Last week I attended the Forward Plan Select Committee meeting, and under scrutiny, was the Council’s move to pull in traffic offence enforcement under their remit. I was mightily impressed with the background work that has been done on this proposal and believe that it is a good idea. A problem was identified with traffic [...]
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Creating a Pickle
In addition to the Building Schools for the Future cut from the Lib Dem Tory coalition Government, there were also local government cuts announced by Department for Communities and Local Government Secretary of State Eric Pickles. The total amount that Brent will have to cut in this financial year as a result of the Con-Dem [...]
Government Savages School places in Brent
Conservative Education Minister, Michael Gove, supported by his junior minister, Sarah Teather, MP for Brent Central, has withdrawn £80 million worth of funding for Brent schools under the ‘Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF) programme. The decision forms part of the Liberal Democrats ‘savage cuts’ agenda announced by Nick Clegg at last year’s Lib Dem [...]
London Council political map (Source: London Bulletin issue 64 July / August 2010)
Interesting fact page entitled ‘London at a glance’, from a London Council publication I received in the post this week. All of London’s 1,861 Council seats were up for election in May 2010. London’s local results bucked the national trend with the number of Labour Councillors increasing from 685 in 2006 to 878in 2010. The [...]
What’s the best thing about your role as a Councillor?
I was asked this last week at a talk I gave toyoung people about politics at a Saturday School. It has to be representing people and their views. There is nothing better than that feeling of achievement when someone comes to you with an issue that concerns them and you take action and successfully resolve [...]
