Hammersmith & Chiswick Conservatives Choose Local Crime Fighter Dinsmore as Parliamentary Candidate Wednesday, 25 October, 2023 Hammersmith & Chiswick Conservatives have chosen a high-profile crime fighter and local councillor as their standard bearer for the next General Election. Activists attended a packed meeting on Friday 21 October at Chiswick’s George IV pub to choose 34-year-old barrister Andrew Dinsmore from a three-person shortlist. Andrew hit the headlines earlier this year after taking an online petition to the... Local News
Looking Forward To A Community-led Recovery In The New Year 2nd January 2021 Readers of our weekly Councillor column will be familiar with our rotation by now. As it turns out, I have the pleasure of closing off 2020. Therefore, on... Local News
Dealing with an Unresponsive Council and a Night Prowler 12th December 2020 Nine weeks seem to come around quickly – it's blog time again. What’s changed in Chiswick since my previous blog? Traffic LTNs and Streetspace Not a lot. The... Local News
Streetspace, LTNs and the Need to Support Our Local Shops 5th December 2020 Walking around Chiswick it's clear that residents are pre-occupied with two issues. The Streetspace road closures including C9 and the prospect of the whole of... Local News
How To Have a Covid Ready Christmas 28th November 2020 Covid-19: Going into Tier-2 Councillors attended a meeting on 27 th November with senior council officers to discuss the latest national and local guidance with... Local News
A Week in Chiswick When Decades Happened 21st November 2020 As the saying goes, there are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen. And so it has been this week, here on my laptop and phone... Local News
17 Buses Stationary on the High Road on Friday Afternoon 14th November 2020 Chiswick Traffic Chaos Hounslow Council traffic schemes including Streetspace, Turnham Green Terrace, Devonshire Road, Low traffic neighbourhoods and other... Local News
Cllr Biddolph's speech Seconding the Motion of No Confidence in Hounslow Council Leader 13th November 2020 MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE IN HOUNSLOW COUNCIL LEADER Borough Council Meeting of 10th November 2020 Thank you Mr Mayor. I'm seconding this motion because of the... Local News
Motion of No Confidence in Steve Curran, leader of Hounslow Borough Council 11th November 2020 The motion of no confidence in Steve Curran as leader of the council is due to a constitutional anomaly. The leader of the council is elected by the Borough... Local News
Press release: stop the mutilation of Chiswick 11th November 2020 CONSERVATIVE COUNCILLORS FIGHT THE COUNCIL TO SAVE CHISWICK FROM TRAFFIC CHAOS At a meeting of Hounslow Council on Tuesday Conservative Councillors fought to... Local News
Amanda Milling: ‘The PM still has support of Red Wall despite locking down the North’ 19th September 2020 Amanda Milling, chairwoman of the Conservative party, is wincing at the memory of being a government whip at the height of last year’s parliamentary paralysis... National News
Independent Investigation into Discrimination reaches second phase 18th September 2020 The Independent Investigation into Discrimination within the Conservative party reaches its second phase: the public call for evidence. National News
Prime Minister’s statement on protecting the Union: Speech in Full 14th September 2020 The Prime Minister sets out the case for the Internal Market Bill, which would secure free trade inside of the United Kingdom once we exit the transition period... National News
UK and Japan agree historic free trade agreement 14th September 2020 This deal will boost trade between our two countries by £15.2 billion, creating jobs and delivering new opportunities across every part of the United Kingdom. National News