Right on Cue
Posted by Richard Barnbrook in Latest News on 23. Dec, 2008 | Comments
With impeccable timing, the answers to the questions I put before the Mayor were waiting for me first thing this morning. I wish I had waited 24hrs before updating the blog now as I will have to repeat my original questions. Never mind, in the scheme of things and since it is nearly Christmas I am sure [...]
The Monday Before Christmas
Posted by Richard Barnbrook in Latest News on 22. Dec, 2008 | Comments
On a Monday afternoon just before Christmas a few spare minutes furnishes me with the opportunity to brief you with the latest questions that I have put under the nose of Mayor Boris. When I receive replies, I’ll be sure to share them with you all.
Funding and Resources for London Groups
Question No: 2651 / 2008
Richard [...]
Mayor’s Question Time Weds 17th December
Posted by Richard Barnbrook in Latest News on 17. Dec, 2008 | Comments
This month’s session started at five minutes past ten this morning with three Assembly members, Darren Johnson, Stephen O’Connell and Nicky Gavron not troubling the starter.
Mayor Boris, detailing his London Economic Recovery Plan told us all that London had become “Surprisingly Affordable”. A rather optimistic and opportunist way of interpreting the appalling state of the [...]
Going Native
Posted by Richard Barnbrook in Latest News on 16. Dec, 2008 | Comments
Is there something in the water here in City Hall, some kind of additive that dissolves the spine? I ask this question having just seen the coverage in the Guardian regarding Anthony Browne and his apparent miraculous political about turn.
It never ceases to amaze me how ostensibly strong and principled men can be reduced to [...]
“diversity” is “morally right”
Posted by Richard Barnbrook in Latest News on 15. Dec, 2008 | Comments
The start of the week brings with it yet another sickening appeasement before the altar of political correctness. As Londoners and the rest of our people continue to me made redundant at a truly frightening rate, former Conservative leader and current MP for Chingford and Woodford Green, Iain Duncan Smith has suggested that failed asylum [...]
Richard Barnbrook Questions Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson
Posted by Richard Barnbrook in Latest News on 03. Dec, 2008 | Comments
This morning provided me with an opportunity, in theory, to quiz the acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force, Sir Paul Stephenson. I had already supplied a couple of written questions concerning the Met’ being increasingly seen as being emasculated and excessively bound by political correctness. However, there was a question that I wanted to [...]
