Wednesday, 20 October 2021 Once never seen….now everywhere At the Council meeting last Monday, Terry Oliver, director of Cleaner Greener and Cultural Services said that gully cleaning was part of Suez’s contract yet NO ONE had ever seen one of these machines
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 Two companies have responsibility for the disastrous flooding in July. They are Thames Water and the Council’s Gully Cleaning contractor, Suez. At the Town Hall meeting, voices were raised in fury at the absence of any
4th October 2021 Tracking government policies and priorities that discriminate against and exclude London and Londoners, often in the name of “levelling up” DAVE HILL In his Introduction to the Conservative Party’s 2019 general election manifesto, Boris Johnson said his
Sunday, 17 October 2021 Dear Dame, At the Tabernacle Theatre I saw a great piece of theatre and a thought provoking performance. Grenfell was an accident waiting to happen because of long term neglect. The inflammable cladding is
14th October 2021 The Mayor strongly defended his radical air quality measure and his Question Time session today DAVE HILL Sadiq Khan today claimed that a huge expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) starting from 25 October will bring
11th October 2021 Information provided to the London Assembly gives a clue from last year’s figures DAVE HILL Following a meeting of the London Assembly’s transport committee in July, committee chair Caroline Pidgeon wrote to one of the meeting’s guests, Transport
Tuesday, 5 October 2021 The Dame remembers the days when local councils were peopled by independently minded councillors. They stood as Independents so as to follow their conscience without some Little Hitler/Stalin/Mao of a Council leader telling them what or
Thursday, 30 September 2021 Hall and ‘associate’ Dear Dame, So Colin Hall is going but what about his close associate, David Chappell, and other members of the so-called leadership team? As importantly, how and who appointed Jane Farrell, the new chair
27th September 2021 The Prime Minister’s transport adviser appears to have a free hand to lean on the capital’s transport authority DAVE HILL The content of recent messages from Andrew Gilligan, Boris Johnson’s special adviser on transport, to Will Norman, his
Thousands of residents were victimised by Thames Water’s Third World sewage system. In mid-July tons of sewage ruined homes and businesses yet not a word of apology from this partially owned Chinese/Middle Eastern company. Thames Water’s pathetic line
