Who's this talking?
Mayors and others can look for monuments to their period in office be it be the Shard of Glass or a statue at the Olympic Park or whatever else, quite honestly I think the legacy you can truly leave is a city where you don't have half the people in work, enjoying their success, and the other half locked out without education opportunities, without job opportunities, without training opportunities on the poor side if you like, and that can be genuine poverty amongst the elderly who are not claiming the benefits they're entitled to and can be families that are earning less than the minimum wage or even not earning at all, but given some form of childcare, given a training opportunity to get back into the economic cycle. If you can build that cohesion within and across communities then I think that's a greater legacy than anything else.
Words are one thing, achievements are another. Even so, some will be surprised to discover whose words those are.
