Dear 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 […]
Read moreDear editor So at last we have official recognition of the truth. Descending from Scotland Yard’s ivory tower, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan Howe told the police’s public road show meeting last week that crime in Barnet is increasing, despite Conservative protestations to the contrary. Year on year, total crime in Barnet is up 6.4% ( more than the […]
Read moreCommenting on the admission that the proposed helter-skelter slide for the Orbit Tower at the Olympic Park will cost £3.5m to install, on top of the £10.4 million we already owe and £10,000 a week loss the Orbit is currently incurring, Labour London Assembly Member Andrew Dismore AM said: “With the Orbit already losing £10,000 a week, splashing out […]
Read moreMy report from City Hall No.32 17th December 2015 to 29th January 2016 1 Introduction May I firstly wish everyone a belated Happy New Year? And what better way to start off January than the wonderful Lumiere festival. It gave a real boost to London restuarants and shops too, at a traditonaly quiet time for them, with an estmated million […]
Read moreFurther to my campaign over cuts in ESOL teaching (English language to non native speakers) I had a very useful meeting at City Hall with ESOL teachers and students. See also my response to ESOL funding announcement. I wrote to Camden Council Cabinet in support of their libraries.
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