You can see this - as the scope is (recent change) available in a public form “The decline in the number of children growing up in London is generally attributed to the high cost of living, and in particular housing costs.
And on the same page you see evidence rec’d
www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
Because it’s in the scope of the investigation.
"Ms Badenoch has ranked MPs based on how well they are performing on X, Facebook and LinkedIn."
Why sure! Get retweeted by hordes of bots and Nazis - win a promotion!
Yes because everyone who values freedom will take to the streets while the bombs are flying.🙄
This is a war run by idiots.
It’s not really how it works, the committees have their specific focuses. Which is what I’ve tried to explain. The way to get attention to new issues is to flag to AMs as elected representatives, helpful staff (waves hand). It’s better to work that way and have the assembly navigate its structures.
You get some elements of it within some of the Mayor’s strategies but most of the delivery is by the councils in London or it’s centralised and in English or UK departments of central government. Which isn’t to say I agree with that as a way of governing london - but it is where we are.
Arguably it’s not covered by anyone in the assembly particularly as it’s not in the powers of the Mayor.
As a further step in transparency the assembly also now publishes the scope of each investigation. Think this is the relevant one here. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
There’s ways of going across if needed - eg transport and environment doing joint work, or just a word between chairs. But it’s pretty standard that the establishment of a committee defines its outlook. And it’s transparent. www.london.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
Mostly just convention - assembly committees avoid making recommendations on the aspects covered by other committees.
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
Out of interest - What did you move from heating oil to?
We will continue to support the First Past the Post system of voting, as it allows voters to kick out politicians who don't deliver, both locally and nationally.
There was a sort of line in the manifesto but it was vague. cdn.prod.website-files.com/5da42e2cae7e...
What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.
I'd be very interested to see the numbers on this, but have no idea where to find the data.
How many women athletes must now take this test x £185 = How much money drained from women's sport funding? In order to stigmatise and exclude how many on ideological grounds?
And she’s gone. Noem that is...
C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.
🤑 Bogus self-employment costs the UK about £8.5bn every year, I told the BBC.
✍️ This includes Uber, Deliveroo, Oxbridge colleges, construction firms + hair salons writing sham self-employment contracts for their staff.
⬇️ Listen to this excellent BBC Radio 4 show.
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If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Asif Aziz evictions story is going mainstream. Telegraph and Independent have covered in recent days. Now the FT has done a brilliant piece - including finding another property affected, where a Ukrainian refugee and their disabled son are being evicted by Aziz. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
While I suspect there may be an element of a post by-election bump here, it should be a warning sign for Labour that their hostile policies towards asylum seekers, migrants in general, trans and non-binary individuals, disabled people etc aren't winning them any votes.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.
Absolutely baffling to watch Newsnight try to discuss a complex regional conflict in half an hour.
Whoever cut the programme back was an idiot. Channel 4’s bulletin at 7PM was far superior. Largely for not just relying on talking heads and doing some actual journalism.
Anyone working in "news" or "politics" needs to finally wrap their minds around the idea that X isn't reaching anyone that matters. You're wasting your time pitching no one. You're wasting your money pitching no one.
Remember all the involved debates about a "just war" ahead of the Iraq War? Well, this is just war.
No law, no responsibility, just small men with their fingers on war machines.
War is hell, mash meme
This is partly the result of a media culture that has a) tended to treat migration policy as though there is one button marked ‘get tough’ and the only question is how hard a government will press it and b) failed to understand how far immigrants and Brits are not always discrete groups.
It does feel like Starmer and Mahmoud have seen Labour rejected by its own *actual* core vote (instead of its imagined one) in its heartland and decided that the answer is just to reject those core voters right back.
Suicidal politics.
Eg. bsky.app/profile/maik...
