There are issues of scrutiny and accountability within City Hall to be addressed but London’s elections aren’t broken and they don’t need fixing.
Mayor stumbling after two years of backward steps on air quality
After two years of taking backward steps on air quality Mayor of London Boris Johnson is now stumbling while the verdict is still out on the new Government’s approach to air quality. The coalition has got off to a bad start, for example, by: defending the hiding of information relating to legal action over breaches […]
Lard work: Thames Water digs out London’s ‘fatbergs’
There’s a common misconception that once something has disappeared down your plughole it’s gone forever. I can vouch from first-hand experience that this is not the case, having gone into the Victorian sewers under London on a fair few occasions. Just because you can put things down your sink or loo doesn’t necessarily mean you […]
MQTs: Tory scrutiny and the future of Mr Ray Lewis
The last Mayor’s Question time before September was a pretty cross event with Assembly Members in an unforgiving mood. Within days of the next Mayor’s Question Time we should know who the Labour Mayoral candidate taking on Boris will be.
Thoughts on Labour’s second Mayoral hustings
Labour have held the second of their official Mayoral selection hustings with Mayoral hopefuls giving answers on the issues of congestion and London’s environment which merit further discussion.
