Dear editor Your coverage last week of the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary report into the Metropolitan Police, finding it to be ‘in need of improvement’, comes as little surprise. The problems facing the Met. are not due to any lack of effort or commitment by our warranted officers and PCSOs. Rather, they are the product of the cuts and reorganisations […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has called for a greater focus on the needs of students when making housing policy. Speaking after visiting Middlesex University in North London, Mr Dismore said many students were not aware of their rights, as it was the first time they were living away from home and their first experience […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore AM has announced his support for the Justice for Cleaners campaign (J4C) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). The campaign aims to convince the university authorities to bring the cleaning services back in-house, as well as support strengthening union representation and workers’ rights. Mr Dismore said: […]
Read moreDear editor , Unelected new London Assembly list member Conservative Kemi Badenoch calls for our few remaining PCSOs to take on extra duties. If she has her way, no doubt they would also be sweeping the streets, emptying the bins, issuing parking tickets and acting as council inspectors, instead of their vital policing patrol duties. However, what she […]
Read moreDear editor, No amount of handwringing by the Hampstead Conservative councillors who wrote last week over an appalling violent robbery can conceal the facts of what has happened on their watch. Whilst crime was falling when we had a Labour Government up to 2010 and for their inherited period after we left office , once the Conservatives’ draconian […]
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