Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has excoriated Barnet Council for not bidding to become the London Borough of Culture (LBC). The winner of the LBC competition is set to receive funding for a “game changing” cultural programme. Mr Dismore said that Barnet Council’s lack of desire to bid was “symptomatic of the Council Conservative administration’s […]
Read morePlease see my speech (in Greek) here.
Read moreThe GLA regeneration Committee, of which I am a member, has published a report into Cultural regeneration: A Pain in the Arts culture in the capital under threat.
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has said Barnet Council Leader Cllr Richard Cornelius is “desperately deflecting blame” in his efforts to ask the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to pay for the diving facilities at Copthall that the Council scrapped. In a response to a written question from Mr Dismore, Khan responded that: […]
Read moreI was rather surprised to see the Conservatives’ amendment at last week’s Council meeting, arguing the Mayor should fund diving facilities at Copthall; and seeking my involvement to promote this, without first notifying me, or indeed the Mayor, before doing so. This smacks more of a crude Party Political attempt to divert attention from the Conservatives’ failure to respond to […]
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