Labour London Assembly candidate for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has welcomed en Livingstone’s announcement that he would cut London’s public transport fares, if elected Mayor. Andrew Dismore said: “Ken’s promise to cut fares by 5% from next October if he wins next May’s mayoral election is a very welcome contrast to the ever increasing transport costs we have seen […]
Read moreDear Editor, Cllr Gordon ( Times 13/10/11) must either be Walter Mitty or have been at a different Hendon Area Forum to me and the other people who attended. He started by saying that he wanted to let people have their say, but he continually interrupted from the chair throughout the meeting from the very first minute: the business would […]
Read moreOn Sunday, I was out and about with the ward councillors in Regents’ Park, asking residents about policing and security. People were overwhelmingly willing to sign our petition protesting at the cuts in police numbers being implemented by London Mayor Boris Johnson and the Conservative led coalition Government. Whilst the Mayor protests that he has not cut the police I […]
Read moreIn attempting to justify his failure to return from his trip to Belize for the recall of Parliament during the Summer’s riots, Hendon Conservative MP Matthew Offord made much of the purpose of the trip, in particular to learn about the drugs trade which he was going to raise with the police here. In fact, the response to a freedom […]
Read morePlease read my article published in “Left foot forward” Andrew Dismore is Labour’s GLA candidate for Camden and Barnet Boris Johnson’s speech to Tory party conference this week highlighted the complacency that characterises his mayoral term. Amid the jokes for the Tory faithful there was a series of assertions on crime and policing that illustrate just how out of touch the Conservative mayor […]
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