24 June 2013 Dear Editor, Mayor Boris Johnson’s fire brigade cuts plan continues to fall apart. At the State of London event (12/6/13) Boris Johnson said: “what we are doing is bringing more parts of London within the minimum journey times both for the first and second fire appliance .“ – a claim he repeated at last week’s Mayor’s Question […]
Read more29 June 2013 Dear Editor, The Conservative Hendon MP’s claim to have proposed his “first” Private Members’ Bill is a bit rich: he didn’t even turn up in the House to move it himself, but got a colleague to do so. If he was unavailable on that date, ( and most MPs would see it as a priority to be […]
Read more29 June 2013 Dear editor , Your story on police numbers repeats the Mayor’s discredited spin on police numbers. He keeps changing the date from which he calculates the figures to present his police cuts in the best light he thinks he can get away with. He has manipulated the base figures by taking as the start point the lowest […]
Read moreLabour 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 […]
Read moreA High Court judge today found Conservative Barnet Council to have broken the law in increasing parking charges to increase general revenue. In April 2011 the Conservative administration running Barnet Council increased the cost of CPZ permits from £40 to £100 and the price of a one hour visitor permit from £1 to £4 per day. The then Labour GLA […]
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