Dear editor This time last year, one issue over which the Conservatives particularly attacked Labour in the General Election, was the plan for a mansion tax on properties worth over £2 million, with unfounded scare stories about how much it would be. Imagine my surprise, therefore, to learn that the Conservatives are now proposing their very own mansion stealth tax, […]
Read moreDear Editor, Your article on Richard Gere’s film on homelessness (3/3/16) draws attention to an increasing problem not just in Camden, but across London. In 2009/10, the last year of the Labour Government there were 3613 people sleeping rough in London, according to homelessness charity St Mungo’s. Under the Conservatives, by 2014 /15 this had more than doubled to 7,581 […]
Read moreletter for publication Your article ‘free parking helps the rich’ ( Times 11/2/16) says it all about shortsighted Conservative Barnet Council’s unwillingness to help the borough’s struggling high streets. Nobody is arguing for unlimited free parking, but the Times’ Campaign for 30 minutes’ free parking is a common sense solution all round. Recently I was in North Finchley […]
Read moreDear 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 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 […]
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