Three Greenwich Labour councillors are in line for £5,000 pay rises under a scheme created by council leader Danny Thorpe. Two backbench councillors will become “project assistants” to work alongside cabinet members, while Labour chief whip Angela Cornforth will pocket extra cash to reflect her workload. Opposition leader Matt Hartley said the move “stinks”, but […]
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‘Why you should vote Labour in Greenwich on 3 May’
In the last of a series of pieces from the main political parties in the borough, Greenwich Council leader DENISE HYLAND outlines why her Labour group deserve your vote on Thursday. Labour has achieved a great deal in Royal Greenwich: we have worked to protect the most vulnerable; supported schools – with our primary schools […]
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Greenwich Labour candidate selected despite being condemned by judge
A Labour candidate in May’s Greenwich Council election was condemned by a judge last year after “flagrantly” breaking the rules of the UK’s biggest public sector union to help its general secretary get re-elected. Linda Perks, who was formerly Unison’s London regional secretary, was picked last September to represent Charlton ward in this spring’s poll. […]
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Four out as Labour picks candidates for 2018’s Greenwich Council election
Four long-serving Greenwich councillors have been deselected by Labour members after local parties picked their candidates for next May’s council elections. The casualties include Charlton councillor Allan MacCarthy, who first took a seat on the council in 1976, and Glyndon representative Don Austen, who made his council debut in 1986. Former cabinet member Harry Singh […]
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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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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 Council bullying: Who’s out to get Labour’s John Fahy?
An anonymous hoax emailer has been posing as Greenwich councillor John Fahy in an attempt to get incriminating information about whether or not he leaked a bullying voicemail left by council leader Chris Roberts, this website can reveal. Fahy was at the centre of controversy last year when Roberts left a foul-mouthed message on his […]
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