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Mayor urged to come clean on affordable housing figures

Mayor urged to come clean on affordable housing figures

September 29, 2011 No Comments

Nicky Gavron, Labour’s London Assembly housing and planning spokesperson, has called on Mayor Boris Johnson to come clean over claiming credit for 16,000 affordable homes that will never be delivered.    Nicky has this morning written to Richard Blakeway, the Mayor’s housing adviser, to explain why he has apparently double counted around 16,000 affordable homes. Blakeway ...

Islington Pensioners issue “Can’t pay, won’t pay” message to city hall

Islington Pensioners issue “Can’t pay, won’t pay” message to city hall

September 14, 2011 No Comments

Yesterday, a delegation from Islington Pensioners Forum travelled to City Hall to deliver a clear message to the Mayor of London and the big energy companies –they must do more to help people who are falling into fuel poverty. The delegation – which included both of Islington’s Older People’s Champions and Cllr Janet Burges, Islington’s ...

Johnson under increasing pressure over police cuts

Johnson under increasing pressure over police cuts

August 10, 2011 No Comments

Responding to Boris Johnson’s call for the government to reconsider police cuts, Len Duvall (pictured), leader of the Labour group on the London Assembly and former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said: “One of Boris Johnson’s first acts as mayor was to announce cuts of hundreds of police officers in London. And during the ...

Riots – time to address the problems

Riots – time to address the problems

August 10, 2011 No Comments

The destruction and looting across London that has spread to other cities in England, although notably not Wales or Scotland yet, has received the wholehearted condemnation of politicians of all colours and below we print a sample of their unabridged statements. Alone amongst the politicians, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party has called ...

Companies fined after Arsenal stadium injury

Three construction companies were fined after a worker helping build Arsenal’s Ashburton Grove stadium was injured so badly, his...

New pensions research undermines government’s ‘fairness’ myth

New research by the PCS union has revealed that the perception of Civil Servants having gilt pensions compared to...