Fitzroy Square Tube Noise meeting Location: Fitzroy Square Attending: Andrew Dismore AM Arjun Mittra (GLA) TT (TfL) DT (TfL) 10 residents Issues: Residents in Fitzroy are experiencing severe and relentless tube noise and vibration. Causes of the noise are likely: Corrugations in the rails. High frequency and number of trains. Rolling stock on the Victoria Line is in poor condition. […]
Read moreIntroduction Firstly, on a personal l note: I have announced that I will not be seeking re-election at the next London Assembly elections in 2020, as I shall be retiring from front line politics after almost 40 years. I will of course continue to serve the constituency until then, so I will be around for a little while yet! 27th […]
Read moreShock figures released by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) show that anti-Semitic crimes increased by over half in 2018. In 2017, there were 126 crimes recorded in Barnet, but last year the figure went up to 194, an increase of 54%. Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore said: ‘It is alarming that public […]
Read moreWB Yeats’s 1919 poem, ‘the Second Coming’ is surely relevant to Mrs May’s Brexit scheme: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. The close result of the […]
Read moreNationals of other EU countries [1] Question No: 2019/0351 Andrew Dismore How many members of staff in the GLA are nationals of other EU countries; what estimate have you made of the likely number who will return home in the event of a hard Brexit; and what are you doing to provide assistance and reassurance to them? Answer for Nationals […]
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