Making London Safe
Making London Safe, St Mary's Putney. Might have been better if this had been a cross party rather than an open meeting by the Conservatives, although I suppose Ms Greening is the local MP so appropriate for her to chair it. Also a pity the Met Police couldn't attend because of the EU election purdah period. Informative meeting, though. Andy Smith of Regenerate, an organisation which runs local youth programmes, was really impressive and deserves support from local people. Shaun Bailey, the Conservatives London Mayoral candidate, made some good, interesting points from growing up in and his involvement in local west London youth initiatives. Justine Greening, as chair, was well organised and made some good points; I'm still convinced she's in the wrong party when one looks at the likes of Johnson, Rees-Mogg et all - her social mobility initiative seems the antithesis of JRM!Nick Hurd seemed to be doing a PR exercise, didn't impress me ... but there did seem to be acceptance that crime in London was a cross party issue and needed a longer term view than 4-5 years so culture change and social mobility could be effective.
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