Lambeth Conservatives

All Lambeth’s citizens must be concerned when our First Citizen, Councillor Angie Meader, the Mayor, is threatened and bullied by Labour’s ruling Cabinet, to stop a debate. It is the civic duty of the mayor to convene and preside over full council meetings, without fear or favour. Like the Speaker in the House of Commons, [...]

Lambeth Conservatives are calling for a full inquiry and an apology to victims of IRA terrorism after Labour-controlled Lambeth Council pen pushers allowed a new housing block to be named “IRA COURT.” “This is an insensitive blunder by Labour Lambeth Council pen pushers,” says Conservative Lambeth Leader Councillor John Whelan. “It will distress families and [...]

Labour councillors have failed to take a lead in tackling climate change in Lambeth after sitting on the recommendations of a cross-party report for 9 months. The Climate Change Commission report was finished in July 2007 and after months of delay it was finally tabled at a Labour Cabinet meeting in January 2008. But even [...]

Labour-controlled Lambeth Council is proposing to dole out taxi cab fees to councillors, despite the fact that the Council’s Cabinet members have already awarded themselves thousands of pounds extra in allowances which in the past have been regarded as containing an “expenses” element. The councillors will even be able to claim back at public expense [...]

Bungling Labour Lambeth has had to knock back its own planning application for a kids’ games area because it was so badly drafted. The council’s planning department turned down an application from Lambeth’s housing department to create a multi-use games area (MUGA) on council land in Vale Street, West Norwood. The application was ruled “invalid” [...]

Lambeth Labour bosses plan to spend more than half-a-million pounds to ‘polish over the cracks’ in the Council’s performance and impress inspectors – while residents on low incomes struggle to meet the highest council tax rise in the capital. A leaked document reveals how Labour Lambeth has earmarked more than £560,000 to spend on new [...]

The London Fire Brigade has officially agreed to spend a whopping £7.1 million of taxpayers money plus up to £900,000 in professional fees on demolishing and replacing West Norwood Fire Station, which was built in 1917. The plan involves a complete rebuild following a government decision to list the facade of the front of the [...]

Your Conservative candidate Stuart Barr says: “This by-election won’t change the control of the council, but elect me and Vassall will get a councillor who’ll be a Thorn in the Side of the Council. “It’s 10% politics and 90% good management of what’s going on. A councillor’s job is to ensure that the council fixes [...]

Labour Lambeth has set the highest council tax hike in London – a whopping 4.75 per cent and well above pension and inflation increases. This goes with the 7.23 per cent rise in rents for Lambeth tenants, which hits low income earners hardest who are not on benefits. “Labour is spending money like a drunken [...]

Labour Lambeth is hitting the most at risk older people in Vassall Ward with a huge increase in home care charges to £20 an hour. Only a year ago the charges rose from £7.55 an hour to £17.50 an hour, which caused uproar at the time. “Labour has come back for more and unless your [...]