Archive for category: Voices

• Why I’m voting Boris as my second preference: Lawrence Webb

  This is the first of a short series this week where we look at the way people are voting SECOND preference in the coming Mayoral election. Lawrence Webb, UKIP’s Mayoral candidate, (pictured) explains why he’s voting for Boris Johnson, after UKIP. I believe that if the voting system were better […]

   

• Siobhan Benita’s impossible dream

  Sometimes we have dreams so impossible, so fantastic, so incredible that we simply let them fade away with time. Sometimes when we dream we find ourselves so inspired that we actually take that leap into the unknown before an inevitably humiliating ending. When Siobhan Benita looked around and decided there […]

   

• Meet Andrew Dismore (Labour candidate for Barnet and Camden)

  Andrew Dismore is the Labour candidate for the Barnet and Camden constituency seat. As one of our “ones to watch” we wanted to ask Andrew a few questions to help voters decide if he is the candidate for them!   Q: Barnet Council seems to be on a mission to close […]

   

• The unhealthy obsession with front-line policing

  One of the set piece themes of London politics is the obsession with police numbers. The constant wrangling over stats, with its repetitive “I’m best, you’re rubbish” refrain is sterile and unhelpful in so many ways. For one thing voters have no reliable access to the statistics themselves so for most of […]

   

• For A National Bee Action Plan

  This week Friends of the Earth (FOE) launched their Bee Cause petition calling for a National Bee Action Plan to stop the steep decline in bee numbers. As the Farmers Guardian states a Reading University report has found that the decline in Bees could have severe economic as well as […]

   

• Some Parliamentary petitions for London

  Online petitions are a great way of making yourself as if you’ve done something without having to go through all that effort of actually doing anything. The downside is that they very rarely make any difference what so ever. However, God bless the Coalition government, it’s now the case that […]

   

• Does Galloway’s Bradford victory mean there could be a “London Spring”?

  George Galloway’s out of the blue win in Bradford West on Thursday was unprecedented. For a candidate of a minuscule party, with no real connection to a constituency, to turn up a few weeks beforehand and receive more than 50% of the vote is quite remarkable, whoever achieved it, and however it […]

   

• Where are the women? Massive gender bias in Assembly candidates

  With all the candidates announced for the London Assembly it has become clear that there is a massive under representation of women standing for office (or is that over representation of men?). Of the seven Mayoral candidates just two are women, neither of whom are standing for the three largest parties. On […]

   

• Is Transport for London against the London taxi?

  Yesterday hundreds of members of the RMT London Taxi Branch took to the streets in their cabs at Stratford in a go-slow protest. The cabbies are concerned that Transport for London (TfL) and the Mayor are pursuing policies that are undermining the trade. In the run-up to the Olympics they […]

   

• No Third Runway, but……..

  John Stewart look at the prospects for and against a third runway at Heathrow.   It is now looking pretty definite that a third runway will not be built at Heathrow. In recent weeks rumours had swirled once again that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, was trying to […]