Category Archives: Plenary

Fares Motion

3.6 Fares Motion  Motion in the name of Valerie Shawcross AM, to be seconded Andrew Dismore AM: “The Assembly notes that the Mayor promised in his 2012 manifesto that: “Londoners deserve honesty and openness over fare setting. My approach will ensure that fares will be lower in the long term…By cutting waste at TfL my approach will keep fares low […]

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London Assembly demands apology from Mayor over Avanti free school

  Mayor of London Boris Johnson must provide a “public apology” for his comments made about local residents who oppose free schools in their area, says the London Assembly. The Mayor branded residents “nimbys” who “dislike school children” at Mayor’s Question Time in June because of opposition to the  proposed Avanti  free school in their area. The London Assembly yesterday […]

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Boris Johnson’s anti-Israel Emirates contract now referred to US and EU enforcement authorities

Labour London Assembly Member Andrew Dismore has today written to the Chairman of the US Foreign Affairs Committee, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the EU Trade Commissioner about the Mayor’s discriminatory Emirates Airline Cable Car contract. Mr Dismore says the illegal clause within the cable car contract between Transport for London and Emirates Airline has put any company that […]

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Andrew’s Broadfields/Fairway update #3

I promised to keep you up to date about developments concerning Avanti School’s plan to move to Broadfields and to the Fairway. This is not a campaign against Avanti itself: just that the location they have selected are not suitable either from the local residents’ viewpoint; or for that matter, for children attending the school  and their parents. This may […]

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