CITY HALL CONSERVATIVES CALL FOR GROOMING GANG INQUIRY
Victims of grooming gangs deserve justice, and communities deserve answers.
City Hall is back in session after the New Year, and we’ve got straight to work fighting for the interests of Londoners. Read below about just some of the things we’ve been doing this week as we continue to hold the Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, to account.
LORD BAILEY AM CALLS FOR LONDON INQUIRY INTO GROOMING GANGS
Grooming gangs hit the headlines this month after transcripts from the original trials were re-released and gained attention internationally. After Labour voted down the Conservatives’ amendment to hold a national inquiry, the Government told us that local-led inquiries would be far more effective. We thought we’d see if the Mayor of London agrees, and so this week Lord Bailey AM wrote to Sir Sadiq Khan calling for an inquiry in London into grooming gangs to ensure that victims get the justice they have been owed, and communities get the answers they desperately need. Read Lord Bailey’s letter below:
ALESSANDRO GEORGIOU AM REVEALS 636,000 LONDON PENSIONERS SET TO LOSE WINTER FUEL PAYMENTS
This week as temperatures plummet into the minuses, Alessandro Georgiou AM published a fact sheet compiling the data on how Labour’s cruel winter fuel payment cut is hurting London’s pensioners. With 636,000 expected to lose the payment as annual energy bills soar to £2017, almost half of pensioners surveyed said they expected to heat just a single room this winter. Read more from Alessandro about how this is hurting Londoners by clicking HERE.
THOMAS TURRELL AM AND KEITH PRINCE AM STAND UP TO CITY HALL WOKERY
The Environment Committee this week was considering river maintenance and making rivers safe enough to swim in. Bromley Council had been invited, as the council administering a large number of tributaries that flow into the Thames, to give evidence. Outer London Councils often get less funding for river maintenance, and their voices matter. What happened? The Greens uninvited their speaker because he was a man, and they wanted a woman. Our Assembly Members wouldn’t stand it, and so they walked out. Listen to their reasons why:
LABOUR’S NATIONAL INSURANCE HIKE DEPRIVING LONDONERS OF POLICE
As the Met Police prepare their annual budget, it looks like they’re already accounting for the loss of 2300 officers as a result of the £450m shortfall in their funding from the Mayor and the Government. When pressed, Mayor’s officials revealed that the Met had been given £44m to pay the increased national insurance contributions that the Labour Government has required from them - so Emma Best AM asked straightforwardly, what could £44m have been better spent on? Watch the Deputy Mayor flap about as she fails to answer: