It’s always interesting to see Tories attacking Mayor Livingstone. Today Tory Party leader David Cameron, clearly still on his mission to convince us the party has changed, attacks Livingstone’s approach to race relations.
London Needs a Citywide Waste Authority
“…we are working to make Southwark a cleaner, greener and safer place to live and work” proclaims the Southwark Council website. The site even has a section on ‘envirocrimes‘ – someone’s idea of marketing speak for what we used to refer to as graffiti, fly tipping and dropping litter. Anyone reading the site is advised […]
£25 Congestion Charge and Making Tough Decisions
Ken Livingstone is often accused of populism by his opponents and detractors yet from discussions on our forum in recent weeks today’s news of a £25 congestion charge for heavily polluting vehicles won’t be popular with many Londoners.
Marking London
On his blog Tory AM Roger Evans tells of a question by Murad Qureshi asking the Mayor whether it was “time for a London flag similar to that which you see in Devon and Cornwall?” I’m guessing Roger doesn’t take the issue too seriously and my own response on his blog was typed with tongue […]
Ken Goes to Cuba and Delights the Media
It’s unclear where Mr Moore, a Scottish MP, draws the experience, knowledge or mandate to speak on behalf of Londoners or seek to question the Mayor’s actions. That important job falls to the London Assembly, a body on which his own party has failed to win a single directly elected seat and on which it has so far failed to place a single member of London’s sizeable ethnic minorities.