Londonism and its adherents: The capital's creed. Don't let Ministers treat London as their cash cow. Asked to explain how she saw her identity, she had no hesitation in saying she was first and foremost a Londoner.
Her greatest pride was in her city, not her country. She spoke passionately of how the capital - with its energy, its openness, its spirit of independence - was the most important part of her cultural chemistry. Promise is my polar opposite in terms of background, colour, generation and gender, but I knew instantly what she meant. I share her stance - and suspect an increasing number of others do too, especially from those generations that have grown up in London since it became such a diverse global city and so different from the rest of the country. I find it easier to identify with the extraordinary sprawling city in which I live than either England, that supposed land of warm beer and old maids on bicycles, or Britain, an amorphous concept that still defies definition.
MOPC should be the first step to delivering a Cabinet for London. City Hall's Chamber could become the home to a Cabinet for London'.
Image: MayorWatch When Boris Johnson first took office he created a group of so-called deputy mayors, bestowing what he once boasted we’re “bauble” titles on his appointees with little rhyme or reason. Then and now I thought this was cheating voters, it was an attempt by Boris to palm off the job he’d just been given onto unelected advisors, while trying to insinuate that they had some sort of mandate for their public appearances and utterances. But in recent years the Mayor has gained new powers and responsibilities which require us to re-examine the structures of City Hall and ensure that they are transparent and simple for Londoners to understand.
I believe creating a number of ‘Mayor’s Office for…’ headed by properly constituted Deputy Mayors would achieve this. We now have a Deputy Mayor for Policing created by Parliament to head up the new Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime. And with those come true accountability. Podcast: London Nationalism. On 9 June 2008, four Big Ideas regulars — Danny Birchall, Rich Cochrane, Nathan Charlton and Robert Kingham — gathered at the Crosse Keys pub in the ancient City of London to discuss London Nationalism.
Does it make sense to talk about a city expressing a “nationalism” over and above its supposed “identity”? Are nationalisms always exclusive and xenophobic? What would London look like as a more devolved city state, and what does the recent change in executive mayor say about how we might choose to be governed? How might it reinvent its identity as a national one? And is any of this a good idea? In an eventful discussion, we touch on all these subjects and more. Working papers, London Finance Commission. Could London declare independence and leave UK? London as a city-state. One London. One London became a registered party in November 2005 and de-registered in November 2008.[1] 2008 London Mayoral and Assembly election[edit] In February 2008 the party announced that Hockney would be its candidate in the 2008 Mayoral election, promising to reverse the current mayor's anti-motorist policies and to halve the GLA portion of the council tax over the four-year mayoral term.[2] On 27 March 2008 Hockney pulled out of the race to become the mayor of London.
He cited a lack of media opportunities for the candidates representing smaller parties as the reason but confirmed that the party would still contest the Assembly election.[3] The party received just 0.14% of the London-wide list vote, coming last in overall votes and losing both its Assembly seats. Ideology and policies[edit] Controversy[edit] References[edit] Unfinished Business: the remaking of London government. Buy & download fulltext article: Abstract: This article describes the abolition and dismemberment of London's metropolitan authority, the Greater London Council (GLC).
It explains how the functions of the GLC were partitioned between successors, with particular reference to the role of the London Residuary Body. The article highlights the contribution of GLC officers and management structures to the residuary process, and the paradoxical part played by County Hall, the one undisposed relic of the GLC empire. The GLC also left behind it a second, less tangible legacy — its territorial footprint.