26 September 2008

Rochdale calling...

Hammersmith & Fulham residents phoning the town hall will soon get their calls answered by a call centre in Rochdale!

It's the latest cut to local services by the Tory council, and another blow to employment in the borough.

So whatever your query, let's hope that Rochdale knows the answer - or knows someone in the town hall who does...

09 September 2008

Tatler reveals the true face of new Tories

Without a hint of irony, Tory candidate for Hammersmith and self-proclaimed man of the people, Shaun Bailey, appears in the October issue of Tatler. Dressed in a designer suit, Bailey is tipped by Tatler to become Home Secretary.

As even the Evening Standard says, "the sense of presumption is monstrous".

08 September 2008

Whose ecole is it?

The Tory council in Hammersmith & Fulham trumpets the opening of a new French school on the site of Peterborough primary school which was closed earlier this year after more than a century of education in the south of the borough.

But it's not clear who the French school is for, who pays to go there, and why the council is using its PR machine to promote this new private school.