Brian Coleman, the famously outspoken London Conservative, has been ruled by a Barnet Council standards sub-committee to have broken the council’s members’ code of conduct by sending emails calling an Israeli member of the public “disloyal” to his own country, and another correspondent that he supposed she would have “been in theblackshirts,” 70 years ago, when responding to their concerns about a […]
Read moreQuite a few people have emailed me recently asking for more details about the Bill. This article below I emailed out in September last year, and while the bill has moved on since then a lot still stands true, so I hope you find the following of interest and assistance. If you want to email me about the Health and […]
Read more(This article also appeared on Left Foot Forward) Boris Johnson has announced his 9-point “Plan for London” but it has quickly attracted criticism from unexpected quarters. As The Times revealed (£) recently, Tory internal polling reveals many voters don’t know what the Tory Mayor has achieved in four years,and that Number 10 is concerned that Boris Johnson’s campaign plans are ‘underwhelming’ and that he doesn’t […]
Read moreDear Editor, Whilst paying scant regard to the views of the people and not content with wrecking services in Barnet, Brian Coleman is about to do the same to the Fire Brigade. Appointed to chair the Fire Authority by Conservative mayor Boris Johnson, Mr. Coleman is determined to take a wrecking ball to the Fire Brigade and privatise all he […]
Read moreDear Editor, The library is at the heart of any community- and that heart has been ripped out of Friern Barnet by the Conservatives, who again demonstrate just how out of touch they are with ordinary people. Any library is an important resource for adult and children alike. For students needing research. For pensioners wanting a good recreational story. For […]
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