I've never voted Labour before, but...

My quick, dirty and critically faulty contribution to ConservativeHome's mylabourposters campaign. Check out the website for the best examples.

"Love Clean Streets" goes live

Nigel Tyrell of LoveLewisham has recently launched LoveCleanStreets, a " site (that) allows you to review and submit environmental issues and have your local authority deal with it, and then let you know how they got on." - basically an index of the bad and the ugly in and around London, and how quick (and effective) the Council have been at making it good.

I'm genuinely looking forward to see how Cleansweep respond to this challenge.

What's going on with that?

As usual I've been remiss in my posting (though certainly not through lack of things to say and do). Tonight I would like to quickly and simply draw attention to the various groups of people rightly upset by the poorly advertised (whilst I was aware that major works would be taking place, I didn't know the full details til reading the Phantom's article last week) and (in my personal opinion) ill conceived decision to close the Blackwall Tunnel to southbound traffic from Sunday to Friday for the forseeable future.

The facebook protest group and Blackwall Tunnel Special Report blog (recognise the style sheets on it ;-) ?) articulate the case against TfL's decision succinctly, so I shan't reinvent the wheel here, but merely highlight the (sadly unreferenced) statistic that "this closure and lack of contraflow is not acceptable by 92% of local residence and tunnel users" and note that the tidal flow operated without public protest or "catastrophic fire" from 1978 to 2006, so why would reinstating a contraflow in off-peak times for a couple more years be more risky than back in 2006?

Perhaps I'm missing something glaringly obvious here, and I'm by no means a civil planning expert or someone with an army of surveyors and accident statistics at my disposal, but in my ignorance I feel the decision made here doesn't feel right.

Watch the space.