A senior Greenwich Conservative councillor has predicted his party will lose seats in May’s council election because their Labour rivals will “promise gifts for everyone”. Former leader Spencer Drury was speaking during last week’s full council meeting, where he said the government’s austerity programme had “failed” and that the public sector pay cap had “gone […]
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Greenwich Tories want Silvertown Tunnel paused for Eltham DLR
Greenwich Council’s Conservative group has asked Transport for London to halt the controversial Silvertown Tunnel scheme – so it can be assessed along with rejected plans for a Docklands Light Railway extension to Eltham. The borough’s main opposition group has lined alongside the Labour council’s leadership in backing the new road “in principle”, despite widespread […]
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Why no Boris bikes in Greenwich? Because nobody wants to pay for them
Back in June, this website reported Boris Johnson giving his backing for cycle hire bikes coming to Greenwich. A few weeks back, Greenwich’s Tories decided to put a motion before the council suggesting it talk to City Hall about introducing such a scheme in Greenwich town centre, where the bikes are a regular sight. The […]
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Election aftermath: What next for politics in Greenwich?
As the dust settles after the general election, Matt Hartley has landed his prize for boosting the Tory vote in Greenwich & Woolwich – he’s been named the new Conservative leader on Greenwich Council. The 29-year-old succeeds Spencer Drury, whose dry barbs at the council’s Labour leadership have become a feature of life at Woolwich […]
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Will Ukip help Labour tighten its hold on Greenwich?
One thing’s clear about this Thursday’s council elections – Labour will gallop to victory again. It’s 50 years since the first elections for the London Borough of Greenwich, and Labour has won all but one poll, in 1968, when a stunning London-wide landslide saw it fall to the Conservatives. Business as usual resumed in 1971, […]
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Greenwich Tories tell Labour to tell the Tories to fix the buses
It’s always good to see an issue raised on this website taken up by politicians – so here’s a warm 853 welcome for a petition calling for a boost to the 108 bus service between North Greenwich and Lewisham, which suffers from chronic overcrowding during rush hours. The petition comes from Greenwich Conservatives – in […]
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Greenwich Council’s Tories in Facebook face-off
This website doesn’t feature Greenwich borough’s Conservatives very often for two very simple reasons. Firstly, they’re not in power, and unlikely to get into power any day soon, so whatever they do doesn’t mean very much. Secondly, and more pertinently, most of them represent seats in and around Eltham, while this site rarely ventures beyond […]
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