Writing in the ConservativeHome, Harrow councillor Susan Hall outlines ‘Why I am running to be the Mayor of London’.
Susan Hall, a member of the London Assembly who describes herself as a ‘girl’, has launched her campaign to be the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, joining a long list of Tory candidates.
Previously, Cllr Hall has failed selection as a parliamentary candidate for Harrow West and, later, as a Brent and Harrow GLA candidate.
Her short manifesto focuses more on attacking the sitting London mayor Sadiq Khan (not an easy name to digest) than outlining any credible plan how to build on the London potential and improve the diverse Londoners quality of life.
On the other hand, a candidate like the chair of the London Assembly Andrew Boff has highlighted his contributions in making London autism-friendly, tackling childhood obesity, and London’s north-south transport divide. Also, considering that London being the British financial hub could deploy better technology, veteran Andrew Boff is right to point out that “A high-tech friendly London makes for a more prosperous Britain’.
Cllr Hall has referred to her position and work at the Harrow council, which really have been matters of concern about her ability, professionalism and effectiveness.
Under Cllr Hall portfolio for environment, residents rejected the unwise change in the frequency of collecting the Brown and Waste Bins by the new Conservative administration in 2006, more so because the portfolio holder recklessly moved the timetable for change from September 2006 to July 2006 to ‘further increase the council’s recycling performance’ but the recycling rate stated was found misleading.
The waste bin collection arrangements became so unpopular that a Conservative seat in the Harrow Weald ward was badly lost in the August 2006 by-election that was held due to the death of the Tory councillor.
In June 2009 the MailOnline also reported that Town hall chiefs were accused of pedalling ‘spurious propaganda’ after claiming that wheelie bins boosted recycling rates.
Eventually and because of the accumulated backlash of the waste collection arrangements and heavy-handed implementation of the CPZ (controlled parking zone) by Cllr Hall, Tories lost the council in 2010.
Cllr Hall bad luck continued after she acquired the Conservative group leadership in 2010 as during her opposition leadership, Tories lost the councils in 2010 and 2014 – five sitting Tory councillors were defeated – two Tory councillors defected and 2 by-elections were lost in 2013.
Regarding the Cllr Hall mention ‘I became the Leader of the Council in Harrow’, she was not elected by the residents. Many say that her very short-lived administration (late 2013 to May 2014 when Tory group lost the council) was a fluke.
[In mid-2013, the breakaway Independent Labour Group, encouraged and supported by the Tory group, snatched the council administration from Labour because of what was described as the personal grudge within the Labour group.
Few months later, Cllr Hall grabbed the council administration with the support of the well-groomed Independent Labour Group who voted in the Tory group through a highly controversial process which created the political mess in Harrow (i.e. a hung council where both the Labour and Tory groups had 25 councillors each, and Tory minority administration was put in place because of the 8 ILG councillors)]
The LGC* reported on 21 January 2014, after deleting the chief executive post, she told her council that she is confident her experience of running a hairdressing business will enable her to manage without a chief executive.
Such was the quality of her administration and financial management that the Harrow council’s budget meeting on 27 February 2014 initially rejected her budget being a very irresponsible budget because it had no measurable commitment for a smooth financial transition to the next year when the council had to have £25m savings.
Further in 2014, there were serious concerns about Cllr Hall’s conflict of interest because of her intrinsic opposition to the Harrow’s regeneration plans for Wealdstone where Cllr Hall has the shop.
The regeneration could have some unfavourable parking implications for the locality.
Many would question whether running a city such as London is compatible with running a local small business?
*LGC
Susan Hall, a member of the London Assembly who describes herself as a ‘girl’, has launched her campaign to be the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, joining a long list of Tory candidates.
Previously, Cllr Hall has failed selection as a parliamentary candidate for Harrow West and, later, as a Brent and Harrow GLA candidate.
Her short manifesto focuses more on attacking the sitting London mayor Sadiq Khan (not an easy name to digest) than outlining any credible plan how to build on the London potential and improve the diverse Londoners quality of life.
On the other hand, a candidate like the chair of the London Assembly Andrew Boff has highlighted his contributions in making London autism-friendly, tackling childhood obesity, and London’s north-south transport divide. Also, considering that London being the British financial hub could deploy better technology, veteran Andrew Boff is right to point out that “A high-tech friendly London makes for a more prosperous Britain’.
Cllr Hall has referred to her position and work at the Harrow council, which really have been matters of concern about her ability, professionalism and effectiveness.
Under Cllr Hall portfolio for environment, residents rejected the unwise change in the frequency of collecting the Brown and Waste Bins by the new Conservative administration in 2006, more so because the portfolio holder recklessly moved the timetable for change from September 2006 to July 2006 to ‘further increase the council’s recycling performance’ but the recycling rate stated was found misleading.
The waste bin collection arrangements became so unpopular that a Conservative seat in the Harrow Weald ward was badly lost in the August 2006 by-election that was held due to the death of the Tory councillor.
In June 2009 the MailOnline also reported that Town hall chiefs were accused of pedalling ‘spurious propaganda’ after claiming that wheelie bins boosted recycling rates.
Eventually and because of the accumulated backlash of the waste collection arrangements and heavy-handed implementation of the CPZ (controlled parking zone) by Cllr Hall, Tories lost the council in 2010.
Cllr Hall bad luck continued after she acquired the Conservative group leadership in 2010 as during her opposition leadership, Tories lost the councils in 2010 and 2014 – five sitting Tory councillors were defeated – two Tory councillors defected and 2 by-elections were lost in 2013.
Regarding the Cllr Hall mention ‘I became the Leader of the Council in Harrow’, she was not elected by the residents. Many say that her very short-lived administration (late 2013 to May 2014 when Tory group lost the council) was a fluke.
[In mid-2013, the breakaway Independent Labour Group, encouraged and supported by the Tory group, snatched the council administration from Labour because of what was described as the personal grudge within the Labour group.
Few months later, Cllr Hall grabbed the council administration with the support of the well-groomed Independent Labour Group who voted in the Tory group through a highly controversial process which created the political mess in Harrow (i.e. a hung council where both the Labour and Tory groups had 25 councillors each, and Tory minority administration was put in place because of the 8 ILG councillors)]
The LGC* reported on 21 January 2014, after deleting the chief executive post, she told her council that she is confident her experience of running a hairdressing business will enable her to manage without a chief executive.
Such was the quality of her administration and financial management that the Harrow council’s budget meeting on 27 February 2014 initially rejected her budget being a very irresponsible budget because it had no measurable commitment for a smooth financial transition to the next year when the council had to have £25m savings.
Further in 2014, there were serious concerns about Cllr Hall’s conflict of interest because of her intrinsic opposition to the Harrow’s regeneration plans for Wealdstone where Cllr Hall has the shop.
The regeneration could have some unfavourable parking implications for the locality.
Many would question whether running a city such as London is compatible with running a local small business?
*LGC
Harrow Monitoring Group
Gullible morons worried about wheelie bins deserve being shafted & duped by opportunist politicians & also those useless conniving ones who decide to have time wasting zoom meetings with inexperienced characters who can’t even get their community issues sorted out! Pouring money 💰 into Wealdstone, no wonder! Unbelievable.
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