Wandsworth Common. Opposition Speaker for Finance. Promoted by Cllr Peter Graham at The Members' Room, The Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, London, SW18 2PU.
Depressing to hear chants of “From the river to the sea” on
#Tooting
High St.
Carrying placards about ending war and genocide, while simultaneously calling for the eradication of Israel — and led by the communist SWP.
A huge thank you to the 2,932 people who voted for me in
#WandsworthCommon
ward — and to everyone who voted for
@Wandsworth
Conservatives.
It is an honour to represent you. And whether you voted for us or not, we will always be on your side.
The chief executive of
@wandbc
has now resigned.
However, there is still no press release on what happened. People need to be told and deserve full transparency.
🗳️ We were shocked to learn 6,558 votes went missing on election night, with an incorrect result being declared in
#Putney
.
#Wandsworth
residents need answers.
😡 How did this error happen?
⁉️ Why wasn’t it detected ‘til now?
🧐 What steps are being taken to prevent a repeat?
I spent the election in
#Peterborough
, where the MRP polls (pictured) said we had no chance at all.
After an extraordinary campaign,
@paulbristow79
finished JUST 118 votes short. In 25 years of campaigning, I have never seen a team work as hard as we did.
He deserved to win.
We tried to mitigate for
@TfL
’s A24 blockages. Sadly, the
#Tooting
LTNs aren’t working and
@wandbc
can only remove half the problem.
@SadiqKhan
needs to suspend the
#A24
changes ASAP.
It should be easy to condemn the activists who blocked Wandsworth Bridge. But there are reasons why
@WandswrthLabour
found it impossible.
The crux of my speech at last week’s
@wandbc
meeting.
Some breaking news —
@MayorofLondon
has dropped his plans to sell off Lavender Hill Police Station, which will stay open. A big victory for our
@Wandsworth
Conservatives campaign!
Tonight,
@wandbc
voted to condemn the blockade of Wandsworth Bridge and illegal “direct action” against London’s transport system.
@WandswrthLabour
abstained. One of their councillors voted against. Others made excuses.
Only
@Wandsworth
Conservatives are on your side.
“You wait 30 years for a LibDem leaflet and then 15 arrive at once!”
A great result for my old boss, who deserves it. That’s the first time we’ve carried every ward in Fulham since 2010.
I can barely remember making this, but this is the last 2 minutes of my acceptance speech at Olympia yesterday morning. The work for Chelsea & Fulham starts again Monday!
Not content with being fantastic in Scotland,
@RuthDavidsonMSP
travelled down several times just to help
@Wandsworth
win in 2018.
Still remembered and hugely appreciated.
#ThankYouRuth
BREAKING: Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP is under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. Inquiry launched into thousands of Labour Local Election propaganda letters using the official House of Commons Portcullis.
#Tooting
The extra *daily* traffic in Wandsworth while Hammersmith Bridge is closed. This TfL data obtained by
@GregHands
proves the impact.
Beyond a joke that
@LBHF
and
@MayorofLondon
let repairs on the bridge slip — we now face years of this misery.
After years of cross-party support, it was tragic to watch
@WandswrthLabour
refusing to back regenerating the
#Alton
estate at Cttee last night.
What
@PutneyFleur
denied was confirmed. Labour are destroying
@wandbc
tenants’ hopes of badly-needed new homes.
How it started:
@CllrSimonHogg
marching with Labour Cllrs last month to support GMB strikes.
How it’s going: 6 days of
@GMBSouthern
strike action against
@wandbc
costing the borough up to £250,000 a day.
Last night,
@WandswrthLabour
quietly replaced Hada Hagos in Queenstown, following her shocking abuse of
@bbclaurak
.
Not sure the new guy is an improvement, but he'll certainly feel at home.
This is
@WandswrthLabour
’s secret plan to sell off community assets, including a children’s centre and an SEN school. It also urges “careful consideration” of selling
#BatterseaLibrary
.
@wandbc
broke the law by failing to disclose the document. Read on below:🧵
I regret to inform the public that the subsidised protesters are back, attempting to hijack the
@BBCProms
#LastNightOfTheProms
. Mostly elderly and ticketless, trying to give away free EU flags.
Me: “Still? Give it up, it was 7 years ago!”
Protestor: “Well, I’m a slow learner.”
Last night,
@wandbc
voted to freeze Council Tax, but
@WandswrthLabour
split.
Then they backed
@SadiqKhan
’s 9.5% hike to the same Council Tax bill. Only one party is on your side.
What happens when you worry that
@WandswrthLabour
is creating £3,000 of debt for every household in Wandsworth?
This was their whip’s third attempt at getting me “shut up”…
Housing matters.
@Wandsworth
Conservatives will deliver 5,500 homes that local people can afford — to buy, to rent and to shared-own.
This isn’t an empty promise. We’ve already built nearly 2,000 affordable homes in
#Wandsworth
over the last 4 years. That’s just the start.
Although
@wandbc
could cut Council Tax, it seems
@WandswrthLabour
has a bad case of Dikerdemitus.
This will hit the poorest hardest. My speech to the Council last night:
Two giants of
#WandsworthCommon
gave their final speeches y'day.
Cllr Heaster was elected in 1968, making
@wandbc
a byword for low tax as deputy leader. Cllr Tracey won the crucial 1989 by-election, followed by key cabinet roles. Both irreplaceable. (Photos via
@NightingaleSMcD
)
As Secretary of the Friends of Soviet Russia, Charlotte Despard was Stalin's apologist during the Holodomor.
Four million Ukrainians died of starvation. 🇺🇦
@andrewbaisley
@wandbc
Ha! On reading further in your updated methodology, you’re using your own, made-up inflation rate, not CPI.
So you miss loads of funding, sum a notional figure, quintuple count it and use fictional “real terms”. Utterly fraudulent.
Our
@wandbc
cttee has been told tonight that no provider in
#Wandsworth
has run out of
#PPE
at any point. Also another 1,000,000 items of PPE on the way.
A big win for residents this week, after two Labour Cllrs broke ranks and helped us defeat a massive
@Barratt_London
overdevelopment at the
@SWLSTG
Springfield site.
For now, at least, five-storey blocks won’t loom over
#SpringfieldPark
. Here’s why:
Not only has
@GregHands
provided a rare example of an unforced, entirely honourable resignation, but he’s also been consistent on this point for at least a decade. And he’s right.
The new stations = regeneration and homes = 25,000 jobs = Apple HQ.
Tube was the catalyst and made possible by
@wandbc
’s approach. (Further proof that ignoring
@CllrSimonHogg
is the right thing to do…)
If you live off
#Beechcroft
Road, we want your views on the LTN trial.
We delivered our own letters to
#WandsworthCommon
residents this morning. You can also take part in our survey here:
@mowords
@WandswrthLabour
@bbclaurak
A female journalist needs a bodyguard because of threats of violence, at your conference, simply for doing her job. And you think a joke that brands her a "vile troll" is the right response?
Labour were left £200 million in general fund reserves by
@Wandsworth
Conservatives.
They don’t need to sell off community assets. This is Labour’s choice. Just as failing to buy
#SpringfieldPark
was a choice.
Most of the change is in inner London. Swing to Lab in inner London now 6.85, compared to 13.35 in Feb. This would mean both Wandsworth and Westminster stay blue.
It’s not the same.
@WandswrthLabour
are increasing council tax by 2%, having promised a cut.
It’s a precept ‘double whammy’:
🥊 2% on the social precept
🥊 9.7% on the Mayor’s precept, which they support.
That’s an £8 million tax rise from Labour.
Wandsworth Council is freezing your council tax this year.
Residents in Wandsworth will pay the lowest average council tax in the country.
We will charge the same low council tax and deliver better services for all.
Our plan:
Here’s
@WandswrthLabour
Deputy Leader calling all 4x4s a danger to children and wanting to shut Burntwood Lane (a B-Road!) during morning peak traffic...
At least she’s stopped banging on people’s car windows.
Good to see recognition of the huge effort made by
@paulbristow79
and proud to have been there to help.
#Peterborough
now failed by Labour AND failed by the Brexit Party. They deserved a better MP. I hope they won’t have long to wait.
The opening of
@BatterseaPwrStn
will celebrate 25,000 jobs, 2 new tube stations, 1,000 apprenticeships and the efforts of 4,000 construction workers.
@WandswrthLabour
are boycotting it, through ideological spite. My response on
@BBCLondonNews
here:
Excellent maiden speech from my
#WandsworthCommon
colleague
@RB_Wandsworth
, talking about the importance of corporate parenting and the improvements in Children’s Services.
@LNER
@Hannah4Bedford
@laurencec123
Perhaps you should try educating yourselves on what a pronoun is, rather than lecturing your staff on the latest ways of taking offence where none is intended.
Delightful to be joined by
@damienegan
this evening on the
#LabourDoorstep
in Trinity.
Enjoyed hearing about what Labour in power can deliver.
#VoteLabour
in Wandsworth so we can do the same here! 🌹
The ward is called Bedford. Not “Tooting Bec & Balham”.
This isn’t bashfulness after winning by a single vote. On day one,
@sheilaboswell
is already planning a chicken run to Tooting Bec ward in May 2022.🐓
Borough share of Council Tax:
@LewishamCouncil
— £1,421 (+2.99%)
@wandbc
— £470 (-1%)
And the man who sets tax x3 higher in Lewisham is campaigning for “the same low council tax” in
#Wandsworth
…
And there are the
@WandswrthLabour
Cllrs unanimously AGREEING to the new parks
#byelaws
.
Children will continue to play, climb and fly kites as normal. Labour admitting their own colleagues and candidates were scaremongering.
Before the ULEZ launch,
@TfL
refused to alter the boundary. This is the next best solution.
Right now, the situation is environmentally absurd. Local residents need
@Heidi_LDN
to respond co-operatively to
@JohnLocker_UK
’s request.
Senior
@wandbc
councillors launch campaign to persuade bosses at Transport for London to exempt residents who visit the waste and recycling centre in Smugglers Way from paying the Mayor’s new
#ULEZ
charge
Good grief.
@WandswrthLabour
want to “support and encourage” our small businesses by raising their tax from 19% to 21%. Says it all on
#SmallBizSatUK
.
UPDATE on
@WandswrthLabour
’s secret plan to sell off assets. At tomorrow’s
@wandbc
meeting, they can now vote to:
• Publish the document.
• Secure
#BatterseaLibrary
.
• Come clean on the other sites.
But will they?
Apparently, retweeting antisemites when they join Labour is fine. You just tell anyone objecting to racists to “grow up” and be sensible.
This is a staggering, shameful reply — an MP pretending to be a victim to avoid admitting her mistake and the state of her party.
#Tooting
Our thanks to
@MPSWandswthComm
@MPSWandsworth
for briefing residents yesterday about recent incidents on
#WandsworthCommon
.
We know there’s a lot of local concern. It’s reassuring that the police are taking this seriously — and that their action is already getting results.
WANDSWORTH LABOUR, Part 2:
Higher tax for
#Wandsworth
, Momentum's new control of
#Putney
CLP, the "lefties" winning Council selections...
"It's not just about a moment of capture... it's about complete cultural overhaul."
You don’t “make the economy work” by abolishing capitalism.
Behind the bland facade, Labour want to destroy jobs, wealth and opportunity.
#Battersea
#Putney
#Tooting
Was Hogg the solitary vote against? How can any of these Labour candidates justify their votes? And how can
#Wandsworth
residents possibly trust them to run the borough? 6/6
A clenched fist and a Soviet flag.
The USSR was many things (e.g. a communist dictatorship that killed millions) but it wasn’t environmentally friendly.
Senior Labour Cllrs not holding back on
@SadiqKhan
:
"This sort of thing is just ridiculous, truly awful – it brings shame on the Mayor's office." I've never seen a leak quite like it.
Checking the improvements to a (windy!) Godley Gardens with
@RB_Wandsworth
.
Team repainting the railings today and the neighbours are pleased — lots more families using the space.
#WandsworthCommon
1,000 homes, with 605 homes (over 60%) affordable, 100% reserved for local residents. While
@wandsworth
listens to residents,
@WandswrthLabour
votes against them.