Cussing and duplicity in Kensington and Chelsea London Living Wage vote
Kensington and Chelsea Council’s Labour Group today accused Conservative Councillor Daniel Moylan (who is also Deputy Chairman of Transport for London) of hypocrisy after he skipped an important vote...
View ArticleKensal Crossrail in doubt as HS2 station set for Old Oak Common
The announcement that High Speed 2, the fast rail route from London to Birmingham and beyond, is to be built with a station at Old Oak Common in Hammersmith and Fulham means the prospect of a Crossrail...
View ArticleLabour slams South Kensington frivolity vs North Kensington austerity
Labour attacks “extravagant” streetscape scheme. As the £25 million Exhibition Road streetscape scheme opened in South Kensington, North Kensington Labour Councillors criticised the Council’s...
View ArticleLabour Councillors furious at “secret RBKC parking ticket quotas”
Following the Hakim Berkani Employment Tribunal case where the judge stated that parking firm NSL operated a “clandestine quota system”, and BBC reports suggesting that NSL, working for Kensington and...
View ArticleKensington’s cuts will hit the poor and vulnerable “worst and first”
Kensington Labour fights to protect residents as brutal cuts are proposed by Kensington and Chelsea, ‘the richest borough in Europe’. A £.5m Youth Fund, £5m Housing Benefit hardship fund, £.5m for the...
View Article“Most deprived ward in London” in the richest borough in Europe
New figures naming Golborne in North Kensington as the joint poorest ward in London on ‘extent measure’ has prompted local Councillors to propose urgent cross-party action. Councillor Emma Dent Coad,...
View ArticleKensington and Chelsea Council report confirms “Golborne Ward poorest in London”
At the Kensington and Chelsea Council Budget meeting on 7 March, Labour Opposition Councillors announced a recent GLA report placing Golborne ‘joint first’ most deprived ward in London on extent...
View ArticleKensington and Chelsea Labour responds to former Tory councillor’s child porn...
The Kensington and Chelsea Labour Opposition Group will not comment on the outcome of this criminal trial, except to say that we acknowledge that justice has taken its course. However, the Labour Group...
View ArticleA light touch will not protect our children
K&C Labour Opposition Group appalled at Council decision not to tighten standards regime in wake of second child pornography case. After a bad-tempered Council meeting on 18 April, Kensington and...
View ArticleVoters desert Tories in shock heartland by-election poll drop
Brompton by-election shakes Kensington and Chelsea Council apathy, as fed up Tories vote Labour. A shock result in the Tory ward of Brompton, covering Knightsbridge and South Kensington, saw...
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