Dear editor, As a member of the Police and Crime Committee at City Hall I have regularly highlighted the rise in moped enabled crime, and have questioned the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about this growing threat. (Call for action over Moped Crime Spree, Ham and High, 4th May) From a criminal’s ‘cost benefit analysis’ of the risks […]
Read moreConservative Cllr Thomas, in his comments on the London Mayor’s ‘call in’ of the NIMR site, Mill Hill, says of the figures I quoted, ‘We have no idea where he got his figures from’. This is yet another example of Cllr Thomas’s failure to master the detail and why Barnet are so bad at providing affordable homes. Cllr Thomas may […]
Read moreIt only takes a hint of the growing and desperate need for scrutiny of the Conservative Government’s approach to Brexit negotiations before hard Brexiteers such as your correspondents David Gutman, Martin Maloney, and Nneka Akwaeze get wound up and resort to insults. Having argued the simplistic mantra of ‘Brexit means Brexit’, they patronisingly say the detail is too complicated for […]
Read moreThe Prime Minister has now served the Article 50 notice formally beginning Brexit. Her letter’s not so veiled threats over security were crude and provocative. The response from the other 27 states is not encouraging either, refusing the PM’s key demand that the terms of exit and new trade arrangements should be negotiated simultaneously. Faced with a leaving bill of […]
Read moreThe Prime Minister has now served the Article 50 notice formally beginning Brexit. Her letter’s not so veiled threats over security were crude and provocative. The response from the other 27 states is not encouraging either, refusing the PM’s key demand that the terms of exit and new trade arrangements should be negotiated simultaneously. Faced with a leaving bill of […]
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