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London in a nutshell. Twat cyclists and useless hi-vis ‘security’ engaged in a futile stand-off along a run-down, once iconic area that has descended into tourist traps, tat and money laundering.
Cyclists are continuing to ride along the newly pedestrianised section of Oxford Street, despite being asked to dismount.
Around seven security staff have been stationed near Oxford Circus, calling out to cyclists to get off their bikes, with mixed success.
More on this story ➡️ bbc.in/3W32bbT
#OxfordStreet #London #Cycling #Pedestrianisation
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Like trying to hold back the tide.
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Eyes shut. Mouth open. Earbuds in. Good evening, Stella.
Sixteen years as the MP for Walthamstow. Sixteen years, and nobody has made you a minister.
In that time you have fought for tampons, for childcare, for proxy voting, for Paddington Bear. And in July you alerted the nation to a lost parrot in Lloyd Park. It was a parakeet. You said it was "too big to be a parakeet".
Meanwhile Walthamstow has a crime rate 70 per cent above the national average. Homelessness double it. Rents through the roof.
And where is your fire? On the right of the world to move here.
Fine. Here is the arithmetic.
140,122 handed the right to remain or a passport in the three months to June. One a minute.
76,535 over in small boats since Labour took office.
Your job is Walthamstow, Stella.
Not Calais.
And not the parakeet.
It’s terrifying how easily the premise whatever the issue the problem is immigrants and ergo to fix it we must make all immigrants lives harder has become normalised. Here it is being used not only to define the riots in France but then to justify penalising those on visas here in the uk. This ignores not only any actual evidence of complexity about basis of France’s unrest( including the role of the ‘yellow vests’ , state cuts and political agitators of far left and right) It also used to justify preemptive punishment and stokes social division by demonising them as somehow uncivilised as a group.
It’s not a surprise that in refusing to accept this logic am being shouted down and sneered at online. The threats and abuse have come rolling into my inbox again. My fear for where this road takes us as a society is palpable in this clip and no doubt makes being calm enough to be heard harder. Despite all of this, my determination still to stand up and call it out it endures. Don’t let the dog whistle get you - fight for a better future for Walthamstow and for the UK for all.
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My @thetimes column: An incredible tale of how an ancient royal charter charity founded to look after London’s bridges was hijacked by left-wing causes
We may not have feral youth on the street, but make no mistake: this is looting
With @lfg_uk
times-comment.com/3b6d00ae
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Why is the City Bridge Foundation funding “social justice” instead of fixing all of London’s bridges?
The charity was set up in 1282. Today, it’s worth almost *£1.5 billion*.
Yet… London’s bridges are falling apart.
Why?
The Foundation’s rules only require it to maintain 5 bridges. Funds can also be spent on “other charitable purposes” for the benefit of Londoners.
So what are some of these “other charitable purposes”?
👉 A “poet-in-residence”.
👉 Trans and sex worker sector capacity.
👉 A historian examining connections to the slave trade (they found links were “limited”).
👉 “Systems change”, islamic charities, migration support, climate crisis research… and a group campaigning against a new river crossing.
ENOUGH. Governments have failed to fix London’s bridges and one of our oldest institutions has not been directed to step in.
The City of London Corporation is the sole trustee of the Foundation. They have changed the rules before. The rules must change AGAIN to make all of our bridges the priority.
Change the rules. Fix the bridges.
Our research in The Times 👇
My @thetimes column: An incredible tale of how an ancient royal charter charity founded to look after London’s bridges was hijacked by left-wing causes
We may not have feral youth on the street, but make no mistake: this is looting
With @lfg_uk
times-comment.com/3b6d00ae
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.@willnorman: what are you doing to improve the behaviour of London cyclists? All but a small minority now fail to stop at red lights and many use pavements illegally. All this puts other road users & especially pedestrians at unacceptable risk. Time to stop it.
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London’s cycling czar is making a hell of a mess of London’s streets for pedestrians and has created more danger for cyclists since he was appointed. Disabled people are collateral damage he doesn’t care about.
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There was no hate in this city until you. London got on with it. Then you arrived, you and your imported mates and your stone age ideology, and everything you touched curdled into a grievance with a budget attached.
So now you are spending £17 million fighting hate crime. You are not curing it. You are paying for your own mess.
Seventeen million pounds. On a problem you invented, in a week nobody has heard of, to remind us how welcome and valued we are, as though we were guests in our own city.
Try spending it on something the English actually want. A bus that turns up. A street you can walk down at night. A copper who is not on a course. Then watch how fast the hate evaporates.
The poison of hatred and prejudice. You talk as if it drifted in off the sea. It walked in through your door.
And the great love affair you are having with yourself is nearly over. When it ends you will discover exactly how much hate is out here waiting for you. Yes, Sadiq. We really do hate you. Tic-Tok
I refuse to allow the poison of hatred and prejudice to drip into our communities. That’s why I’ve invested £17 million in initiatives to tackle hate crime.
This National Hate Crime Awareness Week reminds us why it’s important to build a London where everyone feels safe, welcome, and valued.
london-post.co.uk/mayor-anno…
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They voted for someone who has failed upwards their entire career.
Sagal worked as a councillor, housing officer, and then promoted to cabinet member for housing and then head of Camden council.
During that time the housing ombudsman found 124 cases of ‘severe’ maladministration, an 83% admin failure rate, endless cases of damp and mould (some tenants waited 6 years for repairs) 500 cases of mould in Camden flats, and found the housing dept to be ‘rude and confrontational’ to tenants.
The list of failures is endless. Look them up.
Yesterday, Holborn and St Pancras voted for hope.
Congratulations @Sagal_AW and the whole team on a fantastic campaign. Looking forward to working together!
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.@willnorman is still telling untruths about cycle safety and his bike lanes. He claims they have multiplied 5 times and are safer. He’s spent 1.5 billion and there are far more serious injuries. His is a disastrous policy designed to give a false sense of safety. The 2026 figure for only 5 months.
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@TfL @TfLTPH @MayorofLondon @TheLTDA @The_LCDC @LondonAssembly
Explain to me how we are ment to work cause this is a absolute disgrace how London is being run. Heads need to roll for the way London has been brought to its knees
State of the roads in central London tonight. Hardly anything moving. Take a bow @MayorofLondon @willnorman @CityWestminster
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For more than a decade TfL prioritised London’s smallest, most exclusive mode, cycling, in favour of all else. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, least of all the Mayor of London, that this was a disastrous choice for bus services: theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i…
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Sir Jim built Ineos from a single plant buyout into a company that employs tens of thousands worldwide, including thousands in the UK at sites such as Grangemouth. That is industrial employment, not parasitism. What comparable jobs have you created?And while you are on the subject of money: you launched an unauthorised Your Party membership portal, the fees went into MOU Operations Ltd, you later became its sole director, and members were still chasing refunds months later. Where is that money now, and have you given it back?