A whopping 57% of Brits say increased graffiti has a negative impact on their local area, according to a fresh poll by Merlin Strategy. Graffiti-ridden TfL tube carriages have forced campaigners to clean up the mess themselves, despite cleaning contracts costing the taxpayer £155 million every year…
The poll also reveals:
Founder of Looking For Growth Lawrence Newport said:
“The symptoms of decline are all around us – and politicians refuse to act or even take notice. Our trains, stations, buses, bus stops, and streets are covered in graffiti. LFG volunteers have been out across the country cleaning streets and wiping away graffiti – we’ve been doing this because local governments are failing to do so.”
Meanwhile, Sadiq Khan’s TfL Commissioner Andy Lord instead tried to claim that activists are actually scrawling graffiti so they can film themselves cleaning it up. Dirty politics…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”