IS SHE TRUSSTWORTHY?

 

Felicity Buchan believes Liz Truss has the character to lead this country. 

She highlights honesty as a Truss attribute. 

The Dame is not judgmental but in examining Truss's past honesty doesn't spring to mind.

The common criticism of the woman is that like Boris Johnson detail is not her forte. If she really thought posturing on a tank 'channeled' Thatcher one can only think she has judgment issues.

With Truss in charge expect more blundering a la Boris.

We enter dangerous territory. Brains, not bluster should drive decision-making: that is why Sunak is the clear and mature choice.

THE JULY FLOODS.....WHAT? NO TOWN HALL MEETING

Hundreds of residents had lives ruined on July 12 last year.

Thames Water and RBK&C have both produced reports. Victims are entitled to a full presentation of the 'facts' surrounding this disaster.

Weale

The new chair of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee is Cllr Weale. She needs to ensure a meeting is planned in early autumn so victims have the opportunity to 'deep dive' into the reports and ensure that there is no cover-up.

The Independent Review had two other members besides Mike Woolgar, the chairman. 

One expects they will be attending.....

VIOLENCE ON OUR STREETS BUT NOT A SOUND FROM BUCHAN & HANDS

A 'Do Nothing' Duo

Parts of their constituencies are so dangerous residents no longer wear anything of value for fear of an attack by the motorbike gangs armed with machetes and knives.

Have we heard any solution for either Greg Hands or Felicity Buchan? Not a murmur despite daily reports of attacks on their constituents.

It is not good enough blaming Khan't Do A Thing Right; it was their leader, Boris Johnson who started the rot by flogging off police stations and halting sector policing.

Only two actions will allow their constituents to feel safe on the streets:

• Sector Policing
• Savage Sentencing

So, come on Greg and Felicity why are you not standing up for your constituents by demanding seriously deterrent sentences?

A GREAT COMMENT ON THE LOSS OF SECTOR POLICING

Sometimes the Dame is so struck by the clarity and sense of a comment she highlights it.

Here is one such. It sets out simply what we have lost in personal security and gained in fear.

1. "The only time that a serious impact on crime was to be observed was when London and the government took 'sector policing' seriously. This was when police officers were assigned a regular beat and commitments made to keep them in on their patch for a number of years.

2. That way the police got to know their patch and its residents both good & bad & residents could get to know their own beat officers & genuinely cultivate personal relationships. 

3. It worked. Crime fell & public confidence in venturing onto the streets blossomed. 

4. But of course proper policing is expensive. Despite its success, the scheme was cut back & cut back & then abandoned.

5. The person most to blame for this was one B Johnson-who allowed the coalition government to cut police budgets & begin the sell-off of police stations. 

6. Today the current Tory Leadership in RBKC is trying to fool the nervous velectorate by campaigning to be allowed to buy the Notting Hill police station at a knockdown price and fill it with all kinds of goodies which will house the homeless; sprinkle glitter on the borough's voluntary services and solve the drug & related crime epidemic. 

7. Policing is not about buildings - it requires long term funding and the gradual rebuilding of sector policing. 

8. The world of 'Dixon of Dock Green' never existed but sector policing was the closest we ever got to it. Johnson's destruction of it whilst London Mayor was one of the greatest of his multiple crimes against the electorate."

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STREET CRIME EMERGENCY MEETING

This is Kim Howell who has been chairman of the Safer Neighbourhood Board for the past eight years.

Tomorrow night at the Town Hall he is holding a meeting to get feedback from the general public on policing concerns.

This is something all of us affected by the exponential rise in street crime in the Borough should attend.

Details of meeting HERE

COMMUNITY WARDENS....WANDERING THE STREETS WITHOUT A CLUE

 

This is the Council's solution to street crime. 

You see them aimlessly wandering around window shopping without a clue as to what their role is. 

With the money wasted on these three, you could probably fund two 'real' police. 

That would go some way to fighting the street crime epidemic.

STREET ROBBERIES RISE BUT NOT A WORD FROM OUR LOCAL LEADERS

 

Another day and another violent robbery on the streets of Chelsea and Knightsbridge. 

This latest involved a man bravely chasing three bike-driving robbers and falling and breaking a leg.

Every day gangs target residents and visitors unworried about getting caught knowing they will get a derisory sentence. 

This is right on Felicity Buchan's patch. She knows the only effective deterrent to these attacks on her constituents is deterrent sentencing: in other words.....seven years served. Equally, we hear nothing from Cllr Campbell, the leader. 

Her silence is telling: she has not a clue about what to do.

We need two things...

• no more police driving endlessly around in comfortable cars but walking our streets.
• minimum term sentences of seven years for this type of assault: if a weapon is involved....ten years.

To tell people they should not jewelry or watches is just a cop-out.

A HOT MESSAGE FROM THE LEADER

The Council tackles global warming - a message from the Leader of the Council.

Many of you have asked what to do in the heatwave. 

Well, the answer is to apply lots of sunblock and drink lots of water. If you need to go out carry a brolly. 

If you are an old thing like the Dame...stay home!

I have set up a 'hotline' (excuse pun!) where you can get advice such as 'how do I get melted tarmac off my shoes'  Or ' will the council install airconditioning in my flat(No!)

Anyway, I know what I will be doing to escape the heat..... hubby and I will be 'hot-footing' it to the Isle of Wight for a cooling sail.

Elizabeth

MOYLAN MAULES MORDAUNT

doing the press cuttings

According to the Daily Mail failed local government councillor Moylan is now a Tory Grandee!

" you could not make it up" as Milord Moylan's pedophile colleague, Cllr Phelps was want to quote.

a Tory Grandee!

Anyway, Lord Moylan of Brummagen said that when Penny Mordaunt worked as Comms Director at RBKC he had to 'let her go"

You can read The Lord Moylan's bitchy words HERE

AN OLD MAN REMEMBERS A DAY WITH THATCHER

Forty-five years ago I was told by my office to drive Margaret Thatcher around the West Midlands. I was a callow youth of twenty-six with a battered old Mazda.

She was kind, funny, and quite unpretentious.

We arrived in central Coventry to be greeted by screaming, obscenity-yelling members of the West Midlands Socialist Workers Group.

Most people would have found the experience daunting. 

When we got back in the car I commented how upsetting it must have been for her.

I can never forget the radiant look on her face.... "my dear, I love it: when they shout and scream at me I know they are frightened of me"

I recall this event of forty-five years ago as I read of the antics of the present contenders for leadership. They all claim to be 'heirs to Thatcher'.

Mrs. Thatcher would give none of them even the most junior of ministerial jobs: she would have seen them as second rate.

ELIZABETH CAMPBELL PROMOTES RED HOT SOCIALIST TO RUN THE ROYAL BOROUGH

It has now become a tradition for smart RBK&C to select socialist chief executives. (Quirk was one)  

We have to call them chief executives, not Town Clerks to justify their mega salaries and pretend they might be headhunted by the private sector(as if!) if we don't.

Anyway, Campbell has got very excited about having recruited Maxine Holdsworth on what will be a £300,000 a year package! 

Holdsworth comes from Islington where the Council has been slammed for allowing pedophiles to run its children's homes.

Islington has a dreadful reputation so why recruit from an extreme Left Wing council?

Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North will be thrilled one of his acolytes has infiltrated a bastion of Toryism!

PROSECUTE THE DRIVER OF MERCEDES REG B10 OWX

Tonight at around 7.00 pm the drivers of these two cars circled around Harrods deliberately creating loud backfiring. It continued for 40 minutes with the express intention of upsetting people.

There was a witness to this anti-social behaviour so let us see if action will be taken. 

We need audio cameras in the vicinity of Harrods with urgency.

SHYSTER STANDS AS CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER

A few years back Grant Shapps had a money-making wheeze that required him to adopt an alter ego.

In Las Vegas Shapps became Michael Green to promote his 'get rich quick' book.

You can read about it HERE.....Now, this fast-talking, seedy little man wants to run the country....how we have fallen.

FLIKKA FLICKS TWO FINGERS AT THE BUFFOON

Felicity has followed the lead of her boss, Sunak, and put the knife into the buffoon's back.

She knows what side her bread's buttered!

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A RESIDENT SLAMS THAMES WATER

This is the glamorous Miss Bentley, the CEO of failingThames Water.

She will be paid 'a far from' basic £750,000 a year but will receive a £3.1m “golden hello” over the next three years to compensate for loss of bonuses at Severn Trent. A further £120,000 in pensions and perks could raise her potential package to £3.27m a year. 

A sewage-damaged resident wrote this to the Dame

Dear Dame

Many months ago, Cllr Lindsay & RBKC escorted Thames Water senior managers around flooded K & C premises, with offers to investigate installing anti-flood technology.

Since then, nothing has been seen or heard of these offers. 

Cllr Rossi “investigated.” Since then, nothing has been heard of her or the results of her inquiries. 

In typical RBKC style, a shiny new flooding officer was appointed. 

Nothing has been seen or heard of him. 

Certain facts are proven: during a period of heavy rain, Thames Water pumped its ‘blackwater’ (a euphemism for sewage) into hundreds of RBKC properties. 

Thames Water, despite the severe weather warnings quite simply failed to switch on its massive pumps at Lots Road. 

When, 2 hours after the flood, the pumps were manually turned on, the sewage instantly drained away! 

TW subsequently claimed it hadn’t been able to use its pumps, because the Thames was at high tide. This is a blatant and proven lie.

The fact is that rather than installing the technology to do so remotely, the pumps are switched on manually - and no one bothered! 

It is also believed that sluices built by Thames Water on Hampstead Heath were either never commissioned, or also not switched on. 

As soon as it rained, RBKC’s gullies blocked up, flooding streets and hundreds more premises. 

Apparently, they worked perfectly; RBKC’s gullies are actually designed to block up when it rains! 

Meanwhile, Cllr Elizabeth Campbell is doubtless “busy" watching Wimbledon.

In Fury

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THE BRITISH DISEASE....REPORTS NOT ACTION

A £40 Non Return Valve!

Months ago, Mr Nickson of Thames Water promised that flood-prone basements would be assessed to see whether a non-return valve or a FLIP would protect them. Since then ZILCH.

In the meantime, RBKC and Thames Water have been beavering away producing reports. 

One imagines the combined cost of producing these reports will be around £500,000 or possibly more.

A non-return valve costs around £40. 

Just imagine how many Non-Return Valves could have been fitted for the cost of all this paper?

That was the priority not thousands of exculpatory pages blaming the weather!

PS

RBKC has failed to continue the gulley cleaning programme promised post the flood.

THIEVING COUNCILLORS

Thief

This report from My London shows the way the world works. 

A member of the public failing to pay Council Tax will be named and shamed and taken to court. Not so if you are a councillor. Councillors receive a basic allowance of close to £13,000 a year: others quite unqualified get around £40,000.

Pay your bloody Council Tax on time like everybody else.

"A London councillor who failed to pay council tax on time won't be named to protect them from "harm and distress", the information watchdog has ruled. 

Five councillors for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea failed to make council tax payments on time between January 2018 and January 2021, but only one has been named.

The council refused to reveal the names of the five councillors after a Freedom of Information request by the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) in 2021 found that they had owed a combined total of £6,960.04"