. Today we're going to
find out about one particular life in London and that's the daily life of
Ken Livingstone, the city's mayor. What’s it like being in charge of one
of the biggest cities in the world? Does he enjoy it? First he's going to
describe how his day starts out. As you listen to him, try to answer these
questions: how does he get to work and what does he do on the way?
Ken Livingstone
When I wake up, I have two small children, so the first hour of the day is revolved
around getting them dressed and fed and then I get off to work and I come in on the tube
and so I get that 40 minutes time reading papers.
Jackie: Ken goes to work on London's underground public transport system – the
tube and on the way, he reads newspapers. He spoke quite quickly there,
so don't worry if you didn't get those answers. We'll listen to that clip
again.
Ken Livingstone
When I wake up, I have two small children and so the first hour of the day is revolved
around getting them dressed and fed and then I get off to work and I come in on the tube
and so I get that 40 minutes time reading papers.
Jackie: So that's the journey to work. What about once he's in the office, what
does he spend most of his time doing?
Ken Livingstone
Once I get in the building, it's just wall-to-wall meetings, the meetings just go on
endlessly. I get very little time to read or do anything, just people come through the
door, one after the other with problems. And I only ever know what's going wrong, noone
comes to me and says 'This is all going right.'
Jackie: Ken says he has wall-to-wall meetings, which means lots and lots of
meetings one after another all day. He says people only ever come to see
him with problems; no-one comes to tell him if everything is going well.
Listen again.
Ken Livingstone
Once I get in the building, it's just wall-to-wall meetings, the meetings just go on
endlessly. I get very little time to read or do anything, just people come through the
door, one after the other with problems. And I only ever know what's going wrong, noone
comes to me and says 'This is all going right.'
Jackie: Despite the wall-to-wall meetings where he has to listen to people's
problems, Ken Livingstone still thinks he's got a pretty good job. He says
it’s more fun to be the mayor of a city than the leader of a country. Why
is that?
Ken Livingstone
To be the mayor of a great world city is one of the best jobs in the world. When I met
Mayor Giuliani when he was mayor of New York, he was loving it, even when things
were going wrong, it's still an amazing job. 'Cos if you're a president or prime minister
of a country, you live in a bubble, security protects you and you don't get out and about
much, except in organised visits. If you're the mayor a city, you actually live in the city,
you travel in the city, you understand it.
Jackie: Ken Livingstone certainly does like his job! He says he thinks it's good
to be the mayor of a city because you can really live in it. If you're a
president or prime minister, you're surrounded by security all the time
and, Ken says, you live in a bubble, which means you don’t have real
contact with the outside world. Listen again:
Ken Livingstone
To be the mayor of a great world city is one of the best jobs in the world. When I met
Mayor Giuliani when he was mayor of New York, he was loving it, even when things
were going wrong, it's still an amazing job. 'Cos if you're a president or prime minister
of a country, you live in a bubble, security protects you and you don't get out and about
much, except in organised visits.
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