Assembly Member Voices Support For London Mayor

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Richard Tracey believes "Boris is rightly doing"

Dear Editor

In these tough economic times Boris Johnson is demonstrating that he is on the side of council tax payers, especially those on low or fixed incomes, by freezing the Greater London Authority precept for the second year running. By being tough on costs and driving up efficiency, each precept pound is going that much further.

My constituents want a mayor who can cut his coat according to the economic cloth and whilst providing an additional 550 police officers for frontline work; expanding Oyster cards on to the overland railways; modernising the fire brigade through consolidating major incident response centres on four sites; opening three new rape crisis centres and addressing violence against women; and cutting Transport for London’s staff by 1,000. All of which is Boris is rightly doing.

Yours faithfully

Richard Tracey AM
London Assembly member for Merton and Wandsworth

 

 

January 13, 2010