‘Boris Johnson’ Archives
Labour councillors fighting to save South London Line
Your local Labour councillors are continuing to campaign to fight Conservative Mayor Boris Johnsons plan to scrap the valued South London Line. Despite intensive lobbying by your local Labour councillors and GLA representative Val Shawcross and thousands of signatures on a [Read More]
Tories hit poorest in fare hike
As many of you may have noticed on your trip into work this week, buses and tubes going through Clapham have got more expensive once again. The mayor hiked up fares for those without season tickets – commonly people from low income backgrounds – late last year, with [Read More]
New year podcast from Downing Street
As reported by the Guardian yesterday, Gordon Brown’s new year podcast is now up on the Downing Street website. The PM talks about the sort of cynicism and slash n burn public spending cuts being espoused by an incredibly gleeful Conservative party, pointing out [Read More]
Police cuts in London – a Tory gift for Xmas
In case you missed it – and you probably have – Boris Johnson delivered a wonderful Xmas present to the people of London last week. Now, hands up if you know what it was. A competent environmental policy? An end to his proposed firebombing of London’s transport [Read More]
Backwards with Boris
Last week Boris Johnson took time off from lobbying Brussels on behalf of those on the margins of society – bankers and hedge funds – to spend a bit of time at the Tory conference. And what a week he had. Disagreeing with Cameron on Europe, delivering one of those [Read More]