Dear editor, I read with disdain Conservative MP Theresa Villiers’s pathetic attempts to pull the wool over your readers’ eyes by trying to defend her Party’s atrocious police funding record by quoting dubious national figures out of context. The facts are these. The Conservative Government is enforcing £1billion of cuts to the Metropolitan Police since 2010, supported by Barnet’s three Conservative MPs, […]
Read moreDear editor, As the Brexit roadshow has evolved from pantomime to farce, to a vicious Punch and Judy show, the realities of Brexit will soon start to hit Britain. In Camden there is real uncertainty over the long term future of European Structural Fund investment in the borough’s major research institutions. These funds are crucial to Camden’s place at the […]
Read moreDear editor, I read with disdain Conservative Cllr Oliver Cooper’s pathetic attempts to pull the wool over your readers’ eyes by trying to defend his Party’s atrocious police funding record by quoting dubious national figures out of context. The facts are these. The Conservative Government is enforcing £1billion of cuts to the Metropolitan Police since 2010, leading to London losing […]
Read moreThe impact on the Met.’s budget of the Government’s unfunded extra demands due to police pay rises and changes to pensions announced by the, as the Chancellor’s October Budget did not announce any increase in police funding. As a result of Conservative Government policy so far, the Metropolitan Police have been forced to make cuts of £720m over recent years […]
Read moreDear Editor, This week, we have seen an important intervention made to ensure that our security arrangements with the European Union are protected after Brexit. With the looming possibility of a hard Brexit on the horizon, there is a real possibility that we may lose access to a number of existing arrangements vital to our capital’s security, such as Europol […]
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