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Council Cuts: Six More Councils Vote In Budgets
Barnet, Ealing, Hounslow, Kingston, Lewisham and Richmond sign on the dotted line.
Student Fees Protest: A View From The Front
Photo by Selenaaaaa from the Londonist Flickr pool Apparently the government have been surprised at how little public opposition there’s been so far to their programme of austerity cuts. Well, yesterday, as thousands of student protesters laid siege to the Conservative party offices, smashed windows, …
Government Plans Act Of Parliament To Evict Brian Haw
Photo / daredevil_81 Anti-war protestor and near-permanent fixture across from the Commons, Brian Haw, will be subject to another attempted eviction when the Government rushes through special laws to oust him, according to the Standard. Haw’s nine-year old encampment was left remarkably unscathed earlier this …
Government Minister Lays Into Eurostar
Europe minister Chris Bryant has used Twitter, fast becoming a tool of the irked and the wronged, to launch a volley of invective against Eurostar. Ensnared for the second day in a row by trouble on the line, Bryant fumed that he is “rapidly developing …
Never A Frown With Gordon Brown
Image by buckaroo kid Have you ever wanted to look just like Gordon Brown? That lugubrious glare, that serial-killer smile, that pallid countenance can now be yours thanks to the anonymous junior staffer who accidentally left notes on Gordy’s makeup routine in the back of …
A Right Honourable Mess
Image by Shutterbuguy As the damning revelations about Labour MPs expenses rattled round Fleet Street last week and plunged the cranium of Gordon Browns government further into the cistern, Tory members would’ve done well to hold their laughter at “two Johns” Prescott and the sputtering …
100,000 Electric Cars Promised For London’s Streets
Image courtesy of Jamie McK from the Londonist Flickr pool Boris wants to make London “the electric car capital of Europe”. He’s announced plans to get 100,000 electric cars on our streets, including 1,000 GLA vehicles by 2015 as well as bringing charging points to …
PFI Deals Get Credit Crunched
Ah, le credite crunch. The government are having to step in to lend PFI firms £2 billion of public money since they’re having trouble raising the cash on the open market. Schools in Greenwich, housing in Lambeth and street lighting in Lewisham and Croydon are …
Your Daily Dose Of Depressing Recession News
Remember when Alistair Darling was mocked for suggesting just a few months ago that economic times were the “worst in 50 years“? Nobody’s laughing now, particularly as the bad news piles up quicker than unopened Amex bills in the mailbox of a credit-crunched City worker. …
Kids Unaware Of Olympic Games Coming To London
A tedious survey from a government department we’d barely heard of has concluded that kids in the UK know little to nothing about the 2012 Olympic Games coming their way. The Olympic bad news yawnarama continues. Considering it’s 4 years off, the whole Beijing thing’s …
