Bronagh Joyce Morgan · For Mayor of London
London. For all of us.
A city that takes care of people.
I’m running for mayor because London works better when it works for everyone who lives here, not just the people who already have a seat at the table. I think we can believe in something getting better. I think it can be fair. This campaign is about saying so plainly, and then doing it.
The story from City Hall doesn’t match the one you’re living.
We spend more every year. Most people don’t feel it in their own lives. They don’t feel heard, and they don’t see things getting better.
London has one of the highest unemployment rates of any city in Canada. Too much of our downtown sits empty and boarded up. Meanwhile the message from City Hall is “look how far we’ve come.”
When what politicians say doesn’t match what people live every day, people stop trusting government. That’s fair. They have good reason.
I’m not here to tell you things are fine. They aren’t. I’m here to be honest about what’s broken, say exactly what I’d do, and ask you to hold me to it. That’s the whole campaign.
“The things coming out of politicians’ mouths don’t align with people’s day-to-day lives. There’s some kind of disconnect between what we see happening and what our government is telling us is going on.”
The plan
Five commitments. In plain language. On purpose.
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Meaningful work, not just more and bigger.
Jobs people can actually raise a family on. And a City that models good employment before it lectures anyone else. Clean our own house first.
- 2
A downtown that isn't rewarded for sitting empty.
Use the law creatively. A vacancy tax where we can. Enforce the rules we already have. Stop letting buildings rot for free.
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A $100,000 mayor.
Leadership is how you live, not what you say behind closed doors. I'd cut the mayor's pay. You can't ask people to sacrifice if you won't.
- 4
Public meetings, every month.
One night a month, somewhere different in the city. Bring me your concerns. I'll publish what I heard and what I did about it.
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A City Hall you can actually understand, and walk into.
Plain-language government. Open doors. A mayor who reads the rules and knows them.
One person
Not one thing. A lot of things, in one person.
I’m an artist. I’m also a lawyer. I’m a legal writer who spent a career translating the law so ordinary people could understand it. I run a business that finds work for other artists and young people. I teach cities across Canada how to talk to their residents in plain language. I’m a single parent. I cared for my aging, ill parents while I raised my kids. I’ve buried a child.
That’s not a list to impress you. It’s the point.
A city budget is a lot of moving pieces on not enough money. Give that job to someone who has spent her whole life doing exactly that.
Meet Bronagh“If you want a hard job done that has many facets, you ask a single parent. And they do it, and they do it well, and they do it with a little bit of money.”
Tell me what London needs.
Most campaigns talk at you. I want to listen, and I want you to see that I’m listening.
Ask Bronagh is a simple box. Type in what’s on your mind. A question, an idea, a problem on your street. I read every one of these. And I’ll bring what London is telling me to a public meeting, one night every month, somewhere new in the city.
This is the online half of a promise: a mayor who is in the room with you, not above you.
This is going to take all of us.
I can’t do this the way the people already in those rooms do it, because those rooms weren’t built for someone like me. So I’m building something else, with you.
Read the plan. Tell me what London needs. Chip in. Lend a hand.
London. For all of us.