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Guardian Dave Hill’s Blog: Brian Coleman, his ‘blackshirts’ email and Jewish Barnet

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 […]

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Boris’s 9-point plan is a bridge to nowhere

(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 […]

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Letter to the Editor: Coleman is determined to take a wrecking ball to the Fire Brigade

Dear 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 […]

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Barnet Tories do a “Westminster”: more double yellow lines!

Andrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly candidate for Barnet and Camden, has found out  that to deal with the consequences of Conservative Barnet Council’s hike in parking charges which have  forced motorists into parking elsewhere, causing obstruction to traffic, London Transport’s buses  and the police. So to deal with this, Barnet are now planning extra double yellow lines. (extract council report […]

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