Dear Editor, Your report (12/9/13) of Boris Johnson’s outburst when he told me to “get stuffed” when I challenged him over his fire service cuts at Mayor’s Question Time did not give the full picture. His intemperate response was not so much over the impact of the cuts, which are of course serious at a time when fire deaths […]
Read moreDear Editor, I share the outrage people feel at the unfolding horror we are witnessing today in Syria. The country appears to be at risk of disintegrating as a nation state, with sectarian identities entrenching, communities shattered and the population brutalised. To my mind, the correct time for intervention would have been two years ago, before Al Qaida and the […]
Read moreDear editor So Conservative Cllr. Tom Davey has finally let the cat out of the bag. Barnet’s answer to Basil Fawlty, with his “no riff raff” approach, has confirmed the Conservative secret housing agenda of social engineering and gerrymandering, with their switch of a planned and approved 238 affordable homes on Beaufort Park to properties for sale on the open […]
Read more3.6 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 […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore AM, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, challenged Mayor Johnson over his failings on the Northern Line during the London Assembly plenary meeting on 9th October. Mr Dismore said: It was appalling that the Mayor could not even remember when he last travelled on the Northern Line, when I put the question to him. I think […]
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