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@Tony_Devenish

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Former Conservative London Assembly Member for Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster 2016-24. Email: tony @tonydevenish .com

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3 years
Disgusted to see @campbellclaret has been allowed to be a stand-in presenter on @GMB . Defender of Robert Maxwell - Blair’s “Dodgy Iraq War” Dossier - one of THE most politically partisan figures of the last 20 years. Have written to @Ofcom .
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3 Labour North West MPs resign in a few weeks: 2 for well paid Quango jobs (& because @Keir_Starmer is such a charisma free zone) & 1 in a sex scandal. Imagine the media response if it were 3 Tories.
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Just seen this, quite an endorsement. Thoroughly deserved, @KemiBadenoch . Not too late for the Parliamentary Party to choose hope.
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. @KemiBadenoch has the integrity and competency to restore trust in the Conservative party and connect it to real issues within the community. She has my wholehearted support for Prime Minister
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4 years
This video is from 10pm at Bond Street Tube Station. I'm really concerned that @SadiqKhan doesn't get the seriousness of much of London being empty.
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4 years
This man killed thousands of jobs today by his refusal to let people drive into London for just four Saturdays in December - not even on Boxing Day. Shameful, @SadiqKhan .
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4 years
Ridiculously stubborn @SadiqKhan refuses to remove the Park Lane supposedly temporary Park Lane cycle lane when a few metres away in Hyde Park is an underused cycle lane - this photo shows the congestion + air quality chaos @MayorofLondon has caused.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
This is THE STORY of @SadiqKhan 's nearly 6 years as @MayorofLondon . It is now officially quicker to walk in parts of London than catch a bus. Bad for our economy and not good for air quality, as it causes more congestion.
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3 years
This ward map of London Mayoral results shows London is NOT, as the lazy adage goes, “a Labour City”. By public service @LdnConservative can WIN.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
Good response on the doorsteps this morning. @Keir_Starmer ’s hypocrisy on Covid was mentioned several times!
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Tony Devenish
1 year
As below @SadiqKhan has raised his share of Council Tax every year - in total by 57.3%. Again & again Labour politicians cost residents more - not least in Westminster, where Labour Councillors just voted their Cabinet Members a 45% pay increase. Anyone believe @Keir_Starmer ?
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Keir Starmer
1 year
A Labour government would freeze your council tax this year. A tax cut for all, not just for the top 1%. Money back in your pocket. Because we are the party of lower taxes for working people. That’s the difference we can make. That’s the choice in May. A better Britain.
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2 years
Pimlico South, fighting for every vote.
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2 years
Lancaster Gate with a great London Conservatives team.
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1 year
This is where Conservative-run Kensington & Chelsea (first picture) meets Labour-run Hammersmith & Fulham (second picture) on the railway bridge separating High Street Ken from Hammersmith Road by Olympia. A picture says 1000 words and Hammersmith & Fulham deserves better.
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2 years
Chaos at Liverpool St. " @SadiqKhan is the worst Mayor ever," said a commuter to me!
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Tony Devenish
3 years
Park Lane chaos today. Surely now the election is over @SadiqKhan must accept that a cycle lane a few yards from one in Hyde Park is a nonsense. He must remove it to reduce congestion and improve air quality.
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1 year
From a London black cab driver, sick to the back teeth of @sadiqkhan - aren’t we all?
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Tony Devenish
2 years
Vote @Bobby_Alden in tomorrow's Birmingham Erdington By-Election. Thanks to Cllr Simon Morrall for campaigning with me today.
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Tony Devenish
2 years
Vote Conservative from 7am-10pm May 5th for quality council services and low council tax.
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2 years
. @KCFConservative with Earls Court resident, @RishiSunak .
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Tony Devenish
3 years
Hugely honoured to have been re-elected AM for the very special part of London that is West Central. I pledge to continue to hold @MayorofLondon to account on crime, environment, housing & transport. To re-open Hammersmith Bridge and focus on jobs, jobs , jobs. #TeamBailey
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3 years
Live results stream on Facebook: #LondonVotes
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3 years
A positive, energetic campaign. Well done, @ShaunBaileyUK & @TeamBaileyUK .
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Tony Devenish
2 years
Oxford Street in the sunshine. Visit soon!
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Tony Devenish
4 years
Fantastic performance on ITV tonight, @ShaunBaileyUK . Can anyone seriously imagine @SadiqKhan connecting with Londoners as well as Shaun does?
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2 years
Common sense victory on scrapping the Euston Road bike lane, which had led to gridlock - thank you @TfL . Now please listen on CW9 and the Park Lane Cycle Lane too.
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2 years
TfL following @SadiqKhan 's example of talking green rather than acting green. The @MayorofLondon taking unnecessary flights to Argentina & TfL still running diesel vehicles whilst the Mayor is trying to force diesel drivers off the road with his ill-considered ULEZ expansion.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
This is spot on from @calvinrobinson . The question is, does @SadiqKhan not know or not care?
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Tony Devenish
2 years
Thanks to @ShaunBaileyUK for coming to help campaign in Pimlico.
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4 years
The latest example of @SadiqKhan ’s gross incompetence.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
Good to hear @RBKC has decided not to reinstall the High Street Ken Cycle Lane, but will look at options for a different cycle lane in the area. We need to improve cycling facilities, but not by approving any scheme (however flawed). LOCAL DEMOCRACY IN ACTION, despite @SadiqKhan
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Tony Devenish
2 years
Not a lady afraid to do the work herself. A brilliant public servant. Vote Conservative in @RBKC on Thursday 5th May.
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2 years
. @FelicityBuchan and I were discussing @SadiqKhan 's inability to run anything : buses, the Tube, Policing, you name it.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
PM proves, once again, to be an election winner. Congratulations @BorisJohnson .
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Tony Devenish
3 years
Imagine the media row if a Tory Minister made such a “Let them eat cake” gaffe. They'd be rightly accused of being arrogant & out of touch. Don't you understand, @SadiqKhan , that 15 months into Covid many Londoners can’t afford to replace their car?
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Tony Devenish
3 years
Those suffering from insomnia can read @SadiqKhan ’s “woke” manifesto. For everyone else, here’s a summary: READ MY LIPS: 4 NEW TAXES if Khan wins in 30 days time on 6th May. 1. Council Tax hike 2. Congestion Charge hike 3. ULEZ extension 4. Outer London Tax
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2 years
Elizabeth Line opens tomorrow. Well done, @Crossrail .
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Tony Devenish
5 years
With 9 months to the Mayoral elections, more & more Londoners recognise @SadiqKhan has failed as Mayor to improve our transport, cut crime & build the homes we need.We must replace him with @ShaunBaileyUK in 2020. He & @BorisJohnson will turn things around
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Tony Devenish
2 years
Devastated by the @CityWestminster result. We had a great team, led by the brilliant Rachael Robathan. Demographics and mid-term factors were key. Huge congratulations @RBKC @KCFConservative & well done to @LBHF Tories.
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4 years
Thank you to @VanessaOnAir for letting me expose @SadiqKhan 's view that, in your words, "Londoners don't know what they want" re: the High Street Ken Cycle Lane. Oh yes they do, they want it removed.
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3 years
The @MayorofLondon chose to spend Londoners' money on lawyers rather than LISTEN to disabled Londoners & small business people suffering under the Covid pandemic. Appalling judgement call, @SadiqKhan .
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6 years
Sadiq Khan has just admitted he wasted £8 million of taxpayers' money on his dodgy plans for Oxford Street - plans that would have banned cyclists from Oxford Street and sent hundreds of buses a day down residential Wigmore Street.
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1 year
This is Belgravia Police Station, which was closed by @SadiqKhan whilst he kept Uxbridge open to attempt to influence a parliamentary by-election. Graffiti typical of the decay under Khan. Pick up your paint brush, Sadiq!
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1 year
This is very serious, @BBC . @SadiqKhan shouldn’t decide your so-called editorial freedom, given ULEZ extension isn’t about air quality but a stealth tax on poorer Londoners.
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2 years
Ravenscourt Park team out and about.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
As one of my residents said to me today, “London is becoming like Moscow under @SadiqKhan . Soon only the rich will be able to drive. Older people, families with children and many disabled people will be trapped at home.”
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Tony Devenish
7 years
Any #GlenfellTower residents without phones due to the horrific fire can go to a nearby EE store to contact anyone.
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Tony Devenish
5 years
Hammersmith Bridge has been closed for over a month. @SadiqKhan needs to get a grip of the situation and reopen the bridge or air pollution & congestion in South West London will keep getting worse. #SaveHammersmithBridge
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4 years
Shameless @SadiqKhan 's negativity knows no bounds. He writes in the @FT today that "financial services have been badly let down“. Yes, like all Londoners, they've been LET DOWN by having a petulant student politician as @MayorofLondon .
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2 years
A fantastic West End team.
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Tony Devenish
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Your silence, @SadiqKhan , is deafening.
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Tony Devenish
2 years
Viva la Fulham!
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2 years
Thank you to everyone who voted Conservative across London. To those who didn’t, we will listen to you and continue to serve all Londoners. Well done Croydon, Harrow and @RBKC .
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Under @SadiqKhan @TfL has spent 7.5 years clogging up our roads, making congestion & air quality worse on the Mayor's anti-choice, anti-car dogma. What Londoners need on 2nd May 2024 is a New Mayor, @Councillorsuzie .
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3 years
Good news from @TfL . A year after cutting Park Lane from 3 lanes to 1 TfL has admitted this has increased journey times (+ imo air pollution), so will halve the width of the bus lane between Brook & Cumberland Gates & introduce an extra lane towards Marble Arch. A step forward.
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Tony Devenish
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3 minutes of @SadiqKhan being astonishingly rude to female London Assembly Members of every party but his own. If anyone tells you he's a decent guy, show them this video.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
. @SadiqKhan avoided consultations on his many damaging changes to London's roads over the last year. This week @RBKC stood up for local residents & against the Mayor's attempts to bully them into building a High Street Ken cycle lane that was the wrong scheme in the wrong place.
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Tony Devenish
4 months
If @SadiqKhan wins on Thursday all cars in London will be this size ( and colour) by 2028!!!
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Tony Devenish
2 years
This photo shows how far the Park Lane Cycle Lane leads to blockages and congestion that is damaging air quality - 4.30pm Friday in Chapel Street. Only 8 days to sign our petition - - & @TfL 's public consultation -
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Tony Devenish
3 years
Thank you, @GregHands .
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Tony Devenish
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Thank you to everyone. Email tony @tonydevenish .com if I can ever be of service. It has been an honour to serve.
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Tony Devenish
4 years
Hammersmith Bridge will have been shut for 2 years this April & the shameless @MayorofLondon sends this "not me guv" letter. Does @SadiqKhan do anything?
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Tony Devenish
4 years
Today I've written to @willnorman in the light of deeply concerning information sent to me by a constituent. It would be scandalous if TfL are spending taxpayers' money to try to influence opinion on an @RBKC matter. I hope Will is able to guarantee that this hasn't happened.
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Tony Devenish
2 years
From one of my residents. THINK AGAIN, @SadiqKhan . Hyde Park has an excellent cycle lane mere metres away. Meanwhile the extra congestion on Park Lane from reducing 3 lanes to 1 for motorists causes worse air pollution.
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4 years
It is typical of @SadiqKhan to try and ride roughshod over the wishes of local residents. He should focus on doing his job and the vast number of areas where he is failing Londoners.
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Today the man caught by @thetimes (& me) admitting he won't buy an electric car, @SadiqKhan , extends the ULEZ to 18 times the size of @BorisJohnson original air quality improvement scheme. This is now all about cash as the current @MayorofLondon has all but bankrupted TfL.
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3 years
A fantastic candidate for Southend West @Anna_Firth .
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4 years
It’s vital to help more people to walk and cycle, but this must not be via a “war against cars”.
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4 months
When you try to remember any Mayoral achievements over the last 8 years.
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Tony Devenish
2 years
The message is that Labour Councils = just one bin collection a week (if they feel like it).
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2 years
Local Sands End residents told us Labour @LBHF has been told this has been here a year. Bin Labour on May 5th.
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Tony Devenish
4 months
It’s clear @wesstreeting is the one in the gutter. An over-promoted student politician who has already published his autobiography because he wants Starmer to fail. Shallow, glib, those like Streeting who throw around ill founded accusations of racism aren’t fit for Government.
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2 months
If you think Labour will win on 4th July you’d better start saving.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
This week's video shows how @SadiqKhan 's stubborn dogma led to him ignoring a well-used cycle lane in Hyde Park & installing a congestion-causing, air quality-worsening parallel cycle lane in Park Lane. Then refusing to U-turn. London needs a #FreshStart with @ShaunBaileyUK
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1 year
Plenty of traffic and parked coaches on Park Lane earlier, @SadiqKhan , but despite a warm day not a single bicycle on the cycle lane. Perhaps they were a few metres away on The Hyde Park Cycle Lane. Madness, not green London, @MayorofLondon .
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Tony Devenish
3 years
On Wednesday @RBKC is reconsidering the decision on High Street Ken Cycle Lane. I’m grateful for all Elizabeth Campbell & her team’s work on this & for local patience, despite pathetic bullying from @SadiqKhan . The points in this video still apply.
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Tony Devenish
4 years
Well done @CityWestminster for listening to local people, SEBRA & the Hyde Park Estate Association and not proceeding with the Hyde Park LTN.
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Tony Devenish
2 years
Any final Conservative Leadership voters who have still not voted, the deadline is tomorrow - 2nd September at 5pm. Please vote online for @RishiSunak .
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Tony Devenish
2 years
An excellent letter on the need for the Conservative Party to be united. Thank you to everyone who signed it.
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2 years
Rain doesn’t stop us campaigning on @SadiqKhan 's air polluting Park Lane Cycle Lane. Congestion = poor air quality, @MayorofLondon .
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Tony Devenish
3 years
Park Lane is (deliberately?) looking a mess as we look to welcome Christmas shoppers back to London. Yet again @SadiqKhan has done literally NOTHING to protect business, although I’ve raised this with him and with @TfL multiple times.
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Stick to the day job - that’s transport, housing and policing - and stop trying to pretend you’re Foreign Secretary, @SadiqKhan .
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2 months
Just been at @RishiSunak ’s final pre-election London rally. @michaelgove , this chap and Rishi spoke brilliantly. Let’s prove the doubters wrong.
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Tony Devenish
3 years
This study exposes the folly of skipping consultations, ignoring the views of local residents and installing badly designed cycle lanes.
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Tony Devenish
4 years
A video of @FelicityBuchan and I talking about the High St Ken cycle lane. It's really important to encourage more cycling but unfortunately this was the wrong scheme.
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@EveningStandard
The Standard
3 years
What do you think could be improved? 🏘️ London failed to make it onto a top ten list of the world’s most liveable cities, find out where we ranked here 👉
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Sadiq Khan uses Parsons Green attack to criticise gov't on police resources without full facts. Injured are still being treated. Appalling.
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7 years
Mayor of London @SadiqKhan says the #ParsonsGreen terror incident was "an attempt by evil and cowardly individuals"
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2 years
Lancaster Gate, with a very big dog. Thanks, @twocitiesnickie .
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Tony Devenish
6 years
If you elect Labour Councils in May, you'll open the door to far-left extremists to grab control. That would be an utter disaster for all the Londoners, who live in those boroughs. So don't take the risk.
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4 years
Yesterday I called on @SadiqKhan to urge his Labour colleagues in Hammersmith & Fulham to release their Hammersmith Bridge engineering reports . Pathetically, he pretended not to understand. He should be busting a gut to get the bridge re-opened before 4th Jan. #ReleaseTheReport
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Tony Devenish
10 months
Well said, @TheSun . Sack this racist @SadiqKhan .
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1 year
We need clean air, not yet another stealth tax, @SadiqKhan .
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1 year
Sadiq Khan has been noticeably absent in Uxbridge. Vote @tuckwell_steve on 20th July.
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