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Writes about London's politics, places & people. Runs website @OnLondon . Podcasts & trustee @LondonSoc . Aka novelist @vanewriter . Award winner. Busy.

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Dave Hill

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My book about the London 2012 #Olympic Park tells the story of the bid, the regeneration and what has happened since. Paris was favourite to be Host City in that year. How did #London do it? The politics, planning and the personalities are all here: ….

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Olympic Park: When Britain Built Something Big

Dave Hill's account of how London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park was built in time for the 2012 Olympics and its legacy so far. Foreword by Peter Hendy.

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Dave Hill

5 months

The Elizabeth line really *is not* "utterly pointless" and practically all the money to pay for it was raised in London. Without London's economy there would be no money to invest in the north. "North-south divide" populism is no solution to regional inequalities. #devolution

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Keith Andrew

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The only service between Manchester and Leeds. It's a 30 mile journey. It takes 1 hour 12 mins. It costs £26. I'm currently stood half in the toilet. This Government's continued insistence on investing in London, like the utterly pointless Elizabeth Line, whilst leaving the

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Dodd: "You can tell a joke in Glasgow and people will laugh at it. But in Birmingham, they won't". Parkinson""Why is that?" Dodd: "Well, they can't hear you". From memory, but you get the idea. #KenDodd

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5 months

In the coming hours I will be asking every Conservative member of the London Assembly for their opinion of remarks made on #GBNews by Conservative MP #LeeAnderson about Sadiq Khan. Watch this space.

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7 years

Private Eye #GE2017

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4 years

Just bumped into @rickygervais on Hampstead Heath. I think he recognised me but chose not to invade my privacy. Sensitive.

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7 months

Steven Edgington is the video comment editor of the Telegraph. He personifies the normalisation of extreme right-wing opinion at that news organisation. When Conservatives import such attitudes into their party in order to cling on to power, that is the result.

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Dave Hill

2 months

Corbynite remains resolute in service to the Conservative party. A model of consistency.

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Dave Hill

5 years

Believe it or not, London has a working-class, the highest poverty rates in the country & many low-income people whose values might be called "traditional". London as a whole is also a solidly #Labour -voting city. There might be some sort of lesson there. @lisanandy @jessphillips

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Gloria De Piero

5 years

‘Labour has too few working class members and needs to rediscover its 'northern soul' . 90’s Labour focused on Southern Discomfort (the Fabian pamphlet written by then Labour MP Giles Radice). Now we most focus on rediscovering our Northern Soul.

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This is outright lying. It was a Tory government requirement, written into the 1st TfL financial rescue deal, that #LTNs would be introduced without prior consultation by *boroughs*, whose streets Mayors are not in charge of. Shameless. #ShaunBailey #LondonMayor2021 .

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10 years

Birmingham's refuse collectors are all Bin Laden #FoxNewsFacts

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‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years

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‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years

Millions face disaster as Sudanese army and RSF accused of using food access as a weapon in on-going war

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He has no grounds for complaint. The Bill was a stunt in the first place and he clung on to #Uxbridge for his party last July by kidding car-owning constituents that #ULEZ was coming for all them when it wasn't @mrjamesob

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Steve Tuckwell

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4 months

Today Labour ran the clock on my Conservative MP colleagues & I on our fight against ULEZ. Since I was elected to be the MP of Uxbridge & South Ruislip, fighting against ULEZ has always been a strong priority of mine. Read more here:

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3 years

For months #ShaunBailey has claimed he will do things Mayors have no powers to do & that his Labour opponent will do things that will probably never happen. He has spread false "facts" about Council Tax & TfL. Now, @BBCLondonNews gives him a puff piece: .

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4 years

London is open.

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2 months

Maybe cycling activists could take a lead in encouraging cyclists to abide by the highway code and generally behaving more considerately on the streets instead of routinely changing the subject to bad behaviour by drivers. Accepting responsibility might win them more friends.

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The Standard

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2 months

"You’ll notice the hate-mongers offer no solutions, they don’t take responsibility for their actions, they just peddle hate," writes @Chris_Boardman Read more:

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24 days

The #Labour candidate for #Chingford & Woodford Green is a valiant, committed, skilled and experienced London politician and the only challenger to Conservative IDS capable of beating him. Why even consider voting for anyone else?

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Interview: Shama Tatler, candidate for Chingford & Woodford Green

There is a bit more to the woman challenging Iain Duncan Smith than simply being a councillor in Brent

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Dave Hill

8 years

If you've yet to hear it, best quote on Zac campaign from senior London Tory: 'A dog whistle in a city with no dogs.' #londonmayor2016

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4 years

NEW. Poll finds most Londoners blame Covid or government for TfL finances crisis: . There's also majority support for #LTNs , net satisfaction with #SadiqKhan in most policy areas & lots more. #TfL #transport @BBCTomEdwards @BBCTimDonovan

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Polling exclusive: Most Londoners blame Covid or government for TfL financial woes, back LTNs and...

More than twice as many Londoners hold either Covid-19 or the government mostly to blame for Transport for London’s financial difficulties than either Sadiq Khan or Transport for London combined,...

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5 months

Even the man who chaired Zac Goldsmith's revolting 2016 mayoral campaign is revolted by it. #conservatives @mrjamesob @PippaCrerar @AdamBienkov @CityHallTories @ConHome @Conservatives #londonmayor2024 @nickbowes1975

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Dave Hill

4 years

Now we're up to *three* Haringey Labour councillors suspended today and the Labour Group AGM, scheduled for Monday - at which a leadership challenge was expected - has been suspended too. The "Corbyn council" has been a poisonous shambles from day one. @UKLabour @LondonLabour .

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Dave Hill

4 years

People call each other liars too readily these days, but having just watched #BorisJohnson at #PMQs claiming that #tfL financial problems are "entirely" the fault of the current Mayor I am afraid the PM has confirmed beyond all doubt that he is indeed a liar.

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2 months

Here's ITV's Joel Hills explaining why the Tories' tax claim about Labour is "just not true":

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Labour and Tories clash over £2,000 tax claim - so who is right? | ITV News

Rishi Sunak's claim Labour will increase taxes by £2,000 per household was one of the hot topics of his head-to-head ITV showdown with Sir Keir Starmer. | ITV National News

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Dave Hill

1 year

Unlike the leader of the Labour Party, Lineker, Vorderman and Guardian columnists don't have to win general elections.

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Guardian Opinion

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1 year

Lineker and Vorderman are a more effective opposition than Labour. No wonder the Tories feel threatened | Hannah Jane Parkinson

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4 years

The Telegraph asks: "Is it time to scrap the Mayor of London?" The answer is: "It is time to greatly enhance the powers of the Mayor of London and those of his equivalents in other UK cities in order to strengthen and 'level up' the nation": Next please.

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The question can no longer be avoided: is it time to scrap the mayor of London?

Let’s not pretend that the devolution experiment of the Blair to Cameron years has been in any way a success

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2 years

Terrible result for the Conservatives in Richmond-upon-Thames, reduced by the Lib Dems to a single seat with the Greens finishing second: Not long ago, Richmond was Tory-run.

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Richmond-upon-Thames result - Local Elections 2022

Get the latest news and election results for Richmond-upon-Thames council in the 2022 Local elections from BBC News

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You will have heard and read a lot about her rivals for the Tory-held #London marginal of Chingford & Woodford Green. You've been told next to nothing about the #Labour candidate herself. There's more to her than you might think: .

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Interview: Shama Tatler, candidate for Chingford & Woodford Green

There is a bit more to the woman challenging Iain Duncan Smith than simply being a councillor in Brent

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2 years

NEW from @VincentStops - London's bus stop bypasses for cyclists are destroying access to the service for disabled people: . @NFBUK @TfL @LonTravelWatch @londoncouncils @SustransLondon @LDN_LS @GDIHub #London @GwynTopham @standardnews

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Are you planning to explain to viewers how Jeremy Corbyn's highly privileged, public school-educated right hand man helped the Guardian's editor get her job? If not, there are others who could. @BBCNewsnight @iankatz1000

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Owen Jones

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I'm on @BBCNewsnight , BBC2 tonight talking about why the media is a closed shop for the privileged, and about the press being mostly run by wealthy oligarchs who defend a status quo from which they benefit.

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TfL chief Andy Byford confirms he still hasn't been allowed to see the government-commissioned KPMG review of TfL finances, despite repeated requests. #TfL

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5 years

Give yourself a little time to read this man's letter of resignation from the #LabourParty . It is shocking, moving and angering. Corbynism has been indulged for far too long.

@JewishChron

The Jewish Chronicle

5 years

Richard Horton canvassed with Corbyn in Islington North. He writes to the party leader: 'Antisemitism has been normalised in Labour and in my opinion your behaviour over a number of years has legitimised it'

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Dave Hill

8 years

I have completed the #LondonMarathon in 3 hrs & 59 mins. I am 58 years old. I feel....epic!

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3 years

Sadiq Khan's winning margin was 55.2%-44.8%=10.4. Not as big as his win in 2016. Bigger than both of Boris Johnson's wins. Smaller than both of Ken Livingstone's wins (just). It was decisive. #SadiqKhan #MayorOfLondon2021

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22 days

Corbynism continues its long tradition of assisting the Conservatives.

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OnLondon

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IDS holds Chingford & Woodford Green for Tories.

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3 years

Is it my imagination or has the Corbyn Left become even more unpleasant about #KeirStarmer since Labour started doing a bit better?

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3 years

Am amazed by the amount of coverage, some of it favourable, @standardnews has given crank candidate Laurence Fox. He clearly despises London and most Londoners and the foul stench of his general attitude to humankind is overpowering.

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Dave Hill

2 years

Claiming there are "mass knifings on London's streets" when the capital has the lowest rate of violent crime of any region in England is both irresponsible and sign of political desperation.

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Greg Hands

2 years

Mass knifings on London’s streets, but Mayor Khan is instead banging on about Brexit and even Boris.

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2 months

From where I'm sitting (in my home in Diane Abbott's constituency, since you ask) absolutely nothing at all has been obvious about this saga. Why does @SkyNews think this silly self-publicist's opinion is worth anything?

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5 months

Reminder of what London #conservatives said about #ZacGoldsmith 's gutter campaign for Mayor in 2016: Where are they now? @LewisBaston @Samfr #sadiqkhan @ChrisMasonBBC #susanhall @BethRigby @Peston #londonmayor2024

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Top Conservatives condemn Zac Goldsmith's 'disgusting' mayoral campaign

David Cameron under pressure to justify attempts to link new London mayor Sadiq Khan to alleged Islamic extremists

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Been catching up on the remarkably, ah, inventive campaign of Corbynite idol #FaizaShaheen in #Chingford & Woodford Green, which is trying to help IDS cling on. No fringe independent, even if sometimes on telly, is going to win this seat. But @ShamaTatler of #Labour really can.

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3 years

Returning from corner shop visit on foot 10 minutes ago, I have to leap aside as a cyclist - young, full Wiggo kit - bumps up on to pavement in order to by-pass red light and avoid stopping. Such behaviour is commonplace & is what makes cyclists unpopular with many. @willnorman

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Dave Hill

5 months

Which human being would you sooner have in charge of your country? "Boris", Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch...or this guy?

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Sophy Ridge

5 months

I was very moved by this. Keir Starmer talking about his relationship with his father and how it impacted him “I probably should addressed that before he passed. I wish I had. But I didn’t.”

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3 months

This is a great city #LondonMayorElection

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Ross Lydall

3 months

In other joyous news, @CountBinface polled almost twice as many votes as the "Britain First - No To Immigration" mayoral candidate in Merton and Wandsworth

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4 years

NEW & EXCLUSIVE. #LabourParty members in #Haringey propose creation of "working-class section" & joint "consciousness-raising" workshops to moderate middle-class tendency to "talk to us like children" and secure election success: . @Freedland @paulfwebster

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Haringey: Labour members call for 'working-class section' in bid to regain power - OnLondon

Members of a Labour Party branch in north London want to create a special grouping within Labour for working-class people in order to help the party form a national government. An invitation to join...

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6 years

We got there! Amazing! Thanks to all 421 of you! Phew!

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4 years

Tower Bridge is owned and run by the City of London Corporation. Its current mechanical problems have nothing to do with the London Mayor.

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Tony Devenish

4 years

Yet another of London’s bridges in trouble. Is there any point asking @SadiqKhan to do his job?

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Dave Hill

3 years

Listening back to #Marr interview with Sadiq Khan I am becoming increasingly irritated. Asking a London Mayor if he takes responsibility for capital's relatively low vaccine rate is asinine. For one thing, Mayors don't run the NHS in London. Get some better researchers.

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4 years

It's 40 days since SAGE advised government to take the measures it is about to formally announce.

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Dave Hill

2 years

London's bus stop bypasses for cyclists are destroying access to the service for disabled people says @vincentstops - . @NFBUK @TfL @LonTravelWatch @londoncouncils @SustransLondon @LDN_LS @GwynTopham @standardnews . #cycling #buses #disabilityinclusion

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3 years

Me, my six children, their wives/partners/girlfriends and my three grandchildren. #Fathersday

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2 years

Why is this junk still here?

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Dave Hill

2 years

The number of homicides in London has been on a generally downward trend since 2017. London Mayors, whoever they are, have very limited powers to affect crime rates, which vary for a range of reasons they do not control. But don't let reality stop you misleading your viewers.

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Dan Wootton

2 years

God bless Thomas O'Halloran, the 87-year-old stabbed to death on a mobility scooter in broad daylight in Sadiq Khan's Lawless London. This is the sixth murder investigation launched by Scotland Yard in four days. Tolerance for violent crime in London must end. We demand change.

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The Telegraph is totally unhinged.

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Dave Hill

4 years

NEW. Sadiq Khan has joined six fellow Mayors calling for government help for people who've fallen through gaps in its financial safety net: @ExcludedUK @ForgottenLtd @SadiqKhan @MetroMayorSteve @AndyBurnhamGM @MarvinJRees @SCR_Mayor @andy4wm @MayorJD

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Dave Hill

2 years

Cyclist and long-time London streets policy specialist @VincentStops believes cycling infrastructure (used by a small affluent minority) has been installed at the expense of the bus service (used by diverse millions). Does he have a point? #buses #cycling

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Vincent Stops: The cycling lobby has been allowed to ruin London's bus service - OnLondon

Between 2000 and 2008 London’s bus services were transformed. There were more buses, more bus routes and, critically, services were more reliable. An unreliable and often overcrowded service was...

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Dave Hill

2 months

Not sure I buy this @ChrisMasonBBC . Farage can only be said to have "returned to the fray" because journalists decided this non-candidate's activities are "a story". He is an "influential politician" mainly because journalists and broadcasters have chosen to make him famous.

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Dave Hill

3 years

There is no argument. Government money was distributed by TfL to borough councils that wanted it for #LTNs and those boroughs are responsible for their creation or removal - *not* the Mayor. Bailey surely knows this. #BBCLondonVote2021

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BBC London

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Khan and Bailey argue over who is responsible for problems surrounding low traffic neighbourhoods. See more on LTNs: #BBCLondonVote2021 #BBCLondon

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4 years

Perhaps because he intends to absolutely hammer the Conservative Party candidate on 6 May and thereby send a message to Downing Street that the capital city of Brexit Britain is not much impressed by the Tory national government. It's just a hunch. #LondonMayor2021

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Coffee House

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4 years

Why did Sadiq Khan politicise London’s fireworks, asks Melanie McDonagh

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8 months

42% of London households don't own a motor vehicle.

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11 months

Foreground shows quite typical realisation of Waltham Forest "Mini-Holland" scheme, @NewStatesman . A mess - bus stops and cycle lanes stuck in middle of pavements, pedestrians penalised to facilitate lifestyle choice of a small, affluent minority. Is that progress?

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Dave Hill

3 years

Sadiq Khan wins second term as London Mayor and pledges to build bridges for national recovery: . #LondonMayor2021 #LondonMayoralElection #LondonMayor2021 #SadiqKhan

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Sadiq Khan wins second term as London Mayor and pledges to build bridges for national recovery -...

Sadiq Khan has won a second term as Mayor of London with a comfortable victory over his nearest rival that will see him continue as the UK capital’s political leader for a further three years. A...

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2 years

Just to confirm, @GMB team, #BorisJohnson *did* introduce a concessionary free travel scheme for 60-65 year-olds when he was London Mayor but it was *not* the Freedom Pass, which has existed for decades (cont)

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Dave Hill

2 months

I have a fiver on a Labour victory in #IslingtonNorth .

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NEW. #Labour candidate @prafulnargund launches #IslingtonNorth campaign: . @LondonLabour @EmilyThornberry @AngelaRayner @robpowellnews @BethRigby

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Corbynism's familiar failings (more and more) on full display in London during this #GE24 : …. #Corbyn #IslingtonNorth . Self-indulgent, self-deluding, electorally disastrous, but it's what they "stand for" that matters...

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Corbynism's familiar failings have been on full display in London

Shallow, vainglorious and deep in denial the disciples of St Jeremy should be pushed further to the electoral margins on Thursday

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No, BBC, ‘the story’ is *not* Reform. ‘The story’ is an *extraordinary* landslide victory for the Labour Party. Please get your heads out of your arses.

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Dave Hill

5 years

Why are people like this (still) being given so much airtime? They aren’t serious and they have failed. #Corbyn

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BBC Newsnight

5 years

"I think there should be a complete overhaul of the economy, because this is just ad hoc corporate welfare." Author and economic commentator Grace Blakeley on why the country needs a "fundamental overhaul" of the way the economy works #Newsnight | @Katierazz

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The RMT union disaffiliated from Labour 20 years ago. #SusanHall

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2 months

"Let's make Britain great again," he says. The arse thinks Trump is popular here. #farage

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Dave Hill

4 years

Here's a stretch of the "temporary" cycle lane on Park Lane, complete with bus stop isolated from pavement. Photo taken last Sunday, 14 June.

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Dave Hill

3 months

I thought Rob an impressive candidate for @LondonLibDems . Just missing out on an Assembly seat was a poor reward for getting his party into 3rd place for Mayor. He would have brought valuable skills to the job of scrutinising Sadiq Khan's third term. But maybe he'll be back.

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Rob Blackie 🔶

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Thanks very much to everybody who voted for me on Thursday. I'm delighted that we got the best London Lib Dem Mayor result in 16 years. Congratulations to Hina Bokhari and Gareth Roberts, our newly elected London Assembly members.

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Dave Hill

2 months

Left: An opinion about Labour Party. Right: Photo of Labour candidate for Chingford & Woodford Green.

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Dave Hill

1 year

NEW Cockfosters station car park housing scheme blocked by Grant Shapps now set to go ahead: #Enfield #housing . DLUCH has decided not to call it in.

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Cockfosters station car park housing scheme set to go ahead

The government will not 'call in' council's decision to approve Transport for London plans after former transport secretary blocked them

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Dave Hill

3 years

If people would stop getting off on denouncing the feckin skypool and devote just a fraction of the same amount of time and energy on improving government housing policy we might begin to get somewhere. By "people" I especially mean housing activists and journalists.

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Dave Hill

5 months

For an "Islamist" #sadiqkhan does a very good impression of a liberal. #leeanderson

@MayorofLondon

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

3 years

Today, like every day, I stand in solidarity with gay, lesbian, trans and bisexual Londoners. I see you, I hear you and I thank you for what you bring to this great city. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #IDAHOBIT2021

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3 years

One candidate who deserved a higher placing was @ManduReid of @WEP_UK . Articulate, knowledgeable and good company. #LondonMayoralElection

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Dave Hill

2 years

London's bus stop bypasses for cyclists are destroying access to the service for disabled people, argues @VincentStops : . @NFBUK @TfL @LonTravelWatch #buses #cycling #disability @SustransLondon @DisabilityAPPG . Is this a progressive #transport policy?

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Dave Hill

8 years

Goldsmith Mail article illustrated with a photo of the London bus blown up on 7/7: Vile, disrespectful, cowardly.

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A passionate plea from ZAC GOLDSMITH four days before Mayoral election

London stands on the brink of a catastrophe, the shockwaves from which would be felt across the country. In just four days’ time, voters could elect Sadiq Khan to succeed Boris Johnson as mayor.

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5 years

Bad selfie, good medal. #LondonMarathon

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Surreal and bleakly hilarious that @AndrewBoff , the most thoughtful member of the London Assembly Tory group - who would have made a far better candidate for mayor than Susan Hall - has been thrown out of the Tory conference for disrespectful muttering during Braverman's speech.

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Dave Hill

2 years

Shockingly, chillingly true @JonnElledge . #Conservatives

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Dave Hill

2 months

Significant that Sadiq Khan has picked up the issue of cyclist behaviour at floating bus stops - ignoring zebra crossings, travelling much too fast. A more civil and considerate #cycling culture, such as found in Copenhagen, would definitely help the cycling cause in #London .

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Social Environmental Justice

2 months

This is good from @DaveHill 'As a transport mode it has a lot going for it, but as a culture it leaves much to be desired'

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Dave Hill

4 years

A steaming mound of opportunist bullshit and both of them know it. #HammersmithBridge .

@ShaunBaileyUK

Shaun Bailey

4 years

I urged the government to fix Hammersmith Bridge because @SadiqKhan wasn’t going to. So I’m thrilled to announce that @GrantShapps is stepping in where the Mayor failed. Ministers are now taking control of the bridge and fixing it once and for all. A clear win for residents!

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Dave Hill

10 years

A fox catching some rays on my kitchen roof. http://t.co/fmnv0VhZqc

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Dave Hill

3 years

Consultation of residents found most were opposed to it. And "ripped out" is the now standard emotive language for removal. Activists should seek to persuade, not browbeat and impute "shame". It's so counter-productive.

@StringBeanJen

String Bean Jen

3 years

Our LTN was ripped out today and I watched the lorry driving up and down the road with all the planters it had ripped out before ours and onto the next. A sad, shameful and embarrassing day due to @EalingCouncil . It's sunny out, what #ClimateEmergency , eh? 🤦‍♀️ @EalingCyclists

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Dave Hill

5 months

@PoliticsLatest @DAaronovitch No Mayor of London has operational control of the Metropolitan Police. Marches in London can only be banned if a Home Secretary agrees to a request from the Met for that to happen.

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Dave Hill

4 years

London Mayors don't set national rules about public attendance at sporting events...

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Shaun Bailey

4 years

Germany has let fans back into stadiums. France has let fans back into stadiums. @SadiqKhan has let London fall behind. As @TheSun says, the sports industry is worth billions to the UK. So let’s get fans safely into stadiums and help our economy recover.

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Dave Hill

2 months

Here we go. These are her people: conspiracists, fantasists, purity cultists and all the rest of it. Vote #Labour in Chingford & Woodford Green.

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Dave Hill

2 years

This claim by #BorisJohnson is completely untrue. The concessionary Freedom Pass has existed since 1973, created by the Greater London Council and now run by @londoncouncils who mostly fund it...

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Dave Hill

4 years

NEW. #SadiqKhan has increased his London Mayor election poll lead over Conservative Shaun Bailey to 22 points: .

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Sadiq Khan has 22-point lead in new London Mayor opinion poll - OnLondon

Sadiq Khan has extended his lead in the London Mayor election campaign to 22 points, an increase of two compared with last month, according to a new opinion poll. The incumbent Mayor was found to be...

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Dave Hill

1 year

The most recent opinion poll about #ULEZ expansion found that 47% of Londoners support the policy and 32% don't. On what basis has #susanhall been telling the media today that Londoners don't want the scheme? @Channel4News @GBNEWS @BBCLondonNews @BBCRadioLondon #conservatives

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4 months

Spent six hours today travelling on #London Underground and walking London streets and, amazingly, was never once pickpocketed, stabbed or murdered. Who will break this shocking news to #susanhall ? #londonmayor2024 #Conservatives

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Dave Hill

3 years

What if Bangladeshi east Londoners really like the new Truman Brewery scheme? What if the street's curry houses have long been in decline? What if anti-gentrification activists need to take a broader view? @mrianleslie @DAaronovitch @sunny_hundal

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TfL intends to buy more Elizabeth line trains before the production plant in Derbyshire shuts down. They are needed to make up for the latest #HS2 delays meaning passengers won't get direct to central London until around 2040: .

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Transport for London to buy more Elizabeth Line trains due to HS2 delays - OnLondon

Transport for London has revealed it will have to buy additional Elizabeth line trains in order to make up for the recently-announced delay in the High Speed 2 (HS2) route reaching Euston. Announcing...

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Dave Hill

4 years

Ahead in the polls.

@ShaunBaileyUK

Shaun Bailey

4 years

Where are you @SadiqKhan ?

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Dave Hill

4 years

@ali17798062 @LBC Don't think the Mayor of London has the power to "cancel Ramadan", actually...

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Dave Hill

1 year

@Mark_J_Harper Generally speaking, Mark "the poorest" in London don't own motor vehicles at all. Also, I was reliably informed that during the Covid crisis your department was astonished to discover from TfL how low car ownership in London is overall.

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Dave Hill

3 years

Piss off you patronising simpleton.

@tomhunt1988

Tom Hunt

3 years

The flying of the Union flag should be compulsory for all schools. If any pupils and teachers have concerns about this then surely they can be “educated” about what the flag actually represents. 🇬🇧 belongs to every single British person.

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4 months

Just back from doing some local shopping in streets of #London . Wasn’t robbed. Not dead. #susanhall #LondonElections #LondonMayor2024

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Dave Hill

2 years

In other words, the public transport concession Johnson *did* introduce for older people when he was mayor has now been eroded by his own national government. Definitely worth pursuing and clarifying this for your viewers, @GMB . 😎

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Dave Hill

3 months

The Tories have lost the South West London Assembly constituency to the Lib Dems - the first time the party has won such a seat. #LondonElections

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Dave Hill

4 years

London contains the highest poverty rates in the country. Talk of a "north-south divide" obscures the more complex realities of inequality in Britain and fuels a crude regional populism than does nothing to address them.

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BBC Politics

4 years

Coronavirus: Downturn must not increase north-south divide, Labour warns

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