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New Stateman on Brentford

Interesting article in which at least one forum participant is mentionedhttp://www.newstatesman.com/200801280007

Andy Jones ● 6387d5 Comments

...just to add, the invitations have gone out on behalf of the Brentford High Street Steering Group (which has always been supported on a cross-party basis), as was agreed at one of our meetings at the end of last year.Sian Berry - as is evidenced by her article - clearly had a deep appreciation of the challenges such a project presents from her experience of the Kings Cross regeneration.  The first of her two hours in Brentford was spent being briefed on the community visioning project and then she spent an hour walking about the site.Andrew

Andrew Dakers ● 6384d

Andrew Dakers has invited all the candidates for Mayor of London to a guided tour of Brentford High Street. Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor of London, was the first to take up his invitation.

Chris Dakers ● 6384d

And?

Vanessa Smith ● 6385d

Well - Andrew is on record as having considered joining the Greens but in the end went with the LDs - and he is very Green.

Ruth Cadbury ● 6385d

KevinVery interesting. The article is by Sian Berry, the Green Candidate for Mayor of London. In it she says:"As a Green now, I appreciate the importance of our high streets not as placemarkers on a student version of the Odyssey, but at the core of a vast range of diverse local communities. However, I was reminded about that trip this week, as I was shown around the streets, canals and islands behind Brentford High Street on a fascinating tour with local councillor Andrew Dakers." "Andrew is working hard to make sure Brentford town centre gets the maximum benefit from a major redevelopment of the area to the south of the local high street, and he was elected (as a LibDem) largely because of his leadership in pulling together local people to propose their own vision for the regeneration"In view of the fact that Andrew Dakers is a Lib Dem councillor and former Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate, I wonder what the Lib Dem leadership, and in particular Brian Paddick, the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate, thinks of Andrew Dakers showing Sian Berry, the Green Mayoral candidate, around Brentford ? And being mentioned by her in this New Statesman article.Has Andrew Dakerws been guilty of brecahing Lib Dem Party discipline ? Does the Lib Dem Party have any discipline ? Is he giving aid and comfort to Brian Paddick's opponent?On the other hand, Andrew Dakers is a young man and Sian Berry is by all accounts a very attractive young woman.And an engineering graduate of Oxford University no less ! Maybe this friendship forged on the streets of Brentford may lead to Andrew throwing away his Yellow Lib Dem Rosette and exchanging it and his allegiance for a Green one ?Or maybe it is part of a secret Lib-Dem/Green  Pact whereby the Greens would not to run a candidate in Brentford at the next election ?

David Giles ● 6386d